Thanks to many volounteers, the Spring MHBPNA newsletter has been printed and is being delivered to you now! We hope you will enjoy it, and possibly sign up to deliver future issues to your neighbourhood. It has also been uploaded to our website so you can keep reading those great articles.
Region of Waterloo Council Chambers, 2nd Floor, Region of Waterloo Building
150 Frederick St., Tuesday, April 14, 7 – 9 PM
Here is the tentative program:
1. Welcome
2. Purpose of the Forum
3. Panel Presentation and Discussion (40 minutes)
Panel: Block Parents, Neighbouhood Watch, Regional Police
10-minute presentations from panelists, 10 minutes for a moderated Q&A session
Question: How is your organization improving neighbourhood safety and how can local residents help you?
4. Second Panel Presentation and Discussion (40 minutes)
Panel: By-law Officers from Waterloo, Cambridge, and Kitchener
10-minute presentations from panelists, 10 minutes for a moderated Q&A session
Question: What challenges do you see in maintaining safe and healthy neighbourhoods? How can the public help?
5. General Brainstorming and Discussion (30 minutes)
Representatives from Regional Police, School Boards, and Social Agencies will be available to hear suggestions and to answer questions
6. Summary and Wrap-up
The NMA meets the third Wednesday of each month at Kitchener City Hall, in the Conestoga Room located on the main floor, unless otherwise stated. Meetings are from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
April 15 May 20 June 17 July 15 August 19
September 16 October 21 November 18 December 16
TIME: 6:30 P.M.
WHERE: Mill-Courtland Community Centre
216 Mill Street, Kitchener
(corner of Mill & Stirling)
DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY FORUM
LET’S CELEBRATE OUR DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIPS!!
SHARE WHAT YOU ARE DOING IN YOUR COMMUNITY
LEARN HOW IMPORTANT EACH OF OUR CONTRIBUTIONS IS TO THE ONGOING HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OUR DOWNTOWN COMMUNITIES
Representatives from Waterloo Region Police will talk about some of their projects and how we must continue to learn how to be more effective“eyes and ears” of our communities
We will hear what is happening with:
Business downtown,
The Kitchener Market,
New trends that are beginning to positively impact our downtown,
Landlords Program and how that will be expanding to include the Landlords on King Street
Call 741-2491 to register if you are in need of Childcare
Refreshments will be available
MHBPNA now has a website, thanks to Google Sites.
It is located here:
http://sites.google.com/site/mhbpna/Home
We’ve been adding meeting minutes, older newsletters and hope to make it a “one stop shopping” place for information about our neighbourhood and the people who volunteer to make it better.
Please email us at mhbpna@gmail.com if there is something else you’d like to see on the site, or on this blog.
Uniroyal Goodrich Park
Ecological Restoration Project
Neighbours are invited to attend a design planning session hosted by UW graduate student, Katelyn Inlow. Come share ideas and learn about ways that we can restore this park in our neighbourhood!
Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009
Time: 12:00 noon – 3:00 pm
Loaction: Extend-A-Family, Board Room
91 Moore Ave., Kitchener
Everyone is welcome!
We printed 5000 copies of our winter 2008-2009 newsletter and delivered them to your door. But perhaps you lost your copy, or recycled it, or didn’t see it when it arrived. And you would still like to read about the “house of straw” or find out about the free cultural assessment our neighbourhood won. Now you can because this newsletter, and the Fall 2008 newsletter, are online. To view them click on this text.
The next MHBP Neighbourhood Association meeting is on Wednesday, February 25th at 7:35 pm in room 201 at the Breithaupt Centre.
All interested are welcome to attend. See what is going on in our community.
For minutes from the last meeting (Monday, December 8th, 2008) please click here
To view the agenda for the current meeting, click here.
The MHBPNA winter newsletter is now being delivered to your home. We have several thousand residents living in this great downtown location so we always need help distributing it. If you can deliver some (even to just your own block) please email us at mhbpna.news@gmail.com.
Two citizen advisors are being sought for the City of Kitchener’s new $5 million Local Environmental Action Fund (LEAF) steering committee. Deadline for citizen advisor application is Jan. 30 by 5 p.m.
The two citizen advisors will be members of the public who are environmental experts and/or community leaders with experience in granting organizations. A two-year commitment is required, with the evaluation work to occur in each of 2009 and 2010 between mid-February and mid-April.
The applicants must also be passionate about improving Kitchener’s biophysical environment, and at least one of the two citizen advisors must provide environmental expertise in one or more of the following areas:
· Climate change;
· Mitigation and/or adaptation;
· Public awareness of environmental issues;
· Air quality;
· Energy use and efficiency;
· Alternative energy sources;
· Land trusts and natural lands management, and/or
· Green transportation, walkable communities and alternatives to the automobile.
Nomination forms, submission information and further information about the LEAF steering committee can be found at www.kitchener.ca/leaf