WRA Spring 2025

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!

THANK YOU SO MUCH WOLSELEY!

With your community generosity we were able to raise funds jointly for our community centre & our neighbourhood association.

We had lots of fun at our first ever Trivia Night!

Stay tuned for more neighbourhood fun!

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.

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!

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!

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

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!"

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

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!

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!

Wolseley Residents' Association published this page in Wolseley Residents' Blog 2025-03-25 23:00:35 -0500