Presumably the high water level dislodged this marker.   It was  floating by Bass Island, North Muldrew late June 30th.    It is a bouy from a rectangular recyclable jug with a rope and anchor attached. 

Call Brian Phillips, 778 833 2649 to arrange for pick up.

Our cottage, garage and property at 232 Beck Road off of Haleway Drive (across from Dew Drop Island) was robbed between June 16th and June 21st.  They took a significant number of items including a 2021 Mercury  9..9 outboard motor taken from the tin boat on the dock, an ezloader double axel boat trailer and a Polaris Seedoo and trailer.  They emptied the garage of multiple recreational items (lily pad life, jackets, water skiis, wakeboards etc), gardening, maintenace and construction tools  - so they must have had a truck/cube van and 2 vehicles to the trailers.  Please contact Nancy Hogue at 905 955-7342 if you have any information.  We are so shocked that this could happen on our lake.

Phone Nelly Cunningham 416-226-6068.  Dock is approx  9x12 with ladder, pop-up table and two built-in lounge supports. 

Dear Neighbours,

We are replacing our docks on 1757  North Muldrew Lake.

Accordingly, we have two floating docks that we are happy to give away.

The larger dock is about 16 by 20 ft, the other is about 6 by 20 ft.

You can see them by boating over to 1757 North Muldrew Lake.

The docks should be available around mid July.

If interested, I can be reached at 416 659-5318.

Enjoy the summer.

Arthur Donner

Long time Muldrew resident Joanne Twist passed away peacefully on January 20. She had a long and painful struggle, but her life ended peacefully, at home, with her family present.

Joanne served Muldrew by advocating for us with the Town and serving as a director of the MLCA. She was a tireless supporter of G.A.P. (Gravenhurst Against Poverty).

A celebration of Joanne's life will be held on February 10 in the Trillium Court at the Gravenhurst Opera House from 1 to 3pm.

16 x 8 dock last seen November 26 has gone missing from a cottage near Dead Horse Island .  Connectors on one end for attaching to permanent dock, tie-up cleats on the deck, and anchors hanging from each corner.  If it has drifted onto your property/bay/beach, please notify secretary@muldrewlakes.ca.  

There is a black and red towable type tube washed up at the shore at Picnic Point. Probably blew off someone's dock during the wind storm.

August 27th Lake Plan Meeting Cancelled

In an effort to solicit feedback from the Muldrew property owners on the proposed Lake Plan, the MLCA included an outline of the proposed plan in the spring Dock Drop and invited comments. Very few comments were initially submitted but they have been increasing in quantity since the July 9th Town Hall and the discussion on the Lake Plan at the August 13th AGM.  On behalf of the Lake Plan Committee, I would like to thank you for your engagement and comments.

One of the initial objectives of the Committee was to conclude the community feedback during the summer months, when most of our community is at the lake. We have done a lot of engagement this summer and have collected many comments, to which we are responding.  However, given the high volume of comments still being received and the desire to properly assess and respond to each one of them, our revised document is not ready.  As such, the Lake Plan Committee feels that it is prudent to:

• Postpone the planned September submission to the Town.
• Cancel the planned August 27^th Town Hall Meeting.
• Continue communicate dialogue on the issues of keen interest to the community.
• Circulate a revised draft as soon as we can in the Fall.
• Hold a virtual Town Hall in the Fall to discuss these changes. 
• Hold a follow-up virtual Town Hall in the spring. 

This will allow for additional community input and refinement of the Lake Plan to reflect comments from as many participants as possible. 

We will continue to pursue this important work and hope that you will continue to participate in the process as we move forward.  Thank you, again, for your engagement and your patience - our revision to the existing Lake Plan will be stronger for it.

On behalf of the Lake Plan Committee and the MLCA

Ted Alley

President, MLCA

president@muldrewlakes.ca

I posted the following on the "Muldrew Lake is My Second Home" Facebook page a week ago. An Administrator of that Facebook page cut off any further comments on this post and suggested that they be posted, instead, on this Association page, which I am now doing, although it will likely be seen by very few members, nor by any non-member cottagers:

August 14, 2022

I am writing this post to express my objections to the timing and approval process being followed by the Board of Directors of the Muldrew Lake Cottagers’ Association, with respect to a proposed Lake Plan update, which it intends to submit to the Town of Gravenhurst for incorporation into the Official Plan and zoning bylaws of the Town.

