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Volume 16 No. 16
We were delighted you joined us for either/both the PaBIA Naturalist or/and “All Too Clear” documentary! We are so fortunate to have GBB nearby and GBF continuing to keep us aware of our ecosystem and its role in keeping our waters pristine and healthy.
Still ahead this summer is more sailing, the SFN PowWow, On-the-Water Boater Coaching, the ToA Online Open House for the draft new By-laws, and a shout-out to everyone to send in your pictures and stories of this summer!
Table of Contents In this eBlast:
PaBIA
- Celebrating Pointe au Baril Icons – Emmaline Madigan and Bill Pugsley – Saturday, August 18th
- ToA Online Open House on August 22nd for the
- New Draft Tree Preservation and
- Draft Site Alteration By-Laws
- On the Water Boater Coaching – August 21 & 28
- Summer PaB Photos and Stories
- PaBAR and PaBIA Sailing Races – this Saturday
- Check out the August Calendar!
OF INTEREST
- Science North at the Pointe au Baril Community Centre TODAY
- SFN PowWow This Weekend
- Pointe au Baril Library Book Suggestions
- Thank you Helen Lutscher – PaB Postmistress for Over 20 Years
- GBA Update – late July edition
- Yearbook Update – nothing new since July 15, 2024
- Lake Michigan-Huron Water Levels – August 8, 2024
PaBIA
Missing/Broken Markers Contact Info
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Should you find any
misplaced, missing or broken
PaBIA markers, please
email Tom Cavers IMMEDIATELY or
go to PaBIAi’s webpage!
Summer Photos & Stories
While you are (hopefully) still in Pointe au Baril, please consider photographs you might like to share and stories that need telling for the 2025 PaBIA Yearbook. Our yearbook is only as good as the pics & stories that populate the pages. It’s our combined efforts that tell the story that is uniquely PaB and reminds us of how special our paradise really is.
Celebrating Pointe au Baril Icons –
Emmaline Madigan and Bill Pugsley
Our beloved Emmaline Madigan and Bill Pugsley have decided that this will be their last summer as “Keepers of the Light” at the Pointe au Baril Lighthouse. They are retiring and would like an opportunity to say “so long” to anyone who wishes to drop by the lighthouse between 2 – 6 pm on Saturday, August 18th. Rather than gifts, please just bring cards and your well wishes. There will be cake and some refreshments served.
Docking is available at the lighthouse and next door at Jim and Cheryl Forth’s. From Forth’s, there is a path from their dock to the lighthouse.
On The Water Boater Coaching –
Wednesdays – August 21 & 28
Randy Johnson, PaBIA Boating Safety Chair and Power Squadron trainer will be conducting his training sessions at the Ojibway back docks for those who would like to learn better skills for maneuvering their boats. Each person would be trained using their own boats to maximize the learning experience.
Please sign up in the Ojibway Office!
PaBAR and PaBIA Sailing – Saturday, August 17 @ 11 a.m. & 2 p.m.
PaBIA PaBAR sailing races are Saturday near Turning Island @ 11 a.m. with a summer picnic lunch following. Then PaBIA’s 5th and 6th sailing races in the August series will begin at 2 p.m.
Don’t forget to sign up for the PaBIA dinner at the Ojibway Club by emailing the office.
Everyone is encouraged to come and join in. If you’d like more information regarding the sailing, and opportunities to join a crew, contact PaBIA’s Sailing Commodore, Andrew Vanderwal.
Should you wish to get weekly, more detailed information regarding the sailing races & rendezvous following each race, please email Andrew to be added to the list. The full year’s schedule can be found on PaBIA’s website!
ToA Public Open Houses for the
New Draft Tree Preservation and Draft Site Alteration By-Laws
The Township of the Archipelago will host two public open houses to gather public feedback on the revised Draft Tree Preservation and Draft Site Alteration By-Laws.
- An In-person Open House on August 13th from 2:00 – 4:00 pm at the Pointe au Baril Community Centre, and
- An Online Open House on August 22nd from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. You can register here for the online open house, where you can also submit comments online and read the revised drafts.
The revisions include significant changes to the Draft Tree Preservation By-Law, which, if passed as currently written, would prohibit clear-cutting, as well as destroying native shoreline vegetation and trees within the shoreline buffer area, (the first 7.5 metres from the shoreline). This means that property owners would be free to cut trees on their property outside of the 7.5 metre shoreline buffer, as long as it is not clear-cutting. There are exceptions currently written to allow for many regular property maintenance activities within the shoreline buffer area, including removing damaged trees, or trees that obstruct a solar panel, for example.
The Draft Site Alteration By-Law remains largely unchanged, but both revised drafts make it possible for the Township’s Manager of Development and Environmental Services to grant exceptions and impose conditions to allow for quicker processing.
POINTE AU BARIL LIBRARY
PAB Community Centre: Monday & Wednesday: 9:30-11:30am
The three books highlighted by the Pointe au Baril Library this week focus on the Indigenous experience in the forms of non-fiction, autobiography and fiction. These selections provide a nudge – a push – an illuminating perspective that will inspire a fresh vision for all of us in Canada.
