Sunday 21 July 2019
AGM 2019
The Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of Lake Anne Club Inc. / Club du lac Anne inc. is being held on Sunday August 11, 2019 at Ken Hugessen's and Jennifer Connolly's home, 180 chemin lac Anne. In addition to shareholders, family members and guests are welcome to attend.
The agenda and proxy forms have been sent, by email, to shareholders.
Water Testing 2019
A message from Madeleine Palmer and Jerome Roussseau:
Mado and Jérôme here with a friendly reminder about water testing on Saturday, August 10.
Those who wish to check their tap/well water may pick up bottles at our place (29 ch. Du Lac Anne) as of 10h00. As they usually finish testing the lake sites early, bottles should be returned with payment (cash or cheque) before noon.
Looking forward to seeing you,
M & J
450 226 1954
Arts Morin Heights Summer Show
Arts Morin Heights, a collective of 26 artists, is holding its Summer Show.
Opening vernissage, July 27, 5 p.m.
Running July 28 to August 4, 11h00 to 17h00, at Chalet Bellevue, Morin Heights.
Activities in Gore
Want to learn about mushrooms? Edible and medicinal plants? Has Gore got an activity for you!
Next trail maintenance day - August 3rd
Les Sentiers de Gore invites you to its second trail maintenance day this year, which will take place on Saturday, August 3rd at Parc Denommé. Meeting time is 9:30 am on site (you may park on Densa at the corner of des Muguets). In case of rain, the maintenance day will be postponed (check facebook). We now have tools, but bring yours if possible (loppers, shovels, pickaxe, rake and saws) as well as gloves and good boots. Looking forward to working with you! August 18 activity – Edible and medicinal plants Non-wood forest products (NWFP): edible and medicinal plants. This activity will allow you to better recognize the flora of Quebec that can heal us and feed us. Wear appropriate boots and clothing to go outside, good weather or bad weather. This activity is for the whole family. Bring a natural mosquito repellent. Reservations by email at lessentiersdegore@gmail.com or on our web site:https://www.lessentiersdegore. Location: Gore Township Municipal Park, 45 Cambria Road, Gore Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Activities in September We invite you to book these two dates in September: Saturday, September 7th: hike in Gore’s third range Friday, September 13th in the evening: mushroom identification activity Subscribe to our newsletter on www.lessentiersdegore.com for more details. |
Our Fabulous Lake
Early in September of last year, Bob Gaudreault, Kathleen Hugessen (moi) and Melissa Valiquette of the Conseil Regional de l'Environnement set forth from Bob's dock in Sally McDougall's rowboat (thanks, Sally!) to complete the inventory of our lake's aquatic plants.
Bob rowed us to Allan McDougall's dock, where the first round of inventory had ended (it had gone from Ken Hugessen's dock round to Allan's the year before). We picked up the trail there and Bob rowed the periphery.
By Outlet Bay, Melissa was in love. She called our lake her "coup de coeur", which I choose to translate as "sweetheart" lake. She found one clump of algae on the south(ish) side of Outlet Bay, but declared it filamentous, not cyano.
Bob and I spotted a very invasive looking plant that we insisted on rowing over to while Melissa sat quietly, suggesting it wasn't a plant at all. Well, we found the nefarious ropeweed. Fortunately, there were no further examples, and Bob and I offered no more opinions on Melissa's area of expertise.
Then she dropper her clipboard, with all her notes, into the water somewhere between Blachford's and us. We left Bob doing calisthenics on Ken's beach to re-establish contact with his hip, dodged over to my kayaks, and paddled off on a rescue mission. And, by golly, we found it! Furthermore, the clever girl uses waterproof paper and pencil!
I had, in a weak moment, mentioned that we had not looked at The Island and Melissa, now in the throes of a complete love affair with our lake, suggested strongly (OK, insisted) that we would be remiss in not completing the job.
Bob's hip was given a break and Melissa took over rowing. It should be noted that she does (did) not know how to row. Still and all, we reached The Island at which point Your Fearless Editor took up the oars. By Picnic Rock, Your Fearless Editor's back was doing much the same as Bob's hip. But perseverance won out and we made it to the campsite rock where Melissa, once more, took the oars.
While still circling The Island, Melissa became very excited and there was a certain amount of highly skilled maneuvering to get her above an aquatic plant of, apparently, great desirability. In an extremely athletic contortion, she manage to extract a sample and handed it with pride to Bob and me. "Smell it!" she crowed. So we did, looked at each other, shrugged and waited. "It smells like skunk!" she insisted. We weren't sure we agreed, but we smiled. God knows, she'd earned it.
Melissa got us back to Bob's dock (and is a much better rower for the effort), where we went our separate ways. The Saga of Lake Anne's Aquatic Plants is at an end. For now.
Bottom line: our lake is fabulous! (As if we didn't know.)
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