Welcome to Wolseley Autumn 2025!

Recent updates from your Wolseley Residents' Association:

Wolseley Autumn is finally here... join us a we begin another great season of events & activities in our community!

The Wolseley Residents Association & R.A. Steen C.C. would like to invite you to celebrate an extended spooky season with us! Join us at RA Steen Community Centre Saturday, November 1st, 5 - 8 PM for a Pumpkin Patch Parade -gathering our neighbours & our pumpkins together! Pumpkins will be set up in the courtyard at 5 PM where we'll light them up & admire them all together as a community! RA Steen will be open for washrooms & canteen goodies. We'll even have a warming fire! At 8 PM folks'll have an opportunity from Hinterland Nature CO-Op to compost & haul away pumpkins the same evening. Please do not drop off pumpkins once the event is over.

Membership: Please reach out to us should you want to get involved on our Board or as part of our individual Committees!  Come join us in doing some great community building!  We have several open positions on the WRA board available this season  Vice Chair Secretary Various Committee spots Succession planning for next season ongoing too! Please reach out if you are interested in getting involved with the WRA at the Board or at a Committee level.

Community Sponsors Our Wolseley School Tree Planting Initiative - Friday, September 19, 2025:  Thank- You from Wolseley School: "We received $1000 from Belgian Alliance Credit Union, $300 from Armstrong and Small, $300 from Wolseley Wellness, & $200 from Eric Neumann Realtor to plant these wonderful trees in our school yard. All [of the planting project was] organized by Wolseley Residents' Association! We are so lucky to have so many great community organizations that care about our future. A BIG shoutout to Armstrong and Smallwho did the planting."

Welcome to Wolseley Spring 2025!

Recent updates from your Wolseley Residents' Association:

We've been dreaming in green for a while now... join us this season with all the activities & news we have about our community!

First Garden Workshop of 2025: 10 Basics of Square Foot Gardening

Wednesday, March 26 · 7 - 9pm CDT

Join us Wednesday, March 26th, 7 - 9 P.M. at Robert A Steen Community Centre - 980 Palmerston Avenue: This is a FREE event & no registration is required. This workshop features master gardener & composter Mick Manfield who'll cover the 10 core elements of square foot gardening, show some examples of square foot gardening layouts, & more! Be there, & be prepared to learn gardening in a square!

WRA Housing Committee: Radon Ready Seminar

Join us Thursday, April 10th, 2025 6:30 P.M. at R.A. Steen Community Centre for an informative workshop about radon & its impact on health.

Free event no need to register!

Wolseley Residents’ Association Housing Committee is pleased to host Sandy Hutchison, Regional Radiation Specialist with Health Canada, & Pam Warkentin, Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists (CARST). They will provide expert insights on radon, how it affects indoor air quality, & what homeowners — particularly those in older homes — need to know about mitigation.

Vimy Victory Garden Application Winners for Summer Season 2025 will be announced SOON! 

Applications for raised bed allotments at our Vimy Victory Garden in Vimy Ridge Park are closed & our lucky lottery winners were contacted March 21st, 2025.

Vimy Victory Garden welcomes Allgardening skill levels!

Applicants are selected in a lottery-styledraw for 22 total available beds.

Priority is given to community members who live in proximity to Vimy Ridge Park & those without access to green space for gardening.

The allotment fee is only $25 for the season which includes access to everything you need to start your own garden plot: - seeds, plants, soil, water, compost, & gardening tools!

Congratulations Gardeners! 

For all prospective gardeners, next season's allotment applications open up January of 2026.

