THE NEWSLETTER OF THE BOWNESS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MYBOWNESS.COM MAY/JUNE 2021 STAMPEDE WRESTLING P. 6 THE LAND WE WALK UPON P.15 BCA HAPPENINGS CONTENTS GOINGS ON IN THE ‘HOOD IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN ANY OF THE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES MENTIONED PLEASE EMAIL US AT ON THE COVER- [email protected] OR CALL US AT 403-288-8300. 2020 Run Bowness Participants BOWNESS SPRING CLEAN UP help unload items. Sign up at mybowness.com/volunteer or EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DIRECTOR OF COMMS contact Laddie at [email protected] or 2 BCA Happenings May 9, 9:00 A.M. - 1:30 P.M. Michelle Dice, [email protected] Brit Hart 403-288-8300 ex. 121. Bowness Spring Clean Up is BACK! Masks, hand sanitizer, 2 Community News BOARD OF DIRECTORS DIRECTOR OF EVENTS social distancing required. The City of Calgary will take VIRTUAL RUN BOWNESS [email protected] Cindy Amthor away any large or small garbage and yard waste for free. 6 Stampede Wrestling Thanks to our partners at TechnoTrash, you can also drop June 6 DIRECTOR OF PLANNING 7 Across the Prairies PRESIDENT off your used electronics to be safely recycled. Appliance Registration for 2021’s Virtual Run Bowness, brought to you Jason New Jeff Riedl and metal recycling will be provided by Bowest Appliances, by the BCA and Servus Credit Union, is now open! Join us Bowtanical Garden DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEV and household goods can be dropped off for the Bowness for a day of running and awesome prizes on June 6, 2021. 8 VICE-PRESIDENT Teresa Davidson Legion garage sale. NEW this year, The Medicine Shoppe Whether you’re an experienced runner, or just starting out, 9 Music & Play Christina Pilarski will take any old or expired drugs and medications to be this race allows you to train and compete at your own pace, TREASURER DIRECTORS AT LARGE safely recycled. Visit mybowness.com/events for a list of on your own route, and on your own time. You can support Historical Society 10 Beverley Sheridan Paul Sipos, Bill Christieson, Mieke items that can be dropped off. the BCA and receive an awesome race kit full of great items Coppes, Andrew Burgess, Bentley Wilks from local businesses. Go to mybowness.com/events to 11 Pioneers and Kurt Kinnear. Volunteers needed at this event to help manage traffic and register. 12 Business Directory BOWNESS COMMUNITY CENTRE & ARENA The Land We Walk Upon 7904-43 Ave. NW, Calgary AB T3B 4P9 14 403-288-8300 COMMUNITY NEWS EDITOR NOTES 14 Nessie [email protected] 15 BCA Directory mybowness.com In the 2020 Vital Signs Survey Results COMMUNITY SCAVENGER /mybowness HUNT Questions? Please reach out to Sarah at published in the March April 2021 15 Community Directory 403-216-5348 or [email protected]. Bowest’ner it was stated “Gender @mybowness You are invited to a Community question also contained transgender Scavenger Hunt on June 11, 2021 from BOWNESS LIONS UPDATE and prefer to self-describe option but VOLUNTEERING IS THE BEST WAY TO SHOW YOUR LOVE OF BOWNESS. 3:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M. Please check Despite the restrictions of COVID-19, the was not selected.” However, there was • Meet new people and make new friends • Develop professional networks Bowness Lions continue to Zoom in on one person who chose one of these out the Facebook and websites of the • Experience new challenges • Gain experience in a variety of roles making a difference in the community. options. Less than 0.5% of respondents agencies mentioned below for further • Raise awareness and support • Email [email protected] today! information and to download your One of the pillars of Lions International chose one of those options, so rounding important community issues “passport” and “map.” is targeting childhood cancer through to a whole number, it came to zero. tangible service and support. Reflecting Because this number is not “statistically All families are invited to participate in that spirit of service, the Bowness Lions significant” the company that analyzed this event! The hunt will lead you around made a recent donation of $1,000.00 to and provided the results of the survey MAY/JUNE 2021 the community, stopping at several Kids Cancer Care. (and created the chart and note for the organizations and quirky spots to collect gender question) did not include it in The Bowest’ner is published bimonthly Melba Seto, Bowness Historical Society, stamps on your passport. This scavenger the graphs. Not including a number this by the Bowness Community Association. Marg Weber, Nancy Kimberley Phillips, hunt is done at your own pace, and size in a graph is common practice, but The views expressed by contributors are Brad Hays the note they attached to that graph Run Bowness 2020 by James Doyle once completed please head over to the not necessarily those of the Bowness PROOFREADERS green space (field to the left of Bowness was incorrect and misleading. The note Community Association or its Board of Linda MacRae, Janis Giroux, Katelyn Community Association) to collect your should have indicated that there were Directors. Gillies, MJ Karelse, Anne Campbell respondents who did choose options PRIZE! Copyright is retained by the respective other than male and female. authors. Articles may be reprinted CIRCULATION In the age of COVID-19, connection for non-commercial purposes with The Bowest’ner is distributed by Canada to our neighbors, family, friends, and We apologize for any concern this appropriate credit to the author and Post to nearly 6,000 residences and may have caused. If you have further communities has been diminished. This NEWS & ADS DEADLINE FOR The Bowest’ner. businesses in Bowness, and is available event aims to allow residents to safely questions or would like more information at the Bowness Community Centre and interact with their community, while also please call us at 403-288-8300. JULY/AUGUST 2021 EDITOR/PRODUCER Bowness Library. offering a way for families to get outside Holding the cheque, from left to right, Jessica Clark, [email protected] Please direct any delivery concerns to and do something fun. Also to note, in the March April are: Bowness Lions members Dennis [email protected] 2021Bowest’ner, the Bowness MAY 21 DESIGNER Makowichuk, Elaine Graham and Ed Responsible Flood Mitigation (BRFM) Jocelyn Zoller Thank you to The Vibrant Kids Fund Tysow. The money will go towards ADVERTISING group was credited with the article at along with our community partners: meeting the needs of families in Alberta CONTRIBUTORS 403-288-8300, [email protected] the bottom of page 12 and this article [email protected] or Bowmont Families Together, Bowwest who are dealing with childhood cancer. Resource Centre, Children’s Cottage was actually submitted by the City of 403-288-8300 2020 Run Bowness Participants, Brit Society, and Trellis for hosting this event! Calgary. 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Bowness, lives on Bow Crescent and as one of the brilliant Leonard has been a resident of The Clayton on Bowness Road House runs downtown and that he appreciated their harm minds behind Stampede Wrestling, has the ring casually tucked The ring itself weighs over a tonne, constructed from solid for almost a year now. Originally from Saskatchewan, he reduction approach. away in his backyard. Up until 2018, he was actually still using welded steel and dense, hardwood boards. The ropes are lived in a variety of towns and cities across the prairies before the ring to train wrestlers, and if you were lucky, you could now frayed after decades of wear and tear but still manage a series of difficult circumstances led him to homelessness in A year after he ended up on the streets, his brother passed peek your head over the fence and catch a glimpse of the to bounce wannabe wrestlers off with the same exuberance Calgary, Alberta.