There are three cash prizes:  $100 for each winning photo from Strathcona, Christie and Aspen.  Winners will be determined by your fellow residents, at the June 23 Stampede Breakfast.

Winning photographs will be displayed in an enlarged format in a prominent place in our building so that visitors, community members and others can get a real sense of what it means to us to live in the Strathcona, Christie and Aspen communities in a high impact visual form.

Photographers:  click here for submission guidelines.

Everyone:  attend our Pre-Stampede Breakfast on June 23 to vote for the winners!

Drop-off is FREE for SCA members.  For non-members, a fee will apply for paper shredding, car seat recycling and waste services.

Items will be limited to one vehicle load per family.

• Electronics Recycling
• Bikes for Humanity
• Paper Shredding
• Metal Recycling
• Waste trucks (City of Calgary)
• WINS Clothing & Household item donations

Electronics Recycling

June 9, 9am-1pm

Items accepted:  all computers, towers & accessories, copiers, faxes, radios, alarm clocks, coffee machines, microwave ovens, cell phones, blow dryers, speakers, cables, phones, DVD players, record players, cash registers, and other small electronics.  Sorry, we cannot accept large appliances (no ovens, no fridges, no washers, no dryers).

Bikes for Humanity

June 9, 9am-1pm

Donate your old bicycles, working or not – as long as the frame and fork are intact – to be shipped to an African village.  Bike parts are also accepted.  Bicycles-for-Humanity is a charitable organization dedicated to empowering people in Africa by providing them transportation.  Once a shipment of bikes arrives in a village, local development agencies provide bike-repair training to villagers.  The container in which the bicycles are shipped transforms into a local bike shop and locals learn small business skills, as they have to operate shop.  For more information visit www.bicycles-for-humanity.org

Paper Shredding

June 9, 9am-1pm

It’s surely time to purge your filing cabinets.  We’ll bring the paper shredding truck to the SCA parking lot, all you’ve got to do is bring your papers here.  FREE for SCA members.  $5 fee for non-members.

Metal Recycling

June 9, 9am-1pm

If you have metal items to discard, they can be recycled instead of going into our landfills.  Examples include:  BBQ’s, metal shelves, metal fencing, ski poles, golf clubs, etc.  If you bring an old gas lawn mower it MUST be empty of gas first or it will not be accepted.  Sorry, no brass items.

Waste Trucks (City of Calgary)

June 9, 9am-1pm

Before you throw away perfectly good items, please consider whether you can sell, donate, or recycle them!  Waste items that can’t be left at curb with your black bin for regular garbage pickup can be brought to our parking lot for collection by special City Waste Services packer trucks on Saturday June 9 from 9am-1pm.  No hazardous goods, no tires.  Items will be limited to one vehicle load per family.

FREE for SCA members.  $20 fee for non-members (or take your items to the City Landfill).

We cannot accept hazardous goods – no paint, no chemicals, no propane, etc.  Please take these to a Hazardous Household Waste drop-off location at a City of Calgary fire station.  Our closest location is Fire Station #20, located at 2800 Peacekeepers Way SW, near Mount Royal University.

WINS – Women In Need Society – will gratefully accept:

Clothing, Footwear, & Accessories:

• All women’s, men’s, children’s & baby’s clothing – in season, clean and in good condition
• Shoes, boots & sandals, belts, purses/bags, gloves and jewelry

Items for Children:

• Baby strollers, cribs, and high chairs with the manufacturer date and safety sticker
• Toys – clean & gently used or new *NO STUFFED ANIMALS
• Car seats – will be checked for expiry date, accidents or recalls;  if not suitable, they will be recycled appropriately

Furniture:

• Clean mattresses & box springs, headboards, etc.
• Kitchen tables & chairs, dining sets
• Bedroom furniture – dressers, night tables
• Exercise equipment
• Desks, filing cabinets

Household Items (clean, in working order):

• Bedding, towels, curtains & rods
• Dishes, pots, pans, & cooking utensils
• Small appliances – coffee pots, toasters, microwaves
• Bathroom items – shower curtains, soap holder, garbage basket, towel holder
• Knick knacks, decorations, & pictures
• Books, CD’s, DVD’s, electronics *NO TV’s (we have too many, sorry)

Sorry we CANNOT accept:

• Large appliances (stoves, washers, dryers, fridges, etc)
• Hide-a-beds, water beds
• Cribs or high chairs older than 2 yrs
• Encyclopedias, textbooks or magazines
• Custom cut blinds
• Stuffed animals
• TV’s
• Oversize wall units or other furniture weighing >100 lbs.

