PaBIA's Vision: To Preserve This Unique Natural Habitat for Generations to Come
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Happy New Year PaBIAers! Let's hope 2022 provides us with a full, uninterrupted summer despite the omicron surge presently being felt in Ontario and around the globe.
Your Board is working hard to provide you with a complete summer of activities, from July 1 - Labour Day while it continues to work behind the scenes to protect and preserve our precious natural environment, support our community recreation and safety, and engage with relevant organizations to help us achieve our vision!!!
Specifically, PaBIA Marine Patrol Directors are looking for those who may have university-aged children or grandchildren who might be interested in a summer on the water representing PaBIA! See below for much more information. And get ready for the return of the Regattas in July...we are already revving up! Check out the blurbs below!
And finally, we are working to shorten the length of each eBlast going forward, with links for longer articles that, should you feel led, you can further explore the topic via the links. Let us know how we are doing by emailing Hilde! All suggestions/observations are welcomed!
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In this eBlast:
- Marine Patrol 2022 - Applicants Wanted
- PaBIA Membership Dues In the Mail and NEW Flagpole burgees for Sale
- Growing Importance of Indigenous Issues
- Meet the Dynamic Trio - Junior Regatta's Team for 2022
OF INTEREST
- PaB in the Winter w Jesse Hutchinson - a video
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A Collaborative Conservation Project on the (GB) coast - Georgian Bay Biosphere
- Excessively Loud Boats Driving You Crazy?
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Lake Michigan-Huron Water Levels - December 30, 2021 and January 10, 2022
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Yearbook Update - January 7, 2022
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In Memoriam - Sarah Bradshaw, Mary Moloney & Graham Smith
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WANTED: Marine Patrol Applicants for 2022
Do you, or someone in your family have an interest and ability to serve your community? Protect the environment? Participate in scientific testing? Promote boating safety and the interests of a dynamic community association?
The Pointe au Baril Islanders’ Association (PaBIA) is seeking students currently enrolled in grade 12 or university/college with a strong interest in the local environment, protecting community quality of life, and promoting better boating safety. (Please pass this eBlast on if someone in your family might have an interest),
The employment period is Sunday, June 19th to Saturday, September 3rd, 2022. Training will be provided from June 19th—June 30th. Typically, the Marine Patrollers work as a team and have Tuesdays and Wednesdays of each week as their days off. Current certificates for Standard First Aid/CPR-C/AED and a boat operator’s license are required.
The Marine Patrol position demands maturity, dedication, and teamwork. Individuals will be required to work autonomously, follow well-defined protocols, and demonstrate sound decision-making in advancing PaBIA’s agenda and those of its partners: Georgian Bay Land Trust and the Canadian Coast Guard. It is a ‘resume-worthy’ position with attractive compensation for students who are looking for a demanding position with serious responsibilities.
A detailed job description can be found here or on PaBIA's website. For those students interested in a Marine Patrol position, please apply for the 2022 Summer Program by email with:
- a cover letter,
- resume
- references
US citizens are welcome to apply!
The DEADLINE for receipt of all resumes is February 18th, 2022. Telephone interviews will be conducted the week of March 7th - March 11th, 2022 and successful candidates will be notified by March 21st, 2022.
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PaBIA 2022 Membership Dues
ALL the 2022 membership dues notices were mailed on Monday! Please remember there are three ways to pay:
Please also know that the invoices (no matter how you pay) also provide you the opportunity to buy extra tags, books, stickers...AND the new PaBIA flagpole burgees that are now at a lower price (thanks Nancy!) Let's support PaBIA!
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Growing Importance of Indigenous Issues
Hi everyone,
At our AGM in September, I was pleased to be appointed as Director of Indigenous Affairs and Relations with Shawanaga First Nation.
In my initial contacts with members of the SFN, including new Chief Adam Pawis, I have found them to be friendly, progressive and to share the same love that we have for our lands and waters. And because we are both committed to
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preserving and protecting our unique environment, we are finding ways to work together on things like water quality testing, phragmites eradication, and developing a protected and conserved area for Shawanaga Island.
John Ralston Saul, author, and fellow Georgian Bay cottager has written in his book, A Fair Country, Telling Truths about Canada, that Canada is a “Métis nation” and heavily influenced and shaped by aboriginal ideas. He says that we will fulfill our true potential as a nation only when we come to terms with our indigenous nature.
We hope that the content we share with you over these next months will stimulate learning, conversation, and ultimately, better individual and collective decision-making on indigenous questions. And I will always be happy to hear from any of you who wish to share your views on what we are doing.
Director
Indigenous Affairs and Relations with Shawanaga First Nation
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Meet PaBIA's Dynamic Trio - the Junior Regatta Team for 2022
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Esmee Taylor
Hi! My name is Esmée Taylor. I have been coming up to Pointe au Baril every year since I was born and it has always held a special place in my heart. I am part of a long generation of family members who spent their summers in Pointe au Baril, creating a wide connection of family and close friends in the area. My parents are PaBIA members and I participated in the Junior Regatta every summer I was eligible. As someone who has always enjoyed the regattas, I look to create the same experience for the upcoming participants and am beyond excited to be apart of the 2022 Junior Regatta planning committee.
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Hi! I'm Sophie Cooke and I will be a part of the Junior Regatta this upcoming summer. I’ve been spending my summer up in Pointe au Baril since I was a baby and there is no place I would rather be. The regatta is such a special event, one that I used to participate in every year with my friends from the Ojibway Camp. In summer 2021, I was the Assistant Head of Recreation at camp and am currently in my 3rd year at Queen’s University. I’m excited and looking forward to getting the kids back in their canoes for the 2022 regatta!
