Spring Can You Volunteer? “That is one good thing about this world... email there are always sure to be more springs.” 2015 [email protected] ~ L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea Riverview Community Centre 90 Ashland Avenue Winnipeg MB R3L 1K6 RIVERVIEW Phone: 204-452-9944 Fax : 204-415-3779 www.riverviewcc.ca [email protected] REFLECTOR RVCC hiring Neighbourhood Summer Staff Soon! Green Team Staff, Summer Garage Sales Camp Director, Two Summer June 6th, page 3 & 4 Camp Counsellors and Junior Counsellors. Contact GM for details Spring Carnival Summer program information coming next issue: including June 12th, page 2 camps! Check our website for earlier updates. Registration is AGM Open for Tennis & April 27th, Mini Soccer! Tennis on Monday nights this page 3 spring and summer! For all ages and skill levels. Mini soccer is back ! For kids Trivia Night 3-8 years old with a focus on fun and learning the basics. April 17th, Contact the club for details. page 5 SPRING CARNIVAL 2 FROSTBITE RIVER RUN 6 CHURCHILL PARKWAY 13 KID'S MATCH'EM ALL 2 GRACE BIBLE CHURCH 7 PEGCITY CAR CO-OP 14 Inside PRESIDENT'S NOTE 3 CLAssIFIED AD 7 BIZ BUZZ 15 NEIGHBOURHOOD GARAGE SALES 3 RVCC 4 ON 4 9 RIVERVIEW HEALTH CENTRE 16 This 11TH ANNUAL TRIVIA NIGHT 3 JAckRABBIT SKIING 11 LIGHTS, CAMERAS, ACTION 17 Issue GRANDS'N'MORE 4 WINTER CLAssIC KID'S HOckEY ARTIST'S STUDIO SPRING TOUR 18 GM'S NOTES 5 TOURNAMENT 11 HIGHscHOOL, HOckEY STIcks { REVIEWING THE 2ND ANNUAL CHANGES COMING TO AND BOTTLE OPENERS 19 WHO’S WHO @ RVCC President: Ryan Rolston, ................204-889-0421, [email protected] Past President: Jino Distasio, ....................................................204-475-4459 y Vice-President: t i Dennis Cunningham, ....................................204-452-6229 Treasurer: n Friday June 12 u Darryl Stewart, ......................................204-478-3700 x200 Secretary: Julie Strong m General Manager: m Charles Musto, .................................................204-452-9944 Join us for a fun-filled Spring Carnival at Riverview Community Centre with games, o Reflector Editor & Designer: fireworks and more fun then you can handle! C Trevor Johnson, ...............................................204-889-4482 Reflector Advertising: e Pat Fedirchuk, [email protected] h Fund Drive: Vacant t Youth Soccer: r Fireworks Dunk Kerrie Wyant, [email protected] Tank o F Mini Soccer Convenor: Shaun Hampton Hockey Convenor: Scott Brown Jackrabbit Hockey: Scott Brown Basketball Convenor: Cathy Gervais, ..................................................204-452-9905 Cross-Country Skiing Convenor: Dennis Cunningham, ...................................204-452-6229 Archery: Vacant Buildings and Grounds: Jaie Sutton Members at Large: ID S ATCH EM LL y K ' M ' A Lisa Sinnicks, Colin Joyal, Scott McCullough, t i Dave Bynski, Tom Hodgson n u ADVERTISING raTES FOR THE Match the animals to the sounds they make. Bonus challenge: m RIVErvIEW REFLECTOR figure out the name for the one animal that is missing. 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Delivery date (approximately) during the last week of May and the first week of June. 3 PRESIDENT'S NOTE: RIVErvIEW NEIGHBOURHOOD Learning, Adapting and Planning Ahead GaraGE SALES 2015 By Ryan Rolston Saturday, Jun. 6, 9am-3pm By Steve Lennon he year has flown by seemingly as quickly as the snow Tmelted and it feels like there is never enough time to do all t appears that spring has sprung early this year, and many of the things one intends to do. As I reflect on my first year as IRiverview residents have already started preparations for the President of Riverview Community Club, it is clear that collec- warmer weather. In the process of spring cleaning, please keep tively a number of people have continued to do their part to in mind the upcoming Riverview Garage Sales if you come make the club work. Our Board is a group of phenomenal, hard across usable items in working order that you no longer want. working dedicated souls who care for the club. They continue This could be an opportunity to create more space/ less clutter to keep this organization running, and I feel honoured to be on in your home, as well as way to support our beloved Riverview a team with such an amazing group. There is another group Community Centre (RVCC). of people without whom the club would not function. Our There are 4 ways you can help: GM Charles has settled