Welcome to 2024 Northern Hills! On behalf of the NHCA, I hope that everyone in our community had a safe, healthy, and happy holiday season. Now we start afresh, ready to dive into the new year with new goals, projects, and events to look forward to. Last month we ran our annual Gift of Joy program, a program that has been running uninterrupted since 2016! We were able to help 21 families have a happy, fed Christmas this year. Thank you to everyone in the community that donated toys, money, or their time to help us deliver this truly memorable program. A special thank you to our amazing Ward 3 Councillor, Jasmine Mian, for helping us to secure a very generous grant from the City.
As I mentioned in December, we have made a lot of changes here at the NHCA. One big change is that our office is now fully virtual. To save on rental costs and utilities, we have left our office at Vivo behind, and now all our staff and board of directors are working from home. If you require assistance with registration or information, our wonderful Executive Director, Melissa, can help you at info@nhca.ca. She also can give information via text message with this number: 403-226-6422.
We have no events upcoming in January, but as an organisation we will be doing some yearly and strategic planning, and looking for upcoming grants to help us in delivering our programming for the year. We are also working with a local business to revamp our website, so look for changes in upcoming months – we hope it will be much easier to access the information you’re looking for!
In case you didn’t know, community associations receive no guaranteed financing – all our budgetary needs must be met through sales of memberships, fees for programming, and primarily grants. You can help! Please purchase an annual membership for your household. A yearly membership is just $30 per household – that’s $2.50 per month, less than one fancy coffee. It truly makes a difference.
As always, we wouldn’t be able to do anything without the dedication of our volunteers. If you have a passion, are looking for real world job experience, or have extra time to dedicate to your community, we would love to have you! Please reach out to join our volunteer team.
Thank you for your continued support and dedication to our community. Happy New Year!
Amanda Mauch
President
Northern Hills Community Association