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NOV 2016
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Councillor Report
Evanston-Creekside Community Association
PO Box 47059
20 – 12192 Symons Valley Road NW, Calgary, Alberta T3P 0B9
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Elected Officials
Councillor: Joe Magliocca............................................... 403-268-3280
MLA: Karen McPherson................................................... 403-215-7710
[email protected]
MP Calgary Rocky Ridge: Pat Kelly.........................................403-282-7980
.......................................................................................pat.kelly@parl.gc.ca
Community Resource Officer: Constable Steve Kelly....... 403-567-6700
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O
n September 25, 2016, an additional southbound
lane was added onto the Shaganappi Trail Bridge
over Stoney Trail. The purpose of the additional lane
is to help with traffic congestion during the morning
rush hour. So far, I have heard and observed that this
enhancement has made a significant improvement in
reducing traffic congestion. The City of Calgary has also
adjusted the traffic light timing to allow for improved
traffic flow on Shaganappi Trail south of the Stoney
Trail interchange.
City of Calgary Crews are keeping an eye on the forecast
all winter long, preparing roads with anti-icing solution
before the snow falls, and maintaining City streets
as soon as snowflakes hit the ground. Stay informed
during every snowfall by following @yyctransport on
Twitter and downloading the Road Conditions App for
frequent updates. You can also see where crews are
plowing on the live map at Calgary.ca/RoadConditions.
After each snowfall, Roads crews follow a priority
clearing system called the Seven Day Plan:
• Priority 1 routes, which carry more than 20,000
vehicles per day, are cleared to bare pavement within
24 hours after the snow stops falling.
• Priority 2 routes, which carry between 5,000 and
19,000 vehicles per day, are cleared within 48 hours
after snowfall has stopped.
• Playground zones, designated hills, and residential
streets on Residential roadways are cleared on Days
3-7. These roads are flat-bladed, which means snow
is packed down so it is easier to drive on, and ruts are
removed.
For more information on snow and ice control,
including FAQs, snow route parking information, and
free sand and gravel locations, visit Calgary.ca/snow.
Joe’s Tip:
Please take a moment on November 11th to remember
the sacrifices made by our veterans for the freedom that
we enjoy today.
Joe Magliocca, Councillor, Ward 2
DID YOU KNOW??
Avocados have the most
calories of any fruit.
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In Our Community
Girl Guide News
Nitanisak Girl Guides
Here is some of what we were up to in September and
October, and some upcoming events in November. Many
units are already planning their fall camps. Our district
covers the communities of: Edgemont, Evanston, Hamptons,
Hidden Valley, Hanson Ranch, Kincora, Nolan Hill,
Sherwood and Sage Hill. We have units for all age groups
– Sparks (ages 5-6), Brownies (ages 7-8), Guides (ages 9-12),
Pathfinders (ages 12-15) and Rangers (ages 15-17).
Sparks
#165 Sparks- September and October are jammed pack
months for us. We are learning the Spark promise
and new campfire songs. Getting ready for enrolment
to welcome the new girls into guiding. We have fun
thanksgiving crafts planned and a Halloween party
planned by the Pathfinders for us and the Brownies. We
also have a Princess themed mother daughter sleep over
planned for October.
The 145th and 70th Spark units have had a very fun time
meeting all of the new girls and leaders! We still have a
few spots open in the Tuesday and Thursday night Spark
units.In our few meetings so far we have played get to
know you games, practiced our Promise for when the
new Sparks will be enrolled and have learned about the
yummy mint cookies. Looking forward to our upcoming
mother daughter Princess sleepover.
Brownies
4th Brownies is a new Tuesday night unit in our district.
September and October have been busy months for our
unit. We have sold cookies at Sage Hill Walmart, learned
our Brownie promise and law in preparation for
enrolment, and we will be having a sleepover in early
November with another Brownie unit.
85th Brownies have had a great start to the guiding year!
In September, we got to know each other and learned
all about Brownies. We have been selling cookies to our
families and friends and had a cookie stand at Canadian
Tire in Beacon Hill. In October, we will be busy working
on badges and preparing for our November camp.
