We are accepting registrations for fall classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Children must be three years old and toilet trained by August 31, 2008.

Gold Bar Preschool is a non-profit parent co-operative society that offers a creative and stimulating program for preschool aged children. We are a member of the Edmonton Preschool Association.

Our thematic programming, which includes yoga, crafts, games, songs, stories, workbooks and free play, will help foster important developmental skills.

Please call Ashley at 462-1963 for registration information.

For more information about Playschool download this PDF!

Once again our two communities came together to enjoy a beautiful fun day at the Fulton Community League Hall. Many hotdogs were consumed by all! The great weather brought out many families who enjoyed horse drawn wagon rides, great skating at the rink, snowshoeing in the park and visiting with neighbors that perhaps they didn’t see as much over the COLD winter this year.
This event would have not happened without the joint participation of both the Fulton & Gold Bar Community Leagues. Special mention goes out to Trudy…can you say Cotton Candy? (from Gold Bar) and Gayleen (from Fulton) who both volunteer for the social programming at their perspective leagues. Without these girls, we would not have any social gatherings or social programming.
Also I’m sending out Kudos’ to John (Gold Bar), Sherri & her son (Fulton), Dale (Fulton), Dave (Fulton), Rodger (from the City of Edmonton), and of course anyone else who pitched in and helped out. So are you disappointed that you may have missed this event?
Monica Scaber
Newsletter Director
Fulton Place Community League

Trudy’s note: We collected a huge box of food bank donations – thank you! The winners of the Family Movie Night baskets were Jonathan Hood and Elizabeth Gandy.

On behalf of the Gold Bar Building Committee here is an update of our year in 2007, and our plan for 2008.

Last year our building committee got off to a great start visiting & reviewing many different halls in Edmonton. We talked to groups both within and outside the community regarding our ideas, and we found we had support from North Seera, a Southeast non-profit hockey program for kids in our area. They are interested in working with us in a new hall. With the help of the community executive – especially Marshall Chemy, our Hall Director – we got our existing hall back into rentable shape by making some much needed roof repairs, as leaking was becoming a serious problem. Our goal is to keep our existing hall going as long as we can while we work through the process of developing a new hall.

There are a great number of people from outside our community that are helping us with our hall. We hired architects Sherri Shorten and Wes Sims who are working closely with us. We also have had a tremendous amount of help from Rodger Davidson, our Community Recreation Coordinator, and a growing number of people from the City of Edmonton.

Last spring many of you will recall the design charette where we had great participation in working on initial ideas for the site and the hall. Our architects took our ideas forward and in the fall they presented us with a new hall design. In November these were presented to the community at a forum that was extremely well attended and which gave us alot of valuable community input. We set the location for the rink in a revised site plan. Its new location along the north boundary of the site is important in several ways: 1) it will open up the middle of the site for other uses, and 2) it will underpin the hall location along the west boundary of the property.

As we look ahead to 2009 we expect to see the hall layout and initial budget finalized, and begin the process of finding the money we need to build our hall. We are going to work as hard as we can at getting public money through grants from the various levels of government to help pay for our building. We are also asking our community to step up and be a part of the fund raising process. This now is our biggest hurdle to overcome, but with your support I am confident that we will reach our goal.

We have posted the initial site plan as presented at the community forum in November (click on the link below), and will continue to post information on what we are doing and where we are at in our planning process. If you have any feedback we are always interested to hear your opinions.

The Gold Bar Community sign is a valuable tool to keep our community informed on events in our neighbourhood and school. If you have any community related news you need advertised, please don't hesitate to call. The sign is posted on a first-come, first served basis, so please send your information early to make sure you get the dates you want. I can accomodate 5 lines with 16 letters (spaces count) per line.

The sign is now also available to community league members who would like to post personal messages such as birthdays and anniversaries, etc. There is a $15.00 charge for a three day message.

Please send your information via e-mail (subject line: goldbar sign) to Stacey at littleherbrik@shaw.ca or call at 465-0486.

Come on Gold Bar! Let's show this city how much we care about our community!

Join in by volunteering to be a Block Captain and adopt-a-block in your neighborhood. Adopted areas can be the block where you live (including sidewalks, boulevards, and alley ways), a school yard, or a neighborhood park. Show your civic pride and help keep Edmonton Litter-free!