NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING
This notice gives the official call to members of the Deer Lake Property Owners Assoc. of the Annual Meeting to be held Saturday, June 19, 1982 at 7:30 p.m. at the Loon Lake School building in Loon Lake, Washington.
This meeting is for the purpose of election of officers and members of the Board of Directors and to consider any business which may regularly come before the membership.
CUSTOM. As has been customary at the Annual Meeting, we should have a representative guest attendance of County Commissioners, Sheriff's Dept. and possibly State Legislators, all to share their ideas and thoughts with you. The enclosed flyer should help stimulate your attendance. Also on the agenda will be reports from standing committees as in the past. As mentioned, this is an open forum for all to express their views on the timely matters that confront us as property owners. Too often we tend to let others act and speak on our behalf and seldom do we realize our role in a democracy challenges us to think and act, or react, on our own as part of a concerned community. Deer Lake is such a community and the concern of your Board of Directors and officers for the past year was astounding in the attendance at meetings and dedication to committee functions and projects.
(This Editor would like to applaud Bill Paton, President; Ray Daves, Vice President; Eleanor Paton, Secretary; and Kathryn Bean, Treasurer, and the Directors: Wes Wagoner, Les Schneider, LaVerne Maxson, Clyde Innes, Don Kenny, Alien Reed, Fran Lundberg, Jerry Linton, Inga Lord, Lew Houdak and Ben Rasley for their strong support of DLPOA as your representatives. Also to Dave Nixon, Ted Maxson, Ed Sweet and Howard Wohrle, as the appointed Executive Advisory Board, for their guidance given to the Board and to Clive Price, Stevens County Commissioner whose monthly attendance helps stimulate our thinking processes and channels our concerns within Stevens County.)
DEER LAKE PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION. Nominations to be presented to the membership by the Nominating Committee: Ted Maxson, Dave Nixon, Ed Sweet, Howard Wohrle and Chairman, Jerry Linton; at the June 19, 1982 Annual Meeting, for your deliberation and election.
Directors:
To fill vacancy - 2 year term (Vote for one)
To fill vacancy - 3 year term (Vote for four)
Note: Nominations will be considered from the floor for each of the positions open, with elections to follow. You must be a paid-up member to vote. Dues are due June 1st for the following year.
LOON LAKE FIRE DEPT. and Rapid Response vehicle personnel, DLPOA members, Deer Lake residents, Loon Lake residents, are all very proud and grateful that we have these dedicated people ready to help at any time with any emergency in our area. Wouldn't it be nice if we took the time to pick up the phone and express our gratitude to the Loon Lake Fire Dept. Chief, Derald Helt 233-2188 and Roy Russell 233-2393 of the Rapid Response vehicle.
Recently the Loon Lake Fire Dept., Rapid Response vehicle, Deer Lake Fire Dept., and a 2500 gallon tanker from Clayton responded to a cabin fire on the north end of Deer Lake at approximately 4:30 a.m. on Mothers Day. The cabin was destroyed, but the units involved prevented the cabins on each side from burning. Our thanks for their fast, efficient service.
The Loon Lake Fire Dept., Moose Lodge, and the Loon Lake Community Parents sponsored a benefit dance in March at the Loon Lake Moose Lodge to raise money for a greatly needed portable radio for the Loon Lake Fire Dept. Several of our DLPOA members and their wives and friends attended the dance. Approximately 200 people attended. Everyone had a great time dancing to the music of Ted and Fred, and most important of all, over $1,000 was raised, enough to purchase the radio. God Bless our Loon Lake Fire Dept. and Emergency Vehicle people. Thanks for a great job.
(Jerry Linton)
THE LOON LAKE FIRE DEPT. has steadily been acquiring more equipment. Recently a forcible entry saw was purchased, which is used to cut through concrete, steel, etc. DLPOA to date has donated $2,910.00 to the Loon Lake Fire Dept. Rapid Response vehicle. Any donations of $10.00 or more are greatly appreciated. Send to Emergency Medical Team, Rt. 1, Box 588, Loon Lake, WA 99148. Remember, by helping with donations we help ourselves.
WOODCUTTERS, ATTENTION. A courtesy has been extended to the members of DLPOA by Boise Cascade Co., to make available to this organization the privilege of cutting firewood in some defined areas within the Buck Creek drainage. The wood includes mostly fir, pine, cedar, and larch, that has already been cut and would normally have been burnt or just left to decay. The only restriction is that the Board members of DLPOA assume the responsibility of security within the area and to organize and manage the wood cutting. It should be pointed out that this opportunity is given to us this one time. Any future possibilities depend on how it is conducted and how the wood cutters respond to this courtesy. It includes no other groups or non-members and is restricted to available wood and on a first come reservation basis. Neither Boise Cascade nor DLPOA assumes any responsibilities for accidents or injury to people or equipment and all risks are assumed by the individuals themselves the same as in any other wood cutting excursion.
Consequently, DLPOA has established the following rules which will be strictly followed. Members only are eligible for this privilege and will be determined as paid-up members for 1982, prior to or at the Deer Lake Property Owners Association Annual Meeting on June 19, 1982 at the Loon Lake school. That membership card will be required for identification and may be verified by one other piece of identification as called for, in order to gain entry through locked gates. Dates are Saturday, June 12 and Saturday, June 26. Additional ground rules are as follows:
1. All wood cutting shall be by reservation only. It will be necessary to call this number 233-2735 on Monday between 6:00 p.m and 8:00 p.m. for the following weekend or a later weekend. Limited to 20 members each Saturday.
