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A New Merry-Go-Round at the KAP

A New Merry-Go-Round at the KAP

August 19, 2011 No Comments

The Kiwanis Club of Orleans has added a Merry Go Round to the equipment at our Kiwanis Adventure Playground at Millennium Park! This exciting new structure has been made possible with our proceeds from Skreamers. And Haunting season begins soon, so check out Skreamers.ca to find out more! After a major rainstorm chased most of ...

Playground +

Playground +

April 1, 2009 No Comments

From the April 2009 edition of the Kiwanis Magazine   From the seed of one project, a neighborhood revival blooms Three years ago, when volunteers installed a playground in an east-side Ottawa, Ontario, suburb no one could’ve anticipated the ripple effect that was about to happen. Not only did the project create a jaw-dropping recreational ...

Time to clean up Millennium Park

April 25, 2008 No Comments

Time to clean up Millennium Park Published on April 25th, 2008 Walter Robinson www.orleansstar.ca/Columns/Orleans-Outtakes/2008-04-25/article-644542/Time-to-clean-up-Millennium-Park/1 Three weeks ago I wrote about the vandalism “ through a scourge of paintball splatters “that occurred at the Kiwanis Adventure Playground at Millennium Park. At the time, I noted that the Orleans Kiwanis Club would plan a cleanup day in ...

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Community Strength Will Reclaim Vandalized Park

April 4, 2008 No Comments

Community strength will reclaim vandalized park Published on April 4th, 2008 Walter Robinson www.orleansstar.ca/Columns/Orleans-Outtakes/2008-04-04/article-644608/Community-strength-will-reclaim-vandalized-park/1 Paintball guns suck! First we had 21-year old Ashley Roos almost lose all sight in her left eye in a drive-by paintball shooting last May. Now we learn that some young punks, stupid teenage clowns, drunken idiots, local gang thugs or ...

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A Fantastic Community Project Comes To Life

A Fantastic Community Project Comes To Life

September 4, 2006 No Comments

A Fantastic Community Project Comes To Life September 4, 2006 When our Kiwanis Club decided to build a playground in Orleans, community involvement was our key objective, so we put out as invitation to 60 children to take part in a design workshop to help decide what play elements we needed. After all, who best ...

Pictures of Our Adventure Park – Almost Ready!

Pictures of Our Adventure Park – Almost Ready!

July 23, 2006 No Comments

Thanks to the many, many efforts of a huge number of volunteers the Orleans Kiwanis Adventure Park becomes a reality. Here are a few photo’s from that enormous effort.

Photos of the Adventure Park Under Construction

Photos of the Adventure Park Under Construction

July 22, 2006 No Comments

Hundreds of volunteers joined with Kiwanis and helped assemble the Kiwanis Adventure Playground (KAP). The result of all this hard work would become the biggest play structure in Ottawa and hundreds of delighted children. You can click on any of these photos to see them full size!

Calling All Volunteers

Calling All Volunteers

July 21, 2006 No Comments

Excerpt from the Cardinal Creek Community Information Archive — Did you know that a huge kids playground is being built right in your community! And the Orleans Kiwanis Club is looking for your help to improve the quality of life for your kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews … whoever that little special one is in your ...

Children Invited to Design Their Own Playground

November 23, 2005 No Comments

The Ottawa Start Children Invited to Design Their Own Playground Community Posted by mcollins on November 23, 2005 ottawastart.com/story/3045.php Summary: Children between the ages of five and 12 are being invited to help design the biggest playground in the City! — Children between the ages of five and 12 are being invited to help design ...

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Super duper playground in the works for the east end

August 1, 2005 No Comments

By Fred Sherwin A local service club is hoping to bring a super duper playground to the east end with the community’s support. The Orleans Kiwanis Club has been toying with the idea of building a $1 million playground in the east end for the last two years, ever since past president Harley Bloom saw ...

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sKreamers 2012 – An insane time was had by all!

After being featured in the Kiwanis International Magazine worldwide proclaiming the Orleans Kiwanis as the masters of the “Art...

Play2Win Games Delivered to CHEO

Cameron and his dad Jamie delivered over 70 games to CHEO in a quiet presentation this week which will...