26 | 2017 LAKE STEWARDS NEWSLETTER Get Involved Creating a Sense of Community FOCA encourages you to get active in your waterfront community! Why? Here are some sage words from Duncan Sinclair, former Dean of Medicine at Queen’s University, reproduced from the April 2017 edition of the Buck Lake Association newsletter: “One of the most powerful of the social determinants of health is a supportive, welcoming, and inclusive community. That’s why we are putting so much of our volunteer time, effort and energy into the social side of our mandate, trying to make it enjoyably possible for everybody on the lake, permanent and seasonal residents alike, to meet and get to know everybody else. We all want to be healthy. Being part of and participating in a supportive Buck Lake community is an important way to get and stay that way.” With this end in mind, the association has undertaken to create a Community Directory for cottagers and residents, to connect with each other. Catch up on BLA’s newsletters, here: http://bucklake.ca/newsletters.php What’s your association doing to expand the sense of community at the lake? Let FOCA know! info@foca.on.ca Cottage, chalet, cabin. Whatever you call it, we cover it. travelerscanada.ca © 2017 The Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company, Travelers Insurance Company of Canada and St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company (Canada Branch). All rights reserved. Travelers and the Travelers Umbrella logo are registered trademarks of The Travelers Indemnity Company in the U.S. and other countries. All other registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. M-17459 Rev. 5-17 CottageFirst® is your broad insurance solution, designed by cottagers, for cottagers. Available exclusively to FOCA members, CottageFirst® is offered through Cade Associates Insurance Brokers Ltd. in association with Travelers Canada. Contact us today at 416.234.9980 or clientservices@cadeinsurance.com for a free estimate, or visit cottagefirst.com to learn more. This FOCA member group has been working successfully with their Municipal Partners, as Bonnie McCleery Scanlan updated us in May 2017: A year has passed since we last corresponded on the concern of flying lanterns. Today I am writing to let you know that the Lake St Peter Property Owners Association worked closely with Municipality of Hastings Highlands Mayor Vivian Bloom and North Hastings Fire Chief Pat Hoover, and a bylaw has been amended to ban the use and sale of flying lanterns in the municipality. This is a good news story to share! I know that Mayor Bloom spoke at the 2016 FOCA Fall Seminar about lake associations and town councils working together, as well as mentioning specifically this initiative on flying lanterns. I hope you can update other associations about this success story of working with local government, and hopefully spur them on to work with their local councils and Fire Chiefs on such issues. Follow this issue: https://foca.on.ca/flying-fire-lanterns/ Flying Lanterns Update