Happy New Year and upcoming MAO events
We hope you had a wonderful holiday season with lots of food and family time. Wish you a happy and healthy New Year and decade. At this time, we would like to announce some upcoming events that are in the works by your committee. Please note that we will rely on your responses to gauge the community’s interest in some of these events and to decide if it is worth organizing them.
L’Arche event
The third L’Arche event (postponed from November) will be held on Saturday February 8, 2020. We already have a volunteer group willing to cook and serve lunch at L'Arche Ottawa, 11 Rossland Av, Nepean, ON K2G 2K2 (off Merivale Road). However, more involvement is always a good thing, so if you would like to help out, please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Talent Show
We are planning the talent show in mid April (likely date April 18). We encourage you to start thinking of your best stage performance talent and initiate practice sessions (a good way to spend cold winter weekends, practicing with friends). More info will follow soon.
Cooking/Culinary Contest
During the talent show, we would like to do a cooking contest, where folks can bring food item(s) that they prepared (Appetizer, Main course, Dessert) and present at the event. Community members will taste and vote during the talent show and we will pick winners based on popular vote. If you would like to cook for this, please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Snowshoeing
Snowshoeing is a recreational winter activity appropriate for healthy people of all age groups. We would like to offer an opportunity to community members to get an initiation to this social activity. Some general details below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowshoe
https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/snowshoeing-first-steps.html
Snowshoes can be rented for $15 a day per person. We will walk for one hour as a group on one of the many trails in the city, (likely date January 25, 2020 - weather dependent). If you are interested in participating, please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Cards Tournament
We are planning to organize card tournament for community members during weekends in February to early March timeframe. We are hoping that there will be interest to play “56” and Rummy. To pay for refreshments and prizes, there will be a $5 fee per person per game type. If you are interested, please send us an email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please indicate if you are interested in 56, Rummy or both.
Table Tennis tournament
We are also planning to organize a Table Tennis tournament for interested community members in March. There will be a participation fee and we will likely play league level games in member basements with the finals in a City facility. If you are interested, please send an email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. indicating your interest.
Annual General body Meeting
We would like to run the AGM in the first week of May. It is the time to think of the executive committee (EC) for year 2020-21. We will form a nomination committee to find us the EC soon, but if you are interested in representing the community as president and have a team (full or partial) in mind, please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
