Community News

We are hosting a contest to re-design our community logo!  We invite residents of Coach Hill and Patterson Heights to send us their original, fresh ideas for a new community logo.

A prize will be awarded to the designer of the winning logo, and your name will be featured in The Broadcaster.

Winner will be determined by your fellow residents at the Stampede Breakfast on Monday, July 9, 2012.

Contest entries must be submitted no later than 11:59pm Saturday, June 30, 2012

E-mail your logo design as a JPEG file to contest@chph.ca.  Include your full name, telephone number, address, and e-mail address.  Incomplete information will disqualify your entry.

Logo Guidelines:

• •-         Must be in digital, JPEG format
• •-         Must include CHPH.ca word mark
• •-         Must be clear and recognizable at small size

Contest Rules: 

• •-         No limit to number of entries per participant.
• •-         Entrants must have parental consent if under the age of 18.
• •-         Entrants must be a resident of the Coach Hill or Patterson Heights community
• •-         Entrants represent and warrant that their submission(s) is/are their original work, has not been copied from others, and does not violate the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity.
• •-         By submitting an entry to the contest, the participant acknowledges that the logo will become property of the Coach Hill, Patterson Heights Community Association.

 

Are you interested in enrolling your son or daughter into a soccer camp this summer? Signal Hill Soccer Association has full and half day camps in July and August. To find out more information or to register, go to http://www.signalhillsoccer.com.

Mark this date on your calendar  Monday 9th July  to come to the CHPH Stampede Breakfast  in the Alberta Bandminton Centre Car park from 8:30 to 11:00 am.

 

Your CHPH  board and other  community volunteers will be flipping pancakes  whilst  you enjoy  the live music  of Carley Dow. There will be  activities  for the children  and lots of time for you to visit with your neighbours.

 

We do need some more volunteers to  help with  making the batter, flipping pancakes and general  duties,  so please  e-mail us  from the this website  with your contact information.

Help make this a great breakfast.

Your child’s artwork could be chosen as the cover of Recreation Program Guide this winter!

We are asking children aged 5-12 to create a poster that visually describes, and represents their favorite experience(s) while participating in a recreational activity, program or event. For more information go to the Rec 100 website.

http://www.cocnmp.com/recreation/gallery-posters.php

The newest West LRT update was just released. To view it go to www.westlrt.ca

On Wednesday, May 2, 2012, from 4-8 p.m., at Westbrook Mall, The City’s Transportation Planning is hosting a public information session on the West LRT Pedestrian and Bicycle Improvements Project – Phase 1. The information session will be an “open house” format with display boards showing new cycling route, connections to LRT stations and a number of road improvements as part of the West LRT Pedestrian and Bicycle Improvements Project.

The scope of Phase 1 includes improvements to key cycling and pedestrian routes leading into three LRT station areas: Shaganappi Point Station, Westbrook Station, and 45 Street Station. The boundaries of Phase 1 are (from east to west) Crowchild Trail, Sarcee Trail, (from north to south) Spruce Drive/Sovereign Crescent and 26 Avenue S.W. Through 2011, The City of Calgary called together a stakeholder group of people from the area communities and people from the cycling community to provide input about the routes in phase 1. The stakeholder group met twice in 2011: once to provide comments and concerns about cycling in the area and a second time to provide feedback on bicycle route concept plans. Planning for Phase 2 will begin in late 2012 and includes the 69 Street, Sirocco, and Sunalta LRT Stations. The City will again bring together a stakeholder group of people from the area communities and people from the cycling community.

Calgarians are invited to share their opinions and concerns through an online survey.

What's the difference between a great neighbourhood and the BEST neighbourhood? What factors make that truly winning combination undefined amenities, price, curb appeal, low crime rate and intangibles such as friendliness of the neighbours? Fill out Avenue's Best Neighbourhoods Survey and let us know what you think makes a neighbourhood great and then tell us how your own community stacks up. 

CALGARY- After struggling for months over whether to allow Canada Olympic Park land to be turned into a large retail development, the city is now considering a dramatic and costly Plan C- buy the land. Council voted Monday to study a potential purchase of 19 hectares at the base of Paskapoo Slopes.It’s unclear how much the property would cost a valuation will be part of the study but city hall already has up to $60 million in loan guarantees tied up in other parts of the COP expansion venture. WinSport Canada had expected to repay those loan guarantees through selling land along the Trans Canada Highway to a retail developer after getting rezoning. That plan was up in the air, however, as city planners disagreed with WinSport on how to ensure some office developments would be part of that retail project, and when a future highway interchange would expand to meet that traffic demand. Buying the land would let the city sidestep that complex disagreement, but the city is unsure how to come up with the funds to do so. “The city had some of our top people on this file over the last couple of months, and this is what they came up with a way to move forward,” Mayor Naheed Nenshi said in council Monday. Council will likely vote on a potential purchase when the city presents its study in June. For several months, council has delayed a decision on a new master plan for the lands surrounding the site of the 1988 Winter Games’ ski jump, bobsled track and freestyle skiing hill. The less-controversial parts of the project include hotels, a film studio, and a large park with cross-country ski trails on the Paskapoo Slopes, south of the proposed retail land. Nenshi suggested that instead of big box retail on the site, it could become part of that park and ski-trail area. Conservation groups had also called on the city to block a move to flatten the lower slopes for large stores and their parking lots. Jim Younker, chief operating officer for WinSport and head of its rezoning application, could not be reached for comment. Ald. Dale Hodges said a letter from WinSport stated the group agrees that council should hold off any decisions until June. Although the market value of those 19 hectares of COP land is still to be determined, Younker had said previously that there was a gap of up to $20 million between the potential sale price of those parcels if WinSport’s plans were approved and the price if city planners’ alterations were approved. Under then-mayor Dave Bronconnier, council agreed in 2010 to give WinSport up to $60 million in loan guarantees to ensure the sports agency could build new ice arenas. The organization has only drawn down about two-thirds of that amount.

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