Happy June to all in our great community of Boyle Street from your board at the Boyle Street Community League!

We’re pleased to roll out our new website design at www.boylestreetcl.com. We’ve got a new look, an updated calendar, and you can join up or volunteer online. We will be posting all the news that fits! We also have a Facebook page at www.facebook.com/BoyleStreetCommunityLeague. Also, anyone can sign up for our e-mail community updates (send an e-mail request to info@boylestreetcl.com). We’re very excited to have our social media presence updated, with the help of our volunteers and fraME Communications!

The Boyle Street Community League AGM was April 30, and our new board is: Candas Jane Dorsey, President; Hijal De Sarkar, Vice President; Jordan Reiniger, Treasurer; Martina Iseghohi, Secretary; and Directors Alex Iseghohi, Debra Thompson, Ron Allen, and Sharon Mvundara. The board meets monthly, and community members are always welcome at board meetings. This month our meeting is June 21 5-7 p.m. (further dates TBA – check our calendar).

We continue to be involved with the City in dealing with the Community Centre takeover. We will be meeting with a negotiator in June, and will keep you posted. Feel free to get in touch with the office or board members for updates, and check out our website or Facebook page. If you have opinions about the issue, feel free get in touch for more information, to post on our Facebook page, or write to the Mayor and Council (please send a copy to us, if you do!)

We’re also involved in many consultations on the community’s behalf, including the Jasper Avenue renewal, Downtown Public Places, and questions as diverse as new developments, liquor store regulations, supervised injection sites, public washrooms, community wellness, the community walking tour map from Walkable Edmonton, and Dawson or other parks. Remember that construction begins on Kinistinâw Park this year, making the Quarters a construction-heavy zone in our community.

Summer programs are ramping up at the Community Center in Boyle Street Plaza. We have the wonderful Piu Yum Recreational Club (karaoke, dancing and exercise), basketball camps, drop-in badminton and floor hockey, girls-only volleyball, kids’ and adults’ martial arts, the Musical Mamas, Indigenous drumming, and more. We also will have a green shack in our community at St. Theresa School.

Check our calendar! If you don’t see what you want, we welcome people to volunteer to put together community programming. We’re definitely looking for volunteers to work on our summer “coffee on the patio” drop-ins, and other ideas have been floated such as community cafés and board game nights, a couple of community BBQs or a movie night. Call the office at (780) 426-9264, e-mail us at info@boylestreetcl.com, talk to board members, or drop by the Community Centre in Boyle Street Plaza to leave your name at the front desk. Come bring us your ideas! With your involvement, our summer in Boyle Street will be even better!

Looking forward to seeing you this summer!

– Your BSCL Board