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Get a Taste of YYC Food Trucks

Calgary has some of the best food trucks across the province, and if you’re looking for a chance to try some of the best of the best, we can help!

Come by June 11th & 12th to the fields behind the WHCA arena and sample some great food from four of Calgary’s best food trucks! Both days, we’ll be joined by Stuff’d, Family Dogs, Family Squeezed Lemonade, and Calgary Mini Donuts, so there will be a little something for everyone. This is a great opportunity to not only try something new, but support local food trucks while saving yourself from cooking family dinner.

So stop by June 11th between 5:30 and 7pm or June 12th between 4:30 and 7pm and treat yourself to some great food!

Neighbour Day Summer Fest

Join us for 2019 SUMMER FEST!

For YYC Neighbour Day, we will be hosting (along with the Garage Sale) our first ever Summer Fest at the community association. Stop by from 11 am to 3 pm for an entire afternoon of activities provided by our amazing sponsors. Some of the great events we have planned are a bouncy house, carnival games, public skating, “Beat the Bucket” water-dunking, basketball, soccer, badminton, BBQ, and more! We are only able to bring you so many great activities due to our amazing sponsors: Cadence Chiropractic, Master Meats, Baboushkin DeJong Real Estate Group, Dairy Lane Cafe, Coca-Cola, and Amato Gelato! Thank you all again for your amazing support! Events like these allow the neighbourhood to connect and grow a our sense of community together.

So take some time on Saturday, June 15th and have some summer fun at the WHCA with SUMMER FEST!

We’re Serving Up More Tennis This Summer!

Our courts are open and ready for the spring & summer tennis seasons!

To help our community make the most of the tennis courts (as well as our great summer weather), we are providing tennis lessons & camps for all ages!

Interested in weekly tennis lessons with a certified instructor? Sign up for a weekly lesson for all skill levels, for youths and adults! Starting July 4th, these lessons will teach you how to be a better player while honing your existing tennis skills. Hit the court with confidence with instruction from our fantastic tennis pro Alicia Hampshire and take your game to the next level.

For youths, we’re also offering our week-long tennis summer camps! In July and August, Alicia will be running daytime camps for an hour every day for weeks of July 8th to 12th and August 26th to 30th. These camps are available for youths ages 4 to 13 and are catered to their age group. Make the most of their summer break by learning and excelling at a fun and engaging sport with other kids their age!

Learn more about these programs, as well as tennis memberships at westhillhurst.com/tennis

 

East Parking Lot Closure

If you’re a regular visitor to the Community Association or the Bowview Pool, you’ve probably noticed the potholes and wear & tear throughout the pool-side of the east parking lot. So good news: repairs will be done in May/June to fill the potholes before the pool opens for the season!

Unfortunately, this means the pool-side of the parking lot will be inaccessible during construction.

Construction begins May 27th and is expected to last for a week. During this time, we expect the WHCA-side of the parking lot to be extra busy, so if you will be visiting during the week of May 27th to June 2nd, be prepared to find street and off-site parking. 

We apologize for the inconvenience this causes and we appreciate your patience and understanding. These repairs are much needed for the damaged parking lot and need to be addressed before the pool reopens for the summer.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact us and our staff will do their best to address them.

New & Returning External WHCA Programs

The West Hillhurst Community Association is a 70,000 square foot facility, which means we have room for a TON of activities. While we try to provide as much family-friendly programming as we can for the community, we also provide rental spaces for external programs to run within the facility (since it would be almost impossible for us to fill these rooms just ourselves!).

Some of our external renters have been with us fairly long-term. For more info on them, you can check out the External Programs page on our website. They include:

  • Go-Getters 50+
  • Pickleball
  • NCHL
  • Summit Kids
  • Balletiques
  • and more.

Be sure to check out their separate descriptions and websites, available on the External Programs page.

We are also always looking for new renters to run programs! For instance, right now we provide space for fencing, karate, dance, fitness, and more! If you’re ever looking for more information on a program, class, or course offered at the WHCA, stop by the facility or give us a call and we will be happy to assist you as best we can.

If you’ve got ideas for programming you’d like to see at the WHCA, let us know! We want to have something for everyone.

 

Join the Neighbourhood Garage Sale

Join the 2019 Neighbourhood Garage Sale with the WHCA for Calgary’s Neighbour Day, June 15th!

Found some hidden gems while doing your spring cleaning that you no longer want but can’t bring yourself to throw  out? Maybe you’ve got a stash of goodies you’ve been holding on to but haven’t had the time to list them online? Or if you’re in the process of planning a garage sale yourself, we’ve got you covered!

