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CITY COUNCILLOR / CONSEILLER MUNICIPAL RILEY BROCKINGTON River Ward Ward / Quartier/ Quartier Rivière Rivière 613--580580-2486-2486 ● [email protected]● [email protected] @RiverWardRiley October 2020 Website: RileyBrockington.ca Proudly serving all residents of River Ward Dear Neighbours and Residents, I anticipate reopening the Ward Office in I trust you are well, had a restful summer the Hunt Club - Riverside Park Community and continue to enjoy autumn. As the Centre once the centre fully reopens to cooler weather arrives we will soon be the public. Currently only those registered spending more time indoors. for classes or a fitness session may enter the building. However, if you wish to meet Don’t forget that River Ward has some of with me face-to-face, please call my office the City’s best wooded walking trails, a and we can make the necessary 5km groomed cross country ski trail at the arrangements. Terry Fox Athletic Centre and Mooney’s Bay Park, spectacular toboggan hills, the I have used my time during the pandemic Carleton Heights Curling rink, dozens of to successfully champion a number of outdoor community-run ice rinks, the JA battles including allowing community Dulude Arena and Deborah Anne Kirwan gardens to open during the shutdown, staggered reopening of library services, indoor pool. Enjoy the bounty that our Supporting River’s Ward small businesses will be the key to our recovery. Premier ward has to offer. With the on-going offering summer camp programs, advanced the re-opening of the City’s Cleaners on Merivale Road in Carlington is a family-run business that has felt the COVID pandemic, it is important to ensure brunt of COVID-19 like so many others. Nitesh Naidu (middle) and Shobha Vedantam your basic needs are and will continue to beaches and once again secured funds to keep the Mooney’s Bay Pavilion open until (right), welcome you to their store and promise excellent service. During the course of be met. If you need any type of assistance the summer, I visited many local businesses in an effort to help promote their services with grocery and/or medication delivery Thanksgiving on weekends. I worked with the Ridgemont community in the ward to to residents. It is very important to support them. Early in the Pandemic, my office or require assistance in getting to medical developed an interactive map featuring all open River Ward grocery and pharmacy appointments, please contact my office. welcome homeless men who lived in the Jim Durrell Arena for a couple of months, locations to help people know where they could shop online, curbside and/or instore. A number of residents are struggling with and the City’s Community and Social the lack of social interaction and a never Services Dept expanded their offerings in diverse neighbourhoods, as well as employ not just in school zones. This will continue ending deluge of media coverage. It is ok the Travelodge, which has been used as a our residents and sponsor our local sports to be a main priority for me, on your to not be ok. There are resources available family shelter for a number of years. teams and social clubs. behalf. for you if you seek assistance. The main organization my office refers people to is Thanks to my staff, we reached out to Working closely with the Ottawa Police Let us remember those who lost their lives the Distress Centre of Ottawa and hundreds of residents in the early weeks Services, I continue to identify streets in to COVID and those who were seriously Region. They can be reached by calling 613 of the pandemic to touch base and to our ward that need their attention, ill. Many have lost their jobs. Take care of -238-3311. ensure everyone was well. To promote particularly due to chronic speeding, road yourself. Help your neighbour. Ensure you small businesses, I continue to profile racing, excessive car noise and stop sign are prepared for the pending winter. Let With the exception of a few days away this various businesses in the ward on my running. I have worked with residents me know how I can help you. past summer with my daughters, I have social media and shop locally whenever across the ward on road safety projects and been at City Hall every day since the Be safe. We will prevail. possible. Please support our local small I remain laser focused on expanding speed pandemic started. The volume of inquiries businesses. They contribute to vibrant and enforcement technology where warranted, Sincerely yours, and requests for assistance from local Riley residents has never been higher. cases, exponentially shifting societal Dangerous Driving set up by Ottawa Public Health (OPH) to landscape, in order to ensure that we One of the top complaints we receive keep you and your family safe. Our OPH are able to effectively, equitably and from residents city-wide are concerns partners have a wealth of information ethically serve all the people of this city about speeding, aggressive driving, and available on their website at while providing a healthy, safe and excessive noise on our streets. OttawaPublicHealth.ca , but I also rewarding workplace for all of our Our Traffic Services team launched encourage everyone to look into what members. Those building blocks have Operation Overwatch earlier this spring mental health resources and supports afforded us the ability to roll out with the goal of reducing those types of are available, too. This pandemic has several new initiatives in 2020 that will drivers on our roads. To-date our officers taken a toll on everyone, so it’s help to strengthen our Service both have issued over 3,100 tickets for important to recognize any signs or internally, and in how we provide speeding, stunt and distracted driving. symptoms and reach out for help if you service to the community. Locations were selected based on reports need it. We are on the right track. submitted by residents, helping us to Don’t forget to check in on your family Last October, the Carlington/Caldwell identify problem areas of the city so that and neighbours—from a physical Ottawa Chief of Police, Peter Sloly and Banff/Ledbury neighbourhoods in we can better-direct our resources. I distance, of course—to see how they are River Ward were selected as two of the encourage you all to submit traffic doing, too. Isolation affects everyone Thank you for this opportunity to speak complaints using our online system at differently and we are seeing the results directly with the residents and business first areas to launch our Neighbourhood Resource Teams ottawapolice.ca/onlinereporting any time of that here in our community. owners in River Ward. It is important to you witness dangerous driving. keep the lines of communication open (NRTs). This initiative was so successful We are all in this together. With the and I am excited to give you a snapshot of that we expanded our initial three Project Noisemaker was specific to colder months approaching, it will what our officers have been up to, not teams into six in 2020. I want to thank targeting drivers for excessive noise and become even more important to stay only in your neighbourhood, but across you for your time and input to help us other violations. Since its launch on June connected socially, but distanced Ottawa. better-serve your community, it has 18, Project Noisemaker has issued over physically. helped us in the development and 1,000 provincial offence notices, 56 Part Stay safe, Almost a year ago, I stepped into the role deployment of our NRT program. The III Summons, and six criminal charges of Chief of Police in the Nation’s Capital Chief Peter Sloly NRTs will be the cornerstone of relating to things like a loud muffler, Ottawa Police Service and while there have been challenges, community policing in Ottawa and will unsafe modifications to a vehicle, I’m optimistic about the future of the continue to grow and develop in the cannabis or alcohol-related offences, as Communications en français Service. Ottawa is a beautiful city and we coming years. well as driving without a licence. have enjoyed going out as a family and J’estime important de fournir des getting acquainted with the diverse NRTs are made up of frontline officers, COVID 19 services en français aux résidents du quartier Rivière, et toutes les and vibrant neighbourhoods in this Community Police Officer, School As we all collectively deal with challenges community. Resource Officers and Traffic Services communications qui émanent de moi et during this pandemic, I want to assure de mon bureau sont offertes dans cette Officers, who work collaboratively with you that OPS will continue to maintain In July, we released our 2019 Annual community leaders to develop a langue. Afin d’économiser et d’ajouter du capacity in order to effectively respond to contenu à ce bulletin, j’imprime les Report that gives an overview of the tailored approach to policing for each steps we have taken as an organization to calls for service. We have ensured that all numéros séparément, dans leurs neighbourhood. The goal is to provide a of our officers are equipped with the versions française et anglaise. J’ai dressé build a foundation that will help us to get more holistic approach to issues of to where we need to go. It’s a story proper personal protective equipment la liste des personnes qui souhaitent social disorder and crime by networking (PPE), and updated on emerging recevoir la correspondance en français. about the Ottawa Police’s commitment to with other City services as well as the legislative changes from the Province.
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