by sentierschelseatrails | Jul 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
La vision de Sentiers Chelsea est bien vivante dans le secteur délimité par le chemin Scott, la Route 105 et le chemin Old-Chelsea. On retrouve dans ce triangle deux écoles primaires, le Centre Meredith, plusieurs maisons unifamiliales et des espaces verts municipaux. Toutefois, présentement il est impossible pour un enfant qui habite à 500 m de son école de s’y rendre à pied ou à vélo. C’est d’autant plus difficile si l’entrée de la maison donne sur la Route 105. De plus, les enfants ne peuvent pas emprunter la 105 en vélo car la vitesse de croisière sur cette route est de 70 km/h.
Marc Desjardins, le champion de ce secteur, espère bien changer cette situation. Depuis quelques années, Marc travaille avec la municipalité et les propriétaires du coin pour créer un réseau de sentiers qui connecteront les rues du voisinage et des points de service sur les chemins Scott et Old-Chelsea. Nous avons fait état des travaux d’aménagement de sentiers derrière Remorquage Ben. Il y a également trois autres sentiers dans ce secteur qui sont en train d’être aménagés ou en planification. La plupart des sentiers empruntent des corridors municipaux; par contre, d’autres sont aménagés grâce à la collaboration des propriétaires de terrain. Marc a frappé à plusieurs portes et organisé plusieurs rencontres pour faire connaître le projet et obtenir le soutien des propriétaires. Il a tenu compte des suggestions des propriétaires dans la conception de certains segments des sentiers.
Comme toujours, ces réalisations ne seraient pas possibles sans le dévouement de nombreux bénévoles et la collaboration de la municipalité. Leilak Anderson, arboriste certifiée est une bénévole importante qui a donné et livré gratuitement du paillis pour les sentiers. 
by sentierschelseatrails | Jul 14, 2017 | Members & Volunteers, Trail Projects, Work Bees
The trail building in the area encircled by Old Chelsea, the 105, and Scott is a good example of the spirit and vision of Chelsea Trails. This ‘triangle’ contains two elementary school, the Meredith Centre, and many homes and municipal green spaces. But right now, in many cases, a child living 500 metres from their school can’t walk or bike there. This is particularly true if the only entrance to a home or street is off of the 105, on which children are not allowed to ride their bikes (since the speed limit for cars is 70km/hr).
Marc Desjardins, the SCT Sector Champion for this area, hopes to change all that. For the past several years, Marc has been working with the municipality and local landowners to create a system of footpaths that can link streets in this area to each other and to access points on Scott and Old Chelsea. Work this summer will be done behind Ben’s Towing but there are also three other paths in this area that have either been restored or are in the planning stages. Much of these trails follow municipal corridors, but some portions are only possible thanks to the collaboration of local landowners. Marc has knocked on many doors and held open meetings to garner support, and has taken the wishes of local landowners into account when designing certain portions.
As always, these improvements would only be possible with many hours of volunteer effort, in collaboration with the municipality. One important volunteer has been Leilak Anderson, a certified arborist, who has kindly donated and delivered extra mulch for the trails.
by sentierschelseatrails | Jun 27, 2017 | Members & Volunteers
This public meeting is part of the research being conducted by the Montreal consulting group BC2 for their social impact assessment study on the community trail project. They will be present to collect your input and ideas and will submit them to the council.
If you have to miss the meeting but want to contribute your thoughts to the process, you may email your comments to [email protected].The study is supposed to be completed by the end of July so we suggest you get your comments sent by July 6 if you want them to be included in the study.
by sentierschelseatrails | May 16, 2017 | Members & Volunteers
That’s what you saw at the Chelsea Trails dance party on May 6, an exuberant celebration, and a great display of Chelsea’s generous community, but it was also a heartfelt tribute by Richard’s wife, Catherine Morrison and the musicians, to a man they love and miss. Five years ago, Catherine launched a dance party event in support of Chelsea Trails. This year, she gathered up the musicians and did it again…. only bigger.
Catherine, who is Katie Diamond on stage, brought her band and kick-started the B-sides band to build the event as a tribute to the musical memory of Richard Garlick, who died in 2011. Richard’s infectious enthusiasm for his music and his love of Chelsea’s trails shaped his life and spawned Chelsea Trails. He played rock, Cajun, Brazilian jazz, whatever he could find. And just one band wasn’t enough. He and his guitar fronted the B-sides, took the stage with Les Poutine Étouffées and played his last performance at a house concert for SCT.
Thank you all for such an amazing gift for Chelsea Trails and a full on show of the power of love.
by sentierschelseatrails | May 2, 2017 | Railway Transformation, Winter Trail Updates
CHELSEA, QC, May 1 , 2017 – Tonight, the Chelsea Community Trail Coalition will present the powerful results of a petition to the Chelsea Municipal Council to voice their collective support of a viable recreational option for the former Chelsea rail corridor.
The online petition, OuiChelsea.ca, signed by more than 1,560 people, was launched last fall by a new coalition made up of six community groups who joined forces. They include: Sentiers Chelsea Trails, Rails2Trails, Chelsea Action for the Respect of the Environment (ACRE), Cascades Club, Friends of the Gatineau River (FOG) and Loisirs Chelsea Nord Farm Point. The purpose of the petition is to provide Chelsea Municipal Council a clear snapshot of the support by residents across the municipality. (more…)
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