FOG Members and anyone interested in the Gile Flowage are invited to attend the Annual Friends of the Gile Flowage Meeting on Saturday, May 29 from 9:30 am -11:30 am. This year Squeaks Bar and Supper Club, located on Hwy. 77 in Pence, WI, will be once again hosting our meeting in the back dining room area. Coffee and sweets will be provided.
Agenda items include:
- Secretary and Treasurer's Year End Reports
- State of FOG- President's Update on 2009 FOG activities and Upcoming Flowage issues & Opportunities
- Elections for FOG Board Positions
- 2010 Ideas & Projects Open Discussion
As is our tradition, the meeting will feature an educational program on an issue affecting the Gile Flowage. This year we have invited Heather Palmquist, from the Iron County Land Conservation Department, to tell us about a large grant Iron County has received to work on invasive species control between Lake Superior, Weber Lake, and the Gile Flowage. Heather will explain opportunities for us to get involved as a lake association or as individual volunteers.
Heather will also tell us about a new cost sharingprogram offered through her department to assist shoreland owners restore their shoreland areas with native plantings and receive money-back to do so! Here is an opportunity to benefit the Flowage's fish and wildlife, improve property and stabilize shorelands, and get money to do so!
The Annual FOG meeting will feature a powerpoint slide show of FOG activities. The Treasurer and Secretary's books will be for inspectiion. There will also be a raffle for some special Flowage-related prizes!
Everyone is welcome to attend, so please help us spread the word to all our Friends of the Gile Flowage and join us at the 2010 Annual FOG Meeting.