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Winter “Weedsicle” Social — DATE CHANGE — March 12, 2016

WEED love to see you at the

LMPA WINTER WEEDSICLE SOCIAL

Sat­ur­day, MARCH 12, 2016
7:00 p.m. — 10:00 pm

Woodville Rod & Gun Club
252 Wood Street, Hopkinton

Excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet new neigh­bors and socialize!!
*Adult-only func­tion for LMPA members*

*Hearty Appe­tiz­ers and Cash Bar*

*Con­tri­bu­tions to the Dessert Table are welcome*

*4th of July Boat Parade Tro­phy to be awarded!*

*50/50 Raf­fle*

Please feel free to bring non-mem­bers who
are inter­est­ed in join­ing the LMPA, mem­ber­ship renew­al is avail­able as well

 

 

 

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NEXT LMPA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING — MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2016

The next LMPA Exec­u­tive Board meet­ing will be held on Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 11, 2016 at 7:00 pm.

Please let Mal­colm Page know if you are plan­ning to attend (malcolmepage@gmail.com)

This is a reg­u­lar Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing, not a spe­cial Gen­eral Meeting.

We will be post­ing these month­ly  meet­ing dates, so that if any Lake Mem­bers have some­thing they would like to dis­cuss with the E‑Board, they are wel­come to attend.

The meet­ing will be held at 6 Downey Street (home of Tina and Jon MacConnell).

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Update on Extended Draw Down of Lake Maspenock

As of last Tues­day, Decem­ber 1st, there had been a 76″ reduc­tion in the lake lev­el.  The lev­el is being reduced at a rate of about 1″ per day.  The reduc­tion will cease Decem­ber 15th.  It looks like the total reduc­tion this year will be about 90″ unless sig­nif­i­cant rain­fall occurs.  The lake will be main­tained at the reduced lev­el until we expe­ri­ence sig­nif­i­cant freez­ing or we reach Jan­u­ary 15th. 2016.  Re-fill of the lake will begin once it is deter­mined that we have expe­ri­enced suf­fi­cient freez­ing of the weed roots or we reach Jan­u­ary 15th, 2016.  Re-fill will begin no lat­er than Jan­u­ary 15th, 2016.  Feel free to reach out to the LMPA with any and all ques­tions (lmpa.org@verizon.net).

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Executive Board Meeting Minutes — October 6, 2015

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Web­site: www.lmpa.org         Email: lmpa.org@verizon.net

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing Minutes

Octo­ber 6, 2015

 

Atten­dance:  Pat­ty, Tina, Mike, Sabine, Matt, Jaime

Start time:     7:15 pm

 

  1. Review and dis­cuss any changes or clar­i­fi­ca­tions to the meet­ing min­utes from August 10th and Sep­tem­ber 1st Bd. Meet­ings Vote to accept the min­utes, post meet­ing min­utes to the web­site after board approval

Changes made to min­utes, vote to post

            Motion:  Patty

            Sec­ond: Tina

            Unanimous

 

  1. Treasurer’s Report –

Reg­u­lar account:  $3,218.84

Weed Fund:  $5,707.29

Con­stant new mem­ber­ships and dona­tions com­ing in.

 

  1. Lake Clean Up

Octo­ber 17th, 9:00 am

As usu­al, cof­fee and donuts at 9:00 am

Piz­za for vol­un­teers at 12:00 pm

Dump­ster will be deliv­ered and picked up on Oct. 17th in the afternoon.

Need to recruit vol­un­teers, Sabine to reach out to FB mem­ber­ships and the high school for volunteers.

Reminders to be post­ed on web­site and Face­book — Patty

 

 

  1. LMPA Weed Subcommittee

Need to get sub­com­mit­tee formed in order to get research and infor­ma­tion out to gen­er­al pub­lic of Hopkinton. 

 

Talked about sched­ul­ing 3–4 “cof­fee ses­sions” like the schools did at Water Fresh.  Maybe one at Ko, one at Fire Sta­tion, oth­ers TBD.

 

Put togeth­er an email to send to mem­ber­ship about re-form­ing LMPA weed com­mit­tee.  Tina to find old email and send to Eboard for approval to send.

 

Ask Mal­colm or Drew to con­tact Mike Gibbs, Dave Gibbs, Don Kaiser to see if they want to be part of the LMPA Subcommittee.

 

  1. New Town Weed Advi­so­ry Board

First meet­ing to be held on Thurs­day, Octo­ber 8th

Jaime to report back to board on meet­ing agen­da and what was discussed.

