Do you think anyone will notice the name change? Maybe we can get a story from the Branding Committee for the next issue. Soooo glad Shiona came on board to do the event listings. I feel like the paper is really coming together. Amazing how long it takes. Now if only we could find someone to take on finance. PS I’m sad that we didn’t get more Thanksgivingish stuff in this issue. Hard to think of that in July. For the December issue I really think we should… A publication of the Sherman Community Planning Team SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 2013 This Fall, Help Keep the Sherman Hub Clean! Come have fun walking and exploring areas of the Hub while picking up litter and keeping it clean. Get to know your neighbours during these two upcoming events, and lend a helping hand to beautify the Sherman Hub! Everyone is invited to participate. • FREE hot drinks and donuts at 9:30am • High School students: earn volunteer hours! • FREE pizza lunch at noon • Learn more about the one garbage bag limit, composting, and recycling from a • Scavenger hunt with prizes! Public Works master recycler who can • Kids and youth: fill up a bag of litter for great prizes! answer all your waste collection questions! AUTUMN CLEAN-UP Saturday, September 28th 10am-Noon Meet at the Scott Park baseball diamond at the corner of Melrose and King Street East. Free parking behind the arena. POST-HALLOWEEN CLEAN-UP Saturday, November 2nd 10am-Noon Meet at Powell Park, 53 Birch Ave. Wear your Halloween costume for an extra prize! Bring along your carved pumpkins for a competition afterwards! Future clean-Up areas will rotate throughout the Hub. Watch for new events every 4-6 weeks! These events are brought to you by the Sherman Hub Clean-Up Team - an action plan team that was put together as a result of the Sherman Hub Action Plan. If you want to join our fun, fastidious and passionate team, please email: [email protected]. ORSTAD TRATION: ANNA B TRATION: S ILLU SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER, 2013 have been a champion for helping event were proudly posed for and taken all residents of our fair city find their but this was all pomp and ceremony Voice, exercise a Choice and gain compared to the overwhelming desire Access to the things that will improve of this group to continue on their their quality of life. journey of discovery. To build on what ABCD The City of Hamilton and most they had learned and explore ways to (Asset-Based Community Development) specifically the Office of the City expand that knowledge and continue BY DAVI D D ERBYSHIRE Manager and the Neighbourhood to build their capacity to make a Strategies Office who have stepped up difference in their neighbourhoods. over the last couple of years and joined And so to the graduating class of the “Go in search of your people, Since October of 2012 this group the Foundation in building the capacity Hamilton Neighbourhood Leadership Love them; has been dedicating one Saturday of residents in neighbourhoods that Institute 2013: Chantal Malette-Jones; Learn from them; Plan with them; a month to coming together and have traditionally been better known Sandra Penner; Evan Fraser; Elisabeth Serve them. building their capacity to provide for their challenges than their assets. Brown; Joanna Millions; Brian Begin with what they have: leadership to their Neighbourhood The 18 presenters who brought Goodman; Dawn McIlmoyle; Steve Build on what they know. Association or Planning Team as they their whit and wisdom to share with Calverley; Steve Devisser; Marie Raftis; But of the best leaders, when their task is navigate their journey to implement group as they explored the various Wanda Eades; Dave Deslandes; Monika accomplished, the Action Plans they had all spent aspects of leadership from how to run Ciolek; Sharon Whiteside; Naseer When the work is done, the people will the better part of the previous year and effective (or was that affective) Malik and Nelly Sinclair remark: developing. They came from a variety meeting to how to deal with conflict. I say thank you for your commitment We have done it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu. of backgrounds, with various levels of These presenters came from a variety of to your neighbours and your formal training prior to the group but backgrounds ranging from University neighbourhoods. I anxiously wait This quote was shared with me by my with a collective desire to build their professors to the guy or girl next door, to hear how you have taken these friend and colleague Sharon Charters capacity to provide leadership as their each recognized for their “expertise” in skills and parlayed them into bigger when I was making a transition in friends and neighbours began their a particular aspect of leadership. and better things within your my work from an employee of the work to collectively move their plans It should not be lost that the neighbourhoods. Hamilton Community Foundation