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Georgian Bay Is a Because It May Cause Skin and Eye Injury, We Are Spraying Harmful Chemicals up and the Outer Harbour www.kiaos.ca KIA of Owen Sound 519-371-4447 Highway 26 East, across from Walmart 1-800-930-5616 Newsstand Price 95¢ (plus 5% tax) ruceThe eninsula ress B P P Since 1988 2011 Number Twelve August 9 to August 30, 2011 2011 Lion’s Head Homecoming Weekend Sandcastle Building Competition Submitted by Barbara Grison The prizes this year were sponsored by the 1st Bruce Peninsula Scouts. They feel it is a good way to say “thanks” to the community for their support with the bottle collection project. Many thanks to them for the donation to the Lion’s Head Promotion Group for this event. All who registered for the contest have received (or still need to pick up at Lion’s Head Beach Motel) a gift certificate to be used at local merchants who will treat it as cash and then return it to the Lions Head Promotion Group to be reimbursed. Call 519-793-3155 if you need more information. You could say there was a bit of a crowd on Lion’s Head Beach for horseshoes & sand sculptures... Continued on next page Photo Above: A line up to take pictures or a swim in the Grotto cave. Photo Right: A typical summer Saturday at Indian Head Cove - Home of the Grotto. People flock to the location for the crystal clear waters and majestic cliffs. Photo Below: Should novice kayakers be allowed in a busy commercial harbour? See Publishers Rant on Page 4. “Grotto” Featured in Ontario’s Top 10 Experiences By Marianne Wood Once again the breath-taking beauty of the Bruce Peninsula shoreline has been featured on the web for millions to see. Listed as one of the top 10 not-to-miss experiences in Ontario, the spotlight on Cyprus Lake Park has some amazing photos as well as some tips on places to stay and things to do (or not do). Visit http://travel.sympatico.ca/destination_spotlight/Ontario and click on the top 10 not-to-miss experiences in Ontario and check out where you should go on your next weekend getaway. $1.00 (includes tax) In This Issue: •OPP Report Page 8 ISSN 1495-2696 •Bruce Peninsula Multisport Race Page 19 •BPHSF Dream Draw Winners Page 11 •Council Minutes Page 20 9 771495 269609 The Tobermory Press Hours - Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The deadline for our next issue (#13-2011) is Aug 24, printing Aug 30 SERVING THE BRUCE McNair PENINSULA FOR YOUR... • Custom Homes • Renovations Construction • Roofing • Siding • Decks QUALITY CONSTRUCTION & RENOVATION SOLUTIONS and more Jim McNair 519-793-4353 BBB ACCREDITED •email: [email protected] •R.R.#1 Lion’s Head, Ontario N0H 1W0 BUSINESS The Bruce Peninsula Press # 12 August 9 to August 30, 2011 page 2 2011 Lion’s Head Homecoming Weekend Sandcastle Building Competition Continued Winners for the 2011 sand building competition were: •Best Overall #41 - “Hockey Game” by the Tackaberry’s Sculptures •1st - #7 “Elephant” by the Clark family •2nd - #6 “Lion” by the Fox, Chant family •3rd - #21 “Alligator” by Kelly and Aleya Castles •1st - #22 “Castle” at north end of beach by Larrisa, Emma, Elise, Deva •2nd - #29 “Pyramid” (snake) by Topin, Photo Above: The Great Pyramid (complete with Gleiser, Hewton dragon) was done by the Spina, Gleiser, Toppin and •3rd - #10 “Birthday Cake” by Chortoes Hewton families. Photo Above: The Lion’s Head Lion was done by (from left) Emily Chant, Jacob Chant, Photo Above: The Alligator was sculpted by (from Emma Fox, Sarah Fox and left) Sarah Donoff, Katelyn Fisher, Kelly Donoff and Maegan Chant. Aleya Agostino. Photo Above Left: Best sand sculpture award went to the “Elephant” by Cindy Clark and Trish Mank with Trinity, Kyle and Jaedyn. Photo Below Left: Overall Winner of Lion’s Head Sand Sculpture / Sand Castle contest was the Mielhausen and Tackaberry families’ beautifully detailed hockey game. Photo Below: This sand castle was a collaboration of the Arps, Hellyer, Pewrrault, King, Foley and Mansfield families. Spectacular Tours! Wiarton Airport 519.270.2252 The Gift With A Lift! brucepeninsulahelicopters.comrucepeninsulahelicopters.com Wilmer and Janet are extremely happy to have ‘Old Rusty’ back. Special anks to Carla & Art. We wish them lots of success in their new venture!!! The Bruce Peninsula Press # 12 August 9 to August 30, 2011 page 3 When Does a Garden Become a Farm? Hometown Proud Submitted