Spring Edition Published 3 times per year Next issue: Fall 2018 2018 Cecebe Waterways Association is a member of FOCA www.foca.on.ca SPRING NEWSLETTER www.cecebewaterways.ca The preservation of the LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT lakes we love is supported by your membership Spring is here, though this year that only means the ice should be out by May 20. This year’s organizers have started to think about each of our four CWA summer events. INSIDE THIS ISSUE: We are also helping the Marina’s Summer Kickoff again the year, and we still need a chief organizer to lead our food operation for that event. Elizabeth White will fill you in on all Page the details you need to know, if you are able to take this on for us. Check out our The rest of this letter is devoted to filling you in on the change coming to the Advertising changes 2 Newsletter / Website operation. The executive summary is that the Newsletter operation by itself has become too expensive to continue as is, so the Board has decided to rely even CWA’s AGM – July 14th 2 more on the very much cheaper website as our main communication channel. By early 2019 we will have shifted to having all the articles and advertisements that would first What’s new at Port 3 have appeared in a Newsletter posted directly to the website instead, where members can Carmen Marina? see and/or download and print whichever bits they want. Each ‘bit’ would appear as soon 2018 Golf Tournament 4 as it is received, rather than at three separate times per year. -mark the date! Here are more of the details and reasons for the change. As you know from my last letter, the association had a very rare deficit in 2017, so the board set in motion a The Ice is finally out of 5 the lake . budget-striking process to prevent a deficit in 2018. The new Budget Committee completed a long review process and made its recommendations in mid April, which the ACHP Update 6 Board adopted on May 2. The operating budget struck for 2018 has a modest surplus of $1,080 despite keeping the Newsletter operation unchanged for two issues, but in 2019 The RSPC is now the 7 and after when all the changes are fully in effect, the surplus will be about $3,000. RLC! The CWA has communicated with members via a Newsletter for years, though Summer job available 8 more and more through a website. The website will soon be joined by a Facebook site and (for your lake related photos) an Instagram account as well. Relative to the website and its 10 Reasons to “Love 8 allies, the Newsletter has become both more expensive and less convenient as a Local” & “Shop Local” communications channel. It is more expensive because it has become a much bigger and more sophisticated publication. Preparing and printing and mailing a 30 page document Your Committee 9 three times a year takes a lot of time and paper and postage. It is less convenient because Updates most of us these days get our information one bite at a time on cell phones, when we need Straw Bales in your 10 it, rather than in a print deluge in May, September, and January. And “when we need it” Garden???? means for most of us “continually in July and August.” No publication can hope to match that timing. Posting our information to a site where members can access it when they FOCA Corner 11 wish is the only way to meet modern members’ needs. What is not widely realized is that we have been posting all of our Newsletter Geese, Geese, Geese . 12 information to the website for years, as soon as each Newsletter itself was published. For years some members have been downloading articles and checking advertisements on Exciting Coming Events 13 their cell phones and Ipads rather than referring to a paper copy of the Newsletter itself. The advertisements are easy to find on the Website through the directory https://www.cecebewaterways.ca/directory.htm. What will change is only that we will Our Amazing 14- no longer be issuing the Newsletter publication, and each article or advertisement will be Advertisers 27 posted to the website (and Facebook and Instagram) as it comes in rather than being bunched with many others at three dates months apart. Continued on Page 2. Landfill Information 27 With a budget that promises significant future surpluses, we will be in a position to enrich what is available to members through the website and Facebook etc., as we have done with the new PayPal arrangements. Communication is a major responsibility of your association, but it takes a lot of time and effort to keep up with the new forms available. This budget removes a big drain on our time and resources that has been preventing us from taking full advantage of the new forms. We need to hear from you about how our completing the transition from Newsletter to website is working out for you, and how the website could be changed to alleviate any problems. As mentioned above, communication is a major part of the CWA’s mission statement. Improving it is good for all of us. My final note is a thank you for the support you have all given the association and its directors during my four years as president. The job is impossible without a huge number of volunteers, but the CWA’s alias could sometimes be Volunteers ‘R’ Us. Please keep it up for my successor! Norm (Cameron) CWA ADVERTISING REPORT By Jamie Bingham, Chair Hello to all our subscribers and advertisers. After another very interesting winter, it is spring. The ground remains covered with snow and the lake frozen as I write this, but the days are ever longer and there is hope for spring eternal. New Ad: Nancy Messervey, Century 21 B.J. Roth Realty Ltd. Brokerage: Nancy is a professional real estate sales representative, with thirty years experience. Her first twenty-one years was with the Barrie Head Office of Century 21, B.J. Roth Realty Ltd. Brokerage and then she moved to Lake Cecebe and continued to work in the Century 21 system. After a brief absence from the business she has rejoined the Barrie Century 21 Family of Friends! Knowing how to make the dream of working where she lived a reality is one she wanted to share with her many clients who she now calls her family of friends! Call her anytime to discuss your real estate needs! Big or small...she is service driven. “Your dreams come true is what I do.” Connect direct: 705-387-3100; Cell: 705-718-8028 Ad Changes There are four ads that have been updated 1. Boyes Electric ad shows their expanded services Canadian Anti-Spam Laws – 2. Chestnut Park has just been awarded the 2017 President & Director’s Award have you already given us your 3. Circling Hawks Centre have expanded their “open” hours written consent to continue sending 4. Woodruff ‘s Tree and Cottage Care – Wesley has taken over the business you bulletins, newsletters, events, 5. Burk’s Falls Home Building Centre has a new larger ad promotions and other electronic 6. Bakery By The Bridge has closed for now messages via email? If not, could you click here and do so now? We don’t Inserts - There are two inserts included in this issue want you to miss out! Thanks. 1. Chestnut Park Real Estate Limited, Brokerage – Dawn Mashinter and Sandy Tyers https://www.cecebewaterways.ca/c 2. Jill Boschulte – Artist – with her Studio / Gallery on Main Street in Sundridge wa/cwa-privacy-policy.htm Have a great spring and remember to support our advertisers whenever possible. CWA’s UPCOMING ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Saturday July 14th at the Magnetawan Community Centre immediately following the annual golf tournament dinner. The meeting is open to all CWA members. As this is an election year, it is a good time to get involved. The two nomination forms are on the website (https://www.cecebewaterways.ca/cwa/cwa-elections.htm) and both need to be filled out and given to Logan Naftel prior to the AGM. Besides the election of a new slate of directors, the AGM will feature a summary of the association’s finances by the Treasurer and of the past year’s budget changes by the outgoing President, plus a few routine motions required by our enabling legislation if we are to continue as a non-profit corporation. It’s the time to ask all those questions you have wondered about, or to olunteer your services to help out. If you are not attending the dinner, please feel free to arrive around 7:15pm for the AGM, but you will be missing a delicious dinner and fellowship with other members and guests! Your input is needed, and we hope you can attend. Cecebe Waterways Association Spring 2018 www.cecebewaterways.ca Page 2 Well well well . .as I write this, winter is still here. It would be nice to report differently, however WINTER is still here!!!! It is not an option nor is it a joke --it is definitely a late start this year. I have already lost a coffee bet with Kathy having hoped to see the lake cleared earlier so we could get boats in the water on time, but it is just not happening. I lose (I think she cheated me with experience though).