President's Message

Well, as of today’s writing, the ice is out (April 27-28), the trees and wildflowers are budding out, so Spring must be lurking out there somewhere!  Hopefully by the time you read this, it will finally be here. 

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I hope no one arrived back at the lake after being away for the winter and found much damage or other surprises caused by the old school Canadian winter we all just experienced.  I think we’ve been lucky that to date we’ve had no serious flood issues in spite of all the deep snowpack in the bush.  Fortunately, the snow has melted slowly, which enabled the TSW to manage all the meltwater that was augmented by some heavy spring rains.   

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Your association Board has posted dates for this years AMM, Family picnic, golf tournament, and something new – a Canada Day contest to guess the lake’s water level! Please see the save the date information in this newsletter.  Dates will also be sent out in an email and posted to our Instagram page and our website.  

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Every year, the MLHPOI Board appeals to the community for new volunteers, with little success.  Over the winter, I surveyed the community and asked for suggestions for new lake activities.  The more popular suggestions included organizing a decorated boat parade; meet and greet socials; a sailboat race; more live music and movie nights; and posting a list of people interested in regular golf or pickleball.  These are all great suggestions, and I would like to see some or all of them happen.  But it will require volunteers help to make it so!  If one of these ideas was yours, please consider volunteering to see it happen.  This does not require you to join the Board, or do it every year, or take hours and hours of your time.  And typically, one volunteer turns into 2-3 and the activity happens!  Please consider getting involved!  Send any enquiries about volunteering and your offers to help your lake association to  mountainlakehaliburton@gmail.com. 

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And speaking of volunteers, we have another initiative that will need volunteers to complete.  As many of you know, Mountain Lake has had an issue with large numbers of gulls “hanging around” and creating foul messes on docks, boats and in the lake.  This number of gulls has a deleterious effect on the health of our lake.  We are looking for volunteers to be part of a team that will work to deter the gulls from choosing our lake to hang around on.  This will require a boat, some pool noodles and some time!  Please see the article in this newsletter for more information. 

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