Jaime to ask if we can post infor­ma­tion about Weed Advi­so­ry min­utes to our FB page and website.

 

  1. New Busi­ness

Chron­i­cle had a nice report on Lake Life.  Pat­ty to get video of the pro­gram and post on Web­site and Facebook.

 

Ask Mal­colm to respond to Hop­kin­ton Inde­pen­dent request for interview. 

 

 

  1. Next meet­ing: Tues­day, Novem­ber 10th, 7:00 pm, Tina’s house

 

            Motion to adjourn:           Patty

            Sec­ond: Mike

            Unanimous

 

End time:  8:20 pm

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Article in The Hopkinton Independent — October 29th issue

Many thanks to The Hop­kin­ton Inde­pen­dent and Eri­ka Steele for help­ing to edu­cate the res­i­dents of Hop­kin­ton about the Lake’s Inva­sive Weed Problem.

Please click on the link below, which will take you to a very infor­ma­tive arti­cle that was pub­lished in the lat­est issue of The Hop­kin­ton Inde­pen­dent regard­ing Lake Maspenock­’s Con­tin­u­ing Weed Problem.

Lake Maspenock Weeds a Grow­ing Problem

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NEXT LMPA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING — TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10th

The next LMPA Exec­u­tive Board meet­ing will be held on Tues­day, Novem­ber 10th at 7:00 pm.

Please let Mal­colm Page know if you are plan­ning to attend (malcolmepage@gmail.com)

This is a reg­u­lar Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing, not a spe­cial Gen­eral Meeting.

We will be post­ing these month­ly  meet­ing dates, so that if any Lake Mem­bers have some­thing they would like to dis­cuss with the E‑Board, they are wel­come to attend.

The meet­ing will be held at 6 Downey Street (home of Tina and Jon MacConnell).

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LMPA Weed Subcommittee Volunteers Needed!!!

To the Lake Mem­ber­ship and All Res­i­dents of Hop­kin­ton, Upton and Milford:

The most recent bio­log­i­cal sur­vey of the lake notes an increase in one native species, the large leaf pond weed. It has increased dra­mat­i­cal­ly over the past few years, and has become a sig­nif­i­cant problem.

After much dis­cus­sion among the exec­u­tive board and the mem­ber­ship, the weed con­trol strat­e­gy will take par­al­lel paths mov­ing for­ward. We will con­tin­ue to attempt a suc­cess­ful extend­ed draw­down which requires lit­tle cost and effort com­pared to alter­na­tive meth­ods of weed con­trol. In par­al­lel, we are form­ing a new sub­com­mit­tee, which will focus on one main mission.…to fig­ure out the best meth­ods to con­vey research and infor­ma­tion that has been gath­ered by the LMPA and the new­ly formed Town Weed Advi­so­ry Board to all of the res­i­dents of Hop­kin­ton. We want to recruit peo­ple from all over town to be on this sub­com­mit­tee, as well as any­one with a vest­ed inter­est in the lake.

Time require­ments of the sub­com­mit­tee mem­bers are to be deter­mined, but one should expect at least 1–2 meet­ings per month and some time out­side of meet­ings to own a par­tic­u­lar action item that will help ful­fill the mis­sion of the subcommittee.

Please respond direct­ly to the LMPA by  email to lmpa.org@verizon.net, if you are inter­est­ed in serv­ing on this sub­com­mit­tee. We wish every­one a won­der­ful fall sea­son on our beau­ti­ful lake!

The Exec­u­tive Board of the LMPA

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REMINDER — LAKE CLEANUP — Saturday, October 17th

REMINDER!!!

The LMPA will be host­ing a LAKE CLEANUP on Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 17th. Please meet at Sandy Beach park­ing lot to pick up trash bags at 9:00 am (cof­fee, hot choco­late and donuts pro­vid­ed to workers!).

There will be a dump­ster in Sandy Beach park­ing lot for you to bring your trash bags back to dur­ing the clean up.

We will meet back at Sandy Beach park­ing lot at 12:00 pm, and the LMPA will pro­vide piz­za, soda/water for those who worked hard clean­ing our beau­ti­ful resource!!!

Please join us and bring lots of helpers on Octo­ber 17th!!!!

We will be pro­vid­ing a let­ter to any­one who needs proof of vol­un­teer­ing to help as well.  Just let one of the LMPA board mem­bers know that day.