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Topics of Various Articles Quoted
The Night Sky - Darker is Better!
Cottage Life - Dark Skies
Property Assessment
Haliburton County 911 service
Haliburton Highlands Water Trails
The Night Sky - Darker is Better
A fabolus article on last summers Dark Skies Night workshops and the International Dark-Skies program. VIEW ARTICLE
A letter to Cottage Life magazine about the associations ongoing efforts to iprove the lakes night enviornment and our Dark Skies programs. VIEW ARTICLE
Property Assessments
Quoted from the Minden Times, Nov. 12, 2004
Changes to Ontario's property assessment system, announced earlier this year in the provincial budget, means that the 2004 province-wide assessment update has been cancelled.
As a result, Property Assessment Notices will be sent this fall only to those properties where changes have been made since the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) issued notices last year.
"Approximately one million owners will receive a notice if their property has undergone a change since the last assessment update," said Carl Isenburg, administrative officer of MPAC.
911 Emergency Service
Quoted from the Minden Times, Nov. 26. 2004
911 is coming to Haliburton County on December 10.
The emergency telephone service will be officially launched at a lunchtime ceremony which will mark the end of the county's inglorious distinction of being the last jurisdiction in the province to have 911.
Public invited to water trails forums
Quoted from the Minden Times, Jan. 21, 2005
The Haliburton Highlands Water Trails Committee in partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and the Township of Algonquin Highlands will be hosting public information forums on the following dates and locations. (I have quoted the dates that most cottagers will be at their cottages.)
May 21, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. for property owner associations at Club 35.
June 4, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. for the general public at the Dorset Recreation Centre.
The information forums will provide information and seek public comment and suggestions on a proposal to develop and implement a user pay/reservation system for recreational users on the Water Trails' management area, with the objective of creating a sustainable self-funded system in support of the long-term recreational management of the area. Those activities include the maintenance and capital infrastructure of canoe routes, campsites, portages, access points and forest access roads specifically within the 26,985 hectare area historically known as the Frost Centre Area. Water Trails' initial funding came from Ontario's Living Legacy Program which ended in 2004. As a result, the township, Water Trails committee and MNR are working together to be able to continue the Water Trails program to ensure that access to recreational opportunities continues and that the natural beauty and health of the Haliburton Highlands is sustained.
