Day of Caring

The Heritage Community Association participates in the United Way Day of Caring held in June every year. This one-day intensive work blitz links corporate resources with community needs. The Heritage Community has benefited greatly over the years from many caring and committed organizations who donate their time and energies to work projects in the Heritage Area. These dedicated corporate volunteers have accomplished everything from painting and cleaning to landscaping and weeding to the benefit of the Association and the community at large.

Celebration in the Park

Thanks to community partners along with volunteers and sponsors, the annual event hosted by the Association in Heritage Community Park , located at 1205 11 th Ave. , provides an opportunity for neighbourhood residents to celebrate the Heritage Area as a great place to live. The afternoon event offers fun for all with a BBQ, face painting, a magic show, Karaoke, games, dog races and much more!

Art Park - Click here for brochure

Take a stroll through Heritage's own “Field of Dreams.” Art Park, located at the corner of 11 th Avenue and Halifax Street , features numerous artistic displays, native trees, shrubs and over 1000 perennials. Many volunteers are needed to maintain the Park, working towards the long term strategy of enhancing the Park as a true showcase of nature & the Arts.

Thomson School Community Garden

A community garden on the Thomson School site was created in partnership with Thomson Community School to provide fresh vegetables for community participants and the school. Volunteers maintain the garden throughout the summer. The garden has been further developed to include native fruit bearing trees and shrubs.

Heritage Community Citizens of Distinction Dinner and Annual Community Meeting

The Association recognizes that it takes a team of caring dedicated citizens to make the Heritage Area the vibrant prospering community that it is. This event provides an important opportunity for residents and their community partners many of whom are a daily part of the community in their occupations with the City of Regina, the Regina Police Service or one of our many partnering organizations, to be recognized for their efforts and energies throughout the year as well as on opportunity to interact with each other and discuss new projects and happenings in the neighbourhood.

Trek to Tomorrow

The first ever Trek was held on May 1, 2010 as an awareness and fundraising event for the Community and the Association. The Amazing Race style scavenger hunt takes teams through the community in a race against the clock to find significant sites and locations in the Heritage Community, a wrap up banquet and prizes follow. An organizing committee as well as volunteers for the day of the event is integral to its success as are sponsors and community involvement. The date has now been set for the 2 nd Annual Trek event; mark May 7, 2011 on your calendars! New to the event this year will be the collection of pledges with some great prize incentives to go along with that.

Culture, Heritage & Urban Art Legacy Program

The Heritage Community Association was extremely excited with the prospect of growing citizenship in students of Regina and opening up their world to the multicultural, heritage rich community of Heritage through the Legacy Program of the Trek to Tomorrow which was launched in 2010. In conjunction with National Youth Week in May, 150 students in grades 7 and 8 ventured into the Heritage Community to take photos of significant images that complemented, from their perspective, the curriculum-based lessons created specifically for the program by a Heritage Community Association volunteer. Classroom instruction included presentations on vandalism, graffiti and urban art by the City of Regina and basic photography skills by Focus 91 and Don's Photo. Students were encouraged to take multiple photos; however, by working in student groups of 3-5 in the classroom following the tour day, groups decided on a single photo for submission. Each student then individually wrote an essay explaining the significance of their image to the theme of culture, heritage or urban art. Winners were recognized at the Citizens of Distinction Dinner.

All participating students' photos will be on public display during the summer of 2010 at these prominent venues throughout the city: Northgate Mall, RCMP Heritage Centre, the Regina Public Library, Regina Performing Arts Centre, the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre and during the Bank of America “Under the Harvest Moon” Heritage Community Festival held on September 25, 2010. This educational program will run again in 2011. Watch for the resulting works to be out in the Regina community throughout 2011.

Good Neighbour Award

Community residents and neighbourhood businesses are recognized with a certificate for being a “good neighbour”: anyone that helps clean up garbage, paints over graffiti or assists in anyway to make Heritage a healthier community.