If residents are not home when a Census Taker visits, the Census Taker will leave a notice of municipal census call. Residents are asked to call the Census Taker at the number provided on the notice of call to complete their Census.

The Census will only take a couple of minutes to complete and the information obtained is essential in planning services for Calgarians.  Census data is used to determine per capita grants from the Province, to provide statistical information for the planning of a variety of City services, to forecast school enrolments, and to determine new school requirements.  All Census information collected is confidential.  Census information is only released at the community level and higher to ensure that no individual can be identified.

For more information, please visit www.calgary.ca/census.

Bike Calgary Association is working to:

• increase cycling as a widely accepted transportation alternative in Calgary
• improve on-street cycling safety, cyclist education and driver awareness
• promote Calgary as a “Bike Friendly City”
• promote and support events that encourage transportation and commuter cycling in Calgary.
• provide a knowledgeable base from which to draw support, comment, analysis and initiative
  on matters related to transportation cycling infrastructure, training, education and awareness
  within the municipal, provincial & federal governments and the corporate sector.

Upcoming Special Event – June 30

http://cyclepalooza.ca/event/ward-6-ride-the-western-burbs-40km-tour/

A Bit About Me
I am a current resident of Glenbrook and have lived in Ward 6 communities for approximately 25 years. I am an all-season bike commuter riding both to work and for recreation and aside from volunteering as Ward 6 Representative for Bike Calgary, I have also contributed to the Bike Calgary Winter Riding page and have just began to help out with some of their mapping projects. As far as education, I have a BSc. in Earth Science from the University of Calgary and an Advanced Diploma in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from BCIT.

Please contact me with any bike related concerns or questions you may have and if you would like to be informed of any bike related events in your area you can e-mail me and ask to be added to my mailing list.

Joshua Crough, ward6@bikecalgary.org

www.bikecalgary.org

We have four new volunteers who have joined our Board of Directors:  Shelley Bartole, Carrie Ferguson, Sanjeev Kad, and Sohaib Wasif.

President Andy Kneubuhler is handing over the reins to new President Maureen Smith (formerly VP), and he will continue to serve as Past President.  Program Director Maureen Fothergill is retiring from the Board.  Both Andy and Maureen were presented with certificates for Lifetime Memberships with the SCA CA in thanks for their service.

Our Board of Directors now consists of 13 members:  nine members continue to serve their two-year term from 2011-2013, or are staying on from 2010 for another two-year term from 2012-2014, and we are very pleased to add four new volunteers to our team.  Six directors live in Aspen, six in Strathcona, and 1 in Christie.

The Board has set 4 main goals for 2012-2013:

1. Increase Membership purchases/renewals
2. Continued renovations (depending on grant funding) for the building and landscaping
3. Create a Community Garden
4. Develop a Business Plan, and a Policies & Procedures Manual

Our popular Spaghetti Dinners take a break now until the Fall – we hope to see you at our outdoor Spring events!

Click here for detailed information on the snow route parking ban program.

Click here to subscribe to email updates from the City on the snow route parking ban program.

This winter a new Snow Route parking ban program will be introduced to Calgary. The purpose of this program is to support snow plowing operations by removing vehicles from the streets, allowing crews to clear snow from Calgary roads more efficiently and effectively. Parking will be temporarily restricted on designated “Snow Routes” for 72 hours following a declaration of a Snow Event by The City. Snow Events will be declared when five centimetres or more of snow has accumulated on city streets.

To find a listing of current bans, visit http://www.calgary.ca/Transportation/Roads/Pages/Road-Maintenance/Snow-and-ice-control/Snow-Route-parking-bans.aspx

Kids visited booths to play all sorts of carnival games to earn candy prizes, and there were also exciting contests such as the “Mummy Wrap” for kids and adults to compete as teams.

Thank you to the Movie in the Park team for bringing their great production to our community centre, and thank you to Winsport/COP for sponsoring one of the carnival game booths.

This event would not have been a success without our volunteer game booth attendants.  Thank you to Chelsea, Ashley, Carden, Judy, Les, Vern, Kerana, Candace, Madison, Taylor, Vern and Cooper for mastering and supervising all the carnival games that entertained the kids.

Watch for this event to return again for Halloween 2012.