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NeighbourWoods Planting Day is Approaching!

Aug 5

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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

  • Arrive at the Winston Heights Mount View Community Center – 520 27 AV N.E.
  • Pay the community association. You will be given a receipt to in for your tree(s) later. The water bags cost $30 per tree and can be paid by cash or cheque.
  • The cheque is to be made out to Winston Heights Mount View Community Association.

10:00 AM

  • A mandatory planting demonstration will follow

10:20 AM

  • Following the planting demo, trees, water bags, and mulch will be picked up (trees are tagged by species and address only and this should be on your receipt), distributed, and planted by homeowners and volunteers.

TREES WILL BE HANDED OUT AFTER THE PLANTING DEMONSTRATION ONLY

  • If you require assistance, are unable to attend, or are willing to help volunteer with the planting or distributing of trees please contact your community association lead by Sue Fulkerth at Phone: 403-238-1395 or email: fulkerth@telus.net
  • Happy Planting

WHMC Garden Committee

My Community-Amateur Photo Contest

Jul 30

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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!

Rain Gardens

May 31

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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.

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Neighbourhood survey

May 20

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The Federation of Calgary Communities and the City of Calgary Neighbourhood Services are interested in learning about how you and your community residents feel about living in your neighbourhood. To this end, a survey has been developed and can be accessed by typing in the following link.

The City has offered an I-pod and a number of family passes to city facilities as draw prizes to those individuals who fill in the survey and provide their email in the last question. All information received will be collated by community and distributed to each association that takes part except for any identifiable information regarding respondents. We asks that all responses be completed by June 30, 2010 and the draw will occur shortly after this date.

Click here to take the survey

Members to Vote on New Bylaws

Apr 10

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At this year’s Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, May 18, Members of the Winston Heights – Mountview Community Association will be asked to approve a new set of bylaws.

The existing bylaws have been updated and new clauses added to ensure they reflect best practices. For example, some additional clauses have been added to reflect the common use of electronic communication such as email, and minor word changes have been made to ensure consistency.

For the sake of efficiency, rather than asking Members to approve each amendment to our existing bylaws, Members will be presented with a new set of bylaws to approve at the Annual General Meeting.

The proposed bylaws are now available for Members to review. Paper copies are available at the Community Hall or you can download an electronic copy here: Winston Heights Mountview Bylaws – May 2010 [PDF].

Members are asked to contact Board Secretary Kim Mustard before the Annual General Meeting if they have any questions or concerns about the new bylaws. Kim can be reached at kim_mustard@shaw.ca or by phone at (403) 283-0652.