into his job seamlessly. Kenny Dewitt 1. Hold a yard or garage sale at your own home on June 6, is never far away and is always willing to help out. The crew of and donate 10% of sales to RVCC. We will provide you with a icemakers came through in amazing ways again this year (recall sign and balloons, and do extensive multi-media advertising to that the Flo-Form Rink was literally flowing water after a sud- bring shoppers to our neighbourhood. den melt on the eve of the kids hockey tournament, but by the 2. Donate saleable goods to RVCC and they will be sold here first drop of the puck for game one it was as good as any indoor on June 6 (all proceeds to RVCC). You may drop off sale goods rink in the city). We have a great staff of young canteen work- at the community centre to the main floor storage room daily ers and summer programming staff working on a daily basis to to 9 p.m. Please ask someone there to open the storage room be the face of the Club. Murray continues to work behind the when you arrive. Sorry, but we cannot accept magazines, en- scenes to make sure our aging club is clean and functioning at cyclopedias or text books, TVs, tires, computers, child car seats, its best. Thank you is perhaps not enough to express our grati- mattresses, sofas, or broken items, as these items do not sell at tude for the hard work these people continue to put in. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4... The end of the year also means that it is time for our Annual General Meeting, which will take place at 6:30 pm on April 27, 2015. The entire community is welcome and encouraged to at- tend. The meeting will be relatively brief but is an opportunity to put faces to the names of those hard working souls men- tioned in this article. It also represents a chance for members of the community to learn about what is going on at the club, and most importantly provide your feedback as to how we are doing. There have been some topics that have been new and at times controversial over the past year. We rolled out the volunteer bond. While raising money is always a concern at RVCC, we do not believe achieving our operating funds should be entirely driven by increased fees. The volunteer bond was designed to generate volunteers. We did achieve that goal, but not without some bumps in the road. Admittedly, the roll out of the Bond was confusing at times. We have endeavoured to streamline the process for the upcoming year. We appreciate your feedback in that regard. It should be noted that if you paid a volunteer bond in the Fall, you are NOT required to pay another in the spring. We have appreciated your patience and for those who have completed your hours, the enthusiastic CONTINUED ON PAGE 9... 4 RIVERVIEW REFLECTOR SPRING 2015 GaraGE SALES 2015 ...CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 a garage sale. 3. Volunteer to assist at the RVCC sale on June 6 and/or during the week prior, for a few hours of pricing, display, setting up or carrying boxes. No experience necessary. We also require assistance to box up the leftover goods and clean up at the end of the sale at 3 p.m. on June 6. 4. Visit your neighbourhood sales on June 6 for fabulous bargains not available at any shopping mall. Last year there were more than a dozen sales in Riverview on the sale day (and the RVCC made over $2,400). See for yourself why Winnipeg is known as “the garage sale capital of Canada!” Mark your calendar for Saturday June 6 and please plan to participate in this pan-community event. For more info, contact the Garage Sale Coordinators: Steve Lennon (204) 781-6549 and Kathy Larson (204) 452- 8509. Thank you. JUNE 6, 2015 GraNDS'N'MORE 9AM TO 3PM By Frances Molaro very chance we have to offer thanks we say it! Thank you ERVCC for enabling Grands ‘n’ More Winnipeg members to meet on your premises most first Thursdays of the month. SCRABBLE You know of us… Winnipeg grandmothers and others .. we FOR are one of 200+ groups in the Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. We Canadian grandmothers give AFRICA time and energy to help alleviate the difficult circumstances of A Scrabble benefit in support of the grandmothers and youth in sub-Saharan Africa who face the Grandmothers to Grandmothers consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. We tell of their situa- Campaign Stephen Lewis Foundation -- tion to any group and we display materials at many public fairs.