Picnic in the Park!

St. John’s Residents’ Association - Picnic in the Park prize winners

Prize #1 Winner – Mary Linklater

Meat Pack - Avenue Meat Market, 4 Goldeyes tickets, 2 YMCA-YWCA passes

Prize #2 – Bonnie Thompson

Meat Pack - Avenue Meat Market, 4 Goldeyes tickets, 2 YMCA-YWCA passes

Prize #3 – Jeff Suiz

$50 Gift Card – The North Star Drive In, 4 Goldeyes tickets, 2 YMCA-YWCA passes

Prize #4 – Savanna Ducharme

4 Goldeyes tickets, 2 YMCA-YWCA passes

Prize #5 – Nicole Pearson

4 Goldeyes tickets, 1 YMCA-YWCA pass

Prize #6 – Mary Burton

5 Goldeyes tickets

A big Thank You to all of our sponsors who donated prizes!

and now for some photos :)

City of Winnipeg 2014 Budget Consultation

The City of Winnipeg is undertaking a consultation process to engage the citizens of Winnipeg in shaping the direction of the City’s budget. All across Canada, municipalities are facing an infrastructure crisis. The list of items needing repair includes streets, bridges, sidewalks, community centers, libraries, and sewer and water systems. Based on current revenues, the City of Winnipeg anticipates shortfalls in its 2014 and 2015 operating budgets of $74 million and $94 million, respectively. Under the City of Winnipeg Charter, the City must balance its budget. Given this challenge, the City of Winnipeg is seeking to understand what the citizens of Winnipeg want and expect from its civic government. The City of Winnipeg would like to know what the citizens of Winnipeg think about

• What the priorities of the City should be
• What choices they would make if they were in charge of the City’s budget.

Citizens can provide feedback through public workshops, an on-line survey, written submissions, by email to wpgbudget@mnp.ca or by phone to a comment line at 1.877.780.8683.

 

More information available at http://wpgbudget.ca/

 

The workshops are being independently moderated by MNP in an open house format and will be held on the following dates:

Tuesday, June 18	Highbury School, St. Vital, 99 Highbury Road	6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.	Show in Google Maps
Wednesday, June 19	Victoria Community Club, Fort Garry, 80 Derek Street	6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.	Show in Google Maps
Saturday, June 22	Buchanan Hall, Assiniboine West Recreation Association, St. James-Assiniboia West, 861 Buchanan Boulevard	12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Show in Google Maps
Monday, June 24	Millenium Library, Carole Shields Auditorium, 251 Donald Street	6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.	Show in Google Maps
Wednesday, June 26	Park City West Community Centre, Transcona, 115 Sanford Fleming Road	6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.	Show in Google Maps
Thursday, June 27	Garden City Community Centre, 725 Kingsbury Avenue	6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.	Show in Google Maps

 

Citizens Action Network

Do you have a neighbourhood issue that you wish to report but don't necessarily want to be the one reporting it?

Do you have:

- neighbours who don't maintain their yard or home
- neighbours involved in criminal or dangerous activity
- issues with your road, backlane, or other City property
- derelict or vacant home issues

The Citizens Action Network (C.A.N.) can accept your report and forward the issue to all necessary parties. This can include Community By Law Enforcement Services, the Winnipeg Police Service, the Winnipeg Fire Department and outside agencies. As well, these departments will notify any other agency that is required after they complete their investigation.

This system allows all citizens to be able to report concerns with a certain amount of anonymity. There will be some cases where information may need to be followed up on, however, if you do not feel comfortable with this, there are things that can be done. One can be the C.A.N. Coordinator can look into the concern and verify it and report it for you and follow up with the agencies after the report is submitted.

Did you know St. John's has their own C.A.N. Coordinator? If you wish to use this service you can email cansjr001@gmail.com.

More information on this program can be found here.

Also this service is to only be used for NON-Emergencies. If there is an immediate threat to life or public safety, please contact 911. Do not report these issues to C.A.N. as there may be a delay with the Coordinator viewing it and the agencies (ie. the WPS or WFPS) will not accept an emergency report from the Coordinator.