The following are some of the accomplishments that dedicated, community volunteers have made through Renaissance Sackville. A large amount of time has gone into these projects, some the result of years of work

2009 - 2011:

♣ Video workshops for local young people - at March Break and mid-summer
♣ Screenprinting workshops for Marshview Middle School students at Little Armadillo Studio
♣ Downtown Beautification Project: Vogue Cinema and Crofter/Tidewater Books
♣ Wellness Expo: Be Strong...Where You Belong and Beyond: Over 35 vendors, 19 demonstrations, activities and presentations, plus children's activities
♣ Local Food Day: An event held in 2009 & 2010 at the Farmers Market to encourage the local production and buying of food. Food security could become a major issue in the future and those communities who know how to feed themselves will be better off
♣ In 2009, the Community Tree Nurseries produced enough small trees to be able to give over 200 of them away to community members in exchange for donations to keep the nurseries going 
♣ 2009: a new project was begun next to the Community Garden. Financed by Evergreen and Renaissance Sackville, Community Forests International planted an edible forest garden.
♣ 2009: Bringing the Pieces Together: Developing a Poverty Reduction Plan: Renaissance has got involved in this Provincial Government initiative to try to find creative and effective ways to reduce poverty in New Brunswick. 

2006 - 2008:

♣ 2008: Participatory Tools for Building Local and Global Cultures of Peace and Non-violence Workshop: Renaissance sponsored this workshop with Dr. Thomas Mark Turay and Mary Hawa Turay, Co-Founders of the Centre for Development and Peace Education (cdpeace), Sierra Leone, West Africa. (http://www.cdpeace.com/)
♣ 2008: Two Downtown Beautification projects: the facades of both Joey's Pizzeria and the Wood Block were improved with the help of Renaissance grants 
♣ 2008: Moved the Sackville Community Garden from the Drew Nursing Home to its permanent home in Charles Street, thanks to land lent to us by the Town of Sackville 
♣ Tree planting project: alliance with John Stuart of Nova Scotia for supply of free trees for Town to be planted by the community; visit to Wolfville to see how their tree planting programme worked; visit by some Trees for Tomorrow committee members to MacPhail Woods to see how a community nursery works; Urban Forestry Installation and Design course in Fredericton
♣ 2007: Community Non-Profit Task Force, set up by Premier Shawn Graham and headed by Claudette Bradshaw, was organized and hosted in Sackville by Renaissance. The Renaissance Executive Director, Janine O'Reilly, was then invited to participate in the reviewing of the report draft before it was presented to the Premier 
♣ Establishment of tree nurseries in Sackville in 2007 (Beech Hill and Queens Rd) with the help of funding from Green Streets Canada and the Environmental Trust Fund
♣ Trees For Tomorrow committee: Tree Policy; Sackville Tree Care and Maintenance brochure
♣ Publication of the Sackville Gift Directory (2006 – to encourage shopping locally)
♣ Sponsorship of the Youth Citizen of the Year Award (2004-2009)
♣ Partnership with the Greater Sackville Chamber of Commerce on various projects and fundraising, including Sackville Exposed
♣ Development of a Renaissance Web Site (2007)
♣ Downtown Beautification Project: facade improvements to downtown buildings
♣ GREEN 4 Generations Festival and Trade Fair (2007, 2008)
♣ New Brunswick Environmental Leadership Awards: tree planting award ceremony at the Tantramar Veterans' Memorial Civic Centre
♣ Updating of the Quality of Life Booklet
♣ Tantramar Family Resource Centre Dump and Run programme
♣ Women's Expo at Live Bait Theatre (part of Sacvkille Exposed)
♣ Support (funding and/or administrative)of:

• STAR (Stop Tantramar Abusive Relationships)
• Wetlands Centre Butterfly and Wildlife Garden
• Communities in Bloom
• Tantramar Adult Learning Centre – funding for their summer programme
• Tantramar Hospice Palliative Care Organisation – catalogued their resources; updating of their website web site
• Recycled Sound / Sound Recycled project – funding for the filming of their project to collect garbage to make musical instruments and the recording of the music they played on those instruments
• Community Garden
• TEA: Tantramar Environmental Alliance 
• Imperial Theatre development
• We Care for Tantramar Health Services
• VON SMART programme
• Marshview School’s fundraising effort for their Ottawa visit
• Early Music Festival
• OK Quoi! And Sappy Festival
• PARC: Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre
• Community Theatre Company
• Walk Between the Worlds: Family Halloween Event

2004 - 2005:

♣ Trees For Tomorrow committee – Street Tree Inventory; plaquing significant trees
♣ Heritage Advisory Committee / Recommendations To Council
♣ Welcome Reception for Mt. A International Students (partner)
♣ Arbor Day reinstated with tree plantings at Salem and Marshview schools, Sackville Memorial Hospital, Memorial Park; and copper beech marker at Civic Centre
♣ Canada Day Planning Committee
♣ Wanderlust Outdoor Outfitters: help with business plan
♣ Sackville Youth Inclusive Community Initiative (participant)
♣ Affordable Housing Committee (participant)
♣ Sponsorship of the Youth Citizen of the Year Award
♣ Support (funding and/or administrative of:

