June 2015 ACNA Newsletter

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Alpine Community Neighbourhood Association Newsletter June 2015 Page 1 of 6Contact: Graham Jeffery, 519-578-9603, [email protected]


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Beautiful Neighbourhood Gardens Deserve Recognition

Once again, ACNA volunteers will select a feast for the eyes in the form of a beauti-ful front garden. Your garden will be recognized in the October issue of this newsletter and online. This year we are opening up the contest to past winners too. If you want to nominate a garden, contact us (see how at the bottom of this page).

The City also recognizes gardens through the "Kitchener in Bloom" program. Just send the address of the property you wish to nominate to City Hall, either by email to [email protected] or call 519-741-2200 x7224. You can nominate your friend, your neighbour, yourself - or someone you don't even know. Each nominee gets a letter and a small sign for their yard, and may be considered for more recognition.

Thank you Neighbour!Thank you to Jacob Winter for organizing an Easter Egg Hunt for the children in the neighbourhood, which he promoted on our ACNA Facebook page. This event, which took place on April 4th, was enjoyed by many children and their parents.

This Summer, A Cleaner Neighbourhood Awaits YouIn April, we had our annual Community Clean-Up Day, soon after Earth Day. We had only a few people show up, but that was still a success. Each year, there seems to be less litter out there. Here's why we think that's happening:- When we started this event several years ago, there was lots more to pick up and we have since been cutting down the amount of garbage that lingers for many years.- Last fall, some of our neighbours cleaned up a lot of litter in the woods of Alpine Park on their own initiative.- The elementary school students in the area pitch in and do their bit.- We hope that people are tossing less litter when they see areas that are litter-free.

We'd like to thank those who helped clean up and thanks also goes to the City of Kitchener who provided garbage bags and work gloves to the volunteers. Let’s keep up the good work during the year to come!


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Reminder: The 2015 Alpine Community Garage Sale

Our annual Garage Sale will be held on Saturday June 6th. If the weather is poor that day, our rain date is the next Saturday, June 13th. Check our Facebook page and blog to see if we decide to go to the 13th.

Hold your sale at your own home and set your own hours. Use your own signs to direct buyers to your place. ACNA will promote the sales in the area on Kijiji and with signs in the neighbourhood.

So get your wonderful pre-loved items for sale out there!! You're going to need the space in your home for those items you'll pick up at other people's sales.

Check Your Calendar - ACNA's June Meeting PostponedOur regular June meeting will now be held Thursday June 18th, at 7:00 PM at a different location than usual - the Country Hills Community Center. We will have our Annual General Meeting within the regular meeting. We had to de-lay that from May.

Our next meeting after the summer break will be Tuesday September 15th, 7:00 p.m. also at the Country Hills Community Center. Our October meeting will be October 6th - 7:00 p.m. - at Alpine Public School

The Community Outreach Program: What is it?

The Community Outreach Program is a community-based program created to prevent and reduce the depth of child poverty in the Waterloo Region. Their goal is to assist children and families living with low income to access the services they need in their own communities.

Families living in the Country Hills and Alpine areas can contact the Outreach Worker to find out about services they may be eligible for, and can meet this person at the Country Hills Community Center. Benefits provided can include:- fee assistance for recreation for children under age 18 years- access to the Food Bank- used clothing or low cost clothing- access to counselling- help with transportation- employment and continuing education resources

You can call Lisa Morrissey, the Family Outreach Worker at 519-749-1529 or email her at [email protected]


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Elsewhere in this newsletter you will see a questionnaire from Kitchener Councillor Paul Singh. We encourage you to fill it out. Your opinions and comments help him understand the needs of the residents of the Alpine Community, Ward 6, and the whole city. You can drop off the completed survey at the Country Hills Community Center or mail it to his City Hall office at the address at the bottom of the survey.

Where is the Country Hills Community Center?

To get to the community center, you start at the intersection of Strasburg and Block Line... Go west on Block Line, up the hill and turn left onto Rittenhouse Rd., which is the first city street on the left. The Community Centre is the second building on the right, at 100 Rittenhouse Road.

Q: What does a nosey pepper do? A: Gets jalapeno business! Q: What do you call a fake noodle? A: An Impasta Q: What do you call an alligator in a vest? A: An Investigator Q: What happens if you eat yeast and shoe polish? A: Every morning you'll rise and shine! Q: "What's the difference between a guitar and a fish?" A: "You can't tuna fish." Q: What do you call a pile of kittens A: a meowntain Q: What do you call a baby monkey? A: A Chimp off the old block. Q: Did you hear about the race between the lettuce and the tomato? A: The lettuce was a "head" and the tomato was trying to "ketchup"! Q: Did you hear about the hungry clock? A: It went back four seconds. Q: What do you get from a pampered cow? A: Spoiled milk. Q: Did you hear about that new broom? A: It's sweeping the nation! Q: What do you call an elephant that doesn't matter? A: An irrelephant. Q: What do lawyers wear to court? A: Lawsuits! Q: What gets wetter the more it dries? A: A towel.Q: Why did the picture go to jail? A: Because it was framed. Q: What do you call a three-footed aardvark? A: a yardvark! Q: What do you get when you cross fish and an elephant? A: Swimming trunks. Q: Where do bees go to the bathroom? A: At the BP station! Q: Who earns a living driving their customers away? A: A taxi driver. Q: What do you call a dinosaur with a extensive vocabulary? A: a thesaurus. Q: “How do you shoot a killer bee?” A: “With a bee bee gun.” Q: What kind of jokes do you make in the shower? A: Clean Jokes!


