Glenelm Neighbourhood Association || Winnipeg, Mb
It’s that time of the year again — let’s all bundle up, get outside and participate in GeNA’s 3rd annual Snow Sculpture Challenge!
This coming Saturday, Feb 1st, show us your best snow creations. All ages and skill levels are encouraged, and there are dozens of chances for you to win a prize just by participating! Plus, it’ll be lots of fun, we promise!
Get all the details here: https://www.glenelm.ca/snow/
Big thanks to our generous sponsors!
Come and hear a fascinating, free talk on the life of Dr. T. Glen Hamilton, his research into psychic phenomena and the possibility of life after death. His former home, Hamilton House, is a well-known building in Elmwood at 185 Henderson Hwy; the Hamilton family hosted many prominent guests over the years, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!
The presentation will be given by East Kildonan resident Linda Horodecki, who’s a retired archivist with the Manitoba government. It will cover both Dr. Hamilton’s paranormal investigations and his civic leadership. Linda has given talks on the subject previously at WPL and the Elmwood EK Active Living Centre.
The event will take place Sunday afternoon, February 2, 2020 from 2 to 4pm at the Big Red Church at 127 Cobourg Avenue. Admission is free.
A few articles about Dr Hamilton to pique your interest:
Psychic Experiments at Hamilton House – Part One & Part Two (Heritage Winnipeg)
Digging deep into family’s history (The Herald)
Psychic Research in a Winnipeg Family: Reminiscences of Dr. Glen F. Hamilton (Manitoba Historical Society)
Above: Hamilton House photo source: University of Manitoba Hamilton Family fonds
On Saturday, February 8th, 2020 come on out for the 6th Annual Elmwood Winter Fun Day!
Elmwood organizations including GeNA have joined together again to offer a fun-filled day of family-friendly outdoor activities: wagon rides,snowshoeing, giant hamster balls, fat bikes, jug curling, bonfire & more. Free hotdog lunch & hot chocolate – bring your own mug!
Clara Hughes Recreation Park, 281 Henderson Hwy
11am – 3pm
We’re not letting the dead of winter get in the way of staying connected as a community! Mark your calendars for Sunday, January 19th, 2020 – that’s the day of the Glenelm Winter Warmer.
The event runs from 5 to 6:30pm. GeNA is teaming up with the fine folks at the Big Red Church at 127 Cobourg to offer a delicious, low-key 2-in-1 event.
At 5pm, the Big Red Church will host a neighbourhood potluck supper – bring a dish to share! After we eat, GeNA will present a 5-minute AGM, and then there will be free time for visiting and board games – bring your favourite one(s)!
We had a fantastic turnout at last year’s Winter Warmer, and we hope to see many more familiar and new faces this time around. Hope you can join us!
It’s time to light up our little corner of the world with our friendly, low-stakes holiday lights challenge!
This year the Elmwood Business Coalition has decided to use the theme of ‘stars’ for their Christmas light displays in businesses in and around Elmwood. We at GeNA thought it would be great if as a neighbourhood we also adopted this theme! SO … if you can … find a way to incorporate a star into the lights you have (or are hoping to have) set up on or around your home.
The prize is simply bragging rights for being Glenelm’s brightest block. Who will take this year’s title? Will it be Glenwood Crescent again for a 3rd year? Or will Noble, Martin or Carmen (which all tied for runner-up last year) be declared the winners? Or will another street pull out all the stops for a surprise win? That is the question, and we can’t wait to find out!
The 3rd Annual “Light up the Neighbourhood” contest starts NOW!
Online voting will take place beginning December 20 and winners will be announced by New Year’s Eve!
Introducing a brand new GeNA event… the first-ever Glenelm Pumpkin Parade!!
On Friday, November 1, bring your jack o’lantern to the Big Red Church (127 Cobourg) between 5 and 8pm.
We will display all the jack o’lanterns so that they can be admired and enjoy hot chocolate and a bonfire. There will also be a fabulous fall-themed photo booth plus a draw for cool prizes. And it’s all free!
Here are a couple of things we’re asking for your help with:
Hope to see you there!
If it seems early to be thinking about Halloween, you’d be right! But the turning leaves have us scheming up fun for all our trick-or-treaters. We hope you’ve all had good time growing your pumpkin kits from our Sweets & Seeds event back in the Spring. We can’t wait to see how you show them off for this year’s Halloween festivities!
On November 1, bring your pumpkin to the Big Red Church (127 Cobourg) for this year’s first-ever Glenelm Pumpkin Parade (learn more about our inspiration here)!
It will be a chance for neighbours to admire all the creative gourds from across the community. And participants will be entered into a draw for some cool “I tree Glenelm” stuff.
As a bonus, GeNA will take care of all the leftover jack o’lanterns by donating them to Aurora Farms where they will become food for their animals.
Stay tuned for more details!
GeNA’s Boulevard Trees Project has been underway since early 2019 and is at long last about to see its very first planting!
Come and join us for a small ceremony to mark the occasion, which falls on National Tree Day in Canada. The ceremony takes place in front of Glenelm School, 96 Carmen Ave on Wednesday, September 25th at 9:30am.
It’s one of our favourite events of the year: the annual Glenelm Picnic in the Park! Come and meet neighbours old and new, hear talented local musicals acts, and enjoy fun games and activities for all ages. Hope to see you there! When: This Sunday, September 8th, 4:30-6:30pm Where: Roxy (Elmwood) Park, 380 Henderson Hwy Please bring:
Park bathrooms will be open.
In case of rain, the picnic will move indoors to the Big Red Church, 127
Cobourg Ave (relocation will be announced by email, website &
Facebook).
As you may know, the Family Movie in the Park event from this past weekend had to be postponed at the last minute.
To all those who had come out: thank you for being so understanding, and we hope you enjoyed “Popcorn in the Park” nevertheless!
We are happy to announce the rescheduled date will be this Saturday, August 31 – weather permitting again, of course. Same time & place: 8:30pm at Roxy (Elmwood) Park, 380 Henderson Hwy. The movie will be the new, live-action Aladdin. And there will be popcorn again!
Hope to see you there!
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Family Movie in the Park is made possible through generous support from an Assiniboine Credit Union community sponsorship, a City of Winnipeg per capita grant, help from the Chalmers Neighbourhood Renewal Corporation… and neighbours like you!
