2nd Annual Winter Family Fun Festival Sleigh Rides French Canadian Culture Lillian Osborne High School Maple Syrup Sugar Shack Outdoor Fire Pit Bannock Saturday, December 14, 2013 Cross Country Skiing Snowshoeing Noon - 3 PM Refreshments Holiday Fun Donations to the Christmas Bureau of Holiday Crafts Special visit by Santa Edmonton EVERYONE WELCOME! www.oakhillsonline.com The Oak Hills Community League is in its 7th year as a league. Up to now, we have established many programs and events. Our next venture is a community-wide survey and needs assessment to see what we will build in our community land areas in Robert Carter www.oakhillsonline.ca Park and Terwillegar Heights Park. Some preliminary ideas are a Pavilion/Club House, Tennis and PickleBall courts, Bocce courts, Splash Park, Community gardens, BBQ and Pizza Oven, Trails with Outdoor Fitness equipment, Skating Freezeway and so on. With our next casino, happening in February 2016, we should have enough funds to match with existing grants to get started with our infrastructure projects. We have also partnered with several surrounding leagues to put together our very first Community Map Brochure; this will provide info on local amenities, walking and fitness maps, etc. Stay tuned to our first Snowbank Rink. Join us in our programs and community events.Rob Agostinis - President OHCL Programs & Events: • For community league members, we offer free shinny hockey passes. See Karin Shott at the TRAC Community Office. • We offer the free swim and recreation access at the TCRC on Sundays, from 5 - 7 pm • We have partnered with the Alberta Lung Association and will be supplying Radon Testing Kits to our members. For more information: www.ab.lung.ca • CPR/AED and First Aid Courses: (See graphic on left) We will be offering more dates in the new year. I am a Parent • Light ‘Em Up Contest! (See graphic on left) WORKSHOP • 5th Annual Winter Family Fun Festival (see graphic below) Lillian Osborne School pg. 17 5th Annual EVERYONE WELCOME! November 26, 2016 I am a Parent Workshop Join us for FREE workshops to refresh your parenting skills, learn new information and make Winter Family connections with other parents in your community. FREE child care is available with registration RiverbendRaggTimes Fun Festival Next Deadline Light ‘em Up C ntest! I am New/1 I am 4/5 Decorate your Home and Show your Sleigh Rides • French Canadian Culture • Outdoor Fire Pit • Maple Syrup Sugar Shack • Bannock • 12pm - 4pm 9am - 1pm OHCL CPR-C & AED Certification pg. 20 Community Spirit and win great prizes! Snowshoeing • Cross Country Skiing • Refreshments • Holiday Fun & Music • Special visit Engage with your baby Technology & Toddlers Contest is open to Whitemud Hills and Whitemud Oaks by Santa • Winter Crafts & Activities for Kids Friday, Jan 20 Encourage early literacy Emotional Intelligence residents Saturday, Dec. 3rd, 2016 Noon - 4 PM Establish positive routines School Readiness Judging takes place December 15th - 18th, 2016 Mother Margaret Mary Catholic High Please choose a session or feel free to attend both! Ragg_Times School OHCL Winter Family Festival pg. 20 Lunch is provided and will include a keynote speaker and Delivery: Feb 6 resource fair. T o r e g i s t e r - i a a p 2 0 1 6 . e v e n t b r i t e . c o m I n f o r m a t i o n - s w e a r l y y e a r s @ h o t m a i l . c o m hosted The Ridge CL Family New Year’s Eve Party & Fireworks pg. 32 by raggtimes A PUBLICATION OF THE RIVERBEND COMMUNITY LEAGUE DECEMBER 2016 VOL. 34, NO.3 Fort Edmonton Park Update Celebrating the Future of our Past By: Andrea Sulyma ort Edmonton Foundation has been very busy over the past several activities. months. The Fall Gala took place on September 10, and we raised Please contact F $90,000 to support the Fort Edmonton Foundation Capital Expansion Janet Tryhuba, Plans. Mark your calendars for September 16 if you want to join in the fun in Executive 2017. We are always looking for volunteers to help out at our events. If you Director at would like to help out in support of the Fort Edmonton Foundation, please 780-496-6978 contact Janet Tryhuba at 780-496-6978. to arrange a Our partners, the Fort Edmonton Management Company are working visit/tour. closely with Nassal Attractions Construction Management & Architecture, This Tkalcic Bengert (ATB), and their partners. On October 24, there was a December, presentation to the Boards of Directors regarding the refined design concept F o r t on the Fort Edmonton Park Expansion Capital Project designs, specifically Edmonton Foundation will host a special Opening Night President’s the Indigenous Peoples’ Experience and 1920’s Midway