WHCA Members can register FREE for our Neighbourhood Garage Sale day! Registration gets you a bright yellow “GARAGE SALE” sign for your lawn, as well as inclusion on our neighbourhood garage sale map that will be sent out to community families and posted online. This saves you the time, money, and effort of going out and putting together the signs and posters yourself, as well as giving your sale exposure to a much greater audience!

So if you’ve got something to sell, register today! If you want to be a part but don’t have a WHCA Membership, you can get one for your household for only $36.75/year and it includes a bunch of other great benefits (like discounts at area business, free WHCA classes, and more).

So don’t wait, REGISTER TODAY for THE JUNE 15TH GARAGE SALE!
You can also register by emailing John (programs@westhillhurst.com) with your name and address.

Thank You for Your Clean-Up Efforts

We would like to take an opportunity to thank all of our community members who participated in Spruce It Up! and made our community clean-up day such a success.

With help of our volunteers, area businesses, and the city, we were able to host a success spring-cleaning in the arena parking lot. We hope we were able to take some of your pesky waste and recyclables off your hands and free up some space and time for you in your cleaning efforts!

The City of Calgary provided us alone with 3 truck loads of waste removal, with 6850 kg of garbage removed and 250 kg of organics!

Thanks again for making this event a success and we will see you once again next spring.

WHCA Casino Fundraiser is THIS WEEKEND!

Howdy community members! Looking to give some of your time to help out the community? Maybe you made a New Years resolution to volunteer more? Or maybe you just want to be a part of a fun & exciting evening at a casino while getting in on a free meal! Well if any of those apply to you, consider volunteering for our Casino Fundraiser at Cowboy’s Casino!

We are just a few volunteers short of a full roster and ensuring this event’s success. We have received an extremely gracious outpouring of support this week, so lets continue the trend into the weekend.

If you’ve never done a casino night in the past, worry not. The WHCA and Cowboys highly value and appreciate our volunteers to the utmost degree, and we will guide you along the way. Staff is extremely helpful and will be more than happy to help out and answer any and all questions you may have.

If you’d like to give a little of your time on Sunday and Monday, May 5th & 6th, you can volunteer with us by calling 403.283.0464 ext 6, emailing admin@westhillhurst.com, or fill out the online form on our volunteer page.

*UPDATED OPENINGS*
SUNDAY, MAY 5
6:30pm to 3am
Cashier
11pm to 3am
Supervisor
Staff

MONDAY, MAY 6
6:30pm to 3am
Cashier
Banker

Sponsorship & Advertising in the WHCA

We have some new and unique opportunities for local area businesses who are looking to connect with the West Hillhurst community!

Throughout 2019, not only will we be replacing the ice in the arena, but we are also adding a new gym wall divider! This means there will be brand-new sponsorship opportunities in these areas.

For the ice arena, we are adding 4 logos from sponsors onto the ice. These logos will be approximately 12’x7.5′ and will be painted around the center of the arena. Once the new ice is placed, these logos will be in place for 3 years and will be seen by all of our arena attendees, hockey & skating participants, and patrons of the Barn Pub! For only $1000/year, this is a great opportunity to connect with community members and your new customers.

In the gym, we will be replacing the current divider with a brand-new retractable wall! Sponsors for this wall will receive a large 6’x10′ logo on one of 4 spots along the divider as well as recognition on a wall-sign for when the divider is not in use. Our gym is extremely well attended and in use year-round. You can be a part of this opportunity for just $1200/year and expand your audience across Calgary’s inner-city neighbourhoods.

To learn more about these sponsorship opportunities and more, contact our marketing & communications coordinator Kyle at marketing@westhillhurst.com. We also have a marketing package pdf which can be viewed from www.westhillhurst.com/advertising-sponsorship/

Ready, Set, Grow!

If you’ve become a part of the 2019 community gardens at the WHCA, or if you’re an aspiring/practiced gardener looking to get more experience for your green thumb, then stop by and check out our gardens opening on April 27th and take in the great garden talk by Calgary’s Cottage Gardener Janet Melrose!

To coincide with Spruce It Up!, our community clean-up day, we are also have a clean-up and preparation of the community garden plots. Volunteers from Youth Central will be present to help get your plot in tip-top shape so you can use your new-found knowledge from Janet’s garden talk while it’s still fresh in your mind.

Janet’s talk begins at 10 am and has a $10 admission for the general public but can be attended for free if you own a 2019 Community Garden plot with the WHCA. Topics to be covered include:

  • Using your space wisely
  • planting techniques
  • companion planting
  • crop rotation
  • and more!

For more information about the gardens or Spruce It Up!, check out their respective posts on our blog, or visit the gardens page or the events page.