The Bruce Beach Association was approached by Rick Clarke, Administrator of Walker House, for assistance with a display on the first tourists/cottagers in the region. The executive was in favour of doing this and Keith MacDonald emailed me to see if I could spearhead our participation. I enthusiastically agreed.

After several emails back and forth, Gail and I met with Rick in Walker House this past Sunday. He explained his plans for a general beaches exhibit on the ground floor with maps showing the lake shore and our lots. He plans to provide a place for people to write any memories connected with coming to the area each summer. As well, he showed us as a separate room on the second floor for a Bruce Beach only exhibit.… continue reading »

Attached is the notice of a Public Meeting in the Harrow News for the
offshore windmills in Lakes Erie and St. Clair,

Each location marked would have from 4 to 6 windmills .

See the SouthPoint Website for a view of the windmills from shore.

At Your Service ...

Continuing on the theme of biodiversity (in celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity), this issue will explore some of the services that ecosystems provide us, and why it's important to protect these benefits.

To begin, an ecosystem is a community of animals and plants interacting with one another and with their physical environment. Ecosystems include physical and chemical components, such as soils, water, and nutrients that support the organisms living within them. These organisms may range from large animals and plants to microscopic bacteria. Ecosystems include the interactions among all organisms in a given habitat. People are part of ecosystems. Our health and well-being depends upon the services provided by our local ecosystems and everything that makes them up ­ organisms, soil, water, and nutrients.  Along Lake Huron, some of our coastal ecosystems include wetlands, bluffs, dune grasslands, alvars, and woodlands.… continue reading »

You might want to take a look at the plans to install wind turbines in Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie.

We should track this closely as if it happens on the Canadian side of Lake Erie, an area with a large amount of cottages, it will may be proposed for our area in Lake Huron as well.

Will Canada's wind turbines invade lakes?

Township aims for five-per-cent budget increase

By Liz Dadson

Huron-Kinloss is hoping to bring in a tax increase of five-per-cent or less.

Council took an initial stab at the budget Feb. 12 and was faced with some startling statistics.

Treasurer Jodi MacArthur reported that if the township were to continue with the same level of services as last year and bring in a balanced budget, the tax increase would be 15.63 per cent. In order to have a zero increase for 2010, council would have to chop $633,849.66 from the budget, she said....continue reading>>>