PRIMARY RESIDENCE Association Our Lake... Street # ______Our Legacy... Family* Membership Registration- $60 Street Name ______* Family is defined as up to 2 parents and their children The Big Rideau Lake Association under 21 years of age is a volunteer association dedicated City ______Please complete all sections of this Registration and pay by: to promoting good lake stewardship for its family members with OPTION 1: Cheque (payable to BRLA) | Mail this Province/State ______completed Registration and your cheque to: programs like: Big Rideau Lake Association, Postal Code ______PO Box 93, Portland, ON K0G 1V0 • Marine Safety - Shoal Markers OPTION 2: Credit Card (VISA only) | Mail this completed Registration including your VISA details to: • Canada Day Fireworks Big Rideau Lake Association, Home Phone ______- From Cow Island PO Box 93, Portland, ON K0G 1V0 • Recreation Cell Phone ______- Sailing Camp ______| ______Visa card # Expiry - Day Camp e-mail ______- Family Aquatic Regatta ______| ______Name on card Signature • Social COTTAGE RESIDENCE - Dinner Dance OPTION 3: Online | You can pay by PayPal (or mail - Summer Sounds a cheque later) by going to Big Island looking east www.bigrideaulakeasociation.com, click Street # ______• Youth Group from the Narrows Membership/New Member Registration - Self-directed activities and complete the form on-line. Street Name ______• Driftwords Membership is for a 12 month term starting April 1st each year. - Seasonal member newsletter City ______Big Rideau Lake This registration starts April 1, ______• Government Relations Postal Code ______(Insert Year) - Federal — Parks Canada New Membership Renewal & Association Cottage Phone ______- Provincial — Ministry of Natural Resources ALL APPLICANTS Cottage e-mail ______- Regional — Rideau Valley Cottagers, boaters Conservation Authority Family Name Tay Valley / / Drummond/North Elmsley and year round residents - Municipal — Tay Valley Township (circle one) ______Township, Township of all agree — BOATER — MARINE RESIDENCE Rideau Lakes, Township of Drummond/North Elmsley this lake is the Parent’s First Name(s) jewel of the Rideau (last name if different from Family Name above) • Education Boat Name ______- Shoreline protection Waterway system. ______- Local history Marina ______Boat Phone ______

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______Signature ______Date www.bigrideaulakeassociation.com ______www.bigrideaulakeassociation.com The Rideau Lakes Environmental Foundation is a charitable foundation, President’s Message registered with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). It supports on-the-ground environmental projects in the Upper Rideau, Lower Rideau and Big Rideau Lake area and works closely Spring is here and we’re excited about another In 1968 the Big Rideau Lake Association was formally It is from Cow Island that we run: with members of the local lake associations, with glorious summer on the Big Rideau! constituted as a not-for-profit corporation. As such it the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA), • Canada Day Fireworks – operates with minimal overhead - it has no employees - and with other provincial and local authorities in Canada Day Weekend I am writing to invite you to become a member of and all donations are turned back into membership monitoring and addressing current issues. the Big Rideau Lake Association (BRLA) today. programs and activities. • Sailing Camp* – First 2 weeks in July 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM In the past several years, we have provided funding Your $60 annual membership will help you and In the 1990’s, the BRLA created the Rideau Lakes to assist projects such as: • Kids Day Camp* – your family: Environmental Association as a charitable foundation 5 weeks in July/August 9:00 AM to Noon • shoreline planting and restoration projects; • Protect your lake and its surroundings now dedicated to funding environmental projects on the • maintaining over 100 marker buoys in the and for future generations, Rideau Lakes. Donations to the RLEF are tax • Summer Sounds* – Upper Rideau and Big Rideau Lakes; • Enhance your safety and enjoyment while deductible and can be made through our website Live music, food and wine • water quality testing and reporting; on the lake, www.bigrideaulakesassociation.com. • environmental education projects at Cow Island • Socialize with other members from around • Family Aquatic Regatta – on Big Rideau Lake and the Foley Mountain the lake, and, Today, BRLA members volunteer countless hours Watersports for the whole family facility of the RVCA. • Promote community’s interests to local, delivering programs to benefit both the community • Family Fun Poker Run – Time TBA provincial and federal government agencies. at large and our members individually. • Barbecue & Evening Boat Cruise* – August TBA The impacts of cutbacks in Provincial budgets are evident with markedly reduced levels The BRLA has a 100 year history on these lakes, All boaters use the 108 shoal markers we * indicates additional donation required of boots-on-the-ground by Ministry of Natural having evolved from the Big Rideau Lake Aquatic maintain from Narrows Lock to . Resources (MNR) personnel in 2012 and 2013. and Protective Association, which was set up to So please, either: There have been improvements in water quality “protect and preserve” our lake. BRLA members have the added benefit of easily Detach the attached registration form, fill it in, over the past few years and we believe that the accessing the individual GPS co-ordinates of each complete one of the first two payment options Rideau Lakes are generally in good condition but and every shoal marker through the “Members” section and mail it in today, or the reduced federal & provincial funding for of our website www.bigrideaulakeassociation.com. Visit our website, www.bigrideaulakeassociation.com, environmental standards enforcement is a worry go to Membership\New Member Registration and for those concerned about protecting and improving BRLA members also have unlimited access to our complete the process on-line. the lake environment. private island, Cow Island, where we maintain dockage, moorings, barbecue facilities and a “rustic” club house We look forward to seeing you on the lake and at our This makes it all the more important to maintain offering free WIFI. events this year. our current activities and build on them in 2014.

Donations to RLEF are acknowledged with a Doug Good receipt for tax purposes. We have minimal We ask for President, administrative costs since our members are your support Big Rideau Lake Association all volunteers and your donation flows by joining TODAY. directly to the end use.

Michael Peterson Chair RLEF

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