Volume 11 No. 4 Dear PaBIA, Over the next several weeks, PaBIA will be rolling out the results to the 2018 Survey...starting in this issue. Your comments and ideas are always welcome! You can always email Hilde Clark. But do also check out below the various...

   Volume 11 No. 3 Videos taken by Bruce Tiffin, PaBIA's Off Season Cottage Patroller Early April Video traveling from Brignall Banks toward Payne's Early April Video taken on Yonge Street, PaB, near Nugamo Dear PaBIA, With our Marine Patrollers on deck and ready to...

   Volume 11 No. 2 Dear PaBIA, As the weather continues to be crazy all over the North American continent and beyond, PaBIA keeps its warm fires glowing, awaiting the end of winter! Many cannot remember a winter as cold as this one in a very long time. May that bring...

   Volume 11 No. 1 Picture above - thanks Mark Payne! Dear PaBIA, As we 'turn the pages' to a new calendar year, it's amazing how our thoughts and hopes also turn toward summer and our return to the Bay! Perhaps it is time to consider sharing a story for consideration...

   Volume 10 No.33 Dear PaBIA, We hope this upcoming holiday season, however you celebrate it, will be full of joy and laughter and gratitude - grateful for our families, friends and our health; as well as our collective ability to enjoy summers on Georgian Bay in a...

   Volume 10 No.29 Dear PaBIA, As a PaBIA member, you or someone in your household should have received an email with your link to the PaBIA's 2018 Online Survey that was sent out last Thursday., We urge each member's family to discuss the issues presented and then...

   Volume 10 No.27 From Your President ~ Dear PaBIA, We are lucky to live in a democracy - in a community where every voice counts. In Pointe au Baril, we have just come through an important municipal election to select those key individuals who will be responsible to...

   Volume 10 No.26 From Your President: Dear PaBIA, The 2018 Township of the Archipelago Municipal election is now complete. The unofficial results from the Township are attached. PaBIA wishes to congratulate the winners. Our new Ward 1 Councillors are incumbent Greg...

   Volume 10 No.25 Dear PaBIA, As Fall descends on the Bay, signaling that summer is really over, we hope all is well with you and yours! Township Elections - eVoting Continues through Next Monday We are hearing from those who have already voted that doing so on the...

   Volume 10 No.24 Dear PaBIA, If you happened to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving at the cottage, we hope you had warm clothes and rainsuits! Mother Nature didn't quite cooperate. But we do hope you had a fun and safe Thanksgiving! As of yesterday, the voting for our...

   Volume 10 No.23 Dear PaBIA, Well, summer is certainly going out with a roar, if Sunday night's thunder and lightning show is any indication! That makes two such storms within a week of one another! Much needed rain that has brought the fire ratings down after many...

 Volume 10 No.22 Dear PaBIA, 2018 is an election year for the Township of the Archipelago (TOA). This particular election has multiple candidates in both Wards 1 and 3 from which to choose. Your Board has taken the opportunity to ask written questions of all seven of...

   Volume 10 No.21 Dear PaBIA, Where has the summer gone...somehow, it still feels like summer with the unusually warm temperatures and high water levels (thanks to the west winds!). Even though the summer is winding down, PaBIA will still be sending out a dedicated...

   Volume 10 No.20 Dear PaBIA, Your Sailing Commodore, Rainer Kaufmann, upon looking at the forecasted weather for Saturday - 80% of rain with lightning - has therefore changed the race from Saturday to Sunday with an 11 am start in Lighthouse Bay with the rendezvous...

   Volume 10 No.19 Dear PaBIA, Well, we can tell that things are beginning to wind down...this eBlast is MUCH shorter - yet still important items to stay up to date on! The rain over last Thursday night and yesterday's all afternoon rain (measuring almost an inch out...