from mere words on a piece of paper “Graduation” was held at the heart of “I must follow the people. Am I not to my current gig as a Community to actions that would bring people leadership within our city, City Hall their leader?” Developer with Wesley Urban together to do the things they had and the honours were bestowed on Benjamin Disraeli Ministries. I keep it over my desk as a identified as important to making their the recipients by none other than our reminder of the importance of building neighbourhood a better place to live, Mayor, Bob Bratina the capacity of the people I have had work and raise a family. and Mr. Terry Cooke, the pleasure of working with and of the As with most things the Leadership President and CEO awareness needed to effectively build Institute would not have been possible of the Hamilton leadership. without the support of a team of Community On June 15th of this year 16 collaborators that included but was not Foundation. residents of 6 neighbourhoods across limited to: Speeches were this City were recognized as the first The Hamilton Community made, certificates Graduating Class of the Hamilton Foundation, of whom I can not say presented and picture Neighbourhood Leadership Institute. enough. For the past 11 years they commemorating the 2013 Hamilton Neighbourhood Leadership Institute graduates with their diplomas (left); our own Steve Devisser (above left, with Hamilton Community Foundation President and CEO, Terry Cooke) and Steve Calverley (above right, with Mayor Bob Bratina). LIVING AND WORKING IN YOUR COMMUNITY 2 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 2013 Contributors Communication, & Acknowledgements Relationships, The Sherman Hub News is published bi-monthly by the Sherman Community Planning Team Delivered door-to-door from Wentworth to Gage, Escarpment to the Water Engagement If you would like to join the Hub News team, please contact us at [email protected] BY REBECCA DOLL We would love to have your help. www.hubnews.wordpress.com Urgent to take the available solution and EDITOR I N CHIEF: Five years have come and gone not necessarily the best solution. Rebecca Doll PUBLISHER: Greg Reader in the blink of an eye in the Sherman It begins to feel like we’re running MANAGING EDITO R: Kathy Calverley Hub. Here we are with a dozen in a hamster wheel because there’s ADVERTIZING M ANAGER: Steve DeVisser action teams creating value in the always another urgent coming DESIGN: Michael Erb community, a tenuous connection around the bend. LAYOUT & PRO DUCTION: Mary Bowness through the paper to our four When people work together COPY EDITOR: Lynlee Spencer corners, and a way of working that on an issue, we get to rise above EVENTS EDITOR: Shiona Mackenzie-Morrison is inclusive and asset-based. How the urgency, even when some of WEBSITE EDITO R: Naomi Kennedy did it happen? us are desperate (Bed Bug team PROOF READERS : Ashley Ross; Charlie Langsford One important factor is that we anyone?). We get to pool our skills, DISTRIBUTION M ANAGERS: Justin St. Louis and Breana Ehman started focusing on what’s important perspectives, connections, resources DISTRIBUTION S UPERVISORS: Ashley Ross, Darin Martin, for the long term rather than just and experiences to look for good, Dave Lefebvre, Deb Stringer, Don Gavreau, reacting to problems in the short long-term solutions. Graeme Kirk, Greg Reader, Reuben Vanderkwaak, Shiona Mackenzie-Morrison term. By taking an asset-based The number one thing that look at the long term we are able people say they like about Hamilton to build on all the great things that is the people. We’re open, frank, Contributors already exist (like your skills and helpful and engaged. We’re also Dave Belland Danielle Dingle Darin Martin experiences) to help strengthen the focused on what’s important. And it’s Anna Borstad Cassandra Dolan Sarah Martin relationships, the infrastructure, the a luxury. I’m really thankful that so Steve & Kathy Calverley Rebecca Doll Roy Maybery opportunities for all of us. many of my neighbours are able to Patty Clydesdale Justin Gallant Bernie Morelli Most of us are being driven by pop their heads up above the David Derbyshire Matthew Green Lynlee Spencer what’s urgent in our lives, so that urgent, take the long view, focus on Melissa Deruiter Paul Johnson Candy Venning we never get to stop and focus things that they think are important, on what’s important until it too and stay the course until we start to Acknowledgements becomes urgent and then it is too see changes. Hamilton Community Foundation late for planning and relationship- I’m feeling the change already. building. At that point we need Are you? VOICE O F YOUTH The Sherman Community Planning Team is a resident-led group of folks from the community who bring together neighbours, businesses, churches, government, education, and other agencies to work together towards our mission of creating a great place for us to live, work, learn and raise a family.