Hello ORLÉANS!

Welcome to the 5th edition of Orléans Connect!

So…. about that weather… ❄️ ☀️❄️☀️🌧️🌱❄️… 🤬

🙏 Many thanks to everyone who has been submitting your events and businesses. Keep them coming! You can submit your events here, and submit your business for a chance at a business spotlight here.

🥪 We’re also trying something new…. as part of this week’s business spotlight, we’ve published our first 🧇 Orléans Food Spot ☕️ review. Make sure to check that out below… ⬇️⬇️

Alright, let’s get to what’s happening in Orléans over the next week…

Craft Fairs, Bake Sales and Easter Events! Spring is certainly in the air - though Mother Nature has definitely been playing some tricks on us all lately!

• 📚 Saturday, April 12th - Orléans Wood Elementary School Advisory Council is hosting a Book and Bake Sale! Over 2,000 used books, puzzles, crafts and lots of tasty treats! Cash only, bring your own bag, and bring a friend! Open to all community members. 🕙 10AM - 2 PM

  📍Orléans Wood Elementary - 7859 Decarie Dr.

• 🏫 Saturday, April 12th - Dunning-Foubert School Council is pleased to announce their first ever Spring Craft Fair! Support local vendors as well as Dunning students who will be selling their products too. 🕙 10AM - 3 PM

  📍Dunning-Foubert Elementary School, 1610 Prestwick Dr.

• 🐣 Saturday, April 12th - Join Councillor Laura Dudas (Orléans West) for the Annual Spring Egg-Stravaganza Easter Egg Hunt at the Orléans Fruit Farm! Make sure to arrive for 10 a.m., as the egg hunt will start shortly after.

• 🐰 Saturday, April 12th - the Ottawa Police Service is hosting the Beeping Eggs Hunt, accessible to families of blind and visually impaired children. Meet at the CNIB Office at Lansdowne (425 Marché Way, unit 104), and then head to Sylvia Holden Park together for the egg hunt. Don’t miss lunch, crafts, games and face painting afterwards! Register Here.

• 🪻Saturday, April 19th - Join Queenswood Heights Community Association for the Third Annual Spring Fling! Activities include a colour content, free face painting and free bycycle decorating! There will be hot dogs, cotton candy and Girl Guide cookies for sale. 🕚 11 AM - 2 PM

  📍 Queenswood Heights Community Centre, 1485 Duford Dr.

• 🐣 Saturday, April 19th - Café Amore is hosting an Easter Egg Hunt and Craft for the kids on Easter weekend! Children ages 1-5 will be from 10 a.m. - 11 a.m., and children ages 6-10 from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Cost is $7. RSVP by Sunday April 13th at [email protected].

  📍Café Amore, 2409 St Joseph Blvd.

• 🐥 Saturday, April 19th - The Cumberland Heritage Museum is hosting Hop Into Spring, a day of fun hands-on, family-friendly activities to celebrate the arrival of spring! Say hello to some baby animals with Heritage Livestock Club of Eastern Ontario, get your face painted, meet a firefight from Ottawa Fire Services, and more! You might even spot the Easter Bunny and collect some treats along the way! Best suited for children ages 3-8 years old. Advance registration is required.

  📍2940 Ch. Old Montreal Rd, Cumberland

• 😋 April 25th - 27th - Orléans PoutineFest 2025 AND the Orléans Buttertart Festival & Competition is coming soon! Can we imagine a better combination than poutine AND buttertarts?! I thought not. This event is the Original PoutineFest, featuring over 75 different kinds of poutine and Curdaliousness. Do you make a tasty Buttertart? They’re still looking for entries so if you’d like to register, email [email protected].

  📍Centrum Plaza, 255 Centrum Blvd

• ♻️ Saturday April 26th - Join the The Convent Glen-Orléans Wood Community Association Environment Committee for the 3rd annual Cleaning the Capital Event on April 26th at the Golden Fries parking lot from 9 am - 12 pm! 🌱

  📍6505 Jeanne D’Arc Blvd N

📰 News you should know about…

🐰 Visit Guest Services at Place d’Orléans starting on Friday, April 4th to receive a FREE Bunny Bag filled with goodies including sweet treats, a colouring book, stickers and more!

🪠💧 The city of Ottawa has updated the Residential Protective Plumbing Program to help you protect your home from basement flooding. Rebates are available for protective plumbing devices. More info here.

💰 Need help with your Income taxes? Qualifying residents of Orléans-Cumberland are eligible for this income tax clinic, hosted at the Orléans-Cumberland Community Resource Centre. Find out more here.

🧶 Have you always wanted to learn to knit or crochet? Join this billingual drop-in program at the Cumberland Branch of the Ottawa Public Library starting on Thursday evenings, starting today!

 💚It is time to THINK GREEN as we Clean up the Capital this Spring!💚

The amazing folks at EarthHub and their network of vounteers are working hard to help keep items out of landfills. They collect a range of everyday items that they collect to repurpose, including: egg cartons, crayons, empty lip balm and glue stick tubes, milk bags, can pull tabs, plastic tags and plastic bottle caps. Together they have diverted over 744,000 items for re-use, and diverted over 6,000 pounds of plastic! ♻️

🌎 Learn more about their Items to Keep out of the Landfill (ITKOOTL) Program, and consider how you can get engaged! As they say on their website: “We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly, we need millions of people doing it imperfectly!” We all have a part to play. You can email [email protected] for drop-off locations - we’re lucky to have them close by.

BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT 🔦

This week’s Orléans business spotlight is…. 🥁 …. CAFE LATTE CINO - Located off Tenth Line Rd across from the Farm Boy, this amazing Cafe and meeting place is a unique find in Orléans.

While Cafe Latte Cino leads with its premium coffees and fine teas, there is a sizeable menu of food options as well, making it a perfect lunch spot. A large collection of smoothies, coffees, desserts, salads, waffles & crepes, sandwiches, soups, and even gelato await your visit.

We visited Cafe Latte Cino this week and it’s the subject of our first Orléans Food Spot Review which you can read here. 🔗

The atmosphere is warm and inviting, and features plenty of seating and free Wi-Fi, and is host to various community events.

If you haven’t discovered this spot yet, make sure to drop by for a visit and tell them Orléans Connect sent you.