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Volume 16 No. 15
Thank you, Meghan Allen, Kate Pitfield, and your volunteers for putting on a spectacular Senior Regatta, complete with a perfect GB Day. It takes a village to make PaBIA events successful -and this was no exception!
Please know that the fire danger level has been raised to high – so please click on the flame to understand what the yellow logo means.
There is so much going on this next week: the Ojibway Art Show starting tomorrow online, PaBIA Naturalist on Sunday morning, and GBF’s “All Too Clear” movie with Producer Yvonne Drebert and
Director Zach Melnick on Tuesday afternoon! Be sure to check out all the details below!
Table of Contents In this eBlast:
PaBIA
- PaBIA Naturalist – Sunday, August 11
- PaBIA Film Series: GBF and Inspired Planet Productions: All Too Clear Tuesday, August 13 @ 3 pm
- ToA Public Open Houses for the New Draft Tree Preservation and Draft Site Alteration By-Laws
- Thanking the Metcalfes for Sponsoring Single Girl’s Canoe Jr Regatta Plaque for Many Years
- Check out the August Calendar!
OF INTEREST
- Ojibway Club Art Show – August 8-11
- Ojibway Club Art Show – Calling for Volunteers
- GBLT – Nature Walk on Friend Island
- Pointe au Baril Library Book Suggestions
- Arts on the Bay – Wednesday, August 7
- GBB – Is That White Foam Pollution?
- GBA Update – late July edition
- Yearbook Update – nothing new since July 15, 2024
- Lake Michigan-Huron Water Levels – August 5, 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!
PaBIA PaBAR Sailing – Saturday, August 10 @ 2 p.m.
PaBIA sailing races are THIS Sunday for the 3st and 4nd sailing races in the August series to be held near Turning Island. 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!
Coming August 13th @ 3 pm
“All Too Clear:
Beneath the Surface of
the Great Lakes”
with Producer Yvonne Drebert and
Director Zach Melnick
All Too Clear uses cutting-edge underwater drones to explore how quadrillions of tiny invasive mussels are re-engineering the ecosystem of North America’s Great Lakes at a scale not seen since the glaciers. The mussels are trapping nutrients, the building blocks of life, on the lake bottom.
In the exploration using an underwater camera, they found the Africa, a late 1800s ship that went down and had never been found until 2019!
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.
Thanking the Metcalfes for their
Many Years of Sponsoring a Junior Regatta Plaque
Thank you to Robert & Kathy Metcalfe for their many years of sponsorship for the Junior Regatta’s “Metcalfe Family” plaque for the Girls Single Canoe Race winner.
Sponsorship is now open for that event’s award. Please contact Elise Findlay for details if you’re interested in being the new sponsor!
POINTE AU BARIL LIBRARY
PAB Community Centre: Monday & Wednesday: 9:30-11:30am
The 19th of August 2024 is unusual as it marks the rising of the third of four moons in our astronomical seasonal summer. We call it the Blue Moon, not because it is actually blue, but because it is rare to observe four full moons in one season. The wonder and awe of this phenomenon inspire the library readings for this week. They are rooted in mythological and fantastical storytelling. Two of the recommendations are reviews by young readers. For those of you who prefer to begin with the historical narrative as a foundation, I do recommend Mary Beard’s bestselling Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World.
The Fourth Wing is the first book in the adult fantasy collection, the Empyrean Series, by American writer Rebecca Yarros. It follows in the footsteps of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones with its theme of absolute dominance achieved through the brutal tactics of all-out war. In the Fourth Wing new recruits enter Basgiath War College where there are only two ways out: graduate or die. The main character, Violet, is forced to train as a dragon rider, an elite force in which the candidates must companion with a dragon to engage the enemy in a battle of total war.
