FREE RAFFLE TICKETS!!

Stop by East Boston Savings Bank and pick up your free raffle ticket for a chance to win one of the Wyoma Square Merchant Gift Certificates!!!  You need not to be present to win. Just print your name and telephone # on your raffle ticket. Most of the Wyoma Square Merchants are offering a 10% discount During the hours of the Festival!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

10:00 a.m. to Noon

Curious Creatures at East Boston Savings Bank

11:00 A.M. - 1:00 p.m.

Ju-Ju The Clown With Free Balloon Figures & Popcorn at Ippi’s Bait & Tackle

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Face Painting at Ippi’s Bait and Tackle

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Richie’s Italian Ice at East Boston Savings Bank

10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Sluice Pond Assoc. (SPL) Info + Fly Tying

10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Mass Wild Life Table + Info

10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Lynn Fish + Game Assoc. Info

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.

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
This year the SPA will have to contribute to the weed treatment that costs $7,000 annually. We conduct our Fight the Weeds Raffle annually. This year we need all the help we can get to sell tickets! Charitable donations can be made here by organizations or individuals who want to keep Sluice Pond clean for public swimming, fishing and boating. 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 city and Lynn Water & Sewer treated the pond in 2009. We will post notices for in JUNE, 2010 if weed treatment will be happening again.