In this remarkable non-fiction book, Valley of the Birdtail, Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) reflect on what has gone wrong in relations between Indigenous Peoples and non-Indigenous Canadians over the last 150 years. Divided by a beautiful valley and a legacy of racism, the town of Rossburn and the Waywayseecappo Indian reserve have been neighbours nearly as long as Canada has been a country. The purpose of this book – and hope – is to bring a new perspective to this experience; a shift in mindset critical to Canada’s future. Several PaBIA members highly recommend the book.
Thomson Highway’s memoir, Permanent Astonishment, was published in 2021 during the isolation of Covid which meant that many readers did not have immediate access to the library. Every page of this autobiography exudes the spirit, energy, passion, and pain of Highway’s life story. It begins dramatically with his birth in a snowbank in the wintery cold of northern Manitoba. The formative stages of his journey are marked by his experience in residential school and university and, ultimately, by his role as an honoured and highly respected playwright and novelist. Humour and pathos share a bond in this memoir, but the joy of living dominates Thomson Highway’s story.
Many of us know Waub Rice through his readings at the Stockey Centre and his appearances from time to time on local radio and TV. He is an Anishinaabe writer and journalist from the Wasauksing First Nation. Moon of the Turning Leaves is the long-awaited sequel to the best-selling Moon of the Crusted Snow, an apocalyptic story of darkness, resilience, and hope in a northern First Nation community. Moon of the Turning Leaves picks up the story years later with a new generation of the Anishinaabe community who are forced by circumstance to return again to their traditional home on the shores of Lake Huron.
Of Interest
Science North at the Pointe au Baril Community Centre THIS Afternoon
Join Science North on August 14th from 1 pm – 4 pm for a day of “Imagineering” at the Pointe au Baril Community Centre!
Visitors will use the engineering method to brainstorm, design, and test various engineering and architecture challenges! From building and testing your very own race care and marble tracks to learning about electricity by building circuits, this event is sure to engage future engineers of all ages!
Through the support of the Township of The Archipelago, this event is free of charge and open to all ages.
See the poster below for further details.
Thank You Helen Lutscher, PaB Postmistress, For Everything!
From Helen Lutscher. This is a bittersweet moment for me that I am announcing my retirement from the Canada Post after serving over 20 years. My last day at the Post Office will be September 20, 2024.
I have met a lot of wonderful customers who have become more than acquaintances to me. It was a pleasure to have served and helped you as much as possible.
I have lived in the PaB community for over 34 years and become good friends with a great many of you. I hope this connection continues!
My life path is taking a new direction, not only to spend more time with my family and friends, but also to travel with my husband, Michael, while we can!
In conclusion, I would like to thank each of you for the memories and all the best of health and happiness to you and yours.
SFN Pow Wow – Saturday and Sunday THIS Weekend
Aanii to all!
We are counting the days until the Shawanaga First Nation’s 27th Annual Pow-Wow. This is a wonderful opportunity to support our Shawanaga First Nation (SFN) neighbours and join in celebrating their rich culture. Several of your PaBIA directors plan to attend the event on Saturday, August 17 for the Grand Entry at noon (rain date is August 18). It’s absolutely your choice to come on Saturday, Sunday or both days, but we encourage you to bring your family and join us August 17.
We will also try to coordinate departure from the station to the SFN Traditional grounds. The location of the Pow-Wow is well-marked and easy for visitors to find.
Please let Helen Bryce know if you can come and she will send you some additional info. Miigwech!
In the late July edition:
- A UNESCO Geopark designation in Georgian Bay?
- There’s still time to email your MP about the capital gains tax changes
- TC Energy’s internal “playbook” video leaked
- What Transport Canada heard from you on VORRs and long-term anchoring
- Township of the Archipelago announces public consultations for Site Alteration and Tree Preservation Bylaws
- The summer edition of UPDATE is now online
- Could Our Lakes Benefit from an Annual Checkup?
- Don’t Miss the Premiere of All Too Clear: Beneath the Surface of the Great Lakes
- Are you the Georgian Bay Land Trust’s next Executive Director?
- Reminder – New Rules About Dogs Crossing the US Border Take Effect August 1
- Water Levels Report
Click on the logo or this link for the latest from the GBA
Georgian Bay Biosphere
Yearbook Update
With each eBlast, we will provide you a list of names of those members who have provided updated contact information. The details of all the changes since the 2023 yearbook came out in early May are provided in THIS printable format for you to print out and insert into your own Yearbook! Changes as of June 23 are below.
For reporting Markers’ problems
contact Tom Cavers by cell (pg. 267 in yearbook) or email
For contacting Secretary-Treasurer and Asst. Sec. Treas.
Nancy Rogers and Elise Findlay: contact.pabia@gmail-com
Water Levels
Lakes Michigan/Huron Water Levels August 8, 2024.
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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Emergency
• PaB Nursing Station
• Canadian Coast Guard
Search and Rescue
800-267-7270
• PaBIA Emergency info