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Did you miss our Annual meeting on Saturday?

Catch up with this blog:

Use the links to view the video of Nicole Kovar’s talk “What’s at the end of my dock?” and the pdf of her slides. There are some great graphics to help understand how useful these “weeds'” are to our lake.The other link is to the slides used as a report to the membership.

Link to YouTube Nicole’s video

View Nicole’s PowerPointSlide as pdf

Review your LLAA 2024-25 Board of Directors

Other Door Prizes Winners:

From LLAA: Gift Card to Hilltop Inn ($40): Mae Tinguely

From LLAA: Gift Card to Hafner’s Greenhouse ($30): Jack Derr

From LLAA: Gift Card to Silver Star Saloon ($30): John Hansell

From Ron Taggart: Wooden Bucket he made: Arthur Howell

LLAA is seeking volunteers to help on the various committees for the next year. Put your talents and skills to use protecting our lake: The committee descriptions are in the slides and listed on the volunteer sheet: (PDF of volunteer sheet.)

Download the form and send it to office@longlakeliving.org.

Long Lake Area Association held its 2023 Annual Meeting on June 24th at the Hubbard Township Community Center. The meeting started by hearing from Wade Massure, MN DNR, Park Rapids Area Fisheries Supervisor. He spoke for about 30 minutes telling us recent survey results and details about the stocking programs for Long Lake.

Video of Wade Massure’s Presentation

Power point slides used in Wade’s Presentation

After Wade’s speech, the business meeting was held. The full minutes of that meeting will be posted after they are approved by the LLAA Board at the August meeting. All minutes are posted on Board Communications tab above this post.

Next the “At Large” and elections for Neighborhoods 2, 4, and 6 were held. To see the new board please look at the Board Members’ Tab above or follow this link.

The last thing item on the agenda was to draw for the Door Prizes.

And the winner’s are:

Gift certificate to Hilltop, $40 – Chuck Folkestad
Gift certificate to Hafners, $35 – Pat Remias
$25 to Silver Star Saloon & Eatery – John Hansell
Long Lake Ladies Lunch Group Basket – Anne Jordahl

In a random drawing from the 56 participants of the ICE OUT guessing contest, Ben Cachiaras, LLAA neighborhood 5 was the winner of a Canvas of Long Lake Contributed by Vern Whitten Photography at www.vernwhittenphotography.com and framed by Cattail Creek Framing now located at 601 1st Street East, Park Rapids.

We also collected old fishing line and lead sinkers at the meeting. Thanks to everyone who participated.

Fifty-seven members attended our Annual Meeting at the Hubbard Community Center on June 25th. Steve Maanum, a wildlife photographer, Loon watcher, and storyteller was our guest speaker. (Visit YouTube for his presentation.)

Next up on the agenda were reports from the board on various projects, fundraising, the treasurer’s report, and more. Lastly we held elections for the board of directors from Neighborhoods 1, 3, 4, and 5. You can view these reports and the election results by clicking on the link at the bottom of this post.

Click here for details on your new board.

As part of the DNR’s Get the Lead Out program, we had 1.4 pounds lead tackle turned in. The lead was taken to the Hubbard County household hazardous waste site at the south transfer station. Please check your tackle boxes for all your lead sinkers and lures, then take them to the transfer station. All three of the local bait shops sell lead free tackle. Just ask the clerks for the correct aisle.

For more details check this website.

We had 295 LLAA members this past fiscal year. As of June 26th, we have 104 paid up members for the new fiscal year July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023. If you have not paid your dues for 2023, please check out the membership page for details on how to pay.

After the elections, a drawing was held for the door prizes. You had to be present to win.

Click here to see the full Annual Meeting agenda, election results and more.

This summary page includes:

1. Keith Manlove’s presentation: video and pdf of slides.
2. Video of second part of the business meeting which has the reports and announcements.
3. The Board of Directors’ election results for neighborhoods 2, 4, and 6.
4. The Officers for the Association 2021 Board.
5. Winners of the drawings for “door” prizes and Ice Out drawing.

Here is the YouTube link to Keith’s presentation: Keith Manlove’s Presentation

PDF of Keith’s slides

Here is the link to the Business and announcements section of the Annual Meeting: Annual Meeting Part II

(To see bios of our directors: See Board Members page/tab)

At Large: Pam Petersen and Sam Oliver
Neighborhood 1: Fred Rickers and Alternate James Alseth
Neighborhood 2: Keith Manlove and Alternate Robert Nelson
Neighborhood 3: Jaimie Beretta and Alternate Sharon Natzel
Neighborhood 4: Mary Leadbetter and Alternate Cheryl Scholz
Neighborhood 5: Kari Christen Richards and Alternate Carolynne C. White
Neighborhood 6: Jim Seifert and Alternate Dawn Hammerschmidt

The three contestants, Katy, Mae, & Nancy, of the “So You Want To Protect The Lake” game and game show host, Keith, are being mailed $25 “Thank You” Gifts for “Gardening Lake Friendly” shore-land improvements.

The two $25 Door Prize Gifts were drawn at the end of the meeting and are being mailed to Kari Christen Richards and Cheryl Scholz.

The quilt for “Ice Out Guesses” from Monika Wilkins goes to the drawing winner Mark Stenzel. Mark is to pick up the prize quilt “Gardening Lake Friendly” at Monika’s Quilt Shop in Park Rapids.