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Save the Date for our Trees Committee Dutch Elm Disease Seminar - April 2025! Join us Tuesday, April 22nd, 6:30 pm for an everything you need to know about Dutch Elm Disease treatment, prevention & more! SAVING OUR ELMS, EARTH DAY, APRIL 22nd, 2025 In the heart of our Wolseley community there are about 150 elm trees on Westminster & Wolseley Avenues alone! Dutch Elm Disease kills 10 to 15 of these trees -EACH YEAR. At this rate, in 10 years, there could be no Elm trees left on either of our primary streets... WRA Tree Committee's next neighbourhood project focusses on preserving these avenues, our gateways to the neighbourhood, & heart of our community! We've all seen the "orange dot of death"  on too many elms in our neighbourhood. With recent developments in tree care, there is now something that can be done! Preserving as many mature elm trees as possible will allow newly planted trees to mature beneath a flourishing canopy of majestic elms. The City of Morden, the neighbourhood of Glenelm & our own Wolseley residents on Newman Street have all had great success.  Come learn more at our WRA event & see how you too can save your street's elm trees!

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Save The Date!: Wolseley Spring Clean 2025 Join us Saturday, May 10th, 2025, from 1 pm - 4 pm at either end of our community as we prepare Wolseley's largest parks - Vimy Ridge Park - Preston Ave. between Ethelbert & Canora Streets, or Omand's Park -Wolseley Ave. at Raglan Rd. for spring season! Make it a date with family, friends & neighbours. Come help some of our community's largest urban forest spaces thrive. Gloves, bags & refreshments provided! See you there!

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Wolseley Construction Updates

Wolseley Avenue Update City of Winnipeg Engage Website: "Construction of the Wolseley Avenue neighbourhood greenway between Raglan Road & Maryland Street is now complete! You might have seen tubes on Wolseley Avenue & Westminster Avenue in October 2024. These tubes collect traffic information, like how fast cars are going & how many people are using the road. This will help determine whether the new traffic calming elements are helping us meet our technical criteria for an all ages & abilities route. We also want to ask people in the neighborhood how they feel about the changes. The community & stakeholder engagement we previously planned for November 2024 is delayed because construction took longer than anticipated. We want to make sure you’ve had enough time to fully experience the changes, so we’ll come back to ask for your feedback in late spring 2025" Check the Engage Winnipeg Link Here

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Omand's Bridge Update
City of Winnipeg Engage Website:

 "We’re moving to the next stage of planning for a new bridge and accessible pathways. On December 12, 2024 Council approved the Report of the Standing Policy Committee on Public Works(External link) to start planning & designing a new pedestrian bridge & accessible pathways.

The next step is hiring a consultant to work on the preliminary design of the Omand Park Pedestrian/Cycle Bridge replacement.

We used what we heard from you to help define the scope of this contract. Because of your input, we are asking prospective consultants to commit to:

• Improving accessibility
• Protecting the natural environment
• Addressing flood risks

Once we award the contract, we will work with the consultant to prepare design options. We will bring these design options to you later this year for feedback.

Sign up for project updates, and we’ll let you know when engagement begins!"

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SAVE THE DATE: WRA AGM - MONDAY, JUNE 9th, 2025

Join us Monday, June 9th, 7 pm at McClure Place - 533 Greenwood Place 

Guest Speaker TBA

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Thank you again to our Winter Trivia sponsors this past season!

Thank you to all of our Winter Trivia & Winter Carnival 2025 Silent Auction sponsors & supporters who made our event a success!

We are so blessed in Wolseley to have such a wonderfully generous commerce community who loves & truly supports our neighbourhood. 

We encourage all Wolseleyites shopping locally to give our donors a shout out when you pop into their establishment. Be sure to tell them how fabulous they are! 

 

Across The Board

Armstrong & Small Eyesore centre

Bonnie Day

Balance Jiujitsu

Charisma of India

Decadence Chocolates

Drop in Dance

Faspa

Handsome Daughter

Home Run Sports

Leatherworks

The Nook Dinner

Papa Ed's Pizza

The Pourium Wine Store

Prairie Sky Books

Prairie Velo

Rae & Jerry's 

Shorty's Pizza

Slices's Pizza

Tall Grass Bakery

Toad Hall

Thom Bargen

Verde Juice Bar

Waltz on Barber

Wolseley Wool

Winnipeg Blue Bombers

Winnipeg Goldeyes

Winnipeg Jets

Please connect with us if you would like to fund & support our community events. We are always accepting sponsors & donor proposals!

