PaBIA eBlast August 10, 2022

After a beautiful weekend, the rain has been steady through most of Monday afternoon and evening – only to give way to a beautiful, sun-filled Tuesday.

Looking ahead, there is so much still going on with Science North coming to PaB Station along with Arts on the Bay, PaBAR Sailing Race, our own PaBIA Naturalist. etc.

Plus, we are looking for strong and willing volunteers to help move derelict docks that have found their way onto our shorelines to the station for ToA disposal later in August! Many hands makes light work! So please contact the MP so we know you’ll be there to lend your time.

Still lots ahead these next few weeks. The Naturalist will be a fascinating look at how nature responds to fire and the Ojibway Art Show will be in full force from now through Sunday.

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In this eBlast:

AUGUST

• Perseids Meteor Shower – Start Watching the Night Sky Tonight!
• Science North Great Ontario Roadshow in PaB – August 11
• PaBAR Sailing Races Saturday @ 11 am; Dinner by reservation only
• Arts on the Bay – Carlos Del Junco – Saturday, August 13
• PaBIA Naturalist: Key River Fire of 2018 – The Effects on the Landscape 4 Years Later with Mike Waddington — August 14
• GBLT – Visit with GBLT on the Ojibway Docks – August 18
• Emmaline Madigan – Celebrating 50 Years at the PaB Lighthouse – Write a note to her
• Shawanaga First Nation 25th Anniversary PowWow August 20-21
• Derelict Dock Day – Saturday, August 25 – We Need Your Help
• NEXT PaBIA Boater Maneuverability Coaching – August 31

OF INTEREST

• Recap of PaBIA’s AGM Speaker’s Remarks on Floating Cottages
• Fire Pump Locations
• Visit with GBLT at the Ojibway Docks on August 18
• Literally on the Bay by Charlotte Stein, Parry Sound Books
• Ladies’ Kayaking – Men Invited Friday, August 12
• ToA BAY NOTES
• GBLT YouTube – Learn What GBLT is All About
• Georgian Bay Biosphere August Biosphere News
• The Kids in the Biosphere Project – Kits are Still Available
• Lake Michigan-Huron Water Levels – August 9, 2022
• Found: Paddle Boat and Rowboat Oar
• Yearbook Update 2022 as of July 26

August 2022 Activities

Recap of PaBIA’s AGM Speaker’s Remarks on Floating Cottages

Peter Frost, who spoke at PaBIA’s AGM, is a Ward 2 Councillor from the Township of the Archipelago and a member of the newly formed Sub-Committee of the GBA Floating Cottage team. He also is a member of the National Recreational Boating Advisory Committee of Transport Canada, making him well qualified to speak about this rising concern of Floating Cottages.

Peter explained that some municipalities are beginning to see Floating Cottages crop up in various locations up and down Georgian Bay, bringing with them environmental and other concerns. As is the case with many issues around the Bay, members of PaBIA and its Board, when learning of issues elsewhere, want you to be educated BEFORE the concerns land in our cottage bays when it is NOT in the best interest of keeping our natural surroundings pristine. The Georgian Bay Association is definitely our eyes and ears up and down the Bay.

To learn more about this issue, please click here and read a synopsis of Peter’s remarks made to PaBIA members at the AGM.

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PABAR – Sailing Regatta Weekend!
Saturday, August 13 Begins at 11 am

PaBAR (Pointe au Baril Annual Regatta) started as an Albacore regatta but is open to be sailed in all three fleets: Albacore, Laser, and Flying Scots. The PABAR course is located in mid-Shawanaga Bay, South-East of Turning Island.

Junior PABAR sails at the same time and course. A trophy will go to boats with crews 25 years of age and younger. Club boats are available to use – don’t hesitate to contact Margie Wheler if you want to borrow a boat; come out for 1 race or all 3! 

The race regatta is followed by the PABAR dinner and awards

The full PABAR schedule is:

• Race 1 starts promptly at 11:00 am – check in at least 5 min before with the race committee boat
• Bring your own picnic for the Shore Lunch at Bradshaw’s A501-4
• Race 2 and Race 3
• Dinner starts at 6 pm at the Ojibway Club.

Spectators are welcome! 

PABAR dinner is at 6:00 pm – chit bar for cocktails; dinner at 6:30 – 

Call the Ojibway office by August 11 to reserve. Please let them know of any dietary requests and how many people will be with you – All are welcome!!

