WHMCA’s Annual

Please join us at the Winston Heights Community Centre for the Santa’s Breakfast and Craft Market on Saturday, November 26th. Breakfast will be served from 9:00 am to 11:00 am with Santa arriving to hand out treats to the children at 11:00 am. Free digital photo with Santa available. Also there will be a make and take ornament for the kids to hang on their Christmas Tree at home. The Calgary Public Library’s new addition The Book Truck will also be joining us from 12pm-2pm. The Book Truck brings books, movies and many other library services to the community and gets people of all ages excited about reading and books!

Craft Market Tables will be open from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm with a wide variety of vendors from. Get your Christmas shopping done early, and avoid the malls!!

The breakfast is free to all Winston Heights-Mountview Community Association Members, and at a cost of $5 for non-members. Memberships will be available at the door, free for community residents and $10 for non-residents and businesses.

A bake table will also be raising funds for community initiatives. If you are interested in donating baking, please drop it off to the hall between 12pm – 3pm on Friday, November 25 or between 8:30am – 9am on Saturday, November 26th.

If you have any questions please call the Community Centre at 403-276-5474 or by email craftmarket@winstonheights.ca.

To volunteer email: volunteer@winstonheights.ca

If you would like to be a vendor, please visit us here for details.

Santa’s Breakfast and Craft Market Volunteers Needed

Join us on October 28, from 5pm-9pm for the Free Community Pumpkin Carving!

Hosted by: Tony Nicastro

Older Adults of Winston Heights-Mountview and surrounding communities

AKA

An Elder Friendly Community looking for older adults who would like to join us in monthly meetings and activities including coffee & conversation, guest speakers, TED talks and discussions, day trips, book studies, book club, games & cards and …

Regular monthly meetings occur the third Wednesday of the month in the North Hall in the Community Centre, September through June at 1:30 pm

Older Adults of Winston Heights-Mountview and surrounding communities

AKA

An Elder Friendly Community looking for older adults who would like to join us in monthly meetings and activities including coffee & conversation, guest speakers, TED talks and discussions, day trips, book studies, book club, games & cards and …

Regular monthly meetings occur the third Wednesday of the month in the North Hall in the Community Centre, September through June at 1:30 pm

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Ever wonder what is discussed and how decisions are made?

Join us October 4 at the monthly Board Meeting at the Winston Heights-Mountview Community Centre Board Room: Meeting starts @ 7pm. The agenda and accompanying documents can be found here under the 2016/2017 October link.

Playgroup!

Are you a mom, dad, grandparent or caregiver in the neighbourhood and would like to have a place to go to meet other people and have your children socialize and play with others? Then come and join us at the Winston Heights-Mountview Playgroup held at the Winston Heights-Mountview Community Centre. We have great toys for the kids to play with and this is a great way to get out and meet others. Playgroup is held each Monday morning starting at 10:00 a.m. and lasts to 11:30 a.m (starting up again September 12, 2016).

This is an informal, non-registered playgroup, so no need to sign up, just come out and join us on Monday mornings – we love to meet new families in the neighbourhood! If you have any questions, or would like more information, please contact Sarah Wiedmer Jarabak at playgroup@winstonheights.ca.

Also, if you’d be interested in having a ‘story time’ during playgroup, please contact me via e-mail. If we have enough interest, I will organize a Calgary Public Library public outreach coordinator to schedule us in for regular story times. They bring books on a specific theme and read a few to the children while guardians quietly visit. The books are even available to be checked out if you bring your library card with you.

The Understory – a program about planting under trees, brought to WHMCA by the City of Calgary Re-tree initiative.
September is not too early to plan for our yards and gardens in the spring!

Join us Wednesday September 28 from 7 to 8:30 in the East Hall of the Community Centre for “The Understory” a program about planting under trees, brought to WHMCA by the City of Calgary Re-tree initiative.

Are you finding it difficult to grow anything under that tree in your backyard? In the Under Story you will learn all about successful ways to plan and create a personalized garden under and around your trees. This program describes a variety of plant species that could be perfect for planting near your tree. We also show you real garden examples of how an understory can evolve over time. After this program you will walk away with a wealth of information that you can apply to ‘sprucing’ up the area around your trees.

The learning objectives of The Understory are:

1. What is the understory and why is it important.
2. How to plan and create your understory.
3. The challenges of creating an understory.
4. Design tips for creating the understory.
5. The various plants to grow in your understory.
6. Shade loving plants.
7. Shrubs.
8. Conifers.
9. Ground covers.
10. Vines.
11. The difference between mulch and compost.
12. The various mulch options and benefits of each.