by Helen Westover bikes, clowns, and even decorated beds, Well, summer on the Peninsula is wheelbarrows, tractors or riding lawn about halfway over. The village of Lion’s Head mowers are all to line up at BPDS before is maybe thinking about slowing down a bit. 6:45 to be ready to go by 7:00. But Wait!!! No Way!!! Having lived in Lion’s Head for many, many years, I can remember when there Lion’s Head is having another would be a Barrow Bay float, Whippoorwill celebration on Labour Day Weekend. float and more. It is time to come right out and brag Please, please, please, Come one, come about yourself, your family, your cottage all, Go in the parade, And have a ball. See life, your store, your team, your class, or you on Saturday, Sept. 3rd in Lion’s Head. even your Great Great Aunt Dottie, or Uncle Joe! Bruce Peninsula Yes, we are celebrating HOMETOWN PROUD. You can celebrate someone who is Minor Hockey Association famous, or infamous! The parade will be on Saturday, Sept. ANNUAL 3, at 7:00 in the evening. Floats, decorated BOTTLE DRIVE Ilona’s Beauty Shop & Mon., Sept. 5, 2011 Win & Ilona Danny and Molly Bridge at their original garden on Ferndale Road. Farmgate We will be sales make up 2/3 of their volume. Invite you to please join us collecting Lion’s Head Farmer’s Market has inspired a couple of local gardeners to In our backyard for a refundable dramatically upsize their gardens. Come & Go Tea bottles between Molly and Danny Bridge (A Garden in Thyme on Ferndale Road) started with 9 am & 12 noon a large garden on the west side of their house. With the success of the Lion’s Head Sunday August 21st, 2010 Farmer’s Market, they added a two-acre field on the east side of their house. Next 1 pm – 4 pm in the area year they will be preparing another two acres for crops. A celebration & appreciation of Annual between Wiarton, They grow organic Pike Bay, 40 years in Lion’s Head. Bottle lettuces, spinach, chard, Miller Lake & kale, herbs, peppers, peas, Drive tomatoes, onions, corn Tobermory. and much more. They have a booth at Lion’s Head and Mon. Please help support Tobermory Markets but Sept. 5, your local minor farmgate sales make up hockey players when two thirds of their sales 2011 they knock on your volume. There is a lot of Please accept this as our personal invitation door. Thank You. traffic on Ferndale Road and many people stop in as they drive by. Mark and Antoinette Rauket have over two acres in crops this year, and will add another acre for next year. They grow much Carol Phillips, Sales Representative the same mix of crops as the Bridges but also grow 519-793-3067 Shiitake mushrooms. The Raukets live on a dead- Gordon Mepham, Broker/Manager of Royal LePage RCR Realty, Brokerage is pleased end road (Lindsay Road 5 east of the East Road) and to announce that Carol Phillips, Sales Representative has joined our Brokerage, working get virtually zero drive-by from our Ferndale Office. Carol has been a registered Real Estate Sale Representative impulse shopping. They for 24 years working on the Bruce Peninsula and is a long time resident of the area. supplement their market booths by keeping in Carol is excited to be part of Royal LePage RCR Realty, and looks forward to serving contact with their regular your real estate needs, whether buying or selling. Let Carol’s experience work for you. Antoinette and Mark Rauket with their Shiitake customers by email. They Give Carol a call for any of your real estate requirements. take orders by email and operation. You drill holes in maple or oak logs (the then prepare baskets for Raukets used maple), put Shiitake spores in the holes pickup at the markets or and seal the holes with a plastic plug. The hyphae then Contact Carol at our Ferndale Office at farmgate. penetrate the log from end to end and provide a couple located at 2859 Highway #6, Ferndale Neither operation is of crops of mushrooms per year. or by phone at 519-793-3067. www.royallepagercr.com capable of supporting an entire household — Antoinette Rauket and Danny Bridge both have full-time jobs — but it gets better every year. Mark Rauket wonders about the future of CSA — Consumer Supported HIGHBACK ROCKER RECLINER WITH HANDLE Agriculture. That is a system under which consumers agree to buy a certain volume from the farmer and the farmer agrees to provide it at an agreed cost. 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