Final Chance To Enter The Contest!

Hi All,Well, the stakes just got higher in the Great Canadian Skootamatta Ice Contest. Guy Viggers has offered to donate a bottle of Polar Ice Vodka to the winner. And the SDRA Board has added a second place prize. A big box of Popsicles. Both prizes will …

Skootamatta Ice Contest

The Great Canadian Skootamatta Ice Contest has had an incredible response from our members. By midnight last night I had 98 guesses. I wasn’t able to send a POP out yesterday or we might have gone over the 100 guesses. Wayne Arthurs has donated a bottle of…

Tweed Declares State of Emergency

Tweed Declares State of Emergency

Photos Of Flooding At Stocco Lake in Tweed

Here are some photos of the flooding at Stocco Lake in Tweed.

Flood Warning Update for Moira, Salmon and Napanee Watersheds

Flows in the Moira River have reached 2008 levels.  Water Resources Manager Bryon Keene says, “The Moira River from Stoco Lake through to Foxboro and Belleville is still rising and could rise up to 5 more centimeters in total over the next two days.  We di…

Herb Grennell

Herb died peacefully on March 29, 2014 in his 83rd year.  Born in Dublin Ireland, on March 27, 1931, he was the eldest son of Herbert William and Cecilia Mary Grennell (Hatch) of Dublin; Elder brother of Ann Johnston, Aiden Grennell and Betty Grennell (d…

The Lost Highway

"The Lost Highway", a film about life along a remote yet colourful stretch of Ontario's Highway 7 between Kaladar and Perth will air at the end of April on TVO.World Broadcast Premiere on TVO: Wed., April 23 at 9:00 p.m. and midnight EST Sun., April 27…

Shrubs For Shoreline Planting

Quinte Conservation Authority is offering bare root shrubs to the lake associations for planting along the shoreline. SDRA can order them for anyone who is interested. These shrubs would need to be planted as soon as they arrive at the end of April.  Pleas…

Nan Alkenbrack

In her 95th year, Nan Alkenbrack died - as she lived - surrounded by her loving family. The youngest daughter of Daniel Rogers and Annie Milligan, Nan was born in Wesley (Newburgh), Ontario. She and her siblings Myrtle, Bess and Jim grew up on the farm and…

Bill Griffith

Bill Griffith passed away on Thursday December 5 2013 in Kingston General Hospital, after a short illness. Bill lived on Hughes Landing Road. He built his cottage on Crown Land on at the far end of Sheldrake Bay in 1967. When he retired, he made the wise m…