Ice Out was April 7th this year. No one guessed the exact date but Michael Stenzel (4/5) and Kari Richards (4/10) were close.

Thank you to all members who were able to join us on our Zoom Annual Meeting last Saturday. The Board practiced and practiced to make the presentation go as smoothly as possible. We realize that not everyone had a good internet connection or the time at 10am on a weekend morning to watch it live. In this post is a link to the full agenda, an image of our election outcomes, and an image the of Ice Out contest results. The videos of both speakers were posted on June 30, 2020. See that post immediately below this one for those links.

LLAA Annual Meeting Agenda:
Slides – June 27, 2020 Annual Meeting Agenda

Congratulation to our newly elected board members. Thank you to everyone who responded and voted by email.

If you have any questions about the information presented during the annual meeting, please email the board at office@longlakeliving.org. Contact information for current our board will be posted later this week.

We hope many of you will be participating in our Flotilla on Saturday, July 4th, at 10am!

It has been a fun filled weekend on Long Lake with our annual meeting on Saturday, June 29th and our 4th of July Flotilla. We know there were many picnics held around the lake as well as many fireworks displays. Here are some of the pictures of the events.

Congratulations to our new LLAA board members: Ken Retzer, Robert Nelson, Jim Seifert, and Dawn Hammerschmidt. A very big thank you to Monika Wilkins for her service as President of LLAA and to Betty Larsen for her service as secretary. Thank you to Jack Derr and Ron Taggart for your service on the board also. (The Board Members page on this website will be updated soon.)

We had 90 people come to the Long Lake Area Association meeting on June 30th. Barb Roberts organized the registration very well and everyone was registered with ease. There were 47 families registered at the meeting this year.

Click here for a list of all our door prize winners.

The Association made available AIS related items such as coasters, sponges to “Clean, Drain & Dry” boats, and PVC tubes to place at docks for sampling zebra mussels to families in attendance. Also there were free trees to prevent soil erosion – potted pines from the White family.

Thank you to Betty Larsen for the great refreshments and the festive decor, too! Thanks to Monika Wilkens for the great story ending with the aurora borealis over the lake to lead off the meeting. And last, but certainly not least, thank you to Jason Durham, our speaker from Go Fish! Guide Service, for entertaining us with his stories and sharing his fishing expertise.

The video at the following link is a collection of the pictures and video taken during our annual meeting:
https://youtu.be/29cag8QpLCE
The LLAA board page on this website has been updated. Please click here to see our new board of directors.

Below are pictures from 4th of July Week activities
A few boats came out for the Flotilla despite its cancellation due to the threatening weather.

According to the Hubbard County Local Water Plan our priority concerns are: AIS and the changes in both water quantity and quality for surface and ground water.

For more information follow use the following links:

• Link to Darrin Hoverson’s (MN DNR Area Hydrologist) Power Point Presentation
• Link to enlarged Map of Long Lake Minor Watershed
• Link to Hubbard County Local Water Management Plan

Door prizes were drawn at the end of the meeting.
See the full list here: 2016 Door Prize Winners

Over 93 people attended the Long Lake Area Association annual meeting on Saturday morning. First the group heard an excellent talk from Christine Herwig, the Regional Non Game Specialist, from Minnesota’s DNR. Christine shared information on eagles, herons, loons, trumpeter swans, ospreys and other wildlife such as otters in the area. She said most of these species are doing OK in Minnesota but each has a few concerns that we need to be aware of in order to keep the species healthy. She also shared information on how we can all help keep our lake clear and healthy by being careful with our shoreline, by planting native plants, and watching out for invasive plants such as the Japanese Knotweed or Non Native Water Lily. (Check out our Shore Management page for more information.) She also talked a little about pine beetles, turtles, amphibians and AIS. Christine mentioned several books and pamphlets that would be good sources of information: Resource Link to DNR.

The next part of the meeting conducted by our president, Sharon Natzel, covered all the details of the association such as approval of last year’s minutes, and treasurer’s report from Doug Bakken for both the association and the LLAA Foundation. There were reports from various board members:

• Jeff Bjorkman on AIS monitoring
• Jaimie Beretta on Events and the Kids Fishing Contest
• Dave Anderson on the LLAA Foundation which is now 5 years old
• Sharon Natzel on pine bark beetles, lake monitoring, groundwater planning and Sandpiper pipeline updates

Elections were held for Neighborhoods 2, 4, and 6. Two new people were welcomed to the board: Monica Wilkins from Neighborhood 6 and Pam Petersen from Neighborhood 4

Dave Anderson, Arthur Howe and Renee Gust were thanked for their service on the board.

And of course at the end Door Prizes were drawn with the grand prize basket going to Dave Peterson of Neighborhood 5.

The Association had a good turnout for this year’s meeting. Barb Roberts counted 67 people attending, although people came and went according to their schedules. Neighborhood representatives collected $1350 in dues, including two new members and two returning members.

There were also three checks written to the LLAA Foundation to help in the fight against AIS. During Jeff Borkman’s talk he reminded us that Long Lake has a unique position in this fight. We are one of the few lakes without a river running into it and we have a dam to keep things from coming up the Long Lake River. If we are vigilant about keeping boats and equipment clean, we can keep AIS out of our Lake. Click here to view door prize winners