151st Brownies - We have an excited group of girls
keen to sell cookies. We have introduced our girls to
the opening and ending songs, our campfire songbook
and they have had an opportunity for outdoor nature
scavenger hunt with the pathfinders. We are attending a
nutritional tour at save on foods and some activities we
have planned include teddy bear first aid, making pasta
at pc cooking school and guest speaker from memory
project for Remembrance Day.
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Guides
We have had an exciting few weeks for our unit, lots
of new girls this year. September has been busy with
cookie sales selling door-to-door and having a cookie
stand at Walmart in Sagehill. We are excited to attend
a big camp with two other units in a our district at our
Fall Camp at Camp Jubilee in Cochrane. October will be
fun with planning a Halloween party, and preparation
for enrollment.
Pathfinders
The 90th Pathfinders, who meet on Monday evenings,
have been busy with a tent camp already completed
in September. We will be selling cookies at our ‘Drive
Thru’ in the Co-op parking lot, participating in the
Calgary Area Nite Trek and having a Halloween party
for the Sparks and Brownies in October. November will
bring us into another sleepover and our enrolment with
many more events planned to follow.
Trex
The 9th Trex is a new unit to the district. It is open for
girls from 12-17 years old. The girls in the Trek units do
activities but not any programming. This year there are
4 girls and they have planned most of the Guiding year
with some Hostelling in Canmore, a stay in Banff and
the girls are planning a service project!
As many of our units are full, please consider becoming
a leader, even if you don’t have a daughter in Girl
Guides! Relatives such as aunts, cousins, grandmas,
or even university students can become leaders, and
volunteer experience looks great on a resume! No
previous experience is required to become a leader
and training is offered through Girl Guides to help you
become a great leader. If you are interested, please
email [email protected]
Why Become a Girl Guide Leader?
• For women, Guiding is a chance to be part of their
community by helping girls develop their potential.
It’s a place for personal growth, mentoring and travel
opportunities.
• The widest range of activities of any extracurricular
program for girls and of any volunteer experience for
women. Guiding is unique in the breadth of its focus,
which ranges from leadership development to global
awareness to environmental stewardship.
• Belonging to the world’s largest organization of girls
and women, the World Association of Girl Guides and
Girl Scouts (WAGGGS).
• The chance to challenge yourself with the
emotional safety that can only come from an all-girl
environment- and you get to spend time with up to 30
other girls!
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In Our City
Top 10 Ideas for
November
10.Start a brand new book series that you can start in
November and read through until spring.
9. Many charities are looking for help this time of
year to fill needs for food, gifts for children here
at home, and in other countries, and with help for
community meals. Look for ways you can serve.
Volunteering is so worth the effort. Cheers to
human kindness!
8.Consider doing a video holiday greeting card from
the family instead of sending out cards this year.
Now is the best time to get started on that. It doesn’t
have to be complicated... just gather the family and
use your cell phone’s video. Email the video to your
family and friends this year.
7. Check out Calgary’s theatre and music scene for
great concerts or plays happening now and into
December. Get tickets for a date night, or for a
Sudoku Corner
The objective is to fill a 9x9 grid so that each column,
each row, and each of the nine 3x3 boxes contains the
digits 1 – 9 only one time each.
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family treat. The arts are amazing in our city.
6.Wear your Poppy with pride and take time to
remember those who fought for our freedom. Let’s
never forget!
5. Have you cooked up a healthy stew lately? Stews
can be such a great comfort food on chilly nights
after everyone gathers in from school and work.
Mmmm.
4. Our mental wellness is important on those early,
dreary days of winter. We’ve just come through a
great summer and a colorful fall. In November, the
grey of winter settles in, often iced in white snow.
Cheer your environment and give your mental
health a boost with fresh flowers! Add them to your
desk, your kitchen, and your bedroom!
3. It’s the season that local holiday markets start
to appear in our neighborhoods. Invite some
girlfriends, stop for a seasonal latte, and then get
shopping for Christmas. Let’s support our local
crafts-people.
2. When we think ‘fruit salad’ the thoughts of summer
usually come to mind. But, this time of year
when flu season seems to show up, fruits can be a
fantastic way to combat those nasty germs! It’s a
great dessert or breakfast food that packs a huge
punch against sickness!
1. Seek out a new hobby for the winter. Why not
learn to knit or try woodworking? It’s never too
late to enroll in a pottery, painting, or sketching
class. Hobbies are a fantastic way to de-stress, and
to engage our minds, keeping them healthy and
alive.
