Winston Heights Mountview Association

are celebrating the

First Anniversary of the Centennial Garden

with a

“Garden Tea Party”

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.

]]> http://winstonheights.ca/2010/08/its-garden-party-time/feed/ 0 http://winstonheights.ca/2010/08/neighbourwoods-planting-day-is-approaching/ http://winstonheights.ca/2010/08/neighbourwoods-planting-day-is-approaching/#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:29:56 +0000 garden http://winstonheights.ca/?p=494 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

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!

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 10^th, 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.

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.