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Hibou Beach Cleanup May 17th

IMG_4925Reminder:  Help us get Hibou Beach ready for kids and adults to enjoy this summer.  Last year the beach was significantly improved when several volunteers came together for a morning  to work at removing sawdust and wood debris along the shore. Let’s do it again!

When: Tuesday May 17th from 9:30 till noonish.

Where:  Meet at the beach.IMG_4923

Bring rakes, pitch forks, wheelbarrows, work gloves if you have them.

Please RSVP if you can join us.

Email: marieknapp@rogers.com

or phone us at 519-371-1255 and leave a message.

Hope to hear from you.

For more information about Friends of Hibou go to www.friendsofhibou.com

Marie and Bob Knapp

First Work Party, Thursday, May 5 at 1:00 p.m.

Early Spring

Just a reminder that our first work party will be:

Thursday, May 5, 1:00 p.m.

We will meet at the South Parking Lot, do some trail clipping
and put up some bat boxes.

The next work party will be:

May 17, 9:30 a.m. We will be working on beach clean up until noon. Meet at the beach parking lot and bring rakes, pitch forks, wheelbarrows, etc.

Hope to see you there!

 

We Need Your Help!

It may not look like spring these days but it did arrive some time ago and we are now well into April. I have visited Hibou several times over the last few weeks and have enjoyed walking along the beach and then crossing the road to explore the trails there. Conditions have been wet, and sometimes snowy, but if you wear the proper footwear you can still do some great exploring.

We will be looking for volunteers to help with trail and beach maintenance in May:

May 5, 1:00 p.m. We will meet at the South Parking Lot, do some trail clipping and put up some bat boxes.

May 17, 9:30 a.m. We will be working on beach clean up until noon. Meet at the beach parking lot and bring rakes, pitch forks, wheelbarrows, etc.

I will send out another reminder closer to the date but put us on your calendar and come on out to help! There will also be an opportunity to help with building boardwalks later in the season. I’ll keep you posted. See you at Hibou! C. Harris

 

 

Volunteers: we thank you

Thank you for volunteering with us. The Board Members of the Friends of Hibou wish you a joyful holiday season and hope that 2016 brings you good health, happiness and peace. 

April 2015 IMG_2845The year is moving quickly. It seems time runs away as we get closer to the new year. The Friends of Hibou Board met in late October to conclude the years activity and make some plans for 2016.

We are very pleased with what we have been able to accomplish with the funding dollars we have received through the Community Foundation Grey Bruce and the TD Canada Trust Environmental Fund. However we would not have been able to put it to use without the assistance of volunteers like you.

Over the past year with volunteer help, we have done trail accomplished the following: Continue reading “Volunteers: we thank you”

Fire Pits Dismantled

fire pitsIt was a beautiful morning on July 20, 2015 when volunteer Bob Knapp joined GSCA staff Lee and Neil.  They walked along the shore south of the Hibou beach area and took apart several large fire pits, picking up all the associated garbage left behind by their users.  The area is getting cleaned up well.  It is a beautiful area to be enjoyed in its natural state as much as possible.

Would you like to be a volunteer?  We have cleanup projects about three times a year.  If you are interested and available during the week let us know and we will be sure to be in touch next time a work party is organized.  Thank you.

friendsofhibou@rogers.com

Beach Cleanup

Great group of 10 volunteers and 3 GSCA staff worked hard today raking up much of the decayed leaves and sawdust debris from the beach edge.  Beautiful day and amazing view the entire time.

Thank you to everyone who was there.  We are hopeful for a good year of swimming close to home.

Feels good! Job well done!

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This was taken last week.
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And this was taken at the end of the work day.

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Volunteers needed to help remove debris from beach

We are excited about the high water.  The Sandy beach looks inviting except for the debris that looks like twigs and sawdust.  Can you help?  Summer is almost here!

Bring a wheelbarrow, rake, pitchfork and you enthusiasm.  Join us Tuesday at 10am at the parking lot at the Hibou beach.  We aim to be done by 2:30.  Bring water and lunch.  Stay as long as you are able.  If you have to leave earlier, that is ok.

Let us know if you are coming.

Till then

Bob and Marie

Getting the Beach Ready for Swimming

IMG_4888Do you remember how popular the Hibou Beach was in the 80s?  The sandy shore line was so filled with families that new parking areas were established. Now that the water level is back up to that level, we are ready to clean up the beach area so people can once again enjoy swimming there.

We need your help.

When:  Tuesday June 2nd, 10am till about 2:30 but come when you are able during that time.

What to bring: If you can, bring a wheelbarrow, rake, pitch fork or shovel.  GSCA will have a tractor there to assist with removal of the debris that washes up on the beach. Bring water and lunch.  The weather forecast looks good at the moment.

We would love to have your help.  Let us know if you are planning to join us.  friendsofhibou@rogers.com   

Grand Opening of the Hibou Boardwalk Trail May 10, 2015

Opening 1The new boardwalk trail is ready to be officially opening.  Marie Knapp talks about how it was a community that brought the Conservation Area into being, a community that began Friends of Hibou and now a community of volunteers that built the Boardwalk.

 

Opening 2The Trail is officially opened when Evelyn Holley who is on the Friends of Hibou Committee, and Susan Tuohy, Bank Manager from TD Canada Trust, the funder of the materials necessary to build the Boardwalk, cut the yellow ribbon.

 

Opening 3Bob talks about how the Boardwalk makes an area passable that would otherwise be underwater due to Beaver activity and nature.  In spring the wetlands come to life.

 

 

 

Opening 4 The group enjoys walking along the 200 feet of Boardwalk built by volunteers and laid down late fall 2014.

 

 

 

 

Opening 5Marie shows Susan where we walked in and how the trail system works.  There are maps at all junctures on the trails and each map is placed so the reader is facing North to simplify map reading.

Boardwalk Opening Monday at 12:30

Big Happening to officially open the Hibou Boardwalk Trail tomorrow at 12:30.pm.

Hoping for better weather. If any changes I will post here and on the Face Book page before 11am. Keep watching.  Otherwise hope to see you there.