The South Marysburgh Mirror Gossips Persoual Notices, ptancuncements 4, la Motes Raad The County Club You may have noticed that the old Stedman’s store on Picton’s Main Street has undergone something of a transformation. Paul and Jennifer Brinco, owners of The County Club and Spa formerly located on Stanley Street in Bloomfield, bought the building from Stedman’s, invested in additional equipment, and significant upgrades and renovations and re- opened on Easter Monday. | had had something of an wake-up call just after New Years when | paid a visit to the emergen- cy department at PEMH with a minor complaint that | thought should be checked by a doctor. A visit to ‘emerg’ is a pretty good way to have the follies of your ways explained to you in no uncertain terms, particularly when those follies involve too healthy an appetite for the wrong foods and too little exer- cise. Motivated by the fact that the County Club was moving that much closer to South Marysburgh, | paid them a visit in Bloomfield, took out a mem- bership, had an assessment of my general health and abilities, and began exercising on a daily basis. | have belonged to several health clubs over the years—some large, some small - but the Brincos’ County Club is proving to be the best of the lot for some fairly basic reasons: it’s clean; it’s well man- aged by people who know what they’re talking about; and it has most of the equipment you’d need to begin and maintain a regimen towardbetter health. It’s also small enough that answers to ques- tions are close at hand, and you can’t get away with doing things incorrectly. A further bonus to the community is that the Brincos understand and believe in the necessity of retaining built heritage; although the interior of the building has been modernized and re-purposed, the exterior fagade won’t be. That belief—and their commitment—may help draw more businesses to fill the vacant store fronts along Picton Main Street. Thank You... Many thanks to all the volunteers who made the eleventh annual Easter Parade and Egg Hunt such a success: Ril Giles for decorating the trees along the parade route; Leon McConnell, Brent Walker, Chris Pengelly & Mendy Berkson for organizing a safe pa- rade; and the OPP for allowing the parade to take place. Also, Karen & Doug Gyde along with Noah & Emma for looking after the Egg Hunt; Sandie Black- ford and her team of Janet & Leslie Richardson, Karen Gyde & Barb Gates for looking after the Food Booth; and Jennifer Ackerman for the pony rides. Finally a special thanks to all the families who came out and participated in the event. See you next year! Bruce Dowdell, Chair, South Marysburgh Recreation Committee. Curly, Larry and MoE In case you missed it... The federal Minister of the MoE, Peter Kent’s, message about removing the small fishing village lo- cated on federal crown land on the south shore at Pt. Traverse: “The federal department has a duty to keep commercial enterprises off Crown Land.” Lease transfers from existing lessees to non- family third parties “are not being approved in order to help preserve this important wildlife area.” “This supports the department's mandate and the national wildlife area's objective of protecting and conserving wildlife and their habitat.” Meanwhile, about 10 KM west of Pt. Traverse on provincial crown land on the south shore at Os- trander Point, the Ontario MoE’s approval of Gilead Power’s commercial 9-turbine Ostrander Wind Ener- gy Park states: “The Company shall contact the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Director if any of the fol- lowing bird and bat mortality thresholds...are reached or exceeded: (1) 10 bats per turbine per year; (2) 14 birds per turbine per year at individual turbines or turbine groups; (3) 2 raptors per wind power project per year; (4) 10 or more birds at any one turbine during a sin- gle monitoring survey; or (5) 33 or more birds (including raptors) at multiple turbines during a single monitoring survey.