Wednesday evening of June 5, 2024 – all three staff members of the MCA Centre were at the Fringe Coffee Shop. One of our Board Directors was hosting an art exhibition.
The centre was busy with Alien Inline skating workshops. The instructor called, “We got most kids out to their parents’ cars, but the field and parking lot are a lake.” And the three of us went, “uhhm, huh?” And then the sirens kicked in all around us.
Plans for green spacing our old playground area were wiped out. Literally. But we were lucky, very lucky, when you consider the waterfall coming off 16th towards the MCA centre’s front door. The parking lot drain kept a perfect spiral. The water was 18” away and then the wave just swept around us. We had a little infiltration on our structure’s edges, but our sixty-year-old community association building held strong. It most certainly deserves our care and upkeep for many years to come.
What we lost, because of limited or no access from June well into the fall, was our ability to offer programming to our community. Your community. Our workshops and reasons to meet for our seniors, parents, youth. It’s part of what we do as a community centre.
It was our 60th birthday last summer. We had plans. Huge plans. Fun stuff. Outdoor, family-friendly stuff. As event organizers, we do our best to cover for water, even frozen water, from Cowtown’s clouds above, but we were not prepared for it coming out of our adjacent roadways!
It is our 61st birthday this summer. On Saturday, August 16 we are hosting a backyard party at the Centre for our members and guests; there will be a little live music, and a lot of smiles, we hope. Please drop by, bring your lawn chair. The event will go from noon-ish until nine-ish. The Bowness Lions are grilling up some smokies, dogs, and burgers. Join us!
Spike
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