Who will win the Horse’s Ass Award this year…?

Please be in touch with Margie Wheler, our PaBIA Sailing Commodore, should you want to learn more!

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Science North Great Ontario Roadshow comes to
Pointe au Baril – August 11

The village of Pointe au Baril welcomes visitors to a first-time event. Drop in anytime between 11 am and 3 pm on August 11, 2022, to find out what our village, local businesses, artists, and groups have to offer.

Experience science shows and interactive workshops brought to you by interpretive staff from Science North, in Sudbury. This free public event will be held in the Pointe au Baril Community Centre on South Shore Road. Come to Pointe au Baril for a fun-filled day for this event and enjoy the childrens’ playground and community garden overlooking the harbour.

Volunteers will prepare healthy refreshments but we welcome sponsor(s) for those expenses. Please get in touch with Anne Stewart.

There is also still time to showcase your services or products, so if you are a local business, artist, performance artist, or community group, please register with Meaghan Francis.

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Ladies’ Kayaking – Men Invited

MEN are invited to join us on

Friday, August 12 at 12:30

 (Spread the word!)

Meet at Cathie & Wendy Hurlburt’s

A 316-1&2

The men are asked to bring treats for the ladies:

 Drinks, Appetizers, Sweets…

Everyone Welcome!

Pack a lunch and wear your swimsuit

More Info: Contact Helen Garber

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Arts on the Bay – August 13^th

Carlos del Junco and The Blues Mongrels 

Pointe au Baril Community Centre 

Now air-conditioned!

Dinner available at 5 p.m., Show starts 6:30 p.m.

Carlos del Junco has come a long way since spending many summers as a kid – starting in the late 1960’s – in Pointe Au Baril on Jergen’s Point island. His parents sold the cottage around 1998. He’s since made a name for himself as one of the world’s best diatonic harmonica players (“diatonic” harmonica is the same 10 hole harmonica that Bob Dylan uses) with many accolades to show for it.

To say that del Junco just plays the harmonica would be like saying Jimi Hendrix was just a guitar player. He blows the blues harp through a prism — suddenly it seems he’s holding every colour in the musical rainbow right there in his hands.

Simultaneously sophisticated and raw, his playing blurs the boundaries between blues and jazz (hence the name for his band “The Blues Mongrels”). The emphasis is on blues, but Carlos and his band are not afraid to merrily traipse off in other directions delivering a seamless fusion of swing,  New Orleans second line grooves, Latin, ska melodies, to swampy roots rock. Ticket info here!

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Key River Fire of 2018 –
The Effects on the Landscape 4 Years Later

August 14 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Ojibway Movie Hut

Presenter: Mike Waddington, McMasters University

Dr. Mike Waddington will report the effects of the massive Key River Fire (Parry Sound 33) of 2018. 

Dr. Waddington and his students have been assessing the effects of the fire on the plants and animals (particularly the at-risk turtles) in the burned areas. Dr. Waddington will have much to say about wildfire, the Georgian Bay landscape, carbon, and climate.

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Shawanaga First Nation 25th Annual Traditional Pow-Wow Aug 20-21

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Derelict Dock Clean Up Day – August 27, 2022

Need Volunteers to Help Get
Boats to Station

In an effort to clean up our shorelines, PaBIA is hosting an abandoned dock day. Old, derelict docks will be towed into the station, and the township will disassemble and dispose of them.

If you have any abandoned docks that you wish to be removed, you can call the Marine Patrol at (647) 545-9283 or email us . This effort is entirely volunteer based. If you are around this August 27, please consider volunteering your time to help tow docks to the station. The more volunteers present, the more docks we can dispose of. With the ongoing support for this initiative, we will be able to clean our shorelines of old dock debris. Sign Up by calling (647-545-9283) or emailing the Marine Patrol.

PaBIA

On-the-Water Boat Maneuverability Coaching

with Randy Johnson, Certified Power Squadron Trainer &

PaBIA Chair of Fire & Boat Safety Committee

NEXT session on August 31

from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Sign-Up NOW via email to the Marine Patrollers or email the Ojibway Club Office and ask to be added to the Coaching Session! 

These are held at the Ojibway back docks

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PaBIA Wajax Fire Pumps!

Do you know where the closest one is to you?

