Neighborhood Party Honours Community Builders, Celebrates Plaque Installations with Food and Music

Please join us on Saturday, May 9th at 2pm on the NW corner of 99th St. and 86th Ave. We will unveil the plaque to honour the Carolyn and Butch Nutter family and their commitment to our community. We will officially name the small park there “Nutters’ Corner” in celebration of their work building our strong and vibrant neighbourhood. We will then walk together to Tubby Bateman Park to continue the celebration with music and food.

After settling into the Strathcona neighbourhood in the 1970s, the Nutters became activists for our community. They worked relentlessly organizing groups to save ‘downtown’ Whyte Avenue, protect the green-space along the CN Rail Tracks, to ensure a freeway would not go through the Mill Creek Ravine, to create the Strathcona ARP to preserve family oriented housing, and to aid the funding and constructing of the community league building.

After the unveiling of the plaque at Nutters’ Corner, we will continue across 99th St. to W.C. “Tubby” Bateman Park, at 9703-88 Av for the music and food part of the event.   We have several different music groups lined up to perform who also represent different age groups and different types of music:  from child performers to 20 somethings to people over 50; from fiddlers to rock and roll to folk and a big jazz band.  This event will have something for everyone and will help to connect neighbours and community members who may not know each other now but will definitely feel more closely connected after the celebrations.

The organizers are looking for kids for a talent show .  Contact Jan  at 780-433-2490 or at jan66olson@gmail.com.

For more information or to help with set-up, contact Peigi Rockwell at peigi.rockwell@gmail.com