Calgary Northwest Recreation Centre Society Partners with the City of Calgary - UPDATE November 2008

Season’s greetings everyone!   

As the end of the year quickly approaches and everyone is scrambling to secure venues for their year end celebrations, just think, in a few years, you’ll have access to the new Calgary Northwest Recreation Center as another option to host your parties.

The CNRCS achieved a major milestone in November as the society was officially named the community advisory group (CAG) by the City of Calgary. As the CAG, we are responsible to rally residents, organized sports groups, and recreation/cultural groups to define the features of the future facility.

On Nov.5, 2008 the CNRCS held the first committee meeting to present our immediate objectives and action plan.  The entire presentation can be viewed at www.cnrcs.ca.  

To act as an effective CAG, we have recruited volunteers to sit on committees to carry out the work. Six committees have been formed:

• Communications   
• Community Engagement:
• Design
• Fundraising
• Governance & Organization
• Partnerships & Stakeholders

More details about each committee can be found at www.cnrcs.ca. 

Upcoming Event: Open House #2

On December 9, 2008 from 6:00 – 10:00 PM, an Open House will be hosted jointly by The City of Calgary and CNRCS at the 4 Points Sheraton (2359 Banff Trail NW 8220 Bowridge Cr.)  (Paid by The City of Calgary.)  The City conducted a needs assessment study that polled NW residents on what they’d like to see in the facility and how the facility should be operated.  The results of this study will be available at this event.  THIS IS AN IMPORTANT OPEN HOUSE!

Your attendance is critical. This Open House will be your opportunity to review the report and provide feedback to The City on whether you agree with the report’s findings.  Event details can be found at www.cnrcs.ca or contact us at cnrcs.info@gmail.com to be added to our update distribution list.  In addition, The City of Calgary will be posting road signs in your community.

The CNRCS volunteer team looks forward to seeing you at the Dec.9 Open House and would like to wish all of you Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!

Hawkwood’s CNRCS Representatives:  Trevor Hughes, Sean Furlong

Calgary Northwest Recreation Centre – UPDATE September 2008

The Calgary Northwest Recreation Centre Society (CNRCS) has been busy over the summer.  Although we competed with summer vacations and various other potential roadblocks, we managed to continue to move forward and get closer to our goal of providing a world-class recreation centre, designed, built and operated by representatives from local communities.

We experienced a slight bump in our plans when our application for interim funding was denied by the Calgary Foundation, but we have overcome that and pushed on. 

We are planning an Open House on September 23, 2008 from 6:00 - 9:00 at the Silver Springs community centre.  At the Open House we are displaying all the work we have done to date and the plans we have going forward.  We will be there answering questions, giving presentations and getting everyone involved.

The main objective of the Open House is to share information, get people interested, and recruit volunteers.  A task of this nature requires many, many volunteers, and we are in need of this help.  We have a variety of positions available, for as many people as are available. 

We want our facility to be world class.  We want people to be proud of the facility, and we want to ensure that it addresses current needs as well as future potential.  Please consider coming out to our Open House to see what is going on – and to help provide a world class recreational resource for yourself, your family and friends. 

We need your input and help!  Please email Trevor Hughes to get your questions answered or to share your views.