Larynda McKay
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In Our City
The Red Crossbill
T
he Red Crossbill is a stocky finch with a heavy head
and a short, notched tail. Males are reddish-scarlet
or reddish-yellow except for their dark wings and tail
while females are olive-grey to greenish yellow with
plain dark wings. This songbird is common in the
mountain and foothills regions of Alberta year round
and it is considered a global species. The Red Crossbill’s
range is hard to define and its population is hard to
monitor because their movements are irregular and
based on food availability.
Fun Facts:
•T
he tips of its large bill are crossed; an adaptation for
removing seeds from tight closed cones.
w The Red Crossbill’s biting muscles are stronger
than the muscles to open the bill so it places the
tips of its slightly open bill under a cone scale
Photo by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren
and then bites down.
• You can spot this songbird by their
hatched from late winter to early
undulating (wavelike) flight, which
spring molt twice (about three and
Red Crossbills are considered
is even noticeable when they are
a half months after hatching and
irregular breeders because
flying at great heights
again during the main summer molt
they can breed whenever and
• Red Crossbills are considered
period).
wherever they can find a large • B
irregular breeders because they can
ecause of their dependence on
crop of cones, even during the
breed whenever and wherever they
food supply, Red Crossbills may
winter.
can find a large crop of cones, even
occupy an area in huge numbers
during the winter
and then disappear for long
w Because of this irregular
periods of time (this behaviour can
breeding, the timeframes for the Red Crossbill’s
sometimes be called ‘irruptive’)
lifecycle varies more than most North American
•T
hese birds can often be heard but rarely do they
songbirds. For example, juveniles hatched
make themselves visible
during the summer molt only once (between late
wR
ed Crossbills will come to feeders to eat niger
summer and late autumn) whereas juveniles
and small seeds but the best way to tempt this
elusive bird is to allow them to take sunflower
seeds directly from the sunflower heads.
Sudoku Corner
Solution
If you find an injured or orphaned wild bird or
animal in distress, please contact the Calgary Wildlife
Rehabilitation Society hotline at 403-239-2488 for tips,
instructions and advice, or visit our website at www.
calgarywildlife.org for more information.
J.G. Turner, CWRS
DID YOU KNOW??
Poppies are worn from
the last Friday in October
till November 11.
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NOVEMBER 2016
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In Our City
Calgary Reads: Writings
About Reading
Nurturing a Sense of
Belonging on National
Child Day November 20th
N
ational Child Day is celebrated annually to mark two
historic events: the 1959 signing by Canada of the
United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child
(UNCRC) and the adoption of the convention.
This year’s theme is a young person’s right to belong.
Identity and belonging is about young people
developing a positive sense of who they are, and feeling
that they are valued and respected as part of a family
and community. Positive messages about their families,
backgrounds, cultures, beliefs, and languages help
children learn, develop skills and a healthy sense of
identity and belonging; this helps them later to better
deal with bullying and discrimination.
One way your family can celebrate National Child Day is
to share a book or story about belonging.
The book How Far Do You Love Me? by Lulu Delacre
celebrates love and belonging. It gives parents and
teachers an opportunity to share a story that features
people from different corners of the world using their
geographical locations as references for how great their
love is.
More books about belonging (Calgary Public Library
may have these to lend):
• Corduroy by Don Freeman
• I Like Myself! by Karen Beaumont
• The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond by Brenda
Woods
• The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig
• Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio
• Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl
Shurtliff
DID YOU KNOW??
The poppy tradition began
when the red flower was seen
growing in the graves of soldiers.
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Calgary Reads helps children learn to read with
confidence and joy. This includes helping children in
Calgary to have their own books at home; supporting
parents and caregivers to help their child develop literacy
skills; and engaging businesses and the community to
make reading a priority. Explore our website for ways
you can support our work. You’ll also find resources to
help your child develop critical literacy skills and the joy
of reading: calgaryreads.com
Calgary Reads
Did You Know...
These Facts About
November
• The birthstone for the month of November is
the topaz.
• There are two zodiac signs that fall in November:
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) and Sagittarius (Nov. 22
– Dec. 21)
• The chrysanthemum is the birth flower for
November.
