Are you looking for something dynamic for your child one evening a week? Consider becoming a member of the Calgary Girl Guides of Canada. The district for this area is MINIHAPA DISTRICT whose email address for this area is kristyb@calgaryguides.com - Kristy Brosz is the contact person.  Her phone number is 403-283-8348 ext. 40. The website is http://www.girlguides.ca

or;

Become a member of the 207^th St. Patrick’s Scout Group welcoming boys and girls from the communities of Shawnee slopes, Evergreen Estates, Evergreen & Millrise. For more information call 403-475-7030 , email wack.100@shaw.ca or web site www.scouts.ca.   

The City of Calgary is creating storm water settling ponds in communities bordering Fish Creek. Deep pipes will collect storm water and snowmelt and transport it to Fish Creek Park where the sediment will settle in ponds, purifying the water before it joins the natural water system.

One of the six ponds – the Marshall Springs Retrofit Pond – will affect our community. Some type of diversion structure will be constructed on Evergreen Drive SW and an underground storm water pipe will carry the water through the community to Fish Creek Park, where it the sediment will settle. This will entail some construction, particularly in Evergreen Estates, over the next two years. Please see the attached drawings for details.   

The City of Calgary’s Water Resources division is hosting an information session for residents on Tuesday, June 24th at the Peace Lutheran Church, 14640 Sixth St. S.W., from 5 to 8 p.m. They will further explain the purpose of the project and the possible impact of construction. They’ll advertise the session through letters to Evergreen Estates residents, bold signs and ads in the Herald and the Sun. We’ll also keep you updated on our community website: www.shawnee-evergreen.net

Hello neighbours. Thanks for participating in the Shawnee-Evergreen annual parade of garage sales on June 7th and 8th. We hope you found some good bargains despite the rain. We received some inquires this year about whether a local realtor had sponsored the event. Apparently he distributed glossy flyers in the mail to parts of Evergreen, implying sponsorship and promising maps of the garage sale route. When the maps didn’t appear, some residents were disappointed and they directed their inquiries to us. We would like to clarify that this community event was not sponsored by any individual or organization. The realtor should not have implied that he was associated with this event – and he shouldn’t have made promises he didn’t keep! 

We have had some recent input from community members on a particularly dirty issue; (Please pardon the pun...)

According to the City of Calgary's website on water drainage; "The City recommends using a commercial car wash to clean your vehicle. Commercial car washes drain to the City’s wastewater treatment facility where the wastewater is cleaned and treated. If you do wash your car in the driveway or street, you cannot use soap. Use water only and ensure that dirt or oil from your car does not get washed down the storm drain."

Also appearing on the site; in the storm-drain "prohibited items list" is the item "soaps or detergents (including biodegradable products)."

If you see someone washing their car in the driveway and dirt and/or oil are not being stopped from going down the storm drain; please call 311 to report the issue.  If you happen to have a camera, digital pictures are good evidence and bylaw officers can act on/with them.

Also from their site: "Failure to comply with the Drainage Bylaw could result in: contaminants or pollutants being released into our rivers obstructions in the storm drainage system (e.g. blocked swales or sewer backup in the pipe system); and flooding. Failure to comply with the Drainage Bylaw can also result in fines ranging from $75 to $10,000 and/or remedial orders."

Work is being performed on a stormwater pond in Fish Creek. 

The general idea of the ponds is to allow sediment to settle; storm water from the storm drain network often carries large amounts of mud and muck that basically just enter the rivers, making things murky for those downstream.  The City of Calgary addresses that via these ponds.

 (This is a fitting article for all the rain we have been having lately, but the need is not caused by the recent rains.)

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