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Georgia Dilay
Hi there! My name is Georgia Dilay and I am so exited to be apart of the 2022 Junior Regatta planning committee. I feel so proud being a member of the Pointe au Baril community. I have spent my summers in Pointe au Baril my entire life. My mom grew up coming to Pointe au Baril for summers and created a variety of relationships, which I am lucky enough to enjoy. My parents are members of PaBIA and I have always been an eager participant in the Junior Regatta. I am extremely exited to cheer on and encourage you all this summer!
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Pointe au Baril in Winter
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Have you ever wondered what Pointe au Baril looked like during winter? Or have you been one of the lucky ones who has actually snowshoed, cross-country skied and/or ski-mobiled out to their cottage or ventured out into the open?
If not, take a ride with Jesse Hutchinson as he rides out the main channel in his Hovercraft! Thanks, Jesse, for sharing your ride with us!
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A Collaborative Conservation Project on the Coast
The Maamwi Anjiakiziwin (mah-m-wey ahn-jee ah-kih-zihwin) initiative is a collaboration of local leaders in ecological, cultural, and planning work along eastern Georgian Bay.
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Maamwi Anjiakiziwin is part of a larger Canada-wide program called Community Nominated Priority Places (CNPP). The CNPP program is administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada through its Canada Nature Fund, which supports partnerships in protecting and recovering species at risk in Canada. Rather than focusing efforts on a single species, CNPP aims to conserve multiple species and entire ecosystems. Funding is provided for four years (beginning in 2019); however, the intention is to develop long-term strategies to sustain CNPP collaborations into the future. This federal program currently supports 15 CNPP projects across Canada, one of which is Maamwi Anjiakiziwin here in the UNESCO Georgian Bay Biosphere region.
The multi-species conservation approach is no small task, and to be successful the Maamwi Anjiakiziwin initiative relies on the power of collaboration. This partnership includes communities, organizations, municipalities, and individuals – many of whom have been researching species at risk on the Georgian Bay coast for years before this initiative began. The goal is that the relationships, understanding, and approaches developed through this initiative will be carried on for generations to come.
This introduction to Maamwi Anjiakiziwin will explain our collaborative approach and highlight some of our main priorities for conservation on eastern Georgian Bay.
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Excessively Loud Boats Driving You Crazy?
With your help, the Decibel Coalition is going to change this in Canada.
Excessively loud boat motor noise caused by high-performance boats with no mufflers has been a persistent and pervasive problem on Canadian waterways for many years.
All boats in Canada must have a working muffler. (Small Vessel Regulations SOR/2010-91) However, it is too difficult to enforce so police and enforcement agencies will not lay charges and the problem continues to grow unstopped. Effective and efficient enforcement requires the addition of performance standards for mufflers, measured in decibels, with easy-to-implement measurement and enforcement procedures.
The Decibel Coalition was formed in the fall of 2019 by Safe Quiet Lakes with the objective of lobbying Transport Canada to enhance the regulation to include decibel limits on boat motor noise. Today we have over 40 lake associations as members representing over 90,000 and growing, waterfront and inland property owners in BC, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec. We also have 7 Ontario municipalities and one in BC that support our objectives.
This is not overly complicated or new. About 30 states in the USA have had decibel limits in place, some since the late 1980s. The EU has decibel standards on boat motor noise as well. The decibel limits set are very consistent. Canada needs to modernize its regulations and to bring us up to international standards.
Please sign this petition and add comments. Tell us a story about where and how excessively loud boats affect your peace and quiet. Your stories will help us convince the Canadian Government and Transport Canada that the regulations need to be improved and get excessively noisy boats off our waterways!
The petition is simple:
Enhance the Small Vessel Regulation SQR/2019-91 to include performance standards on boat mufflers measured in decibels with efficient and effective enforcement procedures. This will give enforcement agencies the tools they need and make our waterways quieter, more respectful and more enjoyable for all.
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Lakes Michigan/Huron Water Levels Dec. 30, 2021 & Jan. 10, 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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Above December 30, 2021 - so the entire year at a glance;
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Yearbook Update! (as of Jan 7 th)
With each eBlast, we will provide you a list of names for those members who have provided updated contact information. The details of all the changes since the 2021 yearbook came out in late April are provided in THIS printable format for you to print out and insert into your own Yearbook!
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In Memoriam
Sarah Bradshaw, A501 - 4 ‘Asumaya’ on Nadeau Is., mother of Angus and Quinn Docherty, daughter of Suzanne and the late Jim Bradshaw, sister of Miranda (Peter Sorensen), Ben (Anna-Lisa Brewer), and Tim (Rindy), January 2022.
Mary Moloney (nee Bryce), past PaBIA member, A417 - 1 ‘Manadaka’, wife of the late Dan Moloney, mother of Bryce (Daniela) and Siobhan (Duncan) Chivers, sister of Nancy Bryce, David (Sandra) Bryce, and Kathryn (Don) Burns, November 2021.
Graham Smith, A417 - 3 ‘Jingwatik’, Past PaBIA Director and ‘Unsung Hero’ award recipient 2011, brother of Peter (Linda Mansfield-Smith) and the late Beth Smith Lahti, uncle of Jacob Lahti and Claudia Lahti, cousin of the late Mary Moloney, David (Sandra) Bryce and Kathryn (Don) Burns, December 2021.
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PaBIA's MIssion is to unite our island and coastal community while preserving and protecting
its unique natural environment, supporting community recreation involvement and safety. and
engaging with relevant organizations to help us achieve the vision of the Association
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