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Local News & Issues
Welcome to the lake news and issues area of our website. This area is provided for our members use and doesn't necessarily reflect the opinion of the Board.
If you would like to submit news for the website please send it to the Board of Directors. Please note that articles must come from members of the Pen Lake Association and the Board reserves the right to accept and refuse content.
Debbie Court
Dear Members;
It was a wonderful summer with successful association events, thanks to all of you who convened, assisted, and all those who came out to participate.
Thanks especially to a special group of men and women working on our board. Just because the leaves are turning and starting to fall doesn’t mean your board of directors disappear for the winter. We have lots on our plate and we are always available if you have any questions, or issues that might arise during the winter. The number of year round residents on the lake is rising, so we might have to give some thought to a winter social event. Suggestions are welcome!
Please be careful on the ice this winter. For those of you using bubblers, be cautious with them causing too much of a current next door to you.
You can keep in touch through the website year round; Pen Notes will be posted, as well as current events in and around our lake. See you in the new year!
Highlights of the Annual General Meeting
Peninsula Lake Association
Dwight Community Centre
August 1, 2011
Coming soon!
2012 Dues:
Dues notices will be sent out in March. The yearly dues fee is still at $50.00 per year. If you know of a neighbour that is new to the lake, please encourage them to join our association. (Donations in addition to your dues will assist in financing some of the Pen Lake Association’s major cost works in progress.) You may now pay your dues on line. Go to the Board of Directors tab on the Home Page and look near the bottom of the page and it will instruct you how to pay through pay pal.
Alternatively: Print this PDF file to to send in your dues.
Photos From Around Penlake
Tom Nowers "Docks out; boats to bed...but the ever enchanting sunsets keep gracing our cottage skies. If you look, you'll find beauty everywhere...but you gotta look.."
Photo by Wendy Rotenberg - taken at Ragged Falls
Q. Who needs the Pleasure Craft Operator Card and when?
A. As of September 15, 2009 all boaters were required to have the Pleasure Craft Operator Card in order to operate a powered watercraft. There is no grandfather clause or age exemption – this law applies to all boaters. Powered watercraft includes watercraft fitted with any size motor – even a trolling motor.
The law requiring Pleasure Operating Cards as well as Horsepower Restrictions were made on April 1, 1999. If you have not acted on this in the past 12 years NOW IS THE TIME!!
Q. What are the penalties and/or fines if you do not have your card?
A. Fines for common boating offences*: [* Source Transport Canada]
- Operating a power-driven pleasure craft without the required Pleasure Craft Operator Card - $250
- Operating a vessel in a careless manner - $250
- Speeding - $100
- Underage operation of a personal watercraft - $100
- Insufficient number of approved, appropriately sized flotation devices - $200 for each absent device
Q. How will this law be enforced?
A. The law will be enforced by peace officers. The law requires that the operator of a powered watercraft carry his Pleasure Craft Operator Card, as well as proof of age, with him at all times
Q. What about horsepower restriction for children?
Competency Card ALSO REQUIRED
A. The table summarizes how horsepower restrictions apply:
Age |
Power Restrictions |
Under 12 years of age, and not directly supervised |
Can operate vessels with under 10 hp |
Between 12 years and under 16 years of age, and not directly supervised |
Can operate vessels with under 40 hp |
Under 16 years of age |
Not allowed to operate a PWC |
16 years of age and over |
No power restrictions |
Number 88340 7207 RR0001
Download the donation form here. [PDF - 72KB]
Please complete the downloaded form and return with your donation to:
Peninsula Lake Association P.O. Box 5342, Huntsville, ON P1H 2K7
www.penlake.ca
The Peninsula Lake Association Charitable Not For Profit Organization wishes to express their sincere thanks for your generous donation. Tax receipts will be issued at years end for
inclusion with your charitable deduction for income tax purposes.
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