are celebrating the
First Anniversary of the Centennial Garden
with a
When: September 12th, 2010
Time: 1:00 to 3:00 pm.
Where: 520 – 27th Avenue NE
Please join us in the ‘Centennial Garden” for a special plaque unveiling, musical entertainment, singing, balloons and light refreshments.
Thank you to all community residents that called 3-1-1 to express interest in having a tree planted through the NeighbourWoods Residential Tree Planting Program. It will be a few years before we are offered this opportunity again.
The City gardeners have been busy visiting homes and determining placements of trees, marking the planting area with white circles and fronds. The circles will be drilled out by a City contractor, providing a nice hole in which to plant the new tree. We will soon have over 100 new trees in the community!
For Winston Heights Mount View NeighbourWoods Participants
Please mark down September 18th as your planting date.
To better prepare for the September 18th Planting Day, here is a quick rundown of what will be occurring, starting at 9:30 AM.
Schedule
9:30 AM
10:00 AM
10:20 AM
TREES WILL BE HANDED OUT AFTER THE PLANTING DEMONSTRATION ONLY
WHMC Garden Committee
Celebrate your Community and win! There is over $600 in prizes with My Community-Amateur Photo Contest
The Federation of Calgary Communities is hosting an amateur photo contest around what community means to Calgarians… Enter and you could be the winner of a $300 cash value prize for first place, a $200 cash value prize for second place and a $100 cash value prize for third place!
We are looking for a photo that displays what community life means to you and a written description that explains why.
For contest rules, submission requirements, and photo waiver form visit www.calgarycommunities.com/amateurphotocontest.php
Make sure to get your picture and written description in soon!
** CANCELLED **
WHMCA Stampede BBQ
Saturday, July 10th at 6pm
Tickets for Members $15, Non-Members $20
Includes dinner, drinks $3
Call Lara for tickets 403-837-8466
It’s time to dust off the ol’ Stetson and shine up your belt buckle because, once again, Stampedin’ time is right around the corner! As usual, the Winston Heights – Mountview Community Association is kicking it up a notch from the usual “burgers ‘n’ dogs” Stampede BBQ. On July 10th, the WHMV Community Centre will host a feast to satiate any Alberta-sized appetite: steak, baked beans, baked potatoes, corn, Caesar salad, and something sweet for dessert!
Cocktail hour starts at 6pm followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Then the real fun begins when the dance starts at 9 p.m.! So tell your neighbours, grab your darlin’ and come down for a real barnburner!
Tickets can be purchased from Lara at (403) 837-8466. Prices are $15 for members and $20 for non-members.
May 31
Rain Gardens: A beautiful solution to stormwater pollution.
Every time it rains or snow melts, the streets, driveways, parking lots and your lawn get a bath. Dirt, oil gasoline, gravel, salt, pet waste and lawn chemicals are washed away into the storm drains. Ultimately, stormwater (rain and melted snow), and the pollutants within it, enters our rivers through outfalls – the big drains you see along the riverbanks. Many Calgarians are already taking simple actions, such as using rain barrels and washing their car at the carwash, to help protect our rivers’ water quality.
A fairly new concept to Calgary are rain gardens, which provide another way for residents to help make a difference in protecting our rivers, fish and our source of drinking water. A rain garden is a landscaped feature that replaces an area of your lawn in order to collect the stormwater (rain and melted snow) that runs off your lawn, roof and driveway. This shallow depression has loose, deep soil that absorbs and naturally filters stormwater runoff before it enters the storm drains you see along the street, thus reducing the amount of polluted water that enters the storm system.
For more information about other actions you can take to help protect our rivers or to download a rain garden factsheet visit www.calgary.ca/waterservices or call 3-1-1.