Last month over 40 people on the lake enjoyed a beautiful, warm, bug-free evening under the stars watching the hilarious “Penguins of Madagascar." It was a perfect evening and the free popcorn from the Paudash Lake Marina store topped it off! Thanks to all who attended and thanks to Rod & Tyleen for letting us hold the event at the marina.
Read MoreFOCA reminds everyone that, effective April 15, 2015, you must install a carbon monoxide (CO) alarm adjacent to all sleeping areas of your home and your cottage if it has a fuel-burning appliance, attached garage or a fireplace. Starting up a wood stove, or any appliance, after months left idle, is a time for particular care. Get details about CO alarm installation at the Ministry of Safety website, and protect your family from the 'silent killer.'
Read MoreMost Canadians agree that strong environmental laws are important because they protect the quality of the air, water and land that our health depends upon. But did you know that a report released in 2013 by Washington’s Centre for Global Development ranked Canada’s environmental protection record dead last among 27 wealthy countries? According to an Eco-Justice Report, more than 110 countries have already recognized their citizens’ right to a healthy environment by enshrining it in their national constitution. It’s time that Canada does the same...
Read MoreBring the whole family on Saturday August 15 for movie night at the Paudash! Marina. We will be screening 'Penguins of Madagascar' at 8:30pm. Plucky penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private -- the most elite spies ever hatched -- join forces with a chic undercover organization known as the North Wind! The Marina is supplying free popcorn, and the store and snack bar will be open before the movie starts. Please bring your own lawn chairs, and a blanket in case it gets chilly.
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Wild flowers, other plants, fungus and lichens all beget more of their same when conditions are favourable. It's a treat to manually disperse the milkweed seeds from their drying pods in the fall, and it is encouraging that the plant has finally been removed from the list of noxious plants in this province. Fungi and the accompanying fruiting bodies have...
Read MoreSince 1996 PLCA has participated in the Bird Studies Canada project. Each year nesting loons are located and their offspring are monitored from birth until the fall migration. Paudash has been, and still is, a healthy loon lake - not only for the abundance
Read MoreRemember when August brought orange and black royalty to our gardens? Remember when monarch butterflies were so plentiful you couldn’t count them? Remember when you first learned of their multi-generational migration from here to Mexico and back? The sense of awe we all felt! I think we all know by now that milkweed is an absolute requirement for sustaining monarch butterfly populations.
Read MoreDo you have small children that you’d like to keep busy during the week? Outdoor Bingo has been a lot of fun over the past few summers, but with our teens working in the summer now, I am no longer able to come up to the cottage as much. To keep the event running, we are looking for a parent or teen who would be willing to run it this year
Read MoreThanks to the Ontario Trillium Foundation, funds have been granted to the Municipality of Highlands East to build the Wilberforce Food Centre, as an addition to the Lloyd Watson Community Centre. The grant of $141,000 will cover the entire cost of the building...
Read MoreIt has been nearly 51 years since the rebirth of Cardiff. On May 9, 1964, nearly 300 people traveled to our little piece of Haliburton County from as far away as Chicago and Winnipeg. They came for a deal that many thought was too good to be true. The houses in the former mining town of Cardiff, which had been built only a decade earlier, were being sold off for $4,250 a piece...
Read MoreThe PLCA will be placing a number of geocaches around the lake this spring (in addition to the ones already placed by other cottagers). So this summer get ready to grab your friends, kids or family members and head out for a fun afternoon on the lake and the “ultimate” treasure hunt.
Read MoreThe past year has seen a calamitous rise in over-winter rates of honey bee mortality, raising the spectre of species’ extinction and throwing into question the vital role played by honey bees in pollinating plants. The fatality rate last winter in Ontario reached 58%
Read MoreThe PLCA is a member of the Coalition of Haliburton Property Owners Association (CHA), which represents 77 waterbodies and 12,500 properties in Haliburton County. Our association has applied to participate in their ‘Shoreline Classification and Restoration Project’...
Read MoreThe snow of last week lies on the land like one of Grandma's white chenille bedspreads. There might be a few tracks making patterns on its surface and some clumps that have fallen from the black-green branches of spruce, pine and balsam trees...
Read MoreThe year we bought the cottage on Paudash Lake was 1995. It was sort of a wedding present to each other. Neither of us had previously experienced much of cottage life but we were soon to learn how it would completely shape our perspectives and change our children's lives forever.
Read MoreThe Paudash Lake community has been well represented both at your municipal and county levels of government, but also on a Provincial scale, largely due to the efforts of the PLCA. Notable among the tremendous volunteers on Paudash Lake, are two people who have had a long and very direct involvement with FOCA, and with me personally. I am very pleased to recognize and celebrate the tremendous contributions and commitment of Gerry and Valerie Hunnius...
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