Bears in Sturgeon Point (again!)

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Cubs playing on the lawn
Cubs playing on the lawn

The photo on the left shows a pair of bear cubs playing on a local lawn last Tuesday. The cubs have been spotted roaming around the Point almost every morning over the past week or two. It is not uncommon for bears to visit the community at this time of year, and it makes it all the more important to take precautions to ensure that these wild animals don’t linger and become a nuisance. Among other things, that means not putting your garbage outside until garbage day, keeping your BBQ clean after you’ve grilled dinner on it, and taking your bird feeders down or removing the bird seed.

The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has been made aware of these two scoundrels. The MNR is very relectant to trap and relocate young cubs, and they will not come unless they start to pose a serious problem. There is an unconfirmed report that a third bear has been spotted as well. This one might be the mother. Please contact us if you have seen all three together. You can submit a comment to this post or simply send me an email at [email protected].

Bears can be dangerous, so please do not interact with them, approach them, and definitely do not feed them. If you’d like to report the bears to the MNR bear reporting line, you can call them at 866-514-2327. For emergencies, dial 911.

KLSA General Meeting – October 1st at Lakehurst

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The Kawartha Lakes Stewards Association is having their Annual General Meeting on October 1st, 10:00 a.m. at the Lakehurst Hall (979 Lakehurst Circle Road). The KLSA  does excellent work promoting and funding a better understanding of the ecology of our lake and the lakes in our region. The Algae Workshop that we hosted this past summer was sponsored by the KLSA, and they were the recipient of a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to run the Algae Research program to study the algae in our lakes. Blue Green algae will certainly be a topic of discussion at the meeting. There will be a number of additional presentations at this meeting. If you have any interest in these matters, please come out and participate. For a more complete description along with directions, please download the meeting announcement. You can also visit the KLSA’s website by clicking here. See you there!

August 2011 Newsletter and AGM document package now available online

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The August newsletter has been sent out by email. A number of copies were also mailed out to those without email access. As usual, we have posted the newsletter on our SPA Archive web page. The 2011 SPA AGM package has also been posted on the same page. You’ll find it near the bottom of the page. The document package includes the meeting agenda, the financial statements as well as the minutes of last year’s AGM,

If you’re not on our email distribution list and would like to receive our newsletters by email, then please send us an email at [email protected] so that we can get you the list. No obligation, and we never share your email with anyone.

Al Horsman, CAO for the City of Kawartha Lakes to speak at the AGM

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Al Horsman, the City of Kawartha Lakes new Chief Adminstrative Officer (CAO), has graciously accepted our invitation and agreed to speak at SPA’s upcoming AGM. There will be a short question and answer period following the presentation and an opportunity to talk with Al after the meeting. The AGM will be held on September 4th at the Union Church. The meeting gets underway at 10:00 a.m.

As the CAO, Al deals with the day-to-day operations of the City and reports to Council, providing them with the information they need to make decisions. Al has stepped into a key role at an important time in the evolution of the City. This will be an excellent opportunity for Sturgeon Pointers to meet the new CAO and for Al
to get to know a little more about Sturgeon Point. Everyone is welcome to attend. Hope to see you there!