Marching towards Spring

We're happy to announce the following Winners!

Dean and Tracy Downing won the Scavenger Hunt Main Prize which consisted of a 6 pack sampler of beer and a beer glass donated by the Bobcaygeon Brewing Company, some bulk bags donated by Garden of Eden, cookies donated by the Boyce's, a snowflake ornament & metal antlers donated by the Flanagan's, 6 drink kooshies donated by Cottage Country Connections, a Shea hand sanitizer donated by Barb Knill, Mary Kay, a bar of felted soap made by the social committee, and some sauce and jam purchased from the Kawartha Winery.

Special thank you to everyone who donated items for prizes! AND thanks to all the residents who allowed us to use the photos of their property, especially to the ones who put things out specifically for this event! We couldn't continue to offer social activities without the support of our community.

The following participants correctly entered the scavenger hunt and they all win two beers from the Bobcaygeon Brewery Company, 2 drink Kooshies from Cottage Country Connection, cookies from the Boyce's and a snowflake ornament donated by Sues Flanagan Creates. Plus an item donated by John and Nancy Boyce, Nancy wanted to make sure there were lots of great prizes so we have indigenous art colouring books, jigsaw puzzles and a $25.00 gift certificate for the Buckhorn Community Centre.

Scavenger Hunt Winners:
Lois Cole wins beer prize plus jigsaw puzzle
Terry and Liz Mutton wins beer prize plus jigsaw puzzle
Ria Whatman wins beer prize plus jigsaw puzzle
Gary Graham wins beer prize plus $25.00 BCC gift certificate
Marc Ventresca wins beer prize plus colouring book
Julie Bellissimo wins beer prize plus colouring book
Sofia and Isabella Beltran wins beer prize plus colouring book
Charmaine Melburn wins beer prize plus hand sanitizer and felted soap

An email has been sent to the winners to arrange pick up at the Flanagan's.

Chili Photo Contest:

Well we only had one entry so the winner is Nancy Boyce!
John and Nancy will enjoy some chili made by Paul Flanagan and they will also receive a snowflake ornament.

"I have been trying to win since the first year we had a chili contest. My perseverance paid off." Nancy

Meet Arr'fred

Our Arr'some Pirate Regatta Mascot finally has a name, bragging rights go to Nancy Boyce! Two wins for Nancy!

Be sure to enter our Pollinator Kits Draw courtesy of Grow Wild Native Plant Nursery. Contest closes March 21st. If you don't win, then we encourage you to order plants from them and naturalize your property. You can order up until May, but the longer you delay, the more substitutions there will be, but we are confident you will be happy with any of their plants. See our website to submit your entry.

Volunteers Needed

Capture The Flag

We have decided that a regatta could not be safely orchestrated during a pandemic but that doesn't mean we can't capture some fun on the lake this summer. So we're going to have two events this summer:

CANADA DAY FLAG WEEK) Open to all ages, similar to the winter scavenger hunt but held over a week, Saturday June 26 to Saturday July 3rd, we are going to provide a map with locations marked out where you will visit by boat and mark down what type of flag is flying that week and enter online. We are fortunate to live in a multicultural country so while we are celebrating Canada Day let's also show our ancestral flags or other types of flags to make it interesting.

So we are looking for people to identify their current flags already flying on their property, or to put up a flag of your choice. We have a few pirate flags we can provide if you don't have one and want to participate.

Please take a photo and send it to us to info@bblca.ca

Completely Covid safe, no contact, individuals will just be observing the location from their boats.

REGGATA SCAVENGER HUNT) Open to the kids, on the August long weekend, where they will follow a course and collect items at designated locations. Details are in the works and will be provided in a later newsletter.

We are looking for volunteers who have a location where they can attach small fabric flags or other items to their docks or shore area that individuals can reach without getting out of their boats. We will provide items for you to put up and help strategize how you can put them up. i.e. we have some strings with clothes pegs from the water challenge that can be used, they could be stapled to a wood dock, etc.

If you have something to donate for approximately 50 kids please let us know, i.e. granola bars, etc.
The Boyce's have generously agreed to donate 50 cookies and tattoos.

Let us know if you would like to participate in any way you feel comfortable helping, we will need some volunteers to do sewing again before hand.

Let us know if you would like to be on the Social Committee to help plan contact free events.

Thanks,

Sue Flanagan

Check out our website to keep up to date with all of our contests and activities we are working on. We are always looking for fresh ideas on how we can create safe fun events for kids of all ages.

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