• November is believed to derive from 'novem'
which is the Latin for the number 'nine'.
November was the ninth month after March, the
first month in the ancient Roman calendar.
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Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day
How Should The Poppy
Be Worn?
• Remembrance Day
commemorates
Canadians who
died in service to
Canada from the
South African War
to current missions.
It is held every
November 11.
T
Facts
he Royal Canadian
Legion suggests
that the poppy be
worn on the left lapel
of a garment and / or
as close to the heart as
possible.
• T he first
Remembrance Day
was conducted in
1919 throughout the Commonwealth. Originally
called Armistice Day, it commemorated the end of
the First World War on Monday, November 11, 1918,
at 11 a.m.: the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of
the eleventh month From 1923 to 1931, Armistice
Day was held on the Monday of the week in which
November 11 fell. Thanksgiving was also celebrated
on this day.
• In 1931, MP Allan Neill introduced a bill to hold
Armistice Day on a fixed day—November 11.
During the bill's introduction, it was decided the
word "Remembrance" would be used instead of
"Armistice." The bill passed and Remembrance
Day was first conducted on November 11, 1931.
Thanksgiving Day was moved to October 12 that
year.
• T he poppy is the symbol of Remembrance Day.
Replica poppies are sold by the Royal Canadian
Legion to raise money for Veterans.
www.veterans.gc.ca
In war, there are no
unwounded soldiers.
– Jose Narosky
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The official start of the
Poppy Campaign and the distribution of poppies to the
general public begin on the last Friday in October and
run until November 11.
The lapel poppy may be worn throughout the whole of
the remembrance period and is removed at the end of
Remembrance Day. Many people place their poppy at
the base of the cenotaph, as a sign of respect, at the end
of the Remembrance Day ceremony.
www.veterans.gc.ca
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
–John McCrae
NOVEMBER 2016
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In Our City
Come Meet the Tufties!
Real Estate Update
More details available at www.creb.com
I
f you keep an eye out this holiday season, you might
see little creatures called Tufties popping up at CF
Market Mall. But who are these cute little characters,
what do they do, and where do they come from?
Furry and fuzzy just like little tufts of hair, Tufties are
playful and energetic winter creatures that come from
an arctic island in Northern Canada. And not just any
island—they make their home on the island closest to
the North Pole! They’re covered in fur so they can stay
warm during the icy cold winter.
There are a number of different Tufties, each with
a specific skill and appearance: there’s the elegant
and graceful Tuftie Skaters, the hard-working Tuftie
Engineers, the not-so-brave Tuftie Daredevils, the fast
and stealthy Tuftie Ninjas, and the always industrious
(and always silly) Tuftie Bees. Tufties are very social
creatures, they love to work and play together. In fact,
they’re inseparable!
Tufties live for one thing: gift-giving. They love bringing
the magic of the holidays and the joy of giving to people
young and old, instilling a feeling of childlike wonder in
the hearts of everyone they meet.
So if you’re looking for something new this holiday
season, bring your family CF Market Mall and come
meet the Tufties!
Evanston
Detached
Home Sales
Houses
for
Sale
Sales
Average
Price
Average
Days on
Market
September 2016
65
19
$580,395
41
August 2016
52
18
$485,747
45
July 2016
73
28
$485,637
35
June 2016
64
26
$509,000
50
May 2016
61
24
$471,946
47
April 2016
66
31
$471,983
47
March 2016
73
20
$504,195
41
February 2016
77
14
$455,429
40
January 2016
64
13
$511,769
46
December 2015
58
15
$494,987
65
November 2015
59
17
$483,135
60
October 2015
66
17
$517,088
44
September 2015
66
18
$477,422
52
Houses
for
Sale
Sales
Average
Price
Average
Days on
Market
September 2016
378
127
$447,000
39
August 2016
345
134
$485,747
45
July 2016
338
163
$479,907
38
June 2016
566
266
$426,247
44
May 2016
364
180
$473,230
35
April 2016
369
166
$473,018
39
March 2016
345
141
$462,744
39
February 2016
331
87
$464,620
37
January 2016
266
64
$468,094
44
December 2015
696
167
$520,770
42
November 2015
842
263
$546,251
42
October 2015
898
291
$539,941
37
September 2015
952
314
$537,283
36
North
Calgary
Detached
Home Sales
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