What the WCNA Directors have been up to…
“Silence is golden” … if so, what have the WCNA Directors been up to lately? Quickly put … with more details to be shared at the Community Meeting on Wednesday, November 23rd at the Lion’s Club on Niagara Street … a whole bunch of initiatives, meetings and planning.
A quick review shows …
*Meeting with other Community Groups to encourage awareness, cooperation and mutual assistance …
*Encouraging the “Conversation Cafe’ discussions, lead by Brock U’s ‘Community Learning’ staff, to be active in the WCNA areas … first session scheduled for April 4, 2012 with the WCNA … “Neighbourhoods and Community”
*Purchasing permanent identity tags to attach to native tree species in the Parks so we can all know more about what’s “natural” …
*Encouraging the RCS to only consider planting native species in the parks, as additions to the urban canopy and for donated Memorial Trees …
* Planning “Walks in the Parks” with RCS for spring and autumn, 2012 …
*Responding to City Council’s request for input on local issues …
* Working with Malcolmson Park and Regional Councillor Bruce Timms to have the Waterfront Trail connected through the WCNA Parks and Malcolmson Park …
*Seeking City Budget commitment in 2012 to have a paved pathway installed between Carlton and Niagara Streets …
*Receiving a positive response from the City’s Accessibility Committee to survey and recommend priority remedial action on the Walker’s Creek trails to make the pathways more available for use by mobility challenged folks …
* Encouraging remediation of wet pathways areas before winter arrives …
* Encouraging local Real Estate agents to actively promote Walker’s Creek parks as a enticement to potential home buyers …
*Walking the Parks, meeting the users and engaging them in conversations that lead to action plans …
*Planning to ‘attack’ the many vines threatening some area trees with their heavy presence …
* Applauding the cooperation and support of the City Councillors within whose Wards the Parks exist … the ready assistance of the Lake Street work crews and the RCS staff … and also Ina Grafton Gage Village’s initiative to pave the short pathway from the Village to the bridge across the Creek adjacent to that property …
* And more …
Electronically challenged?? The WCNA responds …
Electronically challenged I am … and others tell they are too!! Computers, Smart phones, wireless communication, SKYPE, online banking, website use, Facebook, record keeping, texting, computer and video games … the electronic world can be a daily challenge. As young folks seem to master the use of these new ways to be engaged, as adults we may find ourselves struggling with getting the most out of the choice we have made to use these tools.
In this round-table discussion format, Mike Fancy, the WCNA electronic communication guru, is ready and able to help de-mystify, answer those questions you have not found answers to in your available teenagers, and to show you the pathways through the new means of connecting with information and people. And Mike tells it as it is!!
Bring your laptop, your cell phone, your questions to the November 23rd WCNA Community meeting at the Lion’s Club on Niagara Street, beginning at 7:00 PM, this hands-on session will guide and assist you in becoming more familiar with your chosen gadgets. Discussion on how you can be aware of your young people’s use of these quick and easy connecting tools, can be troublesome or fascinating … so clearing the vision and understanding where you can be involved is the end goal of this session.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd AT 7:00 PM AT THE LION’S CLUB ON NIAGARA STREET W… “De-mystifying the electronic world!!”
