Property Owners Association invites input

Kevin Bowne | Feb 02, 2014

The Sharbot Lake Property Owners’ Association have revised the website to make it even more accessible and it is still at www.slpoa.ca. We invite all residents, whether members of the association or not, to take a look. Tell us what you think about the site and please join the conversations about the various topics that are raised.

I would like to draw the readers’ attention to one section of the website in particular, the section that focuses upon the Environment. To do the best we can to protect and enhance the environment in our beautiful part of the province the executive of the association needs all the help they can get!

To get to that particular section:

1. Use the internet browser that you prefer and type in www.slpoa.ca.

1. The association’s website will appear. Go to SLPOA forums (located in the banner along the left side), and click on it.

2. Scroll down to “Environmental Issues”, and click on it.

3. You will now see a number of headings. I want to elaborate and invite your participation for two of these in particular.

“The Story of a Lake” (click onto it) sets the stage for an extensive – and endlessly ongoing – dialogue among us regarding the origins, the current status, and the future of the lake itself. Our Environmental Issues Coordinator, Rem Westland, has already contributed information drawn from our 2013 Lake Plan and from other documents. You will see that the topic is set up with an introductory chapter (The Story of a Lake) and then highlights each following chapter in turn. We invite you to add your knowledge to what is already captured in this story. We welcome as much information as you may have regarding any aspect of the lake that gives the Village of Sharbot Lake its name.

The way to provide input is to first register with our webmaster. All you do is click the “registration” icon (top right of the page) and follow the instructions from there. Your user name will be recorded and you will get a password. Every time you want to add information to the topics/chapters of interest you just type in your user name (box furthest to the left), password (second box in) and click “Log in”.

The second heading of special interest is “General Issues”. After you click onto that heading you will see a number of listed topics, some of which already have been taken on by people whose names are indicated. The first topic to click onto is “Coordination of Issues”. This describes the organization of the section and provides a long list of potential topics for “champions” to take on. I am sure, once the conversation is started that the listed topics only scratch the surface.

There are a great many environmental issues of concern to all of us, whether we are seasonal or permanent, on the water or inland, private citizens or business people. We are asking that individuals contribute to the topics already listed (steps to follow are set out above) or propose new topics of concerns so that we can work together on the environmental issues that concern all of us. We on the SLPOA executive hope to see dozens of Environmental Issues being explained and regularly updated by dozens of individuals who use our website to communicate broadly throughout our community and with the world.