Red Pine Camp https://redpinecamp.org Thu, 11 Jan 2024 01:22:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Credit Card Processing Update https://redpinecamp.org/credit-card-processing-update/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=credit-card-processing-update Tue, 02 Jan 2024 12:40:24 +0000 https://redpinecamp.org/?p=2861 We are excited to finally provide the opportunity for our campers to place booking deposits and payments on your credit cards if you wish.

We have switched over to a new provider called  “Wix” . Click here to access the new link: https://portal4484.wixsite.com/redpinecamp 

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Shareholder Annual General Meeting for the Year Ended 2022 https://redpinecamp.org/shareholder-annual-general-meeting-for-the-year-ended-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shareholder-annual-general-meeting-for-the-year-ended-2022 Thu, 06 Apr 2023 20:38:51 +0000 https://redpinecamp.org/?p=2863 If you have not received your shareholder package or links, please contact the office as soon as possible.  Christine redpine@redpinecamp.org

April 6, 2023

Dear Shareholders:

The 2023 Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday May 6, at 1:00 pm, in person at Trinity United Church, 1099 Maitland Ave. Ottawa Ontario, K2C 2B8, and concurrently on the Zoom meeting platform.  All regular AGM presentations, voting and question periods will take place during this meeting. I hope that you will be able to join us to review the operations for the year past ended December 31, 2022.

For those of you attending the Zoom Meeting.  You must pre-register to attend, this helps us with registering attendees and adds a layer of security to the event, you will find the link in this package.  If you cannot be present, I encourage you to fill out a proxy form so that we meet our quorum numbers so that we can duly fulfill the obligations of the Annual General Meeting of the Corporation. Proxies can be signed, scanned and emailed to Christine Brown at redpine@redpinecamp.org, or received via post to the Ottawa office, before close of business Thursday May 4, 2023.

In order to conserve paper and reduce our mailing costs, the shareholder physical mailing will contain links to the shareholder package online.  Should you desire a hard copy, a few will be available at the AGM in Ottawa, and you may request a hard copy to be mailed to you by emailing your request to the office.

I would like to highlight some of the documents included in this year’s AGM package:

Financial Statements for the year ended December 31, 2022, and related auditor’s report.

Management Information Circular that, among other things, lists the nominees for Red Pine Camp 2023 Board of Directors, and the

2022 Annual Business Report

Minutes of the 2022 AGM

 

On behalf of the Board and all shareholders and campers, I would like to express our gratitude to our full-time staff (Janet Cottreau: Executive Camp Director, Christine Brown: Business Manager, Jamie Hill: Property Manager), our part time staff (Joey Cameron: Property Assistant), and to the camp Advisory Committee members who provide them support.  Thanks to Heather Earl, Meaghan Leonard, Lorraine Holt, Darlene McGillen, Blair Sunderland and Pam Thompson for their time, talents, energy, and commitment to the success of Red Pine Camp this past year.

I would also like to highlight the work of my colleagues on the Board of Directors in their support and dedication to the goals of Red Pine Camp.  Thanks to Chris Best, Cheryl Edwards, Benjamin Farrow, Genevieve Good, Derek Love and Jodi Sinclair.

On behalf of all of us who have the opportunity to serve RPC, I hope to “see you” at the AGM on Saturday May 6, 2023.

Sincerely,

Neil Knudsen, President

Red Pine Camp Inc.

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Confirmation Emails Coming Soon… https://redpinecamp.org/confirmation-emails-coming-soon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=confirmation-emails-coming-soon Wed, 08 Mar 2023 14:01:07 +0000 https://redpinecamp.org/?p=2852 Confirmations coming soon. Confirmations Coming Soon

We thank you for your patience with the booking process.  Email Confirmations will be sent out as Weeks are Filled.  You may place an alternate request in another week should you be on a waitlist.

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Golden Lake Property Owners Association Fish Committee & Walleye Plan https://redpinecamp.org/golden-lake-property-owners-association-fish-committee-walleye-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=golden-lake-property-owners-association-fish-committee-walleye-plan Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:46:12 +0000 https://redpinecamp.org/?p=2842

Special Bulletin – Golden Lake Walleye Plan

Hope you are all enjoying the winter and the sunny days that continue to get longer with the transition to spring and summer. Below is a backgrounder on the new Fish Committee plans that will begin this year. We have a 5-year plan to bring our lake back where it used to be with respect to the walleye fishery. Please review and if you have comments or suggestions, we would love to have your input by Monday Feb 20. Once we have looked at your comments, we will be posting our plan to our web site and then to our Facebook page so people can be kept informed of what is happening and our progress. It will take all of us to bring things back to close to the way we used to have it so we appreciate your support and help.

