• The Royal Bank for donating the cotton candy machine.
• The Bank of Montreal for donating the pumpkins and the popcorn machine.
• Bob and Doreen, our clowns, for entertaining the children with face painting and balloon animals.
• Jeff Peterson and Schneiders for donating sausages and hotdogs for the BBQ.

We were so happy to see fantastic weather, that the kids had a great time, and that the parents were happy too!

We'd also like to thank everyone who took the time to answer our survey, and for your efforts, you were entered into a draw to win a $100 gift certificate from John's Nursery! And the lucky winner is:

GILLIAN REES !!!!!!!

Congratulations Gillian!

Again, thanks everyone for coming out to this event! Your support of our neighbourhood is greatly appreciated!

Every player in the tournament walked away with a prize, but in addition to the prize table, some lucky golfers scored for their extra hard work on the golf course:

• Repeat winning team with a score of 8 under par: BMO Bank of Montreal with Lee Kors, Rick Bolzon, Gord Dunn and Wes Haynes, each winning a box of golf balls.
• Winner of the longest drive (men): Greg Lusk, winning a 20" flat screen Dell monitor
• Winner of the longest drive (women): Andi Bruyn, winning a 20" flat screen Dell monitor
• Winner closest to the hole: Terry Pappas, winning a trip for two to a Niagara-on-the-Lake winery tour
• Winner of the 50/50 putting contest: Drew Taylor, winning $85.00.

Thanks so much to Ed and Georgina Wrobel and Larry Gillis for volunteering with registration and the putting contest. Thanks to all of our sponsors who so graciously donated prizes for the tournament. And thanks to Foxwood Golf Course for hosting such a fun event!

A special thanks to our neighbourhood businesses, BMO Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank and Erb and Erb Insurance for participating. We are so grateful to you and your committment to our neighbourhood.

On behalf of the Clair Hills Neighbourhood Association Board of Directors, we thank everyone who attended the event and we look forward to next year's tournament!

Thank you so much to everybody who participated in the Clean-Up this weekend. Despite the rain, we had approximately 50 people come out to help. I feel so proud to live in such a beautiful neighbourhood, and with your help, we can keep it clean all year round.

In honour of Earth Week, John's nursery was kind enough to donate to our event, for the second year in a row, and the winner of a beautiful black cherry tree, is Cathy Black!

Other winners include:

Herb Demorest: a great travel mug
Deanna Westbrook: a nice ladies golf shirt
Marilyn Collins: a nice ladies golf shirt
Tanya McCracken: a cute little pot with seeds
Linda Woroch: a cute little pot with seeds

The event kicked off with the appearance of our favorite clowns Dodi and Bobi. Armed with face paint and balloon animals, they were a great addition to the festivities. Our thanks to Clair Hills resident Janet Hunter, for having her parents Doreen and Bob Stokes come all the way out from Beamsville to dole out some fun for the kids.

Things heated up when firemen from the Waterloo Fire Department showed up in the big truck and kept the kids totally in awe for approximately an hour. The kids had so much fun talking with the firemen, sitting with them in, and sometimes on, the truck, and seeing the lights and the siren blast as the truck left was very exciting. Our thanks to the firemen who took the time to visit with us; it was much appreciated by all!

And they’re off! The races were next and how hilarious did everybody who participated look?! We had 3 races: the 3-legged race, wheelbarrow race, and the egg race. Each race had participants categorized by age and what a great time! Lesson learned? Next year have the egg race on the pavement so the eggs will actually break when they drop! Congratulations to all the winners who received medals for their hard work and determination at hitting that finish line without knocking over the linesman, Larry Gillis!

The longest event would have been the water balloon toss. The sun came out at just the right time so that when Lisa Norley’s water balloon broke over her face, she wasn’t too chilly at all. Most impressive in this event was Sean Norley and his daughter Melissa; they were at least 18 paces apart when their water balloon broke. What a great event!!

And through it all we had Jason Vaid, our Treasurer, working tirelessly at the BBQ making sure everyone had enough to eat. Thanks Jason, for taking care of feeding the masses!

Special thanks go out to Justin Young of Canadian Tire, for providing us with rope for the tug of war contest! Special thanks go out to Lee Kors and Rick Bolzon, our friends at the Bank of Montreal, for providing the troops with free ice cream and prizes for all the kids. We really appreciate your support!

Thanks to our friends George Galea and Marietta Gassewitz of Neighbourhood Watch, Sara Geidlinger of Geidlinger Photography, Dianna Douglas of Salsa Babies and Carrie Chappell of Bug Lady Crafts for setting up display tables. It was so nice to see community businesses being showcased at our event.

And lastly, thanks to all the folks of Clair Hills who braved the chilly weather to spend the day with us. We look forward to an even bigger and better Summer Streetfest next year!

The Reed Clan: Jeremy Reed, Steve Foley, Jamie Reed, Garnet Reed, Ted Holden, Wendy Reed, Joan LaRose, Cindy Holden, Marion Holden
Friends: Mike Cowan, Greg Weir, Brett Shellhammer
Clair Hills residents: Derek McKay, Gerrard Lee, Wayne McKay, Ron Aubrey, Jeff Rankine, Elaine Rankine, Paul Fraser, Lori Fraser
The folks from Bank of Montreal: Rick Bolzon, Janice Bolzon, Lee Kors, Ralph Kors
More Clair Hills residents: Scott Strassburger, Mike Cummings, Kevin McBride, David Stark, Bob McLellan, Kim Dickson, Ed Dickson

Everybody who played in the tournament took home a wonderful prize, and some players were lucky enough, or just really good golfers, to win some additional prizes. Winners were as follows:

Best Team: The BMO group; Rick, Janice, Lee & Ralph with a score of -5. These folks each took home a box of Calloway Golf Balls
Closest to the Pin: Lee Kors, and she was the lucky winner of an iPod Shuffle
Longest Drive (men): Brett Shellhammer and he won a great travel bag for his golf clubs
Longest Drive (women): Joan LaRose and she won a beautiful red golf bag, complete with head covers
Putting Contest: Joan LaRose and she won the Broil King BBQ

At the end of the day, this really fun event raised an impressive $665.79 for our Playground Fund!

Many thanks to Foxwood Golf Course for their hospitality and putting on a perfect steak dinner. Thanks to all our sponsors for supplying us with a fantastic prize table.

Hope to see you again next year!

Special thanks to our sponsors Tim Horton's and Pitch-In Canada for providing us with garbage bags, gloves, prizes and snacks; Sobey's (Columbia Dr.) for providing the bottled water and John's Nursery for donating the gift certificate for our draw.

100 bags of garbage. The dumping of garbage in our wooded areas and ponds is unacceptable and has to stop. We all live here and must take responsibility for our own actions. Please, dispose of garbage properly. Store it in your garage until garbage collection day. Tie down your recyclables so they don't blow away on windy days. If you take beverages or snacks with you on a walk then take a bag too so you can properly dispose of the garbage when you get home. Don't throw things out your car window as you're driving through the city. And don't take your garbage to construction sites in the hope that the builder will take it away.