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The August newsletter is out.
Ride the whole path on August 27!
Visit the Poets' Pathway web site at http://www.poetspath.ca/

Sunday, May 8

The Poets' Pathway is sponsoring one of the Jane's walks this weekend.

The walk starts at Britannia Park, near the plaque with the poem by Pauline Johnson and winds its way over to Mud Lake.

More information about the walk can be found at:
http://www.janeswalkottawa.ca/view/?walk-138
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City staff is reviewing its 5-year Arts and Heritage Plan, first adopted as part of the Ottawa 20/20 exercise.
Go here for a performance report and eleven brief discussion papers.  Comments were invited until April 29.
 
Please find attached:
- a submission by the Greenspace Alliance; and

You are one click away from the February 2011 issue of the Poets' Pathway Newsletter!
 
The Poets' Pathway web site is now on line!  Features include detailed descriptions of each of twelve segments of the Pathway.
 
(Submitted by Jane Moore)

City competition under way
Deadline for voting is 5 p.m., Jan 28, 2011
Go to http://apps4ottawa.ca/en/ideas/102 , register, and vote!
 
Ben Glossop of the Poets' pathway Committee provides the following description:
 
The Poets’ Pathway is a 30-kilometre walking and biking path though Ottawa, created to memorialize Ottawa’s poets, especially those 19th Century poets brought here to help create a sense of national identity for a new country.

Please find attached the October 22 Newsletter from the Poets' Pathway Committee as well as an invitation to the unveiling of the third plaque for the Pathway, on November 1, 2010, at 11:30 a.m., at Beechwood Cemetery.
 
The unveiling is co-sponsored by Arc Poetry Magazine.  There will be readings by this year’s Archibald Lampman Award contestants and a reception.

You are just one click away from:
- a Poets' Pathway Newsletter of 14 September 2010, with reports of the unveiling of the Pathway's first plaque at McCarthy Woods, the Garden Party, and more;
- an invitation to the unveiling of the second plaque, on September 29, at Britannia.

You're invited to a Garden Party to help raise funds for the Poets' Pathway!
 
Date: Sunday, September 5, 2010
(Rain date: September 6, Labour Day)
Please see the attached for further details.

A Pathway Invitation!

The August newsletter is attached.
 
Note that the Fundraising Garden Party on September 5 will be held at 556 Shelley Avenue, Ottawa (Elmvale Acres).  It is being hosted by Diane Stevenson-Schmolka and Peter Schmolka.