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Volume 16 No. 18
Where has the summer gone? As always, it goes by all too quickly. It seems like yesterday that we were all planning the summer! Here’s hoping your summer has been uplifting, restful, and full of family and friends! And doing that in Pointe au Baril is the ultimate gift we all share!
The weather report for yesterday called for heavy rains and high winds. Hope everyone is safe and dry today!
As we bring these weekly eBlasts to a close with this week’s edition, please know that your newly elected Board will continue to work on your behalf throughout the fall/winter/spring to help unite our community while preserving, protecting, supporting, and engaging in the surrounding communities.
Table of Contents In this eBlast:
PaBIA
- On the Water Boater Coaching – TODAY August 28
- PaBIA Sailing Races – this Saturday
- Check out the August Calendar!
OF INTEREST
- Pointe au Baril Library Book Suggestions
- Ojibway Club Post-Season Tennis – Everyone is welcome!
- Ojibway Club Granite Tennis Tournament – Sign Up Now for September 7
- ToA New Mass Notification System
- In Memoriam – George David Schiering
- Yearbook Update – nothing since August 18, 2024
- Lake Michigan-Huron Water Levels – August 22, 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!
On The Water Boater Coaching – Last One Today
Wednesday August – 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!
PaBIA Sailing – Saturday, August 31 @ 2 p.m. for (Bud) Body Bell Buoy Race
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!
POINTE AU BARIL LIBRARY
PAB Community Centre: Monday & Wednesday: 9:30-11:30am
The final week of August requires that we shift from the joyous spontaneity of cottage living to the routine – and, on occasion, stress – of school and work schedules. It can be challenging to find time to read for pleasure or escape. Keep your local library on your ‘must-visit list’. For this next eBlast, the Pointe au Baril Library will feature books by Canadian authors whose stories provide a unique perspective on the Canadian experience. Many of you will have read at least one of these novels.
W.O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen The Wind is a beloved classic about a young boy, Brian O’Connal, growing up in the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The novel’s greatest strengths lie in its sensitive evocations of Brian O’Connal’s “feeling,” sometimes associated with his various experiences of death, sometimes with a child’s fundamental, inarticulate but insistent curiosity to discover the world within and beyond himself. The book is divided into sections – Brian at the age of four, six, eight and eleven years old – as he experiences the joys and sorrows of life in the ‘cocoon’ of smalltown rural Saskatchewan during the years of drought and deprivation.
Gabrielle Roy grew up in a Francophone community in Manitoba in the early 1900s, spent her youth in Europe and returned to Montreal at the onset of the Second World War. Her book Bonheur d’occasion or The Tin Flute is said to have helped lay the foundation for Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. Florentine Lacasse is a 19 year old waitress whose meagre wages support a big family of eleven brothers and sisters in Montreal’s poor working class neighbourhood of St. Henri. Florentine dreams of an escape from the unrelenting poverty and strict religious morality that shapes the life of St. Henri. Her relationship with two men will determine the course of her dream.
Dunstan Ramsey, an aged teacher at Colborne College, is the central character in Robertson Davies’ Fifth Business, the first novel in the Deptford Trilogy. The novel tells the story of Ramsey caught in a no-man’s land where memory, history and myth collide. As Ramsey tells his story it begins to seem that from boyhood he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. The novel is an exceptional read as it explores the world of psychology, demystification and enchantment.
Of Interest
SIGN UP
FOR OUR ANNUAL FUN
GRANITE CUP TENNIS TOURNAMENT
Saturday, September 7th @ 9 am
(Raindate: Sunday, September 8th)
PRE REGISTER BY THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th
to determine teams
Contact BRAD HONSBERGER
POST-SEASON TENNIS
AT THE OJIBWAY
Open to the Community – EVERYONE is welcome!
Tuesday, September 3rd
till
Monday, October 14th
Mixed Round Robin Daily @ 10 am
(Rain Delay, 2 pm)
COME OUT AND ENJOY THE FUN!
The Archipelago’s New Mass Notification System
The Archipelago’s new mass notification system is now officially live! This advanced platform is designed to keep you informed and connected with the latest updates and critical information.
What Makes It Better?
- Instant Alerts: Stay updated with real-time notifications about emergencies, weather updates, and essential public safety information.
- Multiple Channels: Choose your preferred communication method—email, voice call, text message, or voice call on your cell phone—or select all four, ensuring you never miss an important update.
Effective September 20th, 2024, the new mass notification platform will replace the current ENews system. To continue receiving vital updates, you must create a new mass notification profile on the Township website. Please note, if you sign up for the new Mass Notification System now, you may receive duplicate notifications until September 20th.
We are confident that this new system will significantly enhance our communication with you, keeping you informed and prepared!
In Memoriam
George David Schiering, past PaBIA member, A150-24 ‘Keeko’ on Cambria Is., husband of Sara, father of Lisa and Geoffrey, July 24, 2024.
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 22, 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
Please support PaBIA’s Yearbook Advertisers 2024
This site’s advertising feature was created to provide assistance for special local information & events for existing Yearbook advertisers only.
Emergency
• PaB Nursing Station
• Canadian Coast Guard
Search and Rescue
800-267-7270
• PaBIA Emergency info