Area residents will once again benefit from free use of Transit Windsor buses as well as a free direct shuttle bus option on fireworks night thanks to Zehrs®. After a two-year hiatus due to COVID restrictions, thousands will once again be able to gather along Windsor’s riverfront for the Ford Fireworks over the Detroit River,…
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to the WFCU Centre! The parking lot of the WFCU Centre will be roaring with activity this Saturday, June 11, for the 10th annual in-person Meet-A-Machine event. This free event is designed to promote literacy with children from the Windsor-Essex community in a fun and interactive way. Upwards of 100 machines will be on hand with their operators to allow…
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The City of Windsor wants to ensure residents know that the recently announced change by the Province to lift certain mask restrictions on June 11 does not apply to Transit Windsor riders or to Huron Lodge staff, volunteers and visitors. Transit Windsor is under masking orders controlled by the federal government, while Huron Lodge follows the orders…
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This will be Windsor’s third cricket pitch after smaller versions in Jackson Park and South Walkerville’s Optimist Park. “It’s important that we continue to activate our available green spaces throughout the city,” Mayor Drew Dilkens said in a statement. The upgrade of the park — 32 acres along Lauzon Parkway between Forest Glade Drive and…
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Intended to determine where best to put new homes and how to “appropriately guide growth,” the study recommended Windsor “focus intensification” on areas with good access to transit, services, and infrastructure. To do so, it suggested turning commercial-only corridors and centres — Tecumseh Road East, Ottawa Street, Devonshire and Tecumseh Malls, etc. — into mixed-use areas.…
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Zencity to help gather sentiment toward local services and community priorities The City of Windsor is piloting the use of an innovative new public survey tool to gain insight from residents on the issues and topics important to them as well as their level of satisfaction with various services and amenities. “We are always striving to…
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Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Ratings Services has revisited their assessment of the Institutional Framework for Canadian Municipalities. As a result of how well municipalities have weathered the financial challenges of COVID, including collaboration with federal and provincial partners, the institutional framework has been assessed as “extremely predictable and supportive.” Windsor’s most recent long-term issuer credit…
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Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens, Ward 7 Councillor Jeewen Gill and Ward 8 Councillor Gary Kaschak visited Derwent Park today, where plans are in the works to install the city’s first full-size cricket pitch, and to improve multi-use trails at the popular community park. City Council has committed $100,000 to undertake a complete design that would…
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The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 82 has concluded its ratification vote and has accepted the collective bargaining agreement, by a vote of 92%, as approved by Windsor City Council at its meeting on May 18. At a time of rising costs for the Corporation of the City of Windsor, including inflationary pressures,…
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Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens, Ward 7 Councillor Jeewen Gill, and Ward 8 Councillor Gary Kaschak will be joined by Dave Patel from the Windsor-Essex Cricket League (WECL) in Derwent Park for a site visit of what would become Windsor’s first full-size cricket pitch and home to future trail improvements. What:Derwent Park Site Visit When:1:00 p.m.Friday,…
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