Community News

Cascades residents are invited to our Annual BBQ.  

Date:  September 14, 2024

Time:  12:00 Noon - 2:00 PM

Location:  Cascades Entrance - Royal Oak Way

Meet the neighbours, Board Members and enjoy end of summer wrap-up

Food, beverages.   For the kids, Face Painting, Balloonists and Rock Painting. 

Come Early.  

Noon to 2:00 PM across from the Lighthouse in our park on Royal Oak Way. Meet and mingle, bring your kids for some fun activities and join us for hot dogs and hamburgers. Come and have a peek at some new ideas your Board has been working on.

The Cascades in Royal Oak Resident's Association (CRORA) management company is changing their name from Condominium First to First Residential.  Newsletter and additional information in the PDF link below:

https://crora.box.com/shared/static/npheyfdz49kea5og359o.pdf

We just got an update from our Landscaping company: "Next week we will start edging and cultivating of the shrub beds and will put in the annuals at the Cascade entrance beside the water fall. Other maintenance work like mowing, trimming, watering of annuals, removal of garbage and general keep up will as per schedule."

Our waterfall is finally up and running. Sorry for the delay from the originally planned Monday start up. They ran into breaker issue trying to get the pumps started. Landscaping will be completed shortly and I'll post a timeline as soon as we get it from the landscapers. For all of you wondering why everything was delayed so much this year, it is directly tied to our investigation to take over the maintenance of the city parks in our area. These parks are horribly maintained and make up the vast majority of our parks. After the very lengthy process of getting bids through the city it became apparent that we would not be able to do this without significantly increasing area fees. We then had to initiate the tender process again for a new scope of work and we selected the new landscaping company a few weeks ago. They just finished major repairs on the waterfall (cracks, electrical, pumps) and all of the park irrigation systems and are about to start the plants and cleanup up of all of the beds. The neglect by the past landscaping company and the poor construction of most of the infrastructure by the original developer meant we had to spend a lot of time this year to make things right. We'll have more detailed info coming in July with our Q2 newsletter. Thanks for your patience.

Hello RRROCA Members,
We have a few upcoming events that are just around the corner and we wanted to share the details with you!

PARADE OF GARAGE SALES

We are having our Annual Parade of Garage Sales this month and hope you are participating this year! We had over 85 homes participate last year; let's see if we can increase that number this year!  

The "Parade" runs Friday June 15 (6-9pm), Saturday June 16 & Sunday June 17 (8am - 1pm both days). If you would like to have a garage sale during these dates, please e-mail your address and the day(s) you are participating to events@rrroca.org so you are included in the advertising efforts to help draw traffic to your home.

STAMPEDE BREAKFAST

YEEHAW!!  Put on your boots, grab your cowboy hat and come celebrate with your community! Our 4th annual Stampede Breakfast is set for Saturday July 7th, 9am-12pm at the North West Family Church (10307 Eamon Rd). Come join us for breakfast, live music, and fun activities for the kids (face painting, bouncy houses, lots more)!! Looking forward to seeing you there!


Also, we are always looking for volunteers to help out in our community. If this interests you, let me know by emailing events@rrroca.org. Please mention if you want to help with a particular event or participate on the events committee (help plan future events). Please indicate the amount of time you can offer (maybe you want to offer your help ongoing or a one time event). Would love to hear from you!

Don't forget to Like us on FACEBOOK (Rocky Ridge Royal Oak Community Association) or follow us on TWITTER (RRROCA1) to stay connected with the latest updates in our community.

Thank you
Shannon
RRROCA Events Coordinator
events@rrroca.org

Good news! Looks like the repairs should be done shortly and if all goes well we'll have our waterfall up and running on Monday!

Hi,

Can we please support a middle school for our community. I got this thru an email from a good friend. Here is a link for online Petition:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/support-the-royal-oak-rocky-ridge-middle-school.html

Signing the petition will not take more than 1 minute.

Thanks,

This proposed off-leash area will not proceed. A majority of stakeholders strongly opposed the re-designation of the existing green space to an off-leash area for several reasons, including the loss of existing recreational uses of the green space and irresponsible pet owners.

http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/ Parks/Pages/Locations/ Off-leash-areas-proposed-new-an d-improved-locations.aspx

Are you concerned about weeds invading your property from neighbouring areas?

Several residents have expressed concern about weeds invading their carefully maintained properties. Can you identify weeds and differentiate them from benign native plants? CRORA is partnering with the Rocky Ridge Royal Oak Community Association to host an invasive weeds information session this spring. If you are interested, please let us know.