Saturday, July 30, 2011

Wasaga Beach is All About Water “Point of View” printed wrong date for Meeting

Here is the entire Point of View that was printed in Issue 20 of beach BOOSTER but this time with the correct day…Wednesday, August 3rd.

Wasaga Beach is all about the water!

Wasaga Beach is a unique place, boasting many attributes, but our proximity to and location on Nottawasaga Bay (southern part of Georgian Bay) is what makes us what we are.
A stretch of 14 kilometres of sand led to the naming of the town of Wasaga Beach. The warm shallow waters of The Bay brings millions of summer visitors to our shores to enjoy this natural wonder. We are also blessed with the meandering Nottawasaga River running through our town, providing even more opportunity for water recreation and adding miles of riverfront shoreline to our geography. We are all about water in Wasaga Beach. Our relationship with Georgian Bay and the Great Lakes is an important one.
The Great Lakes are in trouble. Although most of us have noticed over the years… very little is being done by the citizens of water front communities to help! Water levels are dropping quickly and have been for years. With the receding waters in our community comes the invasive species Phragmites, replacing sandy beach with a foreign weed. Navigation in the Nottawasaga River is restricted with the mouth of the river actually blocked at times with a sandbar.
This loss of water in Georgian Bay is not a cycle or due to Global Warming. Water is being lost at an incredible rate. Lost means gone for good. The Great Lakes are a result of water left from the glaciers of the Ice Age. Only 1% of the water in the Great Lake Basin is renewable, with precipitation, rivers and creeks.
Although there are several different theories on what is happening to our resource for fresh water, it’s been proven that years of reckless widening, shoreline work and dredging of the St. Clair River (which drains Lakes Huron and Michigan) has increased the outflow significantly. Our natural reservoir of clean, fresh water is simply being flushed through the lakes and into the ocean!
Despite heavy snowfall and extreme spring rainfall, Lake Huron and Georgian Bay are well over 10 inches below average and it is expected to drop below this catastrophic level by fall. It’s interesting to note, that both Lakes Erie and Ontario are slightly higher than average, due to the increased outflow through the St. Clair River.
The International Joint Commission Upper Lakes Study Board is holding public meetings this summer to hear from people like us! They have asked that the Board “start looking at what type of structure would be required to recapture the lost water”
Finally someone is offering to listen.
We now have a chance to express our concerns of the life blood of Wasaga  Beach…Georgian Bay!
Make a point to come out to be an important part of this special meeting being held at The Royal Canadian Legion in Collingwood, On Wednesday, August 3, 2011. (7:00 pm to 9:00 pm)
Your voice and concern for our Bay must be heard! If we don’t speak up, the IJC assumes we don’t care. For more information, please visit www.fallingwaters.ca or contact beach BOOSTER at info@beachbooster.com . Please pass this important information on to all who love Wasaga Beach and Georgian Bay!

Monday, July 18, 2011

Music Angel Portable Speaker System

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A Music Angel is a portable, rechargeable speaker system that is as small as it is loud.
These are 100% real Music Angels from the exclusive distributor for Canada.
All cords (charging and line in/antenna) for Music Angels are included. They last approximately six hours on one charge and are powered by Lithium Ion rechargeable batteries.
Check out all five colours as they will be posted soon:
Pink
Blue
Green
Silver
Black
(Blue and Pink currently available)
Works with:
USB sticks
Micro SD cards
Anything you can plug headphones into (iPods, laptops, blackberry's, mp3 players etc.)
Built in FM radio
Multiple Music Angels can be linked together with splitters to increase volume and to achieve stereo or surround sound and does not affect sound quality
BEWARE OF FAKES
All coloured body pieces are made of anodized aluminum.
Three month warranty is included with all Music Angels when a bill is provided.
$50.00 each plus shipping and HST, if applicable
Corporate or bulk deals available
Bundled shipping available. Imprinting of logos available
Feel free to email at info@ beachbooster.com or call Beach BOOSTER Promotions Directly at  705-716-1670 or 705 812-5507
These Music Angels produce truly amazing sound…

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Promote Wasaga Golf Tournament a Success!


Congratulations and thank you for your unbelievable determination and hard work to make the Promote Wasaga Golf Tournament such a success!
We have been out and about today, speaking with business folks 'round The Beach... and have heard nothing but good things about what happened on Friday.
We feel proud to be associated with the event even in some very small way... but we know how much time and effort you all invested to make it work!
 beach BOOSTER next week will publish a very positive and rewarding editorial on what happens when local business folks come together with a common goal!

Joe Bickerstaff
Beach Booster Streetscapes Ltd.
Beach BOOSTER Promotions

A day at Wasaga Beach Skate Park








Friday, July 8, 2011

Happy Frieday

Happy Friday, Friends! Cheers to optimistic, positive-thinking people: The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Monday, July 4, 2011

Wasaga Has A New Dog Friendly Beach!

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Karen Friesecke

Jersey Swimming At Wasaga Beach from Karen Friesecke on Vimeo.





For the past few years, Wasaga Beach has closed their dog beach for most of the Summer to protect endangered birds that nested nearby. *Finally* a new beach has been designated for all the water loving pooches!
Last summer, I visited various Ontario beaches, but Wasaga is still my favorite. The new dog beach is located at Beach Three. It is a fairly spacious area, with plenty area for the doggies AND people to run and play.





Jersey was so excited to get to the beach, that she kept dropping sticks in my lap while I was trying to eat lunch! Despite being apprehensive of water when she was a young pup, she is quite the swimmer puppy now. I think that we played in the water for almost an hour!
It was a riduculously perfect day at the beach. No wind, warm water, a good friend and plenty of sun. I didn’t want to leave, but an ice cream break on the way home made leaving a little better.

To all my US friends, enjoy your Fourth of July!

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Clients from Hell: A Great Short Film

Wasaga Beach Crew Cleaning Up Our Beaches Every Morning While You’re Still Asleep

 

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Dirty underpants, a mannequin wearing socks, an air conditioner and a still-working iPhone were among some of the stranger items of trash picked up from the beach last year.

Plastics have always accounted for the largest percentage of cleaned-up garbage — about 77 percent. Many plastic items can kill marine life by choking them or tangling their intestines.

People think these single-use plastic items are disposable, but they're really not. Cigarette filters account for 13 percent of the trash.

Millions of pieces of trash are picked up every year and disposed of or recycled. Plastic six-pack beverage can rings were a major problem up and down our beaches. They are particularly lethal to turtles and birds, who would become entangled in them and choke. In recent years, however, cleaners have found much fewer six-pack rings, mainly because more beverages are sold in cardboard containers.

But balloons, particularly Mylar-coated ones, are on the rise. People either let them go on purpose or they slip out accidentally, fly for miles and end up in rivers or the Bay, endangering marine life.

Clear plastics in general are dangerous for turtles, which mistake them for fish and eat them, often with fatal results.

Other items picked up in recently include toilet seats, a pregnancy test (result unclear), bags of pet waste, an 8-track tape, half a Barbie doll, a tube of denture cement, a jockstrap and fake breasts.