For Kensington Business owners and employees:
Please come out to our AGM
When: 6:15 on Tuesday, October 25, 2011.
Where: Carpenter’s Union Hall, 301 10th St NW
Why: Find our how we spend your tax dollars
Business meeting to approve budget and elect new board members with wine and snacks to follow.
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Sun and Salsa was a great success yet again this year. The weather was great and the streets were crowded. Thank you to all the Kensington businesses who made salsa, to Old Dutch for donating the salsa chips, to all our corporate sponsors and to our charities who helped on the day. Congratulations to Vero Bistro for winning the Best Salsa, most Creative Recipe and Best Presentation salsa awards and to BMO for winning the Battistella corporate challenge salsa trophy. Thank you also to our great charities who helped out on the day – Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer, Women in Insurance Conquering cancer and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
Problems with graffiti tags on your business? Read more here about the importance of reporting your graffiti tags and how to access free removal some months of the year.
There’s no Calgary like your Calgary.
It’s time to show off our great city. Calgary’s tourism industry is asking you to show your local pride by capturing your biggest Calgary WOW moment and sharing it with everyone. Snap your best moment – preferably one that evokes feelings of awe, excitement, and exhilaration – and upload it at capturewow.ca. Upload. Share. Repeat. All year long.
Find out why up! magazine ranked Calgary as the eighth Most Walkable City in Canada in 2010.
Really? Sprawl-gary as one of Canada’s most walkable cities? Isn’t this the place with a footprint bigger than New York City’s and less than a tenth of its population?
“A big surprise to non-Calgarians and a much-used treasure to locals, the city is blessed with the most extensive and well-maintained recreational path networks in the country,” says judge Chris Turner of the 700 car-free, multi-use kilometres that snake along the bucolic banks of the Bow and Elbow rivers.
Follow the pavement, gravel and woodchips to their farthest reaches to discover vital (if far-flung) links to natural jewels like Fish Creek Provincial Park, unmatched nationally for wildlife viewing within city limits. And it’s not just interchanges funded by tax dollars anymore.
A pedestrian bridge designed by Santiago Calatrava will link the inner city to the north bank of the Bow later this year, becoming an instant icon for the city’s commitment to pedestrians getting around car-free.
The new direction won’t be easy—the city has the most cars per capita in the country and few people (just over 5.5 per cent) walk to work. Still, the “Calgary Stop,” whereby a pedestrian merely leans towards the street and stops traffic, is a thing of beauty.
Hillhurst-Sunnyside, located north of the Bow River and northwest of downtown, is a downtown gem of walkability and its retail mix gets better by the month. The new Vendome Cafe, tucked onto a side street in Sunnyside, brings European cafe culture to the north bank of the Bow. Also located here is Kensington, a trendy part of town that boasts a movie house, great restaurants and bars.
This story was originally published in the May 2010 issue of up! magazine as part of the Canada’s Most Walkable Cities 2010 feature, profiling 10 of Canada’s most pedestrian-friendly urban centres.
NEW THIS SEASON - The first annual Christmas in Kensington Craft Show. On Saturday November 27th and Saturday December 4th w will be hosting over 20 unique and talented local craftpersons in the Carpenter’s Hall. The doors are open from 10 – 4 and admission is FREE! It all happens at 301 10th Street NW in the heart of Kensington
One of our favorite days of the year is almost here! Come down and visit us to get to some Christmas spirit and holiday cheer!
July 25 was one of the first really great summer days weather wise and 100,000 Calgarians came out in droves to enjoy a day of music, dancing, and salsa tasting. Competition was fierce among Kensington business owners and Mayoral Candidates as over 600 gallons of salsa was served up to festival goers. Vero Bistro swept the boards in all three categories – Best Salsa, Best Presentation and Most Creative Recipe. Ric McIver took home the Mayor’s Campaign Salsa trophy. Our charities, The Brenda Strafford Centre and Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids made over $23,000 selling salsa chips and water. Thank you to everyone who came out and bought chips from our charity chip stations to support our charities and thank you to all our wonderful Kensington businesses for once again making all that salsa!
The votes are all counted. The 2010 Sun and Salsa Festival – Salsa Competition Winners for Best Salsa, Best Presentation, Most Creative Recipe and Mayoral Campaign Salsa are
Best Salsa – Vero Bistro
Best Presentation – Vero Bistro
Most Creative Recipe – Vero Bistro
Mayor’s Campaign Salsa – Ric McIver
On June 5, 2010 Kesington residents, business owners and those who care showed up to keep Kensington beautiful. A big thank you to everyone that helped out. See photos from that great day here.