SOBC Funding Announced

IBEX is pleased to announce a major partnership with the South Osborne Beautification Committee.

The South Osborne Beautification Committee (SOBC) has committed more than $12,000 to the IBEX Clean Your Green 2008 campaign that will help transform the South Osborne Underpass into a permanent, sustainable green space for the visual enjoyment of the 40,000 commuters and pedestrians who use the underpass to travel to and from downtown Winnipeg every day.

In addition to the funding commitment from SOBC, IBEX has received more than $20,000 ! in gift-in-kind contributions for the project, including perennials, mulch, concrete garden products and 60 yards of soil that will contribute to the aesthetic value of the project. Now in its third year, IBEX has already raised more than 30 per cent of its 2008 goal of $25,000 for its adopted charity.

With the support of the SOBC, the total value of this year's clean-up initiative, not including volunteer labour hours, is in excess of $35,000 to beautify and permanently transform one of Winnipeg's most under-appreciated public green spaces.

Below is a photo showing Darryl Stewart and Pam Gramiak of IBEX and Carla Hrycyna of St. Marys Nursery presenting to the SOBC.

Winnipeg Companies Take the Project to Extremes

The actual clean up project for Clean Your Green 2008 has has gone to a new level.

Mainly thanks to the fearless lobbying of Carla Hrycyna, owner of St. Mary's Nursery and Garden Centre, the Clean Your Green project has gone from a small volunteer clean up and planting to a major project with large impact.

Carla has brought together the landscaping "dream team" of Reimer Soils (soil), St. Boniface Pallet (mulch), Inland Aggregates (landscape boulders), Johnson Waste (waste removal), Electra Sign (signage) and Barkman Concrete (sign base) to make her dream plan for the North Side of the underpass come true.

These companies have all agreed to donate their products and services to the project. Wow!

Gala Date Set

The Gala Thank You Event has been set for June 12th, 2008 at the Park Theatre. Several great Manitoba talents are nearly confirmed. This event will be great!

Herd Geeks Clean Up

On Monday the Herd Geeks ventured out into the IBEX garden on Osborne and finished what the Alpine Crew started the week before. On recommendation from St. Mary's Nursery, perennials were trimmed back further. Also weeds along the underpass railing were removed and another round of garbage removal took place. It was an extremely windy day, but as you can see from our picture, the geeks are a tough bunch!

The Herd Geeks are the programmers, testers and analysts that put together IBEX's software. The geeks take their work very seriously, but not themselves.

Alpine Geeks Open Season

On Monday April 7, the Alpine Crew officially began the cleanup of the Osborne St. underpass in Winnipeg. One might say that the Alpine crew at IBEX announced Open Season on trash. Despite having cleaned up the area the past two seasons, 4 full garbage bags were hunted down. Troy, Harry, Kevin, Jill and Jason were out for the better part of the morning.

In the photo, Kevin is winking to the camera as he hands Troy a special piece of his pick up. It seems that the odd animal does make it by the area during open season. They may want to watch out for the IBEX hunters.