Glendale Elects New Board
Here are the results of elections for the 2020-2021 Glendale/Glendale Meadows Community Association Board.
President: Chris Welner
First Vice-President: Amanda Saigeon
Second Vice-President: Lee Dowd
Treasurer: Terry Craigmile
Secretary: Veronika Duska
Members-at-Large: Membership Co-ordinator: Monika Smith; Social Convener: Allison Swelin; Business Liaison: Mike Bussoli; Thumper Editor: Kendra Horosko.
Members at Large: Jennelle Inlow, Jim Kelly, Joe Ross, Mary Lynn Bryan, Keegan Janke, Megan McCormick, Vicki Gubic, Karl Fleurke, Mike Bussoli.
Past President: Paul McCormick
This issue of the Glendale Thumper is all about people. The people who step forward to make our community the Best Little Town in The Big City.
You are going to meet Kendra Horosko, our new Thumper editor, long-time community volunteer Grant MacArthur, and the entire roster of volunteers who stepped forward to serve our community for the next year. There is also news from the Glendale Community Preschool that is back up and running in our newly renovated classroom.
Our community board held its 2020 Annual General Meeting in September at the community hall. Social distancing protocols were adhered to and several residents joined the meeting online via Zoom. We are in the process of amending our bylaws so that regular meetings and AGMs may be held virtually if the need arises.
AGMs are where the community’s annual budget is voted on. Treasurer Terry Craigmile presented a budget that shows revenues will be down $31,000 (almost 30%) compared to 2019 because of COVID-19. With significantly reduced operating expenses, Glendale still faces a budgetary shortfall of almost $5,000 for this year. Finding ways to help offset that deficit will be the board’s top priority this year.
Grant MacArthur — Lifetime Volunteer Award
Long-time community volunteer Grant MacArthur was honoured at the AGM with a lifetime volunteer award. Grant is stepping back from the board after 13 years as an informed and active advocate for Glendale.
Grant was a member of the West LRT committee, instrumental in helping to voice residents’ concerns over the alignment and design of the C-Train line, and its impact on Glendale and surrounding neighbourhoods.
He has been the Glendale board’s civic affairs and traffic issues liaison, advising on development applications and how the revitalization of Glendale will look going forward. Grant currently serves as Glendale’s representative on the Westbrook Communities working group.
Grant has lived in Glendale since 1984, where he and his wife Suzanne Stalder raised their three children, Peter, Sarah, and Jennet.
“Glendale is a community that has pride in ownership,” says Grant. “There are changes coming to our neighbourhood, and I’ve tried to take a global approach to development here to make sure the sacrifices being made will have a long-term positive impact on the community.”
A technical writer and trainer at water resources for the City of Calgary, Grant retired in 2012 after 35 years service. His service to Glendale has been very much appreciated and we know you aren’t too far away when we need to call on your expertise.
Thanks Grant!
Meet Kendra, Your New Thumper Editor
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i, I’m Kendra Horosko, the new editor of the Glendale Thumper. Five years ago, my husband Chris and I moved into this community, and since then we have met some great friends/neighbours, taken part in many annual community events, including our famous Stampede Breakfast, and, after having our daughter Ophelia three years ago, family Halloween parties at the hall. This is my third year serving on the Community Association Board of Directors, and as a professional in non-profit communications, I’m excited to take on this new role.
I grew up in a small town in northern Alberta, and am frequently in awe at how much Glendale reflects the small town life that I grew up with, from the 1950s bungalow-lined streets, to the mature trees that create a perfect canopy over our many parks and green spaces. Not to mention the fact that people who grew up in this neighbourhood often stay, choosing to buy homes and raise their own families here.
I love how so many people in our community know their neighbours — not just in the next house over, but often right down the block. I love that my husband and I now think of our 80 and 90-year-old Italian neighbours as almost our own grandparents, stopping by frequently to catch up over a cup of coffee, shovel the snow off their walkway, or pick up a pizza they made for us from scratch. I love running into the biker crew of parents and their young children who do laps up and down Glenwood Avenue on warm summer evenings.
This newsletter is a platform for you to share what you love most about our community. Content from community members is welcome, anything from a picture and write-up introducing your pet, to a story of how support from neighbours over the past seven months has helped you through the COVID-19 pandemic. Have you recently added a little free library to your front yard? Do you have a great story and/or photos of something that happened in our neighbourhood 20, 30, or 40 years ago? These are the ki nds of stories that we would be happy to share with others. The kinds of stories that bring us together as a community.
If you do have content to submit, please send it to [email protected]. I look forward to meeting some new neighbours and learning about why you love Glendale.
