Signal Hill Community Association · Calgary AB

A neighbourhood is something you do, not something you live in.

Signal Hill is the outdoor rink at 5:30 on a Tuesday. The cleanup crew on the second Saturday of June. Nani's Gelato giving members 15% off. SHCA is what makes all of that happen.

Est. July 1987 14,000 neighbours Volunteer-run
Signal Hill from above, looking east toward downtown Calgary Signal Hill · SW Calgary
Up next on the calendar

Nothing booked. Your call.

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The summer run is done. Cleanup Day, the Parade of Garage Sales, Neighbour Day, Art in the Park, two rounds of youth disc golf, and the casino that pays for all of it. The fall and winter calendar is a blank page, which is exactly the right moment to tell us what belongs on it.

Skate night. A seniors' coffee morning. Movie night at the rink. A repair café, a fall market, a teen drop-in, a winter fire pit night. We are a volunteer board with a hall, a rink, two courts, a gazebo and a popcorn machine. If enough neighbours ask for the same thing, we will run it.

Ideas come from members, so we check the email against the membership list. Not a member yet? It is $20 a year, and it is what pays for the events themselves.

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The news desk

Dispatches from the Hill.

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Survey · 2026 · 5 min

Tell the board what you want.

What events, services, partners, and neighbourhood ideas should the SHCA focus on next? Five quick questions from the volunteers who run the place.

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Start here

Which door is yours?

01 · Residents

I live here.

What's on this weekend. When the rink opens. Who's running the cleanup. The newsletter you actually want.

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02 · New to the Hill

Just moved in.

Welcome. A 2-minute tour of the neighbourhood, facilities, events, partner discounts, how SHCA fits in.

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03 · Local business

I run a shop here.

Get on the community map. Reach 6,000 households. Partnerships start at $50/year.

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What we do

Five verbs.
Run by volunteers. Paid for by memberships.

Recently

Not a slogan. The receipts.

94 Nights the rink was open last season
87 Bags at the 2025 cleanup
$500 Grant won by a 7-year-old neighbour for her bee project
300+ Expected at Neighbour Day this June
The neighbours who make this place

It's people.
Always people.

No. 01 · The fundraisers

Brian and Kristi McKinnon spent three years raising the money for a new playground at Battalion Park School. SHCA put in $100,000. The students picked the colours, and you can cross the whole thing without touching the ground.

Brian and Kristi McKinnon, Signal Hill School Enhancement Society · the reason there is a new playground behind the school.

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No. 02 · The casino crew

Twenty-eight neighbours spent the weekend of August 9 and 10 downtown at Cowboys Casino, counting cash and balancing a cage until 3:30 in the morning. That one weekend funds the next 18 months of everything we do.

The 2026 casino volunteers · the single biggest reason this association can run anything at all.

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No. 03 · The neighbour who writes

Roxanne Wheaton has a background in adult education and a long-standing interest in helping older adults stay independent at home. So she offered to write a series for this site, and started with what wet leaves and early darkness do to a house.

Roxanne Wheaton, Signal Hill resident · author of Conversation Starters.

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$20 a year · the key to the place

What the key opens.

Membership isn't a fee. It's a key to a neighbourhood most people live next to but haven't activated yet. Here's exactly what $20 unlocks.

  1. 01

    Your card, their shops.

    Show your SHCA card at every partner business on our community map, coffee shops, home services, realtors, restaurants. Exclusive member discounts.

    See the partner map →
  2. 02

    Book the rink first.

    Hockey rink. Pickleball courts. Beach volleyball. Basketball. Members get priority every season, before bookings open to the general public.

    Browse facilities →
  3. 03

    A real vote.

    Board elections and annual priorities are decided by members at the AGM. Your $20 buys a seat at the table, and a say in what gets built next.

  4. 04

    Signal Hill View.

    Our community newsletter, events before they go public, city notices, local business spotlights, what the board is up to. Direct to your inbox.

  5. 05

    First dibs on everything.

    Neighbour Day vendor booths. Cleanup Day shifts. Easter Hunt spots. Skate Night tickets. Members get early access before the general rush.