HILL HILL BRINGING NOLAN HILL and SAGE HILL RESIDENTS TOGETHER Cambridge Opening Manor June 2020
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FEBRUARY 2020 DELIVERED MONTHLY TO 4,600 HOUSEHOLDS your NOLANSAGE HILL HILL BRINGING NOLAN HILL AND SAGE HILL RESIDENTS TOGETHER Cambridge Opening Manor June 2020 Introducing Cambridge Manor The Brenda Strafford Foundation’s newest seniors wellness community The Brenda Strafford Foundation was in University District, NW Calgary’s newest urban neighbourhood. proudly awarded ‘Accreditation with Cambridge Manor | University District Exemplary Status’ (Accreditation Canada) 403-536-8675 and ‘Innovator of the Year’ (Alberta [email protected] Continuing Care Association) in 2018. Visit us online at: cambridgemanor.ca | theBSF.ca CONTENTS 5 REAL ESTATE UPDATE 6 GUIDES CANADA: NITANISAK DISTRICT 7 RESIDENT PERSPECTIVES: CHANGING ONE’S TUNE 8 REAL ESTATE COUNCIL OF ALBERTA: ASK CHARLES 11 YOUR CITY OF CALGARY: FEBRUARY EVENTS WITH THE CITY OF CALGARY 12 WINES WITH DICK MCDOUGALL 15 SAFE & SOUND: FEBRUARY IS HEART MONTH 17 TAKE ON WELLNESS: PILATES CAN BENEFIT EVERY KIND OF BODY 18 MP PAT KELLY’S REPORT 7 8 11 12 Disclaimer: The opinions expressed within any published article, report or submission reflect those of the author and should not be considered to reflect those of Great News Media. The information contained in this newsletter is believed to be accurate but is not warranted to be so. Great News Media does not endorse any person or persons advertising in this newsletter. Publication of any advertisements should not be considered an endorsement of any goods or services. 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Last 12 Months Nolan Hill MLS Real Estate Sale Price Stats Average Asking Average Sold Price Price The amethyst used to be considered December 2019 $429,000 $415,000 a valued gemstone, on par with November 2019 $499,900 $498,000 diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and October 2019 $475,898 $468,500 sapphires. These were known as the September 2019 $500,000 $485,000 cardinal gems. But after extensive August 2019 $559,900 $546,000 amethyst deposits were discovered July 2019 $575,000 $570,000 in Brazil in the early 19th century, June 2019 $525,325 $507,500 the gemstone lost most of its value. May 2019 $549,800 $562,000 April 2019 $599,000 $580,000 March 2019 $542,450 $515,000 February 2019 $494,000 $480,000 January 2019 $478,000 $460,000 Last 12 Months Sage Hill MLS Real Estate Sale Price Stats Average Asking Average Sold Price Price December 2019 $454,900 $447,000 November 2019 $539,900 $520,000 October 2019 $519,950 $503,350 September 2019 $469,900 $460,000 August 2019 $504,750 $490,000 July 2019 $539,900 $530,000 June 2019 $519,950 $525,000 May 2019 $538,800 $515,000 April 2019 $475,000 $475,000 March 2019 $497,350 $487,400 February 2019 $539,000 $520,000 January 2019 $496,450 $483,250 To view more detailed information that comprise the above MLS averages please visit nol.mycalgary.com or sgh.mycalgary.com NOLAN HILL • SAGE HILL I FEBRUARY 2020 5 NITANISAK DISTRICT 229 Brownies The 229th Brownie Unit started off the year with a Learn to Tent sleepover. During this fun-filled evening, the Brownies made camp hat crafts, an edible campfire, ventured through a Nite Teck obstacle course, sang campfire songs and learned how to roll a bedroll and set up a tent. The Brownies have also been engaging in activities to work towards the Experiment and Cre- ate Program Area badges. They participated in a variety YOUR NOLAN HILL / SAGE HILL of experiments including making elephant toothpaste and their own lemonade. They also explored coding languages and creating videos using Green Screening and Stop Motion Animation. Leading up to the holiday ELECTED OFFICIALS season, the Brownies created cards and collected dona- tions to help spread cheer at a local senior’s residence. MP Pat Kelly Calgary Rocky Ridge In the coming months, we are looking forward to sleep- 202, 