Tuscany LRT Station Opening Celebration
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[email protected] will be fully operating by August 25, of Latter Day Saints, Councillor Ward Treasurer ..........................Lee Bardwell and you’re invited to discover the new Sutherland, Servus Credit Union, Cobs Executive Administrator station at a celebration on Saturday, Bread, Bricks 4 Kidz, Tutor Doctor, ......................................... Jamie Neufeld August 23. If possible, please walk or PedalHeads, Green Earth Organic, ............. [email protected] cycle, or hop on the bus, as parking is Twelve Mile Coulee School, Brown TCA Committees limited. Once the new station is open, & Associates, Brookfi eld, Calgary Youth Council buses will run within Tuscany and will Public Library, Albi Homes, Bow-West ............................. [email protected] no longer travel to Crowfoot Station. Community Resource Centre, Tuscany Traffi c and Safety Committee Club, Red Wagon Diner, Sticky Ricky’s, .............................traffi [email protected] If you live in the area north of Tuscany Trickle Creek, and Watermark. Elected Officials Boulevard and east of Tuscany Way, Councillor: please know you are eligible to apply for The Planning & Development Ward Sutherland parking restrictions, if you choose. The Committee continues to work on various 403-268-2430 City will mail out a petition which 80% fi les within the community and also in [email protected] MLA: of people on your street need to sign in adjacent areas. We have learned that the Sandra Jansen order for signs to be installed. Visit the Lutheran church is not planning to build 403-297-7104 City’s website for more information, the Loving Saviour Lutheran Church [email protected] or request a petition through the 3-1- in the near future, although the multi- MP: 1 system (online or by telephone). family complex at that site will proceed Rob Anders 403-292-6666 To avoid confusion, we recommend once the City provides the green light. A www.robanders.ca that you indicate that you live within few developments in Tuscany continue an established zone (TUS) when you to be delayed due to the need for the Tuscany Sun Newsletter contact the City. West Memorial Sanitary Trunk upgrade, Editor & Article Submissions: Darren Bender Save the date for the 3rd Annual [email protected] continued on next page Associate Editor: Kelley Kissner Tuscany Harvest Festival! Submission deadlines for this monthly publication are the On Saturday, September 20 from 11:00 5th of the month, prior to the distribution month. a.m. to 2:00 p.m. we will have many attractions coming to us, including food Advertising Sales: trucks, face painting, crafts, games, Phil 403-660-7324 climbing wall, mini-putt, bouncy castles, [email protected] and more! Following the festival, we’ll The ad booking deadline is the 14th of the month prior to the distribution month. have Lawn Chair Theatre in the park, This publication is published 12 times a year and we hope you’ll join us. If you would by Suburban Journals Publishing and delivered to residents like to volunteer or sponsor this year, by Canada Post. This publication is also available for pickup from the Tuscany Club. please email Jamie Neufeld at Please note: the information and opinions in this newsletter [email protected]. are subject to change, and do not necessarily represent the Admission is free, although we welcome opinions of the publisher or editor. Content contained in this publication may not be reproduced without the written donations for the Food Bank, which will consent of Suburban Journals Publishing. The information be collected at the festival. herein is believed accurate but not warranted so. Any advertisements, home businesses, babysitters & nannies, or other parties listed in the Tuscany Sun should not be interpreted as recommendations or endorsements by the Thank you to the following who have editor or the publisher. already confi rmed their participation THE TUSCANY SUN AUGUST 2014 5 In Our Community TCA President’s NW LRT Extension Update Report continued Tuscany Station Opens for parking because most of the Park Service on Monday, August 25, and Ride lots will be taken up with including the Crystal Creek homes on 2014! event activities. Maps of the shuttle Tuscany Springs Boulevard and Avi’s On Monday, August 25, 2014, the service are available online and will proposed plans along Tuscany Way. Tuscany CTrain Station will open for be included in