A review by 9-year old Cohen. Percy Jackson And The Olympians: The Lightening Thief is the first in a series of seven fantasy books. “I’d give the book 5 stars because of the intense adventures. The Greek characters are powerful. I liked how Percy, Annabeth, and Grover have a dangerous quest to get back the Master Bolt. Percy, son of Poseidon and a human mother and Annabeth, daughter of Athena and human father are half-bloods; Grover is a satyr – half goat, half human. I’m on the third book and I love them.”
A review by 7-year old Ada Sally. Goddess Girls: Athena The Brain is the first in a boxset of 10 books. “I like Athena The Brain a lot because it’s the first chapter book I ever read by myself. Athena’s father is Zeus, god of the sky, and he’s the principal at Mount Olympus Academy, a special school for girl goddesses. Athena is a goddess and she’s smart so her Dad makes her come to the Academy to get even smarter. She also does not know anything about her family. She hopes she will fit in.”
Of Interest
Art Show 2024 Market Place line up is now out + Volunteers needed + Art Show Breakfast
Our Art show website is now live! You can start making a list of your favourite pieces so you are ready to buy on August 8th when the shopping starts! Speaking of shopping our Marketplace details are now out!
Marketplace – August 9 & 10
Many of your favourite vendors are returning plus we are welcoming some new participants this year. Come shop for clothing, jewelry, pottery, woodwork, home accessories, fibre artwork, prints and cards.
Many of the vendors are listed on our website HERE —
The MARKETPLACE kicks off on Friday August 9th at 5:00 pm with the Opening Night Reception –
all ages welcome to attend.
Hours are:
Friday Opening Night Reception 5-7 pm
Saturday 10-4 pm
Art Show Breakfast
Our annual Art Show Breakfast is hosting 3 amazing artists this year. Please join us on:
Saturday, August 10th at 9 am for a lovely breakfast with the following artists:
Christie Matheson
Kyle Sorensen
&
Peter Adams
Please contact the Ojibway Club office for tickets
IMPORTANT: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for the Art Show!
We are seeking volunteers to help at the Ojibway Club Art Show and Marketplace again this year. Many roles need to be filled to help run the show smoothly!
You can support the beloved Ojibway Club fundraiser by
- Helping out in the gallery for a few hours,
- Manning a vendor’s booth,
- Helping at check-out for the Marketplace (if you are quick and precise with numbers)!
- Boating artists and vendors to and from Desmasdons?
- Email Madeleine Arsenault about other opportunities where you could assist!
It is a great deal of fun, and we so appreciate any contribution of your time and effort.
Sign up by clicking on this: sign up volunteer sheet or contact via email: Madeleine Arsenault directly.
“Is That White Foam Pollution?
No! It is naturally occurring oils from decomposing plants and animals.The oils float to the surface and reduce the surface tension of the water. With reduced surface tension, wind and wave action introduce air into the mix forming bubbles. This is the same process that occurs in your kitchen sink!
To learn more take a look at this blog post from GBB or this one from Severn Sound Environmental Association
Nature Walk on Friend Island
August 7th, 10 am – 12 pm
Join the Georgian Bay Land Trust for a naturalist’s tour of Friend Island, led by our Protected Areas Manager Aaron Rusak. You’ll learn the names of the flowers and other plants found on Pointe au Baril’s outer islands, and hopefully see some interesting animal life too! Register here.
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
Wanted: Nominations for Champions of the Bay Award
The GBA is seeking nominations for the newly minted Champions of the Bay of the Bay award. This award for environmental stewardship is designed to recognize the efforts of individuals who through their actions preserve our continuing commitment to volunteerism, local initiatives, and above all, the preservation of our beautiful Georgian Bay.
The online nomination form on the GBA website is user-friendly; we encourage PaBIA members to take it upon themselves to be Guardians of Pointe au Baril and become stewards of the Bay. Help recognize those difference makers who enhance, even in the smallest measure, our collective affection for PaB and Georgian Bay. We encourage members to participate in this local and regional initiative. No effort is too small!
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 5, 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