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Reminder - Spring Activities in our Neighbourhood's Robert A Steen Community Centre are in full spring swing!

-Check out all the activities for kids', teens', adults' & seniors happening every day down at "the club". 

Check out their website here!

Welcome Wolseley Autumn 2024!

Follow up from our First Wolseley Great Burdock Pull 2024 at Omands Park -a Huge Success!

Kudos again to our Trees Committee & Our Greenspace & Parks Committee, our Wolseley Community Gardens Committee, the handful of eager Wolseleyite neighbours, along with The City Of Winnipeg for helping to facilitate a truly successful community pull.

Our city specialist helped with demonstrating safe extraction & disposal of the invasive species -explaining the serious need to do so in our urban forest, while our Trees & Greenspaces Committees supplied gloves, bags, shears & snacks to our hardworking volunteers.

In only TWO short hours we collected an astounding SIX extra-large sized bags of of burdock along the Wolseley Ave. | Raglan Rd. entrance to the park & southeast side of our Omand's Creek!

Please message us if you care about the health of our Wolseley Urban forest& would like to play a role in ensuring the continued health of our community's trees & parks!

The Vimy Victory Garden produced an abundance of produce! The allotment beds are being cared for by 22 individual families from the community. Produce from the two big community beds was recently donated to Harvest Manitoba -thanks to help from Broadway-First Faith Community who help with one of the beds. Our fruit orchard also produced ripe fruit!

On Saturday, July 20th, the Wolseley Community Garden was a tour stop for the Manitoba Master Gardeners' annual garden tour which saw over 100 visitors. The purpose of the tour was to provide visitors with inspiration for their own gardens & to learn about environmentally friendly gardening practices.

Visitors are encouraged to take a self-guided tour & enjoy the interpretive signage describing the various garden nodes throughout the park

Vimy Victory Garden is in its fourth growing season - established in 2021 by the Wolseley Community Gardens' Committee (a sub-committee of the Wolseley Residents Association), &located in Vimy Ridge Memorial Park, the garden features 22 allotment raised garden beds, alongside two raised community garden beds &a native plant pollinator garden. The park is also home to an interspersed orchard, planted with apples, cherries, & plum trees, as well as berry bushes, all being tended to by community members!

Have a wonderful Wolseley Season! 

Autumnal Wolseley Greenway Updates

Wolseley Avenue now has a permanent reduced speed limit of 30km/ hr in effect 24 hours per day, 7 days a week!

The curb extensions & new light beacons (RRFBs) have been installed; the main items left to install before November are the 11 speed tables along Wolseley Avenue.

Construction of the Wolseley Avenue greenway between Raglan Road & Walnut Street began in July. Once construction is complete, the City of Winnipeg will conduct a survey through their engagement process. 

Check the City of Winnipeg's website for more information on the Wolseley Avenue greenway. The "Phase 4" folder under the "Documents" contains detailed maps.

Lipton Street Renewal Progress

We see signs of normal street activity stirring up on Lipton Street!

Looks like residents of both Lipton blocks from Palmerston- Wolseley & Wolseley-Westminster have regained full access to their newly restored street, front parking & all!

We are happy to report broken sidewalk sections, road pavement, & boulevards are repaired!

Rumour has it even the infamous unofficial Lipton Street traffic bump (ie. sunken road section) between the Palmerston-Wolseley block has been safely corrected!!

...We are so happy the whole street was finally finished before the first snowfall! Kudos to the construction teams & the City of Winnipeg Public Works for getting this done quickly! -We especially appreciate the care workers took with our community's Wolseley Urban Forest! 

Huge Thank you to our sponsors!  