• Live Bait Theatre, plus updating of their web site
• Farmers Market
• Midnight Madness (Partnership with Mainstreet Redevelopment)
• Funding for Family Resource Centre Research; Steering Group member 
• Tantramar Hospice Palliative Care Organization: helped them to get established; Board Member; Grief and Bereavement Workshop
• Tantramar Historic Sites: Plaques for Middle Sackville Baptist Church, Mount View Church Hall, Booster Pump; plus administrative help
• Civic Centre AgriPlex phase I: sports field
• Continuing support of the Pedway Project
• Communities in Bloom
• Community Garden
• Art Across the Marsh
• Bagtown Fringe Festival
• Between the Tides Tantramar Arts Alliance
• Community Animation and Travelling Ambassador Project

1994-2003:

♣ Development of Sackville Marketing Materials, including a web site, brochures, advertisements and a Sackville booklet
♣ Marketing Committee provided consultation on marketing Sackville
♣ Sackville Ambassador Program
♣ Community Exchange with Squamish, BC
♣ All About Business Brainstorming Sessions
♣ All About Business Questionnaire
♣ Business Reception Teams
♣ Business Expo (partner)
♣ “Taking Care of Business” Column in Tribune (partner)
♣ Land Development Committee
♣ Representation on Natural Gas Committee
♣ Smart Sackville Proposal (partner)
♣ Recruited volunteers for TAP The Net Computer Access Program
♣ South East Technology Fair (partner)
♣ Lobbied to improve unconditional grant for Sackville
♣ 2002 Community Workshop
♣ Shopping in Sackville Survey
♣ Retail Advertising “Sackville” Template
♣ Support to Midnight Madness (yearly)
♣ Monthly “Our Town, Our Culture” articles
♣ Monthly Sackville Cultural Calendar
♣ Arts Weekend (3 yrs)
♣ Annual Arts Fair (2 yrs)
♣ Initiated Fall Fair (2001)
♣ Cultural Occupations in Sackville Survey
♣ Draft Cultural Policy Proposal
♣ Application to the New Brunswick Arts Foundation and successful $3000 award (2003 Municipality of the Arts)
♣ Alex Colville Day
♣ Sackville Centennial Arts Walk
♣ World Poetry Day Readings (2003)
♣ Provided support to Live Bait Theatre
♣ Cultural Spaces Conference (affiliate)
♣ MarshFire Theatre Craft Fair (partner)
♣ Participation in NB Municipal Cultural Officers Group
♣ Installation of Plaques on Colville House, Cranewood, Anglican Church Rectory, Ford Block, Morice Mill Pond, Sackville Harness Shop (partnerships)
♣ Installation of Lion’s Head on Lion Building (Ford Block)
♣ Methodist Cemetery Archway (partnership)
♣ Sir Charles G.D. Roberts Monument – successful application to National Historic Sites & Monuments
♣ History of Middle Sackville Information Kiosk
♣ English and French brochures - history of Middle Sackville
♣ Event to unveil the Middle Sackville Heritage Kiosk as part of Sackville Centennial Cultural Heritage Day
♣ Agricultural Heritage Tour (2003)
♣ Identification of all marked and unmarked historic sites
♣ Historic Sites Web Site
♣ NB Heritage Week Participation
♣ Addressing Community Heritage Issues
♣ Participation in annual Provincial Heritage Forums
♣ Supported Yorkshire Historical Analyst Position
♣ Supported History of Sackville Book Research
♣ Acadian Monument research, development and installation
♣ 2004 Acadian Celebration (partner)
♣ Quality of Life Directory – Health & Family Support Services in Sackville & Surrounding Area
♣ Transient Protocol
♣ Community Garden Proposal (1997)
♣ Family Day Event/Activities/Publicity
♣ Forum on Healthcare Response to Premier’s Health Quality Council (partner)
♣ Annual Making Our Neighbourhoods Work Brochure (partner)
♣ Participated in Caring Partners Program
♣ Expect Respect Program Proposal
♣ Terrific Tantramar Talking Tour
♣ Annual Places to go & Things to do in Sackville brochure 1995 – 2001
♣ Acadian Settlements Tour
♣ Waterfowl Park Sculpture Proposal
♣ Trans Canada Trail Pedway Project
♣ White Rose Campaign, Yorkshire 2000 (partner)
♣ Environmental Research
♣ Environmental Calendar 1997
♣ Garden Tour
♣ Greening Committee/awareness programs
♣ Instigator of Tantramar Heritage Trust
♣ Pesticide Committee
♣ Tantramar River Watershed Study Proposal
♣ Annual Clean Sweep Litter Clean-Up
♣ High School Naturalization Project (partner)
♣ Atlantic Waterfowl Celebration (partner)
♣ Garden Club Shade Tree and Planting Programs (partner)
♣ Communities in Bloom Planning
♣ An Economic Development Framework For Sackville (1994)
♣ Participation in Mt. A Sustainable Residence Initiative Workshop
♣ Centennial Monument for Sackville (partner)
♣ Sackville Farmers’ Market Study
♣ John Hammond Project with Mt. A
♣ Participation in Sustainable Community Tourism Workshop
♣ Leadership Mount Allison Evaluation (participant)
♣ Informal Information Sessions (Wet/Dry, Communities in Bloom…)
♣ Support to Campbell Carriage Factory
♣ Family Resource Centre Steering Group member
♣ Sponsorship of the Youth Citizen of the Year Award