The City of Windsor has entered an innovative partnership with the Greater Essex County School Board. The one-year pilot includes William G. Davis Public School and Talbot Trail Public School. The City will initially offer programming from 6 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday with four programs per day per school location. Two sports-focused programs will run at each site ... continued.

Willistead Manor and Thyme To-Go are in full swing for the 2022-2023 At the Manor event series. These unique events and initiatives take place in the City of Windsor’s historic manor in Old Walkerville, and are co-produced by the City’s culture and events team and the manor’s exclusive caterer. Thyme To-Go’s head chef Julie Myers designs special menus that draw inspiration from  ... continue.

 

Capital Power Corporation’s (TSX: CPX) (“Capital Power”) East Windsor Cogeneration (EWC) Centre is ideally situated to provide the City of Windsor and area with additional power generation to support regional growth and economic development. Capital Power is exploring options for the site that will add significantly more power generation capacity installed within the current footprint of the long-used site, which is adjacent to the old Ford Motor Engine plant ... continue.

Open Streets Windsor 2022 took place on Sunday September 18, 2022, and the community came out once again to enjoy the festivities on a truly beautiful day. Thank you to all of our volunteers, community partners and everyone who attended Open Streets Windsor 2022.

If you attended Open Streets 2022, we would like to hear about your experience. Please fill out the Open Streets Survey and help influence the future of the event.

 

 

City of Windsor Poet Laureate Emeritus Marty Gervais and past Poet Laureate Mary Ann Mulhern are hosting four poets laureate from across Canada for the next edition of the popular annual Poetry at the Manor on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. Poetry at the Manor – Vol. 10 will celebrate the milestone tenth anniversary of the beloved event, which returns to an in-person format at Willistead Manor in Walkerville. This year’s line-up ... continue.

 

The City of Windsor honoured five recipients with the 2022 Built Heritage Awards and introduced a new heritage designation plaque. City Council traditionally recognizes excellence in long-time heritage stewardship and/or recent well-done conservation work through the presentation of the annual Built Heritage Awards, and also presents heritage designation plaques to new designated heritage properties ... continue.

Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas
Temporary Exhibit
October 1, 2022 to January 22, 2023

Travelling from the American Museum of Natural History, Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas is a family-friendly exhibition that explores the evolution of current theories about dinosaurs, and reveals a vivid picture of what living, breathing dinosaurs were really like. It highlights current research by scientists from the American Museum of Natural History and other leading paleontologists around the world.

This week’s Throwback Thursday Pic is of Windsor’s Industrial Past. This photograph is an aerial image of the General Motors Transmission Plant that was located at Walker Road and Seminole Street. At the top of the photograph is Stodgell Park, with a baseball diamond that was opened in 1921, and is named after Mayor of Walkerville C.J. Stodgell. The plant opened in the 1920s and closed in 2010, putting 1,400 employees out of work. The factory was demolished in 2017 and the land is now used to store vehicles waiting to be shipped from the Chrysler plant. When this building closed in 2010, it was the last General Motors industrial plant in Windsor after nearly 100 years of operating in the community. If you are interested in other historic images of Windsor, please visit the library’s digital exhibits page, “Windsor’s History and Pictures.”

See larger image here.

The City of Windsor offers live streaming video during all City Council and standing committee meetings, as well as recordings of past meetings available upon their completion.

Agendas for each council meeting can be found on citywindsor.ca the Friday before each session. A record of the decisions and discussions from every meeting are found in council minutes, which appear online typically within a few weeks of each meeting.