LoveMyHood Stories

The Kitchener Rangers Fitness Area opened just when we needed it most

Posted Tuesday, June 01, 2021

Let’s give three cheers for a resident-led outdoor gym that quietly popped up in Victoria Park in August 2020. Are you one of the many youth and adults who have already discovered that this new amenity is perfect for a much needed pandemic workout?

Introducing the Kitchener Rangers Fitness Area! It’s a four-season gem of an outdoor gym, designed for youth and adults, and laid out to maximize social connections between people while working out.

With the suppoer of the...

Lazar's Step-by-Step Guide for Planning a LoveMyHood Project

Posted Monday, September 14, 2020

Meet Lazar, the genius behind the Morrison Park Math Wall!

At the age of 13, Lazar went door-to-door in his neighbourhood to gather the community’s support to install a Math Wall and accessible table in Morrison Park to help elementary-aged students improve their math skills in a fun, outdoor environment.

After gathering some initial feedback from his neighbours, Lazar applied for a grant through LoveMyHood. Lazar’s grant application was successful, and he quickly got...

Join in on the placemaking festivities taking place this weekend across Kitchener

Posted Monday, September 23, 2019

The 2019 Placemaking Challenge Weekend is just around the corner! This year, from Thursday, September 26 to Sunday, September 29, there’s a number of fun resident-led activities and events to check out across Kitchener, including:

Gaukel Street Pop-up Park

From Thursday, September 26 to Sunday, September 29, Gaukel Street in downtown Kitchener will be transformed into a fun, people-focused space. Relax with friends at the patio tables, enjoy live music and theatre, or shoot...

Less plastic, more placemaking: resident-led recycling program in Lakeside Park

Posted Monday, February 04, 2019

Invented in 1898, improved in the early 1900’s and popularized in the 1960’s, plastic is lightweight, malleable, changeable and easy to manufacture. Worldwide, we are now producing 300 million tons of it each year. Half of it is for single use. One tenth of it is actually recycled and nearly three times as much (over 8,000,000 tons) ends up in our streams, rivers, lakes and oceans.

It’s statistics like this that motivate the Lakeside Park Kitchener Group of...

Going gaga for gaga ball on Marl Meadow Court

Posted Tuesday, October 02, 2018

Don’t get hit - that’s the goal of Gaga ball.

One summer weekend in 2016, the residents of Marl Meadow Court--a small cul-de-sac near Brigadoon Park--closed off their street to build (and play in) a gaga ball pit!

Residents came out to compete in the neighbourhood game, turning the underused green space in the middle of their cul-de-sac into a ball pit that engaged neighbours of all ages. The gaga ball pit can be easily set up and taken down whenever the mood strikes...