SEBEC LAKE ASSOCIATION,
INC.
P.O. Box 303
Dover-Foxcroft, Maine 04426-0303
Random Thoughts From Lakeside 2000.
Summer is well underway at this time, while the weather has not been the best, all things considered, there is no place I’d rather be.
The Sebec Lake Association has it’s own new website, thanks to our web master, Gary Soucy. Check us out at: www.SebecLakeAssoc.com
Our E-mail address is: sebecassoc@aol.com Contact us any time, year round with any concerns. Thanks.
I’d like to thank all the folks that responded about the oiler “Sebec.” More at a later date.
Please note Mac Blanchard’s new address. The post office strikes again.
Last spring’s newsletter spoke of the problems last summer at the dam, pertaining to the water level and the vandalism caused by young people swimming in the area. I couldn’t be more pleased to report that our friends at the dam, including Gary Robinson, have come up with a simple and quite ingenious method of stopping it cold. The Sebec Lake Association owes our friends several “Atta boys” for this one. Thank you.
The catch and release program seems to be very popular with Sebec Lake anglers. I’m sure we all enjoy a nice fish fry, but lets save some for future generations. Thank you.
Dues to the Sebec Lake Association are due July 1st , 2000. I’m including the dues payment form and membership application. Please help us upgrade our information and mailing list to the best of your knowledge. If we had the info, we wouldn’t be asking for it. The post office and towns are busy implementing their 911 systems and addresses are changing rapidly. Returns cost money and extra work to re-mail.
Why not ask your neighbor at the Lake to join with you in preserving and protecting Sebec Lake and become a member of the Sebec Lake Association.
Thank you.
Dave Raymond
This past spring a great many people and the Sebec Lake Association lost a good friend. Phyllis Foss, long time Sebec laker and director, passed away. Phyllis’ family very kindly asked friends to make a donation to the Sebec Lake Association in lieu of flowers. We were overwhelmed by the generous donations by so many people. The following friends and family contributed generously. Thank you.
Floyd and Nathalee Marsh, Laura Pratt, Gloria A. Burns, Mrs. Patricia Merrill, Evelyn Marden, Stephen and Jane Pratt, Leone H. Smith, Tom and Angie Pratt & TJ, Shirley Thibeau, “The Corner Shop Girls” Carol, Cheryl, Connie, Lin, and Darla, the Town of Hampden, Thelma Detzel Palermo, Evelyn G. Weston, Richard and Rosemary R. Leonard, Elwyn and Miriam Walker, Jim and Joan Pratt, Francis and Shirley Foss, and Virgil and Sandra Pratt.
I’d like to quote Mr. Gil Pratt:
“Please accept this donation in memory of Phyllis P. Foss of Dover-Foxcroft who passed away on May 18, 2000. Her grandfather built the family camp in Bowerbank in 1931 when she was 10 years old and she spent her entire lifetime visiting and enjoying Sebec Lake.
The years have seen many changes, but Phyllis strongly felt that the Association had a major impact in protecting the beauty and cleanliness of the Lake and preserving it for future generations. I still visit the family camp regularly and feel the same way she did about the Lake. It is truly a special place.
Please use this donation without restriction in the Association’s effort to protect and preserve Sebec Lake.”
Annual Meeting, August 19, 2000
7 p.m. at the YMCA, Park Street, Dover-Foxcroft
Opening Remarks….Dave Raymond
Minutes of the Annual Meeting 1999…. Marie Woodbrey
Treasurer’s Report….Mac Blanchard
Lake Water Quality….Dale/Julie Flanders
Old Business….Update on Functioning Lake Water Level Meter….John Daubenspeck
LAKE LEVEL AND THE DAM!
New Business…..
Individual
Concerns
Safe Boating Booklets Distributed
Election of Officers, Nominations from the Floor will be accepted. Introduction of Board Members.
If it is necessary for you to leave the meeting early and/or if you would like to leave written comments, please use the space below and leave this agenda on your chair for us to pick up. Thank you!
As I close my eyes and start to dream
I think of wild trout in a babbling stream,
Pine trees tall so straight and proud,
And a sky so clear with hardly a cloud.
The lake’s pristine with its rock bound shore,
Where nature abounds and eagles soar.
Where folks are free to do as they please
Whether heat of summer or snow to their knees.
No traffic, no whistles or foul smelling air,
Just peace and quiet so abundant there.
It has been said by folks around town
That it all started the day God looked down.
He selected a piece of some beautiful land,
There was no doubt about it, He had a plan.
A town was born, a place we all love;
A reason to pray to the Lord above.
For this place of beauty to the Lord we can thank
For our great little town called Bowerbank.
- W. Quigley