This year, close to 180,000 households with Wednesday cart collection are affected by changes to the holiday pick-up schedule. These residents should be aware of the following changes:
Regular Wednesday pick-up resumes January 8. Residents can stay updated on schedule changes and set reminders by signing up for free at calgary.ca/collection.
The holiday season brings gifts, good cheer, and plenty of extra waste. To help Calgarians manage it responsibly, The City is sharing tips to reduce, reuse, and ensure items like gift wrap, boxes, and holiday food scraps are sorted into the correct bins.
Reuse and reduce this Christmas.
By rethinking traditions and getting creative, Calgarians can reduce the waste that ends up in their bins. Below are some holiday tips to get Calgarians started.
Put your holiday waste in the right bin.
Put the following recyclables loose (not in a bag unless otherwise stated) into your blue cart:
Use your green cart to compost such food items as:
After recycling and composting the right items, make sure to put these end-of-use products in the black cart as garbage.
Items such as old and used electronics, dead batteries, and most shipping foam and takeout containers can be taken in one convenient trip to a City Eco Centre.
Calgarians can learn more holiday waste tips at calgary.ca/holidaywaste.
After the holidays, don’t let those real Christmas trees go to waste.
Calgarians have two options to compost their real Christmas tree. For both options, all lights, ornaments, tinsel, string, and tree stands must be removed.
Option 1: Use your green cart –cut tree into small pieces to fit inside the green cart, making sure the lid can close.
Option 2: Bring to a tree drop-off location – available across the city from December 26, 2024, to January 31, 2025. Do not wrap or bag your tree.For a full list of locations visit calgary.ca/christmastree.
Mother nature appears to bring cool enough temperatures to attempt to lay down the ice rink Dec 15/16/17. If all goes well there might be ice available at Signal Hill next week. If it doesn’t work this time, your friendly rink volunteers will make another attempt a little later in December. Please check back to shca.ca for the latest.
The SHCA is fortunate to receive the opportunity from the AGLC to manage another fundraising Casino in 2025.
Our dates are Wednesday January 1st and Thursday the 2nd, 2025. The funds raised cover approximately 75% of our annual expenses. We’re looking for 14 additional volunteers to perform duties at the Casino. We are coached by expert Casino Advisors who we hire to make sure that everything runs smoothly and within the AGLC guidelines. No experience is necessary.
If you can help out please click on the link below.
https://volunteersignup.org/E7DD7
Specifics:
Starting in November, the City will pick up your green cart once every other week. Weekly green cart collection will resume in the spring.
Visit calgary.ca/collection to check your schedule and sign up for reminders.
Good Morning,
On behalf of the Parks & Open Spaces team, we welcome your input on the Ward 6 and the Signal Hill community Playground Optimization Program. When aging playgrounds require lifecycle work, The City looks at maximizing the use of the space to ensure it continues to meet community needs. The city assess the need by looking at demographics and working with the community to determine whether the space is best suited as a playground or should be transformed into another type of community play or gathering space.
The Parks & Open Spaces team is collecting community feedback on the engagement portal https://engage.calgary.ca/PLSIG for approximately 6 weeks. Please take some time and inform yourself of the changes and provide your feedback to ensure the Signal Hill Community has a voice!
Hello SHCA Community,
As a friendly reminder, school starts on Aug 29th for CBE kids. With this means more increased traffic around school zones from 8:30 AM to 4:00pm. Please keep an eye out for the little ones (and the big ones in Jr. and Sr. High School) as you are driving around. In signal hill this is especially important around Battalion Park School located at 369 Sienna Park Dr SW at the bottom of the ice rinks.
Please see the following information from AHS regarding some important back to school safety tips!
Signal Hill received a couple of inquiries of some Dog Owners who are using playground space (old and new) for their pet’s bathroom duties. As a friendly reminder to all of us, that Calgary’s bylaws Bylaws related to dogs (calgary.ca) state “Dogs are not allowed in school grounds, playgrounds, sport fields, golf courses, cemeteries, or wading/swimming areas.”. This is to ensure that there is a clean area for kids to play and interact without the possibility of falling into or rolling in your pets waste.
Please help support our community. If you see an offender who has any animal in a playground area, please report to City Bylaw officers by calling 311.
On May 18th, during the three community cleanup, Signal Hill, Discovery Ridge, and Springbank residents collected 24,275 kg of waste! That’s 53,517 lbs. (24 tonnes) or the equivalent of 4 large male elephants, 16 Toyota Prius’s or 8,091,666 2B Pencils.
