A local senior wanted seniors to sew together. So she called the MPC Foundation, booked a room, and started a club. Pilot sessions fill up in April.
A Signal Hill resident, 55+, organizer of the new Seniors Sewing Club.
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Signal Hill is the outdoor rink at 5:30 on a Tuesday. The cleanup crew on the second Saturday of June. The partner coffee shop giving 10% off. SHCA is what makes all of that happen.
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What events, services, partners, and neighbourhood ideas should the SHCA focus on next? Five quick questions from the volunteers who run the place.
What's on this weekend. When the rink opens. Who's running the cleanup. The newsletter you actually want.
See this week → 02 · New to the HillWelcome. A 2-minute tour of the neighbourhood, facilities, events, partner discounts, how SHCA fits in.
Start here → 03 · Local businessGet on the community map. Reach 6,000 households. Partnerships start at $50/year.
Partner up →November through March, weeknights till 9:30. Skate shack, change rooms, separate hockey & leisure sides. Members book first.
→Neighbour Day is the big one, June 20 this year. Plus skate nights, Easter hunts, summer socials. Free, for everyone.
→One Saturday in June, three communities, a hundred bags of trash. Cleanup Day. Tools provided.
→A community map of every partner business, discounts for SHCA members, visibility for the businesses, a stronger local economy.
→14,000 voices travel further together. Potholes, zoning, water restrictions, new developments, we advocate so you don't have to.
→A local senior wanted seniors to sew together. So she called the MPC Foundation, booked a room, and started a club. Pilot sessions fill up in April.
A Signal Hill resident, 55+, organizer of the new Seniors Sewing Club.
Read the story →Kamila, age 7, won a $500 Jack Leslie Youth Environmental Grant for her "Little Bee Helper's Pollinator Pit Stop." Now she's leading 60 Grade 1 kids at Battalion Park in making seed bombs.
Kamila, Battalion Park School · grant recipient & pollinator advocate.
Read the story →Every weeknight from November through March, a rotating crew of volunteers floods two sheets of ice, mops the skate shack, and keeps the lights on till 9:30. That's 94 nights last year.
Rink volunteers · the reason the ice is always ready when you get there after dinner.
About the rink →Signal Hill Community Centre
489 Sienna Park Drive SW
Once a year the whole neighbourhood lands in the same field for the same reason, because it's nicer when the people next door become the people you know.
All ages · Free · No RSVP · Rain date: Sunday, June 21
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.
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 →Hockey rink. Pickleball courts. Beach volleyball. Basketball. Members get priority every season, before bookings open to the general public.
Browse facilities →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.
Our community newsletter, events before they go public, city notices, local business spotlights, what the board is up to. Direct to your inbox.
Neighbour Day vendor booths. Cleanup Day shifts. Easter Hunt spots. Skate Night tickets. Members get early access before the general rush.