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In response to the recently announced Ottawa area water restrictions and related rain barrel subsidy program, RainBarrel.ca invites Ottawa residents to support our Ottawa area partners’ rain barrel sale events as posted on our Truckload Sale page:

Kanata St. Anne’s Catholic School
Kanata-March Horticultural Society

RainBarrel.ca will soon be adding three new rain barrel sales events to be held in Ottawa Saturday, May 7, 2011. Please bear with us as we finalize details and then announce them to you. Rain barrels will sell for $55 each at the new sale events. More locations will be available on other dates. Please visit our Ottawa information page to learn more.

Each rain barrel comes fully equipped with a leaf and mosquito filter basket, an overflow adaptor that permits multiple barrels to be connected in series, 1.2m of overflow hose and a spigot that attaches directly to a garden hose. (Additional overflow hose can also be purchased if required.)

Thank you to Julia Cardiff, Petrolia organizer who reports:

Saturday April 16, 2011 was an overwhelming success! Despite the weather! Of the 420 barrels that arrived only 26 did not find a new home on the pick up day, but I’ve since made some phone calls, and people are still wanting their barrels. I’m confident that they will all find new homes! Thank you for having such a well planned handbook, following the suggestions assisted in the sale being a wonderful fund-raising event.

The most memorable pick up was a couple from Sarnia (20 minutes away) who came in their Volkswagen Beetle. They succeeded in loading their two barrels that they ordered, and happily purchased another one! That meant that the husband needed to drive home to deliver the barrels and then return to Petrolia to pick up his wife, who happily went shopping at the local jewelery store. (I think it was worth the drive to Petrolia, at least for the wife!)

The RainBarrel.ca partner in Welland, Ontario is the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Foundation. Their sale is detailed here

They’ve got something special for the first 100 people to pick up. Hope you get there!

http://www.mitchelladvocate.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3069345

Kinsmen & Kinettes working on joint project
By Andy Bader
Posted 10 hours ago
The Mitchell & District Kinsmen and Kinettes will host a truckload sale of rain barrels on Saturday, May 21 at the Mitchell Arena parking lot from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Rain barrels will be pre-sold for $60 each and funds raised will support the West Perth volunteer fire department for new thermal imaging equipment and various other community projects.

Kinsmen President Grant McKellar said the local club heard about similar successful projects through other Kinsmen clubs, and offered to partner with the Kinettes here in Mitchell and West Perth.

“Other clubs have tried it so we wanted to give it a try, too,” McKellar said.

Rain barrels capture and store rain water collected from roofs through downspouts. They provide chlorine-free and fluoride-free water which is ideal for flowers, vegetables, lawns, shrubs and trees. Rain barrels also divert clean water from sewer systems and can provide cost savings for homeowners who currently pay to have water trucked in or who have a water meter installed.

Each rain barrel available through the sale is equipped with a mosquito and leaf debris filter basket, an overflow hose, an outlet to join rain barrels together in a series and a spigot at the bottom which can be connected to a standard garden hose.

These environmentally-friendly products were once used to import fruits and vegetables and have been refurbished and re-purposed to offer years of reliable service as rain barrels, McKellar noted.

The barrels are available in three colours including grey, terracotta and black.

All orders must be placed online in advance at www.RainBarrel.ca/mitchell or by calling McKellar at 519-348-0034 or Kinette Faye Tubb at 519-348-4180.

“If they’re not pre-ordered, there’s no guarantee there will be one for you if you just arrive the day of delivery,” McKellar said, adding that the organizers prefer that everyone pays online, but you can still place your order online and pay cash the day of pick up.