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Free Multi-community Tai Chi Exercise Classes Starting September 24th 1:00pm Glens Community Association in collaboration with Tanglewood Hillsdate, Merivale Gardens and Country Place Community Associations is repeating an instructor led Tai Chi exercise program, FREE to community residents, starting September 24th 2024 to May 27th, 2025. Rick Lymer will return as the instructor. This program is based on modified Yang Tai Chi, by Master Moy Lin-Shin. The entire set will be taught over the program duration, with each move demonstrated, and practised repeatedly. Place: Tanglewood Park Community Center, Hillsdale Room; 30 Woodfield Drive, Ottawa Date and Time: every Tuesday at 1:00pm; class instruction time approximately one hour. Dress comfortably, loose clothing preferred. Please bring Indoor shoes to keep the exercise class room clean and dry. For those who previously attended (2022 at MET, and 2023 at Tanglewood Community Center) tai chi exercise classes, you are welcome to attend either the class above, or to attend a practice session, led by an experienced practitioner (weekly, 2:00pm, same location) . Merivale Gardens Community Association sponsors twice a week (Wed and Fri 8-9am) continuing practice sessions led by experienced practitioners year round. We welcome participants from the Glens, Country Place, Merivale Gardens and Tanglewood Hillsdale. Registering for the program will be required at one’s initial class attendance. For more information, feel free to drop a line at info@glenscommunity.ca

Hi Grenfell Glen neighbours! This is to share Olivier's good news: he participated in Ontario's Summer Provincials diving competition in Windsor last weekend and came away with a 4th on the 3 metre springboard and a bronze medal on the platform, as well as qualifying for all events at the summer Nationals! Thank you to the community for supporting Olivier's fundraising efforts that support his diving club. We appreciate it and Olivier continues to work hard at his diving. For those of you who don't know Olivier, he is 13 years old and in grade 8. He started diving when he was 8 years old. He enjoys reading, singing, dancing, building things and, of course, diving. He has been living in Grenfell Glen since 2020. Please enjoy this short video showing of one of Olivier's dives in Windsor!

A number of road and safety initiatives are scheduled to be undertaken over the Spring, Summer, and Fall of 2024 including: • MacFarlane Road: implementation of approved traffic calming measures  • Grenfell Crescent (between Woodroffe Avenue and 300m eastward): road resurfacing  • Merivale Road (near St. Monica’s School): installation of Automated Speed Enforcement Camera  In addition, other temporary traffic calming measures can be implemented in consultation with local residents. The Glens Community Association is currently working with Councillor Devine and the City to identify areas of concern where temporary calming measures might be appropriate to improve safety on local roads. If you have an area of concern that you would like to have considered, please send an email to executive@glenscommunity.ca identifying the specific concern and location. If you can include a photograph, that will be helpful. Keep in mind that there are constraints on specific measures as well as a limited budget available to implement the measures and that all areas will be considered, but not all will be implemented. The Glens Community Association Executive