the event invitation The new CBE school is on track to be service and the trains will start running delivered in your mail. built and open by September 2016, and as part of the CTrain network. Four the fi re station is scheduled to be open revised bus routes, two in Tuscany and Parking at the Park and Ride Lots by summer, 2017. The interchange at two in Rocky Ridge/Royal Oak, and Calgary Transit will provide Stoney Trail and Nose Hill Drive has a new route in Royal Vista, will begin more information soon about the been signifi cantly delayed, so we are operating and delivering passengers implementation of reserved parking hopeful it will be complete by this fall. to the new station. Both trains and for the two Park and Ride lots at buses will start operating in the early the Tuscany Station. Please visit Special thanks to the Tuscany Residents hours of the morning, in time for www.calgarytransit.com for more Association for providing space for us the morning commute. Please visit information about reserved parking at their annual Stampede Breakfast. We www.calgarytransit.com for more and to sign up for Transit email alerts continue to work to inform all Tuscany information on Transit services and for information on the opening of the residents about the difference between watch for a Transit Riders Guide for Tuscany and Rocky Ridge Park and our associations, and are pleased to have new service at Tuscany Station arriving Ride lots. a positive working relationship. If you in your mail in mid-August. would like more information about what For More Information the TCA does for Tuscany, and how we Join Us for a Celebration on August 23 event and project are different from the TRA (Tuscany Saturday, August 23 information: www.calgary.ca/nwlrt Club), please email me at Join us “Under the Tuscany Sun” Calgary Transit bus and train service [email protected]. for an opening celebration event on information: www.calgarytransit.com - Kelli Taylor, President Saturday, August 23 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the south (Tuscany) Park and Ride. The fi rst train will arrive just Help Wanted Tuscany Harvest before 12 noon from Crowfoot. After that, the train will operate as part of I am looking for a reliable person with Festival regular CTrain service to and from a valid driver’s licence to help drive Tuscany Station until approximately 5 my daughter during the 2014–2015 Save the Date! p.m. Train service will not operate to school year starting in September. I 3rd Annual Tuscany Station on Sunday, August 24, am looking for someone to drive Tuscany Harvest Festival but regular bus service to Crowfoot will her from Canada Olympic Park at Saturday, September 20 be in operation on Saturday, August 23 10:30 a.m. from Monday to Friday and Sunday, August 24. (Wednesdays at 11:30 a.m.) and drop Sponsorship and volunteer her off at Twelve Mile Coulee School. opportunities available. Email Take the Bus for Free to the Event I also need someone to take her back [email protected] for Take a FREE bus shuttle or ride to Canada Olympic Park again from more information. your bike or walk to the station on school at 2:00 p.m. Monday to Friday, August 23. The bus shuttles will except Wednesdays. If you can help operate through the neighbourhoods of or know of someone who could help, Tuscany, Rocky Ridge and Royal Oak please contact Shanda at to Tuscany Station every 15 minutes 403-606-7302. Wages negotiable. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. During the Photo by Terry Boyle event, there will be limited on-street - Shanda Tansowny THE TUSCANY SUN AUGUST 2014 7 Our Schools Cookies by George at Market Mall looking for more! Stay tuned for Twelve Mile donated over 2,000 cookies to help us further details. raise $3,367 to date. Thank you! Coulee School Thank you for your continued support, We will be selling Entertainment and have a wonderful summer! Please Outdoor Fitness Area Update Books at Twelve Mile Coulee School contact me if you have any questions We are working hard to make the the fi rst few weeks in September. or would like to make a donation TMC outdoor fi tness area a reality! Books will sell for $40, and 40% toward this project. Park ‘N’ Play has been chosen to will go towards school council and design and equip this area, and we are the TMC outdoor fi tness area. Start - Pam Mylrea, TMC Outdoor looking to complete the fi tness area in collecting now for books in the fall! Fitness Committee Chair, September 2015.