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Have Your Say – Alpine Neighbourhood Survey I welcome your suggestions and feedback on a variety of city services. I am interested in hearing if you would like to see any changes or improvements in Ward 6 and the City of Kitchener. The intent of this short survey is to increase my engagement with you, and to better understand and respond to the needs of Ward 6 residents.

It would be greatly helpful to have your street name.

1. Are there improvements you think are necessary on your street or in your neighbourhood?

2. Please rate your satisfaction on the following:

Very Dissatisfied

Somewhat Dissatisfied

Neither Satisfied /

Dissatisfied

Somewhat Satisfied

Very Satisfied

1) Overall City services

-Areas to improve?

2) Kitchener Parks and Trails

-Areas to improve?

3) By-Law Enforcement -Areas to improve?

4) Amenities provided at McLennan Park

-Areas to improve?

5) Public Works (roads/snow removal/grass)

-Areas to improve? 3. I would like to ensure you receive the latest news related to Ward 6 and the City, so please provide me with your e-mail? 4. If you are not currently serving as a volunteer in the community, are you interested in volunteering? Yes No

Please provide your email or phone number to be contacted with volunteering opportunities _____________________ 5. Do you have any interesting or innovative idea(s) for your street, neighbourhood or city? Please tell me about it!

NOTE: Please tear-off this page and drop off the survey to the Country Hills Community Centre or mail it to me: COUNCILLOR PAUL SINGH – Ward 6 * Office of Mayor and Council

Kitchener City Hall, 2nd Floor * 200 King Street West, P.O. Box 1118 * Kitchener, ON N2G 4G7 Phone: 519.741.2793 * Fax: 519.741.2800 * [email protected]


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Chickens - Tasty and Funny

On which side does a chicken have the most feathers?On the outside.

Why Couldn't The Chicken Find Her Eggs?Because She Mislaid Them.

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Playground?To Get To The Other Slide.

Diner: I can't eat this chicken. Call the manager.Waiter: It's no use. He can't eat it either.

What do you call a chicken crossing the road?Poultry in motion.

Why does a chicken coop have two doors?Because if had four doors it would be a chicken sedan!

How can you drop an egg six feet without breaking it?By dropping it 7 feet – it won’t break for the first six!

How many eggs can you eat on an empty stomach?Just one, because then your stomach won’t be empty.

Where do you find a chicken with no legs?Where you left it!

Why did the dinosaur cross the road?Because chickens didn’t exist yet!

What did Batman say to Robin just before they got into the Batmobile?"Robin, get in the Batmobile."[ OK. There were no chickens in that joke, but it's still a good one. ]


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Police/Fire Emergency 911Police Non-Emergency 519-653-7700Alpine Community Neighbourhood Association 519-578-9603Country Hills Community Center 519-741-2596Alpine Public School 519-743-4338- Property Issues at Alpine P.S. - Bestel Security 519-749-3838Our Lady of Grace School 519-745-3961- Property Issues at Our Lady of Grace 519-578-3660 x5555St. Mary's High School 519-745-6891City of Kitchener 519-741-2345Kitchener Public Library Main Number 519-743-0271Kitchener Public Library (Country Hills Branch) 519-743-3558Region of Waterloo 519-575-4400Grand River Transit 519-585-7555Crime Stoppers tips line 1-800-222-8477

Alpine Community Neighbourhood Association - Who Are We?We are the neighbourhood association for the area bounded by Block Line Road, Homer Watson Blvd, Strasburg Road and Ottawa Street. Anybody living within these boundaries is welcome to join. We vol-unteer to ensure a better social, economic and business climate in the neighbourhood. We publish this newsletter, organize events, hold an annual food drive, provide our neighbours with useful information, and focus on problems in the neighbourhood. We meet once a month during the school year, usually the first Tuesday of each month, in the Alpine Public School library, at 7:00PM. Feel free to come to a meeting! For more information, call Graham Jeffery 519-578-9603.

What can you do to be more involved in your neighbourhood?- Come out to our monthly meetings. We enjoy getting together. We plan events, discuss issues of con-cern, exchange information.- Tell us what you want in this newsletter, suggest a topic, or write something yourself; perhaps an inter-esting story you want to share.- Pay a tribute to a special neighbour, through the newsletter, blog or Facebook page.- Get involved in our events - like our Earth Day Cleanup, or Halloween Food Drive.- Join our Facebook page and contribute there.- Help us deliver the newsletter. It's a volunteer effort! Four times a year and no more than a few dozen for each person to deliver.

Call Graham at 519-578-9603 or email [email protected] for details on any of these.

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Don't Miss Any of our Facebook PostingsMake sure you are seeing all the postings for the "Alpine Community Neighbour-hood Association" Facebook group. Facebook does not automatically place all the postings for people/groups you "Like" in your home newsfeed.Towards the top of the page, you will see the word "Notifications". Click on "No-tifications". When the drop-down menu appears, click on "All Posts". Then you're done.

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June 2015 ACNA Newsletter