We are sorry to give you the news that Shirley Shirey passed away on Tues. Nov.11, 2008 of cancer. She was very active in the Six Mile Lake Association and will be missed very much. She was a wonderful lady. Her husband Harold has been a past president and board member of the Association. A memorial will be held on Sat. Nov. 15 at 1:00 at the State Road Methodist Church, Central Lake. You can send cards to Harold at 5751 Miles Rd. East Jordan, Mi 49727.
The milfiol committee just went to a Fresh Water Conference in Traverse City on Oct. 30 part of it was on the milfoil problem. We received more information to research and have contacted another lake management company that had some ideas for us. Many lakes in Michigan are having this problem and we have heard stories of success with the weevils and using chemicals.
If we use the weevils please be assured that they will not get on you ,your animals, or infest your lawn. They do not bite or bother you in any way. We also learned that if we use chemicals we have to get a signature from every property owner on the lake. At this time that seems like a impossible task. We are not leaning toward chemicals.
The company we have been talking with about the weevils has offered us a very nice incentive to make a decision by the end of the year by offering if we submit a signed contract and deposit they will match the amount of the deposit with the equivalent number of extra weevils. If we make a deposit of 20% they supply an extra 20% weevils, 100% deposit 100% weevils. With our SMALL budget it is a wonderful option.
We will keep you abreast of more things we find out. PLEASE DO NOT DELAY IN MAKING YOUR CONTRIBUTION. We can only make a commitment for the moneys we have and what a great opportunity to double your $$$$.
Please feel free to contact us with ideas or concerns on this project as at times it seems like a overwelming task. To those of you that have made contributions we thank you very much. We are working at this all the time. Please remember that this is YOUR LAKE YOUR PROBLEM. We have a long way to go at getting even 50% of the property owners making contributions.
The big winner for the drawing was Michel Nerone. She hasn’t decided which prize she will take the $1500.00 or the all expence paid trip to Mexico. We will be having another drawing in the spring . Keep watch. What a great dinner we had with eight pans of chili and over 50 in attendance. Thanks for coming. Too many deserts to choose from.
Make sure we have your winter phone number and e-mail address if we need to contact you for a problem we see in our neighborhood watch. Contact diecker1@gmail.com if you change your e-mail address.
Mary Hosick wrote:
Any news on high speed internet coming to the lake?
Hi Mary - The only high speed internet available on the lake is though Charter Cable. DSL is currently not available on our side of the lake (Miles Road) and most likely won’t be anytime soon. There is a distance issue from the AT&T frame center.
To Check For DSL Service, go here:
http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=6431
To Check For Cable Service, go here:
http://www.charter.com/Visitors/Products.aspx?MenuItem=3
The only other option is Satellite Service, but it’s rather costly and slow. You can check these providers:
Wild Blue:
http://www.wildblue.com/
DirectTV
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/contentPage.jsp?assetId=P4660004&footernavtype=-1
DishNetwork:
http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/our_products/internet_access/high_speed/index.shtml
Hope This Helps!
Derrick.
Come to the chili supper Sat. Oct. 11 at 5:00 located at the Pleasant Valley Church on Old State Rd. Bring a desert to share and we will furnish the table ware and drink. We will have a blind auction, if you would like to bring an item to donate please do so. The BIG DRAWING WILL HAPPEN AT THIS MEETING. We will raffle off the last ticket to win . The chances are $2.00 each. Should be a great time and very exciting.
If anyone would like to donate a pot of chili please let us know as the more variety we have the better.
We hope to see you there.
NEWS LETTER SIX MILE LAKE ASSOC. OCT.
www.sixmilelakeassociation.org
Its getting time for frost on the pumpkins hope everyone is ready for winter, not me! Just a short up dates on our battle to control the Eurasian Water Milfoil found in our lake by Kevin Cronk from the Tip Of The Mitt. The tickets for the raffle were all sold within one week, but that’s a long way from our goal of $ 7,000 to $10,000 we will need to finance this project. The most that we will have to spend from the raffle is $ 3,500. Thanks to all of you that have sent in donations but we are still way short of our goal this should not fall on the other guy, so if you were thinking about sending a donation now is the time to do it! It’s your lake too, so dig a little deeper send your donations to the Six Mile Lake Association Milfoil Fund 5575 Miles Rd. East Jordan Mi. 49727. We have not committed to any one way of attacking this problem at this time. We have had visits from Mark Breederland, Michigan Sea Grant and Kevin Cronk ,Tip Of The Mitt both have recommended that we use the Weevils as long as we act A S A P there is no funding to help us with this project. We will have a plan in place in early 2009! Your help is needed to locate new Eurasian Water Milfoil beds also know as E W M contact Dave or Gail Daniels at 536 7808 email dumpling55@charter.net or Phil or Sally Dieck at 536 3207 email diecker1@gmail.com We have Info. to help you I. D. E W M anyone interested in helping please contact phone #s or email address’s above. If you have any questions feel free to call.
Please reply to your test Email if you would like to receive news letter via email or send your new address to diecker1@gmail.com we need your email address.
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Don’t forget our Chili dinner at Pleasant Valley Church 5:00 P M Oct. 11th. drinks, dinner, & tableware supplied just bring a dessert to share and something for the silent auction if you would like to. The winning Raffle ticket will be drawn at the dinner, and silent auction will be held. Come to the dinner and find out how you can have a chance to win an extra raffle ticket
Don’t hesitate to bring a guest everyone is welcome.
A wine tasting is still being planned for some time in Dec.
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Remember to keep your drives out of the water. Zebra mussels are still out there.
See you on the 11th. Dave
We have had two professionals out to look at the milfiol situation Kevin Cronp, Tipp of the MItt and Mark Breederland from Michigan Sea Grant College program. They both tell us we are lucky to find the milfiol at this stage so we can get it under control. We are not in a crisis stage where we would have to chemically treat the whole lake. They both feel we have a very good shore line for the beatle program to be sucessful. Many of the lakes in southen MIchigan and Wisconsin that have tried it have had too groomed of a shoreline. The beatles winter on land and need the brush and growth to survive. We have not made a dicision as of yet. We are looking at anything that we can find.
There will be a meeting on MIlfoil on Oct. 30 in Traverse City put on by Mark Breederland and others, anyone can attend. The cost is $15.00 and they need you to Rsvp. We will have more info. on it when the time is closer.
Out biggest issue is $$$$$$$$. People we HAVE to raise more money. The raffle was just a start.
1. Pay your dues, we have lots of members still not paid. This is time consuming to keep contacting you.
2 . We need YOUR donation of $$$$$$$$. We do not have the funds. We have about 100 members at $25.00=$2500.00. Not even a start, this just maintains us.
3. Tell your nieghbor about the trouble and send us his e=mail and home address. We have to get in contact with the property owners that are not members.
4. LEARN TO ID THE MILFIOL. We are looking for voluteers to be spotters in all areas of the lake. We need you now. If you are on the water much of the time you can be very important to this lake.
Carl Steer wrote referring to Echo Ramp: Has anybody noticed how dangerous the boat ramp is. I nearly tore the stabilizer fins off my boat while pulling it the other day. Spoke to Bill Derensey and he seemed genuinely suprised. Pls alert SML boat owners re this situation. The new cement pads installed have made a bad situation worse. fyi, Carl