The Board has, no doubt, spent countless hours and considerable effort to develop a Plan update, publicize it, and solicit feedback. I believe, however, that the majority of cottage owners on the lake are still unaware of, or do not fully understand, the impact that the proposed Plan Update would have. I have no doubt that an even greater percentage of non-members are similarly unaware or do not fully understand it.

On July 9th, an open house was held at Memorial Pines to review a draft of a Lake Plan update, as proposed by the Board. Immediately following that open house, along with many others, I submitted in writing my concerns with this proposal and looked forward to the discussion that was next scheduled to take place as part of the Annual General Meeting of the association, yesterday. I presumed that there would be an amended draft presented at that meeting.

As it turned out, the Board had not yet had time to consider all of the submissions that came out of the July 9th meeting and no revised draft was distributed. There was, however, further discussion of the Plan update, as previously distributed, although there was no summary of the concerns that had been submitted to the Board, following the July 9th meeting. It was clear that not everyone at yesterday’s meeting had a good understanding of the impact of the changes. Despite the best efforts of the Board to publicize its work and solicit feedback, many members have not paid close attention to the proposed changes. While many of the members in attendance, yesterday, were likely in favour of the proposals, perhaps with some modifications, by my guess, there were only 60 to 70 people in attendance and some of those were couples representing a single property.

My understanding is that there are some 400 cottages on the Lake and that the association represents less than half of the property owners (as the 203 association members may not represent 200 cottage properties.) Of the cottages represented by the Association, I am guessing that only 30% to 35% were represented at the meeting, with many of those representatives still unclear as to the impact of the proposed changes to the Plan.

During the discussion of the proposals yesterday, it was indicated that a revised draft would be circulated prior to the final, scheduled Open House to discuss the plan, which is to be on August 26, less than two weeks from now. It then came out that the Board, after taking into account whatever feedback it received from yesterday’s discussion and will receive from the August 26 Open House, will then finalize a Plan Update to submit to the Town without submitting the final document to the Association members for ratification.

First of all, I believe it is wrong for the Board to distribute what may or not be a final proposal to the members, just one week before Labour Day weekend, after which many cottagers close up for the season or come back to the lake few more times before winter. This makes it very hard to communicate with other association members, in person, about whatever becomes the final proposal.

Secondly, I believe that the proposal will have such substantial impact on the members that it should be submitted to the full membership for ratification and that this should be done at a time of year when it is easy to canvass cottagers in person, on the lake.

Thirdly, without being able to show the support of a majority of cottage owners for the proposed changes, a strong argument will likely be made to the Town Council that the Plan Update, adopted by the Board, does not represent anything close to a majority of the property owners on the lake.

The following are comments related to the Muldrew Lakes Plan Update, as distributed to property owners in June, 2022. Our cottage is located at 510 Peninsula Road.

My wife and I have been on the lake for 24 years and are at the cottage year-round.

• For us, the number one issue regarding enjoyment of our property relates to noise and wake on the lake, but these are issues that are beyond the authority of the municipal council.
•   Our number 2 issue is maintaining a healthy water quality.
• Our number 3 issue is development close to shore which is visible from the lake.

We object to the use of the wording (on pages 6-7 of the dock handout), “modest development and reasonable redevelopment, in keeping with the character of the lakes” in describing what development should be permitted. There is no definition of the terms “modest” and “reasonable”. If someone built a small, but very expensive, house, would that be considered to not be modest”? If someone developed the interior of a large property, limiting the amount that could be viewed from the lake, why should that be considered “unreasonable”?

We also object to the concern that is expressed on page 6 of the dock drop handout, about the transition to “more permanently inhabited homes on the Muldrew Lakes”. We welcome more year-round habitation, provided that it is within environmental safeguards.

For smaller projects, we believe that the expense and time involved for a site evaluation or site plan should not be required, provided that the development complies with the zoning by-law (which should be in accordance with the official plan.) If a proposed development is not in compliance and a request is being made for a variance, then there should be a site evaluation or site plan requirement.

As we understand the proposed changes, we would not be permitted to add an addition to our residence on the roadside, for example, for an at-home office, storage, or workout room, even if it would not be visible from the lake. We do not believe that this is warranted, in order to protect the nature of our shoreline. Rather, we would consider this to be both modest and reasonable.