On-line registration for Community Youth Soccer programs started on January 15 2012.

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Under the new by-laws approved on March 2011, memberships are calendar based and expire on the 31st of Dec every year.
Starting in December 2011 WSCR is migrating all its membership management to a system powered by Wild Apricot. This will allow us to provide our memberships with secure online credit card payment and easy access to programs and additional features. As this changes proceed the look of these pages will experience some changes, but rest assured that the content and your personal information will be retained and secured.
Click here to purchase a new membership or renew your existing one.

For the safety of athletes and patrons at Canada Olympic Park, WinSport Canada will be rerouting traffic within Canada Olympic Park, beginning Dec. 21. To access the Bob Niven Training Centre and  the top of the hill (residential area, ski jump towers and bobsled start), drivers will continue west on the Park entrance road and will follow the road between the Athletic and Ice Complex and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.

Directional signs will assist in the transition.

Good Morning Residents of Cougar Ridge,

Waste & Recycling Services has formally announced the four communities selected to test a residential food and yard waste pilot program. The pilot communities are: Cougar Ridge, Abbeydale, Brentwood and Southwood, with a total of nearly 8,000 homes participating. The program will commence in March 2012.

Waste & Recycling Services established several criteria and then consulted with the area aldermen in selecting the pilot communities:

• Ability to test front curb and back lane collection;
• Communities with different volumes of yard waste – i.e., established neighborhoods with higher volumes of yard material (mature trees and vegetation) and newer communities with smaller volumes;
• A mix of housing types – single family homes up to and including fourplexes;
• Varied collection days;
• Four communities with no more than 2,000 homes each;
• Whole communities to participate for ease of communication and education.

“Food and yard waste makes up nearly 60 per cent of residential garbage going to landfill,” said Dave Griffiths, Director of Waste & Recycling Services.

Food and yard material in a landfill does not break down into compost but instead produces carbon dioxide and methane, which are powerful greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. Composting this material represents the biggest opportunity to achieve Council’s goal of diverting 80 per cent of waste from landfills by 2020 for the residential sector

“By composting food and yard waste, instead of sending it to the landfill, we can reduce waste and greenhouse gases, decrease our dependence on landfills and produce compost, a valuable product,” said Griffiths.

Each home in the pilot communities currently receiving blue and black cart collection will receive a green cart, kitchen pail and compostable pail liners for food waste, and paper yard waste bags. They will also receive an information package explaining how to participate, what materials are accepted and a collection schedule.

The green carts are about 120 liters – half the size of the blue and black carts – and will be collected every week. Residents will use the green carts for their compostable materials – including all fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, bones, food-soiled paper and dairy products – as well as yard waste. Residents will use the paper bags for any additional yard waste.

During the pilot, the City will also test collection of black carts every other week to both encourage participation in the program and to maintain efficiency of the waste and recycling collection program, helping to keep the project viable. There will be no charge to pilot participants.

Waste & Recycling Services will communicate with pilot community residents through a variety of means, including open houses, direct mail, instructional materials with the carts, community newsletters, educator visits and The City website (Calgary.ca/greencart).

Feedback from participants will be collected throughout the pilot and Waste & Recycling Services will report back to Council by March 2013 with results of the pilot and recommendations for a city-wide program.

For more information, call The City of Calgary Media Relations Line, 403-828-2954. You can also feel free to contact our office with any questions or concerns.

WEST SPRINGS AREA STRUCTURE PLAN AMENDMENT

The City is currently working on an Area Structure Plan Amendment to an area within the West Springs Community. These lands are governed by the East Springbank ASP and Appendix III: East Springbank II Community Plan. This ASP Amendment process will apply a concept plan to an area of over 120 acres of land to provide some future guidance for development and better align with the City’s long range documents, the Municipal Development Plan and the Calgary Transportation Plan.

The City held an Open House on November 30th at the Calgary French & International school and it was well attended.

Please visit www.calgary.ca/westsprings for the exhibits that were shown at the Open House.  The exhibits are also posted at http://wscr.ca/development/proposed-east-springbank-asp-amendment-west-springs