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 Everyone is welcome to attend our regularly scheduled board meetings!  Please call Terri at (604) 826-2692 to confirm that the meeting is proceeding as scheduled, and to let her know if you have something you would like to add to the agenda.  We welcome your attendance and encourage your participation! 

Upcoming Community Events!

Steelhead Annual Halloween Party

Saturday, October, 24th at 8 pm Adults only, please

Roger and Lana's Place
12011 Cardinal Street.

Dress up or down – prizes to be won!! Do keep in mind it could be chilly. Bring a finger food to share Bring a chair, a summer table and propane heater too. Our amazing DJ – Todd will be in attendance to take us into night. Bring a carved pumpkin, your sense of humour, some friends and $$$. The Set up party happens Friday night at 8pm – it is lots of fun too!!

Neufeld Farm's Winter Fundraiser

Locally owned and operated by Dan and Audrey Neufeld, their store is in Abbotsford and they have been in business for 20 years. Neufeld’s provides healthy and locally raised and prepared food, and the majority of the foods are from the Lower Mainland. The menu changes slightly according to season. The winter menu has many main courses and appetizers that are perfect for entertaining. They also have great pies and cookies from Dessertco (all you have to do is bake!) The SCA will receive 20% of the total cost of orders.

This can really add up fast! Give all your family and friends an order form and let's make this a success! Our August fundraiser with Neufelds raised just over $300.00!!

Forms will be at the mail box in early November so check the community board.

• Deadline for orders is Friday November 13.
• Call Kelly @ 604.814.3340 to arrange order form drop off.
• Delivery of food will be Saturday, November 21 @ 10 am at the Steelhead Hall

visit our fundraiser page for more Steelhead Community Fundraisers

Steelhead Summer Barbeque

The annual summer Steelhead party on August 8th was another success!! Once again, held at the sprawling homestead acreage of Barb & Al Thomas (thank-you!!!) where there was plenty of space for the events to unfold.

‘R U A STEELHEAD SURVIVOR’ and alumni day seemed to keep the masses giggling, bragging and cheating at the ‘games’. (Note: the cheaters were alumni and are not Steelhead Survivors.) Real Steelheaders know you can’t cheat your way through a winter like the ones we all have experienced in the last few years!! There were several generations of ‘old’ Steelheaders there to swap stories and help with the Steelhead Trivia. Fundraising efforts took place during the day to raise $$$ for the hall. A very generous donation of a sturgeon fishing trip from Jeff & Linda Sayewich of ‘Jeff’s Fishing Adventures’ and a 50/50 draw raised over $700.00! The fishing trip was won by the Tennants and 2nd prize of a ring was won by Trixie.

It was great to see lots of new comers to our vibrant, alive, juicy community.

Pixie & Trixie were heard to say, “See, I told you so – a community that plays together stays together”.

HILLBILLY HAPPY HOUR

Well, suey!!  Weren’t dat a pardy!! Pixie & Trixie fixed up quite a little shindig for the locals, way back on June 20th. And, boy oh boy did they come. Right outa the bush. The Honeybucks, Mudwallows, Hogsbottoms, Puddwackers and the rest of the ‘closely knit’ kin folk in Steelhead arrived in fine form!!

It was one of the first events held at our soon to be spectacular hall. The games and just pickin y’all’s name provided much entertainment. Working together in their clans to guess some Hillbilly trivia, proved to be daunting for some of them. The winners could be heard clear up to Stave Falls cheering as ‘jello shooters’ were handed out as their prizes.  The losers (poor sports) were overheard calling the winners ‘Cheap and Easy’.   For some of the crowd - cleaning up their language and arguing heavily with the judges as to the ‘7’ words, you could not say in public was challenging.  Winning clothes pegs if they avoided the ‘bad’ words proved Donovan was the cleanest mouth here in the hill country and the fastest hands at plucking ‘dirty mouthed’ peoples pegs.

Barbequed ‘Road Kill’ was served and the $$ raised helped replenish the building coffers.  It was a Great Event and the crowd left, shaking their heads in awe at the amazing creative minds of Pixie & Trixie and demanding more events!!

HELP KEEP STEELHEAD CLEAN!

Unfortunately the flyers, inserts and garbage currently being left in the box provided by a well meaning resident is overflowing and blowing around.  With no scheduled removal, the refuse overfills and attracts bears as well as being an eyesore.  We would LOVE to hear from anyone who would be interested in organizing a rotating schedule for volunteer daily garbage removal.  Please call 604-826-2692 if you can help!!  In the meantime, the bin will be removed.  Kindly take mail inserts, etc. home to recycle!!  Thank you!

For more information on how to make your junk mail disapear visit our dealing with junk mail information page

BURN SEASON

During the months of April and November, for 30 days, a three-foot fire is allowed for burning twigs, brush and branches.  Fire must not exceed 3 feet and must be hand fed.  There are no land clearing fires allowed any more in the District of Mission.

DID YOU KNOW...?