Cheers,

Don and Peter

 

GLPOA Fish Committee Rehabilitation Plan

In the 1960s and 1970s, Walleye were common in Golden Lake. There have been debates about whether they are actually native to the area but suffice it to say that they have been present in the lake since 1922. In the early 1980s, stocks of this popular fish started declining for reasons that remain unclear, and now there are hardly any being caught in the lake on a regular basis. The Ministry of Natural Resources studied the situation and tried a number of different methods to solve the problem. These included stocking the lake with Walleye fry and summer fingerlings, but none of these approaches provided a long-term solution and the Walleye population has continued to decline.

As co-chairs of the GLPOA fish committee, Dr. Peter Heinermann and Don Bishop have come up with a proposal to restore the Walleye population through selective reintroduction. Historical data shows that with Walleye stocked as eggs, fry or summer fingerlings, the success rate is not optimal. However, the same data show that if the smaller fish are kept in a nursery until they become late fall or following spring (yearlings) size, the survival rate goes up significantly. Don and Peter have come up with a conceptual plan to create a nursery application using either small floating cages, a floating raceway system or a separate remote nursery pond. These approaches all depend on the application and resources available to suit the specific requirements and/or strategic locations throughout Golden Lake or other lakes. Walleye in the wild have a very low survival rate — less than 5 percent at the fry level, depending on the body of water in which they are introduced. Once they get to the late fall fingerling stage (~15.2 cm), however, they are large enough so that they are no longer a prey item for Rainbow Smelt, and their survival rate increases significantly.

We have learned that the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has done this in Lake Ontario with a different fish species (Chinook salmon) and has had tremendous success in reintroducing or expanding these fish. In addition, the states of Iowa, Vermont and Wisconsin are leaders in the practice of Walleye intensive culture, and we have already received resources, contacts, and guidance from them so we can learn from their experience. Cage culture of Walleye has been successfully demonstrated in Ontario, Illinois, Iowa and Kentucky with survival rates up to 86% over 80 days.

We have also made contact with the head of research for Lake Ontario at the Ministry, the hatchery manager of the White Lake fish culture station, and the community hatchery program coordinator for the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters. We have explained our goals, and they are enthusiastic to work with us to create a proof-of-concept solution for Golden Lake that can be used in other lakes and with other species.

Contact has also been made through John Yakabuski to the chief of staff for MNRF and both are supportive of our initiative.  In addition to these contacts, we will be working with the manager of natural resources for the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation.

As we move forward and solidify our plans, we will need specific leaders to champion the following: marketing/communications (information releases, etc.), fundraising, site technical management , biology, record management, smelt fry, etc. Presently, beside Peter and myself as co-chairs, we have Mathew Ingram as our communications person, Jay Foran, who is responsible for site technical management and James Kushny as our AOP representative.

We will need additional volunteers to assist the GLPOA Fish Committee on this exciting endeavour. If interested, please let us know at glpoainfo@gmail.com. It will be fun, exciting, you will learn lots and get to be part of a team that will make positive change, so please consider working with us.

Thanks to the board of GLPOA and to the members for their support.

Dr. Peter Heinermann

Peter’s ties to Golden Lake go back 32 years, when he first started attending Red Pine Camp, a tradition that continues to this day. He has also organized and run a catch-and-release children’s fishing derby at Red Pine for over three decades. He retired in September of 2019, after a 28-year career as the Undergraduate Laboratory Coordinator in the Department of Biology at the University of Ottawa.

Peter has also worked as a research assistant at the University of Waterloo and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, studying Atlantic Salmon and Brook Trout; a project biologist for Bio-Environmental Services Ltd; as a secondary school teacher, a Cegep instructor, and a lecturer at the University of Montreal.

Peter holds a Bachelor of Science in Honours Fisheries from the University of Guelph, an Aquatic Biology Technologist Diploma from Sheridan College, a Bachelor of Education at Western University, followed by a Master of Science and a PhD from the University of Montreal. He is also the author of more than twenty scientific publications and reports.

Don Bishop

Don moved to Eganville with his family in the late 60’s, he has lived on Golden Lake since 1986. He started his first business at the age of 20, when he ran Bishops’ Sports in Eganville with his brother. After that closed in 1993, Don got involved in the aquaculture industry, first through a partnership with a Japanese company that developed solutions for mollusk farming, and then through a partnership with an American manufacturer, where he helped design containment and waste management technologies. He then went on to start two companies with partners, one refurbishing and rebuilding wastewater treatment plants and technologies for nutrient recovery, as well as an environmental clean-up company. The latter two he sold to his business partners in 2018.

He travelled the world for 25 years creating solutions and building his companies, which has given him experience on many levels.

