Lake Winnipeg Foundation Walk For Water

Please join your friends & community members for the "Walk for Water"  on Sunday July 27, 2014.   Read all about it on the Lake Winnipeg Foundation website   Pledge forms are available from their website, or at the local stores & Community Club.

Walk for Water is the largest grassroots fundraising event in support of a healthy Lake Winnipeg. Taking place in four lakeside communities, it's a great way to be a part of the solution — and a fun way to spend a day at the lake!

No need to register ahead of time.  Just show up after 9:15 and sign in at the Dunnottar Community Club
Feel free to bring your well behaved dog for this lovely morning walk!

Walks will also be held in other areas around the lake:

Matlock

Date: July 27, 2014
Location: Dunnottar Community Club
Registration: 9:15 a.m.; Walk begins at 10:00 a.m.
Distance: 5 km

Grindstone Provincial Park

Date: August 4, 2014
Location: Black’s Point Beach parking lot
Registration: 9:15 a.m.; Walk begins at 10:00 a.m.
Distance: 5 km

Gimli

Date: August 10, 2014
Location: Lake Winnipeg Visitor Centre, Gimli Harbour
Registration: 9:15 a.m.; Walk begins at 10:00 a.m.
Distance: 5 km

Victoria Beach

Date: August 10
Location: Victoria Beach Clubhouse
Registration: 9:15 a.m.; Walk begins at 10:00 a.m.
Distance: 5 km

Spring 2014

Its a late but very beautiful spring here in Dunnottar.  The piers are currently being built by the hardworking team, led by Mr. Donald Skorupski.

Here is the article from the Village website:

Dunnottar’s Piers

Mr. Skorupski has been building piers for many years, with 2014

marking his 60th anniversary. On top of building the piers, Mr.

Skorupski constructs the sitting decks and assists the village with

budget requirements annually. Generally, one of the eight piers is

replaced each year.

Each year, depending on the weather and ice conditions on the lake,

the piers are erected in a varying order so each pier gets a chance of

being first.

In 2013, one of the village’s piers was featured on the Government of

Manitoba’s homepage.

In 2014, there is $51,500 budgeted for pier and sitting deck construc-

tion. With the completion of the shoreline repairs, new sitting decks

are planned for Selkirk Avenue and Matlock Road.

Congratulations Mr. Skorupski on 60 years in the business

To read the entire Spring 2014 Village of Dunnottar newsletter - Read Newsletter

The Kitchen Renovation - Dunnottar Community Club

Renovations at the Dunnottar Community Club

The new kitchen renovation at DCC - from their facebook page.

"Well folks, here is a sneak peek at the DCC kitchen renos. Thanks to all of you for your amazing support - this could not have been done without you!"

The Spark Plug Award goes to ...

Jo & Henry Dellapenta

Thank you to Jo and Henry Dellapenta for motivating the Dunnottar community into action.  With their perseverance we all finally organized and successfully obtained an amendment exempting our community from Bill 33.  Well done!

Celebrating our "Unique Community"

Sunday noon we had speeches, cake and drinks to celebrate our Village, after being exempt from Bill 33 - Municipal Amalgamations.
For larger photo viewing, double click on an image & scroll through all.

Happy Villagers

"Lets pat ourselves on the back!"

Mayor Rick Gamble

Some of the Elders with one of the youngest Villagers!

Sparkling grape juice for cheers

Cake at Noon - Whytewold Pier!

Join us for a celebratory cheer and cake at noon Sunday Sept 15, 2013!  The cake is not quite like the one pictured above but it is a JEANNE'S CAKE!
See you there.

"The Little Village That Could"

Congratulations Dunnottar, we are "the little village that could"

Thanks to everyone who wrote letters, sent emails, phoned MLAs, displayed We Love Dunnottar signs, signed petitions, or simply spoke to their friends and neighbours about the implications of Bill 33,  together our collective efforts made the difference!

Join us for a celebratory piece of cake at Whytewold Pier (Tugela Creek) on Sunday, September 15th, at noon.

Hope to see you there.

Special Thanks:

Thank you to all the residents of Dunnottar, both summer and year-rounders, who attended the public committee hearings at the Legislature on Monday, September 9th and Tuesday, September 10th in the evening. In addition to presentations by Mayor Rick Gamble and Councilor Bob Campbell, a number of private citizens made written and oral presentations.

Special kudos to Bruce Ball who was the last person to present at about 1 am Monday morning (a true commitment given that the first presentations began shortly after 6 pm) and David Lewis who stayed till the end on Tuesday evening - ensuring our Village had representation when Minister Lemieux closed the committee hearings with the news that resort communities would be excluded from the Bill 33 legislation.

Every individual who wrote letters, sent emails, phoned MLAs or presented in person at the Leg contributed to the amendment of the Bill in favour of Dunnottar and Victoria Beach. Well done folks!
Joannie and Bob

And Special Thanks to Joannie and Bob from the rest of us!  They mobilized our community into action when we were thinking all was lost.  Well done!

Finally, We Love Dunnottar signs - available at the Village municipal office for $10. There are just a few signs left and we'd like to sell them out; proceeds toward playground equipment in the Village.

photo:  Bob Campbell