Did you know that if you cover your load when travelling to the District of Mission Landfill you will receive a $2 discount deducted from your total! Did you know that the District of Mission Landfill is initiating an incentive to recycle program, with a three-month grace period, where a 50% surcharge will be added to landfill fees where recyclables are determined to be in your dumpload, rather than separated and deposited in the recycling section of the landfill.

FYI    If you are hauling material in or out of your property, please be aware it is your responsibility to keep the road clean.  If you have a building permit, the the fee covers this service.

LOOK WHAT'S NEW

Another summer has come and gone and we're persevering to accomplish our goal of locking the community hall up before the snow flies. A special thank you to all who've donated their time and energy out of their busy lives. Hopefully this Fall will bring new faces out into the community allowing us to achieve our highly ambitious goal of a hall that will be used and enjoyed by all. See you soon!

Mark Diamond, SCA Chair, Steelhead Community Association

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Become an active member of the Steelhead Community so that you can better support your community and be respresented on various committees that affect you and your family.

What does a Steelhead Membership get you?

• Free antenna balls
• An opportunity to play a direct role in the Community Hall and other projects your Association is working on

Joining the Assocation is easy! The cost is $10/household per year. Simply complete the membership form which can be found here  and drop your membership form and $10 off in the Suggestion Box at the mailboxes on Cardinal Street or mail to the Steelhead Community Assocation, 12276 Campbell Street, Mission, BC  V4S 1L5

Cheques can be made payable to: Steelhead Community Assocation

Your show of support allows your voice to be heard and provides strength and value to our community foundation and is much needed!  Thank you!

Community Hall Update

Things have been moving along and a lot has been going on behind the scenes. We did receive our roofing materials over the summer as per the kind donation from Genstar, as well as Fraser Valley Building Supplies generously donating insulation for the roof and walls. We are extremely grateful for any and all donations during these tough economic times.

The roof is coming along nicely thanks to a dedicated group of volunteers, especially Al Georget and family whom we have turned to for their roofing installation expertise, not to mention the regulars who continually show up to lend a hand wherever and however they can. We could not do this without you! We are currently making arrangements for electrical energizing, and also working to arrange installation of water service to the hall. The windows, doors and siding are ready and paid for, and this will happily bring us to lock up, preferably before the snow flies.

As always, we are CONSTANTLY looking for new volunteers. Please don’t be shy about coming out to a work bee if you haven’t yet been to one. There is always something to do, for all people, from all corners of Steelhead, wherever your talent may lie! We’ll bet dimes to dollars you’ll even have some fun too! Looking forward to seeing you at the Hall!!!

“A committed team can overcome obstacles by pulling together and combining their individual strengths!”

Annual General Meeting

This year’s AGM was held on Tuesday June 23rd at the Community Hall site. About 20 Steelhead residents were present and we would like to thank everyone for attending this very important meeting. After the outgoing Board of Directors was introduced, guest speaker Mike Younie, Manger for Environmental Services for the District of Mission was introduced where he distributed copies of the proposed Environmental Charter for Mill Pond to offset damage within our community at the DoM landfill and kindly fielded questions from community members. The Charter information can be accessed through the DoM website. Thank you for your time Mr. Younie.

Next, the Board Report was read, giving a recap of the past year’s activities and progress. Copies of the 2009/09 Financial Statement were provided and read aloud to members, a Community Hall update was reported, and a lively interactive game ala Jeopardy style was put on by the Social Committee to recall the past year’s social activities.

AGM Update - Newly Elected Board Members

Elections to the Board were held to decide who would represent the community for the 2009/2010 year. We would like to thank one outgoing member of the board; Christina Hart sat as a Director on the SCA for three years and we would like to thank her for all her hard work, commitment and dedication to all things Steelhead.

Mark Diamond            Chair
Cindy Diamond          Co-Chair
Jana Tennant             Secretary
George Nickerson     Treasurer
Roger Pells                 Director
Lana Gowler               Director
Bonnie Harber            Director
Terri Cameron            Director
Jody Simon                 Social Convenor

COMMUNITY HALL UPDATE

We are pleased to report that there has been great progress on the hall with work bees running every weekend pretty much now that summer has arrived!  The roof is coming along with the metal soon to be up.  The siding is being dip-stained and will soon go up as well. The time leading up to the summer months was very busy with much being scheduled and accomplished.

It has indeed been a long haul, but again, your patience and faith in us is truly appreciated and your support is what keeps us going, and we’ll take all we can get, be that dropping by the hall with muffins for the crew, your words of encouragement, and as always, your help at any of the work bees will never be turned down. Keep watching the signboard or just drop in at any workbee-in-progress! Thanks again, and see you at the hall!

Teamwork divides the task
and multiplies the success!

Please watch the sign board on the corner of Cardinal Street and Dewdney Trunk Road for future work bees throughout the summer and fall.  We really need the communities support during this busy time for this project to succeed! 

BE A GOOD NEIGHBOUR

Please be a good neighbour and ensure that your own dogs are secured in your yards so that we all can enjoy the neighbourhood without worrying about encountering an unfriendly dog along the way.  Nothing can ruin a pleasant outing faster than an aggressive dog charging out onto the road at you.  The Steelhead Community Association appreciates your cooperation in this matter.

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