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JUNE 27TH- From 8-12 our first Round-the-Pond Yard Sale with Briarcliff Lodge to benefit recreational activities for elders with dementia and Alzheimer's and recreation on the pond. Yard Sale sponsors include Salem 5¢ Savings Bank and SideKim Food Services. From 10-2pm the Wyoma Square Annual sidewalk sale and festival will take place with live clowns and other activities. Most merchants will discount 10 percent and there will be merchandise raffles. Come and enjoy the local fun. JULY 4TH- flares will be available at TruValue Hardware in Wyoma Square. Waterfront members should plan to light their flares along the pond edge at 9pm on July 4th. please dispose of the used flares in your trash, not in the pond. Contact Ippi or Paul Stonkus for more information or to order your flares in advance. At the 2009 spring clean up in we were joined by many more volunteers this year who hauled lots of trash from city owned pond property near Briarcliff Lodge and across the cove on the fishing trails. Our thanks to them and to all of the Sluice Pond volunteers for a great effort. Also on INDEPENDENCE DAY we will celebrate with the annual boat parade that anyone can enter. Dress up your craft to celebrate. The parade will meet at the boat ramp at BRIARCLIFF LODGE at 2:45 for a trip around the pond at noon. The parade will take place from the Briarcliff boat ramp and will circle the coves and pond and return to the Briarcliff ramp area. All youth and their parents are welcome. Information about the scheduled fishing tournaments for Sluice Pond can be obtained at Ippi's Bait and Tackle. Tournaments are scheduled every two weeks and prizes of up to $300 can be caught for those preregistered. Massachusetts stocks Sluice Pond with trout each Spring and Fall, salmon also when available. Ippi's Bait and Tackle has also stocked the pond with trout and runs tournaments for adults, juniors and children on Sluice Pond and Flax pond. Lynn Fish and Game stocks the pond annually with trout. Weed Treatment Donations Can be made here by organizations or individuals who want to donate to keeping Lynn ponds clean. SPA members can see Paul Stonkus at Century 21-Hughes in Wyoma Square or Laura Ippoliti at Ippi's Bait and Tackle at 5 Parkland Ave in Wyoma Square. Letters and proceeds can also be mailed to Ruth Sarrett, 39 Bacheller Street, Lynn, MA 01904. Initial native broadleaf weed treatment was conducted on July 28, 2006 and again in early June, 2007 and June 2008 with assistance from the City of Lynn and Lynn Water and Sewer Commission as well as generous member contributions. Treatment for invasive weeds took place in Spring and a 2nd follow-up treatment in the coves in Summer, 2007 and 2008 thanks to our state legislator Mark Falzone . Art Fennell secured treatment funds for Flax Pond. Community Development of Lynn conducted a bid process for vendors to treat the weeds in 2007 and 2008 with these funds using Aquatic Control Technologies.The SPA is raising funds for a weed treatment maintenance program rather than letting the treatment lapse again.The state is not contributing again in 2009. We will post notices for in JUNE, 2009 if weed treatment will be happening again. |
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