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Take notice that the Annual General Meeting of the members the Drag and Spruce Lakes Property Owners Association (DSLPOA) will be held on Sunday July 12 at the Legion located at 719 Mountain St, Haliburton.
Registration for the AGM starts at 9:00 AM, with the AGM itself starting at 10:00 AM.
All property owners are invited to attend the AGM, however, only members in good standing are permitted to vote. 2026 fees can be paid at the meeting.
The agenda for the AGM, the draft minutes from the 2025 AGM as well as the motions that are expected to take place during the meeting will be sent prior to the meeting. (SEE BELOW)
Highlights for the meeting include:
- Financial Status as of December 31, 2025,
- Eurasian Watermilfoil project status, including updates on the field work and fundraising activities,
- Lake Stewardship activities, including updates from the WWEW/U-Links water quality monitoring pilot program,
- Update on the Let’s Get the Lead Out initiative.
- Election to the Executive for the open positions of Treasurer, Director Lake Stewardship, Director Newsletter and Directory, Director Membership, Officers at Large (2) and Advertising Co-Ordinator.
With the many challenges facing our lakefront community, it is important to have a strong Executive and a large, active volunteer base. Please consider becoming involved. Nominations for each of the open executive positions will be received from the floor during the meeting or by contacting us at dragandsprucelakes@gmail.com prior to the AGM.
Immediately following the AGM meeting, we will hold a Social event at the Legion for you to enjoy a beverage, appetizers and meet more members of our Lake community. Candidates for Dysart Council elections are anticipated to join us.
Yours Truly,
The DSLPOA Executive
AGM agenda - click here
2025 Draft Minutes - click here
2025 Financial Report - click here
Proxy Vote - click here
Open Executive Positions - click here
The County of Haliburton has launched a major study on the future of our local government and how to keep services affordable long-term.
The Community Survey is open until this Sunday, June 28 – your input matters!
Share your thoughts on how our municipal system is working and what changes would serve our lakes and communities.
Click here to participate: Haliburton County Affordability and Governance Structure Survey
The beginning of this message is for all who have supported our EWM Program, either by donating, by volunteering before, during or after Dive Week, or by being a year-round member of the Working Group. Thank you for supporting our journey with Eurasian Watermilfoil and our program to manage the identification, monitoring and selective control of this uninvited invasive aquatic plant. As we approach our seventh annual diver assisted control week, we remain dedicated to using a combination of biodegradable benthic mat deployment and hand harvesting to control the EWM growth that presents the greatest risk to property owners and visitors to our two lakes.
Last year a few property owners asked questions about aquatic herbicides, many because they had viewed infomercials about the use of ProcellaCOR. In order to provide our community additional information about these herbicides, we commissioned U-Links to conduct a review of independent research, supplier materials and anecdotal evidence about the two herbicides currently approved for use in Canada. Our Working Group has received the final report of this review and has decided to continue avoiding the use of herbicides as a control measure. We will be sharing the complete report with our property owner community prior to the July 12 DSLPOA AGM. Please visit the DSLPOA website or Facebook group closer to that date to view the report. We believe that the information it contains will help you understand and support our decision to avoid using aquatic herbicides as a control measure.
Final thoughts for our supporters:
- If you’ve made a donation this year, thank you. If you haven’t yet, visit https://www.dragandsprucelakes.ca/donate/ to help us continue our control activities.
- If you are available to help between July 10 and 17, contact Dominique Binckly by email at dslpoavolunteer@gmail.com to indicate your availability.
Our divers will be joining us on starting on July 13. Follow the daily reports on Facebook at Our Community of Drag and Spruce Lakes starting on July 2.
The final word is for the more than 50% of our property owners who have not shown their support for our efforts to identify, monitor and control EWM growth in Drag and Spruce Lakes. If you need to inform yourself about Eurasian Watermilfoil and its presence in Drag Lake, visit the EWM menu of our website. If you have questions, send them to dslpoaewm@gmail.com. If, on the other hand, you know about our program and have chosen to not lend your support, we accept your choice but don’t understand it.
From the Drag and Spruce Lakes EWM Working Group
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Land Acknowledgement
We respectfully acknowledge that the County of Haliburton is located on Treaty 20 Michi Saagiig territory, and in the traditional territory of the Michi Saagiig and Chippewa Nations, collectively known as the Williams Treaties First Nations, which are Curve Lake, Rama, Hiawatha, Alderville, Scugog Island, Beausoleil and Georgina Island First Nations.
We acknowledge a shared presence of Indigenous nations throughout the area, and recognize its original, Indigenous inhabitants as the stewards of its lands and waters since time immemorial.