Don is still involved with both of the aquaculture ventures on a part-time advisory basis. He has also been involved in research and development of wastewater and nutrient recovery technologies, as well as shoreline erosion-prevention methods and contaminated soil remediation. Now semi-retired, he has volunteered with the Eganville and Area Community Development Group, coaching and mentoring individuals and companies in a variety of ways.“

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Skating Loop @ Island View Park! https://redpinecamp.org/skating-loop-island-view-park/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=skating-loop-island-view-park Fri, 03 Feb 2023 20:41:44 +0000 https://redpinecamp.org/?p=2828

Island View Drive Announcement

We have just had word from our local Golden Lake Property Owners Association that they have partnered with our township (Wilberforce) to create a 1/5km skating loop which would begin at the boat launch down the road from us.  Please follow this link to read more of their announcement and how you can participate or volunteer with this project.

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Winter 2023 Red Pine Times Newsletter https://redpinecamp.org/winter-2023-red-pine-times-newsletter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=winter-2023-red-pine-times-newsletter Fri, 03 Feb 2023 19:46:46 +0000 https://redpinecamp.org/?p=2827

Happy January Dear Campers!  Inside this season’s Red Pine Times newsletter you will find : Department Updates; Volunteer Opportunities; Red Pine Leadership Camp Details; Pictures of the RPC Monster (really!); New Camp Payment Details, and so much more!!  Grab a ‘cuppa Jo, and a find a comfy spot in a sun beam and enjoy the next edition of the RPC Times Winter 2023 Newsletter.

CLICK HERE

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RLSSC BRONZE MEDALLION COURSE (Ottawa) https://redpinecamp.org/rlssc-bronze-medallion-course-ottawa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rlssc-bronze-medallion-course-ottawa Thu, 01 Dec 2022 15:10:05 +0000 https://redpinecamp.org/?p=2818

Registration OPEN NOW!

RPC has organized a Bronze Medallion course over the holidays – December 27-30 and January 2-6

This course is open to the public so register NOW

To Register visit register.ottawa.ca

This is a new system so you will likely have to create a new account if you have had one in the past.

Bronze Med. Course Code: 38509

The course registration is open – scroll down on the website to find current programs.

To Prepare Yourself to be hired for RPC Junior Staff you need to start now…

Applicants with Bronze Medallion, Cross and NLS

(National Lifeguard Certification)

have a better chance AND have more flexibility

City of Ottawa Registration – Click HERE

Keep your eyes open in the New Year for a possible March Break Bronze Cross Course

 

Can’t see the post?  View our most recent email about Bronze Medallion Course HERE.

 

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RED PINE CAMP NEWS Fall 2022 https://redpinecamp.org/red-pine-camp-news-fall-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=red-pine-camp-news-fall-2022 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 18:30:21 +0000 https://redpinecamp.org/?p=2811

Dear campers, Happy Fall Season!!

There is lots of wonderful information in this edition of our camp newsletter and we are very excited to share all the news.

In this edition you will find: Department Updates, RPLC information, Design Competition call, new payment information for 2023, and other interesting columns from our staff and volunteers, and of course the Alumni News!

Brew your favourite hot beverage, find a comfy chair and a sunbeam and read all about our upcoming events and plans.

Click This Link to head over to our Fall 2022 newsletter.

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Summer Camp Director Applicant Call https://redpinecamp.org/summer-camp-director-applicant-call/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=summer-camp-director-applicant-call Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:43:38 +0000 https://redpinecamp.org/?p=2809

SUMMER CAMP DIRECTOR JOB CALL

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

Red Pine Camp is recruiting for a Summer Camp Director team to oversee the operations of the camp during the summer season.

Reporting to the Executive Director (ECD), the Camp Director manages a team of 14 Senior Staff, who, in turn, manage 55 Junior Staff. The Director, in partnership with an Assistant or a second Director, works closely with the Camp Nurse and Red Pine’s year-round employees including our ECD, Business Manager, and Property Manager.

About the Role

A tremendously loyal and vibrant camper community is a cornerstone of the success of Red Pine. Working in partnership, the Summer Camp Directors are the face of camp to the 2,300 campers that attend Red Pine each season. It is the role of the Camp Directors to be fully ‘present’ in the daily functioning of camp, and to live and showcase the Red Pine values. The Camp Director must also set, and maintain, a consistent and positive tone for all staff, and create a work environment for camp staff wherein they can grow personally and gain valuable experience from working as part of a team.

This is a demanding role requiring maturity, leadership, enthusiasm, adaptability, physical and mental endurance, and a willingness to both learn about and appreciate the long-standing traditions that underpin the camper experience at Red Pine.

If you are interested, or know someone who would be a great addition to our team, please follow or share this link about the Job Description and an upcoming information session.

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2022 Camper Guide https://redpinecamp.org/2022-camper-guide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2022-camper-guide Sat, 13 Aug 2022 19:06:52 +0000 https://redpinecamp.org/?p=2797

Hello Campers!

We look forward to welcoming you soon!  Please click Read More below then follow this LINK TO 2022 CAMPER GUIDE  for the most up to date version of the 2022 check in process.

Thank you and we will see you soon!!

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