HLSMR annual Meeting
With covid receding, there will be an in person Cottagers association annual meeting. It will be held on July 31, at 10:30 am. Following the roads board meeting at 10am. It will be held in the marina shop. Generously provide by Walter and Renata & sons. Thank you so much.
There are some position on the executive that will be available. Some long time contributors will be stepping down. These positions will be up for nominations at the meeting. Its your opportunity to help represent the lake for all the things the HLSMR assoc provides. Positions available, ENVIROMNETAL officer, VICE PRESEDENT.
Some of the great things the association has done for you are:
represent the Lake members to governmental bodies
environmental monitoring
a group lake fire service. equipment, fire boat and pumps for cottagers to use in emegencys’s’
lot emergency numbers
aids to navigation
septic pumping liaisons to the pumping company
We hope to see a good turn out. We are looking for new ideas how we can improve what we do for you.
Brian Mclellan for the HLSM Cottagers’’’’ association
Roads Board & Cottagers' Association AGM
August 6, 2017
Hello everyone! We are rapidly approaching that time of year again when it is time for you to gather with your community members and discuss all topics that are relevant to everyone on our lake and river system. Our Roads Boardmeeting will start promptly at 10:00 AM with our Cottagers' AssociationMeeting starting at approximately 10:30 AM.
Immediately following the Cottagers' Association meeting we will be having our second annual BBQ! Come out and bring your family as we will be cooking some handmade burgers for everyone to enjoy. Bring the kids, we will have ball park hot dogs and drinks as well. Please note this will be a paid event, and all proceeds will go to the Cottagers' Association to support the many things that the association does. High level agenda for this years meeting includes:
Environment
Septic tanks Pump Out Programs
Water testing
Waste Management
Emergency Management
Fire Equipment including Fire Boats and Fire Pumps
AED's on the lake and river
New AED on lake
Movement of AED on River
Lake and River Maps
Information & Communication
Website & Social Media communication to the community
Newsletter
Dock Signs
Calendars
Photo Contest
Requests for Historical memorabilia from the area
Community Events
Volunteers required for our 2nd annual Bake Sale
Donations for the silent auction
This winter we had aluminum, reflective dock signs made for all cottages on the lake, please swing by the meeting and pick up your dock sign which corresponds to the numbering on the new lake maps we created last year.
Additionally, we will be demonstrating the use of the main fire pump so everyone can get an overview on how it works, and what to do in the event of a fire emergency on the lake.
Please come with questions you may have, but also come prepared to participate, we are all members of our community and we improve by working together.
See everyone on Sunday!
Cottagers' Association Bake Sale ~ Volunteers Needed! Corn Roast Weekend!
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This year the Cottagers' Association is pleased to be organizing a bake sale to correspond with the Marina's very popular corn roast! We are looking for volunteers who could contribute to:
Baking Tasty Treats for others to enjoy!
Wrapping, labeling & pricing these tasty treats
People to help with table attendants during the sale
People to help with setup and take down
If you would be interested in helping with any of the above mentioned items, please contact Rena @ 416-948-3666 or email her at renaellen11@hotmail.com.
All proceeds from the bake sale will be donated to the Cottagers' Association to support our fire equipment and AED safety equipment, so come on out and get involved!
Shhhh - The Silent Auction is back! Corn Roast Weekend!
Once again, the Cottagers' Association very popular silent auction is back! This popular event has been an ongoing tradition for many years and the proceeds from donated items have gone to support many of your communities larger initiatives as determined by you, its members. If you would like to contribute items please get in contact with one of your association members and items can be dropped off at the Marina throughout the summer. As always, the more items we have the better.
2016 Cottagers's Association Meeting July 31, 2016
We had an excellent 2016 meeting. We made some core changes to the structure of the association in terms of how it will handle finances going forward in addition to having our first ever association pulled pork BBQ which sold out in under 1 hour. We also provided a demonstration of our main fire pump and its operation from within the fire boat. Some highlights of the meeting include:
- Moving the budget year end from July 8th to December 31st to better represent our income and expenses in a given year.
- Raising our association fees to $50 per year to help with ongoing operational costs of the emergency equipment maintained on the lake.
- We will be publishing our finances on the website so that all members can see, month by month, our current financial status.
- The presentation of the first updated lake map with new lake and river wide numbering system since 2009.
- Vote to have the cottagers association purchase dock signs for every cottage on the water to correspond to map numbering system for assistance in emergency and general navigability of the water.
- Discussion of the huge success of the septic pump out program. In addition to saving over $350 off an individual pump out, thanks to the 25 cottagers who participated this year, we successful eliminated nearly 17,000 gallons of waste from the shorelines of our lake and river.
- Introduced our first ever BBQ following the meeting to allow the community to socialize with one another and the board.
- Identified volunteers for the bake sale occurring during the corn roast this year.
A huge thank you goes out to Harris Lake Marina for providing the venue to host our meeting and BBQ, and also the donation of all the drinks for the BBQ. Many of the things the association does would not be possible without the marina so please take a moment to thank them.
We received a donation from Art Price who provided us with $30 for each septic pump out participant that utilized his services to install new septic filters. We thank everyone who participated, once again, in that program.
A very successful meeting this year, and a huge thank you to everyone who attended!
2016 Meeting Minutes (Coming Soon)
Our treasurer, Dan Walda, serving up pulled pork and hotdogs for hlsmr's sold out bbq
Everyone tried out the lake's main fire pump. Great to have experience with it before emergencies occur