One of the Marine Patrol’s responsibilities is to test the four Wajax fire pumps located around Pointe au Baril biweekly. The map below highlights the locations of the fire pumps located on Barclay Island, the bottom end of Hemlock Channel, Fredericks Inlet, and Ojibway Island.

Instructions for running the Wajax fire pumps are downloadable here! They operate differently than most cottage-owned Hondas…and are more powerful. It’s worth printing out the instructions and familiarizing yourself with how they operate!

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Let’s All Get Onboard with our PFDs!

You Could Win Big Time!

OF INTEREST

Perseids Meteor Shower – Start Watching the Night Sky!

by Trudy Irvine, Education Committee Chair

From The Weather Network app comes a good explanation of when and how to watch the Heavens not only August 12-13 but starting now!

“The peak of the Perseid meteor shower is coming up later this week, but due to the Moon, now may be the best time to go out and see it!

Every year, towards the middle of summer, a display of bright flashes lights up our night skies. From mid-July to late August, Earth passes through a trail of icy debris in space, left behind by a comet known as 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Discovered in 1862, Comet Swift-Tuttle passes by Earth every 133 years, and since its last pass in 1992, it is now far out in the solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune. Still, each year we receive a reminder of its existence in the form of the Perseid meteor shower.”

Click on the icons above to continue to read all about them!

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Bay Notes

COUNCILLORS EARL MANNERS AND SCOTT SHEARD

Ward 3 Neighbourhoods

Frederic Inlet | Lighthouse | Ojibway | Pointe au Baril | Shawanaga Bay | Skerryvore

Below you will see a topical summary of the BAY NOTES. Should you wish to learn more about what our Councillors for Ward 3 are involved with, please email either Scott or Earl to be put on their email list to receive your own complete copy of the BAY NOTES

This is a change to our regular newsletter where we discuss challenges that we should care about in our community. By popular request, we are highlighting ‘how’ to engage with your local government:

1. Detailed Township contact information
2. Key by-law information
3. Who to contact for by-law complaints
4. Waste disposal cards
5. Civic address

Understanding our by-laws will assist us all in being good neighbours.

Good health and nothing but the facts!

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The Kids in the Biosphere Project is a children’s project that includes different outdoor adventures for young people. One week there in the kit was: an owl “pellet”, tweezers, a prob, collector bag, instructions & diagrams that provided guidance for the project. The project was to dissect the pellet and re-create, from the contents, the skeletal remains of whatever the owl happened to have for dinner. The kids found it fascinating.

If you have kids or grandkids and have an interest, there are still kits available for these nature projects Please email GBB ASAP so Tonia at Desmasdons will know how many more additional kits are needed.

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View YouTube to Learn What the Georgian Bay Land Trust is All About
and/or
Visit with the Georgian Bay Land Trust on the Ojibway Docks

The Georgian Bay Land Trust is a charity dedicated to protecting wilderness lands along eastern Georgian Bay and the North Channel, through strategic conservation planning, land securement, stewardship, research, and education. They protect 67 ecologically significant places, including 16 in Pointe au Baril, which provide habitat for 50 species at risk and recreational opportunities for communities.

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Celebration to Honour Emmaline for 50 Years as
Lighthouse Keeper August 20 – Share your Favourite memories with her!

In the Anishinaabe Culture, the Birch Bark Basket symbolizes a connection individually and collectively that binds an individual to their land, ancestors, and each other. The Birch Bark Basket is an expression of experience and how a story is shared during Anishinaabe Cultural Practices.

In the soulful place where earth, sky and water meet nature and embraces the soul, Emmaline Madigan celebrates her 50th year as the Pointe au Baril Lighthouse Keeper. We are asking the community to fill Emmaline’s Birch Bark Basket with their Lighthouse stories, memories, and pictures.

Community members are encouraged to complete this linked form to share their favourite Pointe au Baril Lighthouse memories. The collected stories and photos will be shared with Emmaline once compiled.

For those who would like to share written memories and physical pictures, a traditional Birch Bark Basket will be present at Emmaline’s celebration at the Pointe au Baril Community Centre on August 20th.

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Yearbook Updates

Water Levels

Lakes Michigan/Huron Water Levels August 9^th, 2022 

To better read the charts, please click on the chart for the Daily or Six Month Forecast Water level chart and the corresponding websites

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