Sturgeon Point Association General

The City of Kawartha Lakes & our Roads……

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Roads were the topic of conversation at this week’s council meeting.

On Tuesday, the council of City of Kawartha Lakes endorsed a controversial proposed five-year roads capital plan.  This plan has Forest Road to be repaved in 2016.

Today’s Lindsay Post wrote an article about what happened at this week’s meeting and how the councilor’s felt about this road plan:  http://www.thepost.ca/2012/10/04/road-plan-tabled

Our Councilor, Brian Junkin, was quoted to say “he was not totally in favour of the five-year-plan, saying he had visited with three associations in his ward recently, having to tell one their road was “not even on the radar. They weren’t happy,” and another one they weren’t slated until 2016.   I was lucky to get out of there in one piece”

Brian Junkin did however vote in support of the plan.  He is quoted to say in the article that the plan is a work in progress and will be looked at yearly.

The SPA board is taking this topic of our roads very serious and meeting to discuss how to get them in better standing.

Fall newsletter just released!

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The new SPA president has just written her first newsletter and it was distributed today. The newsletter can also be found on our website with all past newsletters under the Archives page.

If you are not on our mailing list and would like to be, please send a note saying so to [email protected]. Membership is not necessary to be on our email distribution list. Naturally we don’t share the distribution list with anyone, for any reason.

Happy reading and wishing everyone a great Thanksgiving weekend.

Secondary Plan Meetings: Tomorrow, Today!

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The next round of meetings for developing the Secondary Plan for the City of Kawartha Lakes is happening in October and is called Tomorrow, Today! Event Series

Bobcaygeon * Fenelon Falls * Lindsay * Omemee * Woodville
tomorrow, today!

Calling all residents!

How will we live, work and play in the future?

Could you imagine what your hometown might be like in 20 years from now?  Or 50? Could you explain it in words or pictures?  And would your neighbours’ ideas be the same as or different than yours?

What would you do today to make your hometown better for everyone tomorrow?

Please join us for an insightful look at what other communities are doing to help create a better place for their citizens and businesses.  From these stories, challenge yourself to create and share your vision for your hometown’s future.  Your vision just might be the one that gets chosen to be the official vision for your hometown!

Bring your friends, family and neighbours – all ages are encouraged to attend!

This is a free event and refreshments will be served!

All events are from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Please join us at the event in your hometown:

  • Bobcaygeon – October 25th, Bobcaygeon Service Centre, 123 East Street South
  • Fenelon Falls – October 19th, Fenelon Library, 19 Market Street
  • Lindsay – October 27th, Victoria Room, City Hall, 26 Francis St.
  • Omemee – October 26th, Coronation Hall, 1 King St. West
  • Woodville – October 18th, Woodville Arena, 105 Union Street

The “Tomorrow, Today!” event series is sponsored by the City of Kawartha Lakes. It’s part of our activities to help create  “Community Based Secondary Plans” to guide growth, manage development, and conserve our Urban Settlements.

For more information, please visit our website www.city.kawarthalakes.on.ca or contact Michael Benner at [email protected] or 1.888.822.2225 ext. 1330.

Who is to manage the Trent Severn Waterway?

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Our MP, Barry Devolin, produced a statement that is calling for a new agency to manage and operate the Trent Severn Waterway.  Below is that press release.

“DEVOLIN CALLS FOR NEW AGENCY TO MANAGE AND OPERATE

THE TRENT SEVERN WATERWAY”

 HALIBURTON – Local MP Barry Devolin is calling for the creation of a new independent agency to manage the Trent Severn Waterway (TSW), and that public safety and health should be the top priority of this new agency.

“I have come to believe that people and communities in this region would be better served by an independent agency managing the Trent Severn Waterway, rather than Parks Canada,” said Devolin.  “As such, my intention is to table a Private Members Bill this fall that would create a crown corporation which would manage and operate the TSW.”

Devolin said he reached this conclusion earlier this summer while listening to public input regarding decisions senior management at Parks Canada was making about the length of the Trent Severn Waterway’s navigational season.

“The Trent Severn is not your typical national park. It’s part nature, and part man-made,” said Devolin. “As such, I think it deserves a management structure better tailored to that reality.”

“During the public consultations over the summer, many of the people I spoke with agreed that the TSW needs to be seen as more of an economic driver and attraction whose management acts in a more proactive manor to keep and lure visitors to this area,” said Devolin.  “I think this new structure I am proposing could more easily navigate the TSW in that direction.”

The Trent Severn Waterway is a complex water management system in a central Ontario region that spans more than 18,000 square kilometers, and is home to more than one million residents. Man-made structures owned and operated by the TSW include 150 dams, 45 locks, and 39 swing bridges.

 The TSW is best known for its 386 kilometre-long historic canal that connects Lake Ontario at Trenton with Lake Huron at Port Severn. There are more than 125,000 private and commercial properties along this navigational channel, with thousands more on reservoir lakes in Haliburton County and other areas.

For more information contact:  Barry Devolin, MP – (705) 324-2400 or (866) 688-9881