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Please help us promote this event by telling your neighbours, and by distributing the flyers around Nutana.

Sat. May 25  •  9 am to 2 pm  •   11^th Street, beside Victoria School

Proof of Nutana or Varsity View residency is required 

(Driver’s License or mail with your name & address on it.)

Organize your block, and take advantage of this half day event to clean up your back lane.  This year we have organized free dumpsters, a material separating area, and a free neighborhood BBQ to feed the hungry alley crews. 

Our alleys are often overlooked and become a neglected dumping ground burdened with worn mattresses, overgrown trees, and old construction materials.  The Nutana and Varsity View Community Associations would like to up root all that junk and inspire the transformation of these spaces into a healthy and clean part of our neighborhood.

Take a strong lead with one or two of your block's residents.

• Invite your neighbours to join in the clean up.  A "Hello" and a handshake over the fence can also get things started.  Make a short event of it and it becomes a great opportunity to meet your neighbors.

• Suggest starting at 9 am Saturday morning, and as a group push, pull, rake and mow your way to the other end of the alley by 12 noon or earlier.

• Organize a truck or utility trailer to pile up the garbage as you move along the lane.  Shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows, hand tools, garbage bags and gloves can be a great asset.  All material including large objects like mattresses, appliances and branches can be disposed free of charge at the Victoria School parking lot between the hours of 9:00 AM and 1:00 PM, and while you are there enjoy a free hot dog.

Great things happen when a small group pitches in to inspire improvement in this often forgotten space.  Basketball hoops, hockey nets and managed greenery can replace overgrown trees and dilapidated garages, and the more your neighbors use this space, the better they are at discriminating unwanted behavior from regular recreation.  The goal is to slowly transform these spaces into a well cared for extension of our own yards.

For any further details please contact:

Mike McKague, Nutana CA - Email, or by phone: 374-3399

James Perkins, Varsity View CA - Email, or by phone: 373-9239

Link to Report a Pothole Form

If you would like to report a pothole, please complete and submit the following online form.  Reports from residents are part of the scheduling process for the Spring Blitz.  Unfortunately the City cannot promise to repair every pothole immediately, or at all, even after they receive a report, but they will do their best to get to all streets as soon as conditions and resources allow.

Once the high-traffic priority streets are complete, the Summer Pothole Blitz will include residential areas and take place along with the annual residential street sweeping program.

Link to more information from the City

The April edition of the newsletter has been added to the site, and can be found in the Newsletter page.

Link to April 11^th AGM and Imagine Nutana page.   This page has the agenda, minutes from 2012 AGM, positions on the the Board of Directors that are up for re-election, and the proposed changes to the Articles and Bylaws.  This list of items is not meant to be intimidating.  We are working towards having a quick and efficient AGM.

Garden Registrar - collects registration forms from returning and new gardeners, and assigns garden plots.  The registrar also puts together a communication list and sends out information about the garden on occasion.

Work Bee Coordinator - usually 2 or three people to lead the volunteers through a garden clean up once a month.  Garden clean ups are the last Saturday of each month, and each Tuesday following.

If you would like to volunteer in either of these areas, please contact our Community Garden Coordinator.  More details about the Garden can be found at the Community Garden page.

Garden Volunteer Coordinators Needed

We are always looking for individuals interested in volunteering as one of the coordinators for the Nutana garden, so if you are interested, please contact Mark Bobyn by e-mail at markbobyn@shaw.ca

Registration

Registration for new gardeners will be held on Saturday, April 27th right in the garden, from 11 a.m. till 1 p.m.  The fee is $25 and must be paid at the time of registration.  There will be a very limited number of plots available once last year’s gardeners have confirmed their intentions to stay on or not.  New plots are assigned on a first come first served basis.  If you like, you are welcome to fill out the form ahead of time by downloading the 2013 gardeners agreement form from the Nutana Community Association web site at www.nutana.ca  .

Returning gardeners from last year will have a chance to re-register for their plots, and will be sent a new 2012 garden agreement forms by e-mail; those without e-mail will receive a phone call.  All returning gardeners need to return the completed forms with full payment by April 20th  to the registrar’s home.  Gardeners will not be able to change plots this year unfortunately.  This year the Varsity View Community Association will be operating their community garden down the road at 12th St. and Wiggins Ave., right behind Bishop Murray School.  The contact person for that garden will be James Perkins.  He can be reached by e-mail at nic. james@sasktel.net.