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Green Door #2 Citizens Supporting The Green Door Ontario’s Prosperous and Sustainable Future Yorklands Green Hub Newsletter June 2014 [Volume 1, Number 2] Greetings from the YGH Board City of Guelph Summer greetings, friends of the interim access to the land Endorses Vision of Yorklands Green Hub. We are and the superintendent's house in the summer of Yorklands Green Hub now official! Yorklands Green Hub has incorporated, and the list 2014. With the re-election of our Board of Directors is now of the Ontario Liberals, we posted on our website. look forward to continuing Late in the evening on negotiations with the Wynne Monday May 12, YGH Board We've set up an organizational government to designate our Member Lin Grist presented proposed site as a common structure to define the work of the vision for the Yorklands our members and volunteers. Our good. Green Hub to our forward- six designated working groups are Urban Agriculture, Wise We have now completed our thinking Guelph City Council. Water Use, Energy Conservation Yorklands Green Hub The Council unanimously Strategic Plan which will and Alternatives, Business moved “to support in Planning, Fundraising, and form a key part of our case to principle the vision of Communications and Outreach. the Province of Ontario. It illuminates both the timely Yorklands Green Hub as part of the Guelph Innovation Our immediate goal is to secure interim access to District Plan” the land and the superintendent's house. Consultation with government wisdom and the practicality In her deposition to the City representatives has continued to of a self-sustaining research, Council, Lin spoke about the be a core part our work. We've education and business met with local MPP and Ontario forum and demonstration ways that the Yorklands Minister of Education, the centre that will address our Green Hub vision both Honorable Liz Sandals, who has climate change challenge supports and is in alignment advised us on gathering public through a focus on local food with the Guelph Innovation support for a request to the production, water Ontario Legislature. We also conservation and a transition District Plan. She spoke on have talked with the Honorable to more efficient and more how the YGH will be: Glen Murray, Minister of renewable energy use. Infrastructure Ontario. We have An Economic Driver also consulted with staff from the We've now moving on to our A Tourism Centre Ministry of Corrections and from business plan development, An Environmental the Ministries of Immigration our governance structure and Exhibition Centre and Citizenship and Tourism, fundraising and applications A Research Hub Culture and Heritage. Our for funding are underway. An Educational Resource immediate goal is to secure A Heritage Site And a Community Hub Yorklands Green Hub Newsletter June 2014 [Edition 1, Volume 2] Citizens Supporting Ontario’s Prosperous and Sustainable Future Jane's Walk Site Tours a Success Clythe Creek Gets a Checkup Participants in Jane’s Walk at Yorklands Green Hub In early May, senior biologists from Ontario Streams made a On May 3rd and 4th, almost one products for themselves visit to the YGH site. Ontario hundred people came out to and for the wider Streams is a non-profit enjoy Jane's Walks led by YGH community. environmental organization board members. Named in dedicated to the conservation honour of celebrated urban The YGH Jane's Walks and rehabilitation of streams visionary, Jane Jacobs, Jane's emphasized how in these and wetlands. Walks have spread to many days of disappearing local Canadian cities. The walks allow farmland, long-distance Ontario Streams were at the community members to share food systems, and a YGH to inspect the Clythe personally-researched aspects of changing climate, the site Creek, a tributary of the local history, geography and has the potential to teach Eramosa River. As a tributary, urban culture with their fellow many lessons about the Clythe Creek is part of the citizens. sustainable agriculture, Grand River watershed. The water conservation, Grand is designated as a The YGH site tours emphasized renewable energy and best Canadian Heritage River. the history of the Ontario practices for resilient Reformatory. At the jail, inmates communities. As a In collaboration with the learned skills to prepare them for provincial environmental University of Guelph, the an improved life on the outside. research, education and Ontario Stream’s scientists From its inception in 1910, demonstration centre, the said they look forward to reformatory inmates learned to reformatory's tradition of developing a ten-year water practice stone masonry, self-sustaining community improvement master plan. The woodworking, farming and is one that YGH wishes to protection and health of local animal husbandry on the site's continue into the future as water systems is among 1,000 acres. Over time, the trades part of