Big thanks goes out to our local credit union Belgian Alliance Credit Union at 1117 Portage Avenue for their donation!

Thank you again to Tall Grass Prairie Bakery, a veritable Wolseley institution at 859 Westminster Avenue for their enduring support!

And of course, always a GREAT shout out to our City Of Winnipeg for their continued financial support, especially towards funding many of the endeavors & activities made possibly through our Wolseley Community Gardens Committee!

Generous financial supporters from our community, along with countless volunteer hours from our neighbours, enable us to provide exceptional programming, keep our community regularly informed, & continue to act as a positive voice for our residents

Hello Wolseley neighbour!

We've lots of news for you as our community rolls into Spring...

First, thank you all who joined in the Vimy Ridge Park Cleanup Day. We appreciate your commitment to keeping our neighbourhood clean & safe!

 Garden Box Planning Workshop

Monday, May 13th, 2024 at 6:30 pm

Interested in growing your own food in a garden box, but not sure where to begin? Our workshop will teach key concepts to begin growing your own organic crops successfully!

We will cover ways to maximize your harvest; extend your growing season; & reduce the risk of potential disease & pests.

This is a free event & no registration is required.

If weather is unfavourable, we'll meet on Zoom:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vf-mgrzMpG9P08IY6OtfQTCe09HJNVJ3z#/registration

Orchard Planting - 11:00am-1:00pm Saturday, May 25th at
Vimy Ridge Park

On the topic of tree planting, Wolseleyite & tree advocate Erna Buffie published a recent op-ed on tree bylaws that's well worth the read:

Wolseley Avenue is now a Neighbourhood Greenway

At Winnipeg's City Council meeting on April 25th, councillors voted in favour of the Standing Policy Committee on Public Works' recommendation: "Wolseley Avenue be designated a permanent neighbourhood greenway with a reduced speed limit (30 km/hr) in effect 24 hours per day, seven days per week, on a permanent basis."

Many have already noticed the sign changes!

Wolseley Ave is now one of fourteen Neighbourhood Greenways 
with a posted speed limit of 30 km/hr.

Watch for our mid-June Park & Tree Meeting date
in Vimy Ridge Park

Our parks & garden folks have been busy engaging with community to dream up enhancements to Vimy, Omand & Aubrey Parks while securing grants for new trees.

We hope you'll join us in June to look at park plans; share your ideas; & learn more how you can save & plant your own piece of our Wolseley urban forest. 

Did you know BURDOCK needs removing in Omand Park?

During our recent excursion with a City of Winnipeg Naturalist, we learned the number one priority for our tree passionate volunteers is to cut Burdock out of Omand Park!

Two to three years of culling will allow many more trees & shrubs to thrive.

It's going to be hard work. Good tools & clothing are necessary, -the burrs are sticky & sharp! Our results will be well worth it, as we work together to benefit nature in our community!

Watch for the date to join our end of August 
Community Burdock Removal Event! 

Passionate about Wolseley trees?

Concerned about the status of our urban forest? -

Join our Green team to lead our Trees Committee! We could do so much more for our urban forest with more dedicated volunteers!

WRA Annual General Meeting 2024 & Public Lecture June 10

Please join us Monday, June 10th
McClure Place - 533 Greenwood Place
AGM  - 7 pm 
Public Lecture  - 7:30 pm,

Lecturer Dr. Gerald Friesen, Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Manitoba & best selling author, will review the career of Colonel Wolseley, the nature of his expedition, & the impact of the occupying force he led.

See you all there!

Heads up neighbours... the City of Winnipeg wants your input on the Wolseley to Downtown Walk Bike Project Phase 4.

The Garden committee has two events to enjoy this month.

Join us 7:00 Tuesday, April 23, 2024 on Zoom.to learn about Naturalistic Planting Design. This is a free event for all.

Join us for the annual Vimy Ridge Park cleanup.

BACU Family Shred Day