projects. To learn Reception to the Christmas Pantomime in support of Fort Edmonton more about how you can Support the Fort for the Capital Expansion project, Foundation’s Capital Campaign. This year’s Christmas Pantomime, Robin please call us to arrange a visit, or to sign up for one of our information Hood, is a live theatre event in Fort Edmonton Park’s Capitol Theatre. tours. Jocelyn Ahlf puts a modern twist on this classic tale and presents the gallant Next Tour Date: Robin Hood and his merry men in a hilariously unpredictable old-fashioned English Pantomime where roles are reversed and legends are skewed. This is Friday, November 25, 1:30 - 2:30pm one of Fort Edmonton Park’s great holiday traditions. We have opportunities now to donate to have a project or room named in Continued on page 3 honour of a special person, family or corporation. There are opportunities to sponsor an event, or volunteer with the Foundation in one of our fundraising Brookside Park Redevelopment is On Track! Thank You for All of Your Support By: Priya Nelson he Brookside Park Redevelopment Committee remains on track to break ground on Brookside’s new park this spring and is now within T a few thousand dollars of its total fundraising target. Unfortunately, low ticket sales caused us to cancel our fall fundraiser, the Halloween Howl. We want to thank those that purchased tickets, donated items for the silent auction and our vendors Famoso Pizzeria, Glass Monkey, Tastebuds Global Fusion, Secret Sweets, Lucy’s Sweets and Kristi at Off Whyte Floral Studio. The committee is beginning to transition from fundraising mode into planning mode as we work hard into the fall and winter to keep the project on track. We are thrilled to have met with the City of Edmonton to begin the process of choosing our park’s equipment vendor. The equipment that we chose is based on the Needs Assessment Survey which was completed by November 4, Dr. Bob Turner presented the cheque at Brookside Park, in local residents and park users last year. Watch for updates! front of an audience of enthusiastic Brookside School students. We are We anxiously await the results of a few additional grants that we have continuously grateful for all the support we have received. applied for. This fall, we received $125,000 from the CFEP (Communities Photo Contributed by: Brenda Carstad Facilities Enhancement Program) grant from the Province of Alberta. On RIVERBEND NEWS EDITOR Champions for Community Sherri Henderson Addy Clarke [email protected] By: Mary Lou Sedgwick ADVERTISING ometimes, we hear about people before helping other Elizabeth Emslie we meet them. I had heard about Addy’s neighbours S involvement in our community several out. When my [email protected] times and had been invited to her Facebook family needed 780-437-7108 group, Addy’s Helping Hands (or goo.gl/kpkBtl), help, amazing www.riverbendonline.ca before I had the luck of meeting this generous people helped soul. She is someone who simply saw a need and us. I told did something about it by advocating for and myself once supporting families who need a helping hand. we were back TABLE OF CONTENTS Please read on to learn more about Addy as a on our feet person, volunteer and advocate in our community. I would do SECTION PAGE If you are on Facebook, please consider joining the same. I Riverbend News 1-32 Addy’s Helping Hands to see how you can help. volunteer at a Riverbend Community League 8 few things in Seniors Connection 12 and around the community and am currently on Get Natured 15 Meet Addy Clarke a few non-profit boards helping with fundraising, Wellness 19 I started Addy’s Helping Hands about three parent support, etc. Oak Hills CL 20 years ago when I met so many people who were In addition to volunteering, I have my own Savour 21 struggling to make ends meet and worrying about dayhome in the community. My evenings are filled Education Matters 22, 25 how they would get their children Christmas gifts, with errands, donation pick-ups and running my Brookview CL 24 school supplies etc. I wanted to help because I own kiddos to their activities. I enjoy spending Pet Affair 26 had been there before. time with my family whether we are watching Hodgson Community League 27 My family, friends and I collect food, clothing, movies or baking. We also enjoy walking the local Family Hour 27, 29, 30 toys, etc. to package and take to families who need trails or taking in all the fun activities throughout Community League Directory 31 support throughout the year. This Christmas, we the community and meeting all the great people The Ridge CL 32 are supporting six families in the Riverbend area in the neighbourhood.