Guelph's unique YGH's public education goals, included machine and tailoring heritage. A salute to the along with local sustainable shops, greenhouses and orchards, spirit of Jane Jacobs, who agriculture, and energy a woolen mill, a cannery and a taught so well how to conservation. bakery. Inmates produced food connect people and place! and a whole range of other 2 | P a g e Yorklands Green Hub Newsletter June 2014 [Edition 1, Volume 2] Citizens Supporting Ontario’s Prosperous and Sustainable Future Yorklands BioBlitz Finds Thriving Life Funding the Yorklands Green Hub The YGH intends to be a self-supporting organization. We are registered as a not-for-profit organization and are looking to becoming a charity. A Fundraising Committee is in place and Young Members of Nature Guelph BioBlitz the YGH we are exploring different ways to support our With the exception of basic Bioblitz is a quick biological activities. maintenance, the site of the inventory of an area’s flora and former Guelph Correctional fauna. Costs, associated with Centre (GCC) has been largely retrofitting the buildings, empty of a sustained human The YGH, they discovered, carrying out education presence since 2002. What's was teeming with life. Three projects, farming, land and nature been doing for 12 years? types of snakes, birds, plants, water remediation will be Nature Guelph, a club for nature insects and a pair of baby stoats worked out with local lovers in the Guelph area, were spotted. businesses that are already decided to find out. interested in the YGH and want to demonstrate their expertise as part of the BioBlitz - a quick biological inventory educational outreach. of the site's flora and fauna. Volunteer! On Sunday June 8, as part of the The Yorklands Green Hub's opening events of the 2Rivers Norah Chaloner called the six- Festival, Nature Guelph and the hour Bioblitz “a fantastic We continue to look for YGH invited twenty success.” You can read the full volunteers for this important conservation experts and details on our website under work. Please contact us if volunteers to carry out a Bioblitz. recent news. you are interested in helping The volunteers combed through (yorklandsgreenhub.ca) out on this worthwhile the grounds looking under rocks, project. Visit our website at up trees, and in every nook and yorklandsgreenhub.ca or cranny they could find. The look for us on Facebook 3 | P a g e Yorklands Green Hub Newsletter June 2014 [Edition 1, Volume 2] Citizens Supporting Ontario’s Prosperous and Sustainable Future Going Up… A Video Win to YGH Logo Get the Word Out ! Design Contest! On Tuesday March 25, Citizens Many thanks to Michael Groups from around Guelph Shook who lead the efforts gathered at the River Run Centre on the Elevator Project for for the first “Big Show”. This the YGH. Also thanks to event was the culmination of the the organizers of the Big The Yorklands Green Hub is first round of the Guelph Show who coordinated 52 calling on the talents of local Elevator Project. The Project diverse groups that night. artists and graphic designers to was created to match groups with The YGH made a number help us promote our vision of great ideas to make Guelph an of valuable contacts that we an “Ontario Environmental even better place. look forward to working Exhibition.” This summer, we with in the future. are sponsoring a logo design YGH submitted its project contest to produce a graphic proposal of building a green hub We have begun working image to identify us, our at the former Guelph with Innovation Guelph’s values and our project. The Correctional Centre, and received Mark Goldberg and the winning logo will appear on $2,700 in-kind mentorship with Guelph Community Centre, our website, our promotional materials, our newsletter, our letterhead, and our site YGH Wins People’s Choice Award signage. Mark Goldberg of Innovation along with David Thornley Interested designers are asked Guelph and David Thornley as on development of our to visit the Yorklands Green well as a 2 minute animated business plan. Hub website early in July to video donated by download the Artwork HandOnAWhiteBoard.com Work is also currently Submission Form and read up under way with Devin on the vision, philosophy and YGH was also voted the Smith of goals of our proposed project. “People’s Choice Award” in an handonawhiteboard.com on online poll. We received $500 creating our video. We Deadline for submissions is for being the most popular group hope to debut it soon on our August 15, 2014 and the entered! web page. winner will be announced at a festive public event in the fall of 2014, date and venue to be announced. 4 | P a g e Yorklands Green Hub Newsletter June 2014 [Edition 1, Volume 2] Citizens Supporting Ontario’s Prosperous and Sustainable Future Help Us Keep YGH Support Growing Endorser Profile For Our Grandchildren We want you all to know, we can't do this work without you.
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