Submitted by Marzena Czarnecka
Hello, Sunnyhillers! Guess who’s 40 this year? That’s right. Our little Co-op started housing Calgarians 40 years ago this coming August. So we are going to celebrate with a fabulous party.
Coming? Want to help out? Fabulous. Here’s what needs to be done:
RIGHT AWAY:
1. SAVE THE DATE: Mark Saturday August 18 down on your calendars and plan your summer holidays around it. You don’t want to miss our fortieth, do you?
2. INVITE PAST CO-OP MEMBERS! In touch with old neighbours? Let them know about the party! They are most welcome.
Here is the link to our Facebook Event
And here's a poster you can email to your friends.
3. INVITE VIPS! Members expressed interest in having our mayor, MLA, alderperson and perhaps other VIPs at the event. We also need to send invites to SACHA, HSCA and our other community partners. If you want to take the lead on this, please email Marzena ASAP.
4. WRITE AN ARTICLE about our history and birthday party for the HSCA Newsletter and the SACHA and CHF publications.
5. PREPARE & SEND A PRESS RELEASE to the local media about our birthday, our 40th, and the importance of cooperative and affordable housing. I can work with you on this and provide you with the press contact list – but I’d sure appreciate if someone else took the lead on this.
SOON (in July)
6. TIME CAPSULE! We have Sunnhill Time Capsules from 1988, 1998 and 2008. Let’s prepare a fabulous one for 2018! I need someone to take the lead on this and prepare the container, contact members about ideas of what they could put in the capsule, etc. Almost anything goes here—but we need someone to take charge of this project and make it happen.
7. BOOK MUSICIANS AND ENTERTAINMENT! Or at least bring a ghetto blaster, iPod, or karoake machine. If you want music at the party—please raise your hand and provide it.
8. BOOK THE BOUNCY HOUSE FOR THE KIDS! Self-explanatory, right? Right. Call me and I’ll tell you what to do.
IN A BIT (early August)
9. REMIND YOUR NEIGHBOURS that we’re having a party—we need a volunteer to deliver posters and another volunteer to call members.
10. INVITE NEIGHBOUR-NEIGHBOURS—we need a volunteer to spread the word to our surrounding community and our out-of-coop neighbours by posting in our Sunnyside Facebook group etc.
11. GO GROCERY SHOPPING! What’s party without snacks and booze? If you can coordinate and buy our food, raise your hand!
12. ORDER OR MAKE A GIANT CAKE! Self-explanatory, right? But someone’s gotta buy it / make it.
THE DAY OF (AUGUST 18)
13. BOUNCY HOUSE DELIVERY: Someone needs to be on-site at noon to arrange for the delivery of the Bouncy House.
14. BOUNCY HOUSE SUPERVISION: We need parents to take shifts making sure the kids are safe.
15. OTHER GAMES? If you want more fun and games for the kidlets—we’re all for it—but we need you to take the lead on organizing and supervising these.
16. OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER FOR THE DAY: Love taking pictures? Good. Have we got a job for you! Who’s gonna do it?
17. SET UP: We will need extra tables and chairs in the Common. Can you be the muscle that provides them? Awesome—raise your hand!
18. FIREWOOD: We can’ t have a firepit without firewood! Can you buy and deliver the wood for the 18th? Thanks!
MORE IDEAS?
We want to make this a fabulous day for all of us and our community, so if there is something you want to do to celebrate our 40th—come tell us you want to take the lead on it, and we will see how much $ in the party budget we have to support it.
FULL DISCLOSURE: If there is an idea you have, but you aren’t willing to do the work to see it through—it probably won’t happen.
To help make the party fabulous, please contact Marzena at 587.998.7101, paddleink@gmail.com or through FB message.
And see you on August 18 (and before that at the Stampede Breakfast!).
For the Social Committee,
Marzena Czarnecka