400 Crowfoot Crescent NW ing over at the Tyrell Museum, a family skating party at Calgary, Alberta T3G 5H6 Bowness Park, carrying out random acts of kindness Phone: 403-282-7980 within our communities, exploring mindfulness activi- Fax: 403-282-3587 ties and ending off our year with our Spring camp. Email: [email protected] 233rd Rangers The 233rd Rangers started off this year with a tent camp with the 110th Guides in Cochrane. The camp was cut short by the heavy snowfall we had in September, but Councillor Joe Magliocca we had some fun getting to know each other. Next, we Ward 2 Office volunteered for Calgary Area’s Nite Trek and we worked P.O. Box 2100, Station M hard and were up until 4 am running a station for this Calgary, AB, CanadaT2P 2M5 Pathfinder event. We have been working hard on a Traf- Phone: 403-268-2430 fic Safety presentation on pedestrian safety and will Fax: 403-268-3823 be visiting all the units in our District to give the pres- Email: [email protected] entation. We have made gingerbread house with the Web: www.calgary.ca/ward2 seniors at the Revera Edgemont, challenged an escape room with the 90th Pathfinders and learned about the Women of Valour. At the end of January, we are camp- ing in Cochrane again, but indoors this time, for some Honourable Jason Luan (UCP) well-deserved down time after our high school exams. MLA for Calgary-Foothills We still have adventures to plan for 2020 but the great- [email protected] est adventure will be our travels to England and Scot- land next year. All of us are participants in International Travel with Girl Guides to camps and a World Centre. Rangers is for girls in Grade 10 to 12, where we develop our leadership skills and volunteer beyond our unit. 6 FEBRUARY 2020 I Call 403-720-0762 for advertising opportunities RESIDENT PERSPECTIVES February has Valentine’s Day, and Val- So how did we go from bird people to sirens were under Poseidon; purifica- entine’s Day means romance. So, I’m fish people? That’s a bit muddled. One tory/cathartic sirens served Hades. taking that a step further and going source said that in Isidore of Seville’s The surviving sources seem to associ- to be talking about creatures of se- Etymologies (c. 615A.D. – 630 A.D.), he ate them more with the latter, as Ovid duction: sirens. Sirens in our contem- wrote that in addition to feathered si- wrote that sirens were companions porary imaginations are more or less rens, there were also winged serpents of Persephone, Hades’ wife. There mermaids whose voices allure people in Arabia called sirens. It is possible are two versions of why this is: one is to their deaths. But it didn’t start that that a snake/woman hybrid emerged that Persephone’s mother, Demeter, way. Once upon a time, sirens were which was either changed to or con- gave the sirens wings to help them actually bird women. fused with half-fish. As sirens are as- search for her daughter, then kid- sociated with oceans and seafaring, it napped by Hades. The other version In the Odyssey, Odysseus encounters would make sense for a half-woman, is that Demeter cursed the sirens to the sirens on his journey home. To re- half-snake to be mistaken as half- be the winged, singing seductresses cap: Odysseus commands his crew to woman, half sea-serpent/fish. because they failed to stop the ab- tie him to the ship’s mast because he There were once depictions of male duction. Hyginus wrote that sirens is curious about the sirens’ song. He sirens too, but they seemed to have would only live as long as those who orders the crew to fill their ears with been phased out around the 5th cen- were trapped in their songs remained wax and not to loose him until they tury B.C., which I think is unfortunate. ensnared. If they escaped, the sirens had sailed beyond the sirens’ voices. I don’t see male sirens being any less would die. Beyond the sirens’ irresistible song, appealing than female sirens. I’m a On a tangentially related note, the not much else is described.