2. Hours: 8:00 to 4:00. Meet at locked B/C gate located five miles up Buck Creek Road. Buck Creek Road is located approximately two miles south of Haney's Resort on the highway leading to the south end of Deer Lake. Buck Creek Road is approximately four miles from the four corners at Loon Lake.
3. Member will sign this set of rules and waivers upon entry.
4. Member will be responsible for your own party.
5. No responsibility assumed by DLPOA or Boise Cascade.
6. Map will be exhibited at the gate to the wood cutters by a DLPOA member.
7. Must follow all signs or markers as provided.
8. Cut only in secured or marked areas. Cut only downed trees.
9. Limit of two cords per day per member and two cords per season.
10. Later cutting privileges subject to available-wood. (Let's give each member who wants wood a chance before seconds.)
11. REMOTE AREA - no emergency services available.
12. Area will be policed by DLPOA Board Members.
13. What you bring with you, take out with you, including all litter, waste, etc. We cannot afford to leave a mess behind.
14. Bring shovel, bucket, and fire extinguisher.
All of the above conditions are acceptable to me as a member and to those individuals with me.
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DEER LAKE FIRE DEPT. has received a $500.00 contribution from DLPOA to purchase those items that were felt priority equipment necessary to better serve the Deer Lake area. The Deer Park Ambulance Service was very helpful in suggesting the items to have on the four-wheel drive pickup acquired this past winter. Again a superb effort from many volunteers under Quetta Collins, Fire Chief There is never an emergency call around the lake that they do not respond to. Your HELP AND ATTENDANCE is needed at the Second Annual Pancake Feed, July 18, at the Deer Lake Fire Station.
EULOGY TO NEWSLETTERS GONE BY. After much discussion at recent Board meetings, it was decided that the Newsletter which you have been receiving four times a year will be discontinued to those of you who are not dues-paying members of the Deer Lake Property Owners Assoc. for the current year. Our membership is closely approaching 300 strong and faithful, but yet we mail 900 newsletters each issue. Our purpose has always been to fully communicate with all property owners of Deer Lake, the concerns, actions, issues that confront each of us. I know of no other organization such as ours, who prints a newsletter and mails it to every person around. This is usually reserved for the group members. Consequently we have taken a new posture in our Association. Those members, as indicated by their membership card, will be sent a Newsletter as in the past. The non-members will not receive any further issues. I feel we have all greatly benefitted from this communication format and should be better informed as to issues and concerns. I personally felt as your editor for the past three years that if we were better aware of DLPOA and what it is attempting to do, and has done, that our membership would grow. I apologize to many of you that the Newsletter has been unrewarding in this regard. However, give me one last opportunity to share with you some of the reasons to belong to DLPOA and the purposes of our organization.
DLPOA was organized in the early 1970's as a group of interested property owners concerned with protecting Deer Lake and the surrounding environment from depredation. By-Laws were formally adopted in late 1974, revised in August of 1976 and again revised in June of 1979. Membership fees were established at $12.00 per year (in spite of rapid inflation during the last five years, dues are still ONLY $12.00 per year) from June 1st to May 31st. Any person is qualified for membership as a regular member, owning real estate property adjacent to the shores of Deer Lake, or as friends of the Lake, not property owners, who may become "Associate Members". A secondary purpose of the organization, besides protecting the lake environment, was to provide a forum by which property owners may assist governmental agencies in better planning the use and resources of the Deer Lake area.
In this respect, one of the first challenges was the development of a sewer system around Deer Lake. This effort started in 1977 and pushed through 1980 before exhausting itself for lack of finances. Membership grew during this time at about the same pace as today. Concerned people became more active and saw the, concern of their neighbors, and picking up this "community spirit" joined ranks with each other. '
Although we still do not have a sewer system and the present time it is impractical (money wise) there are still many reasons to collect together as members of DLPOA. The Shorelands Management Act of 1978 imposed many restrictions and conditions we are concerned with and will impact us all by 1984. How would you feel about not having beach rights, yet the County Assessor taxes you for them?
How would you like to not be given the chance to own your second class Shorelands (your beach in front of your lot), or worse yet find transients camped on 'your' beach and nothing you can do about it? How would you feel about paying the State of Washington, through the Dept. of Natural Resources, lease on your dock that extends into the lake for which you always felt was a privilege of a lakefront owner? This in the nut shell is the problem facing us at Deer Lake and other inland lakes and if for no other reason, that this one issue is worth your concern and $12.00 investment Your Board of Directors have attended many, many hearings locally and in Olympia in your regard in opposition to this injustice and we have just begun to fight and hopefully with the help of all we may win But if we don't, the State of Washington and the Dept. of Natural Resources will know that DLPOA does not lightly consider this issue and that they have met formidable opposition to them. With your continued support, whether legislatively or legally, we will prevail.
Another issue coming forth will have to do with land use restrictions around the lake- building restrictions, development restrictions or ordinances, water uses, septic tanks/sewer and the like How would you like to have condominiums built next to you and promoters selling 'shared' vacations to people all over the country? How long do you think we could keep Deer Lake clean and beautiful for generations to come? Or how about another 500 to 700 cabins being built in one concentrated area along with the accompanying pollution, road congestion, school taxes, fire protection and the like?
Sounds like Spokane at your back door, doesn't it? Preserving a lake takes time and effort and yes, even money from everyone, before even one person can benefit. If we are to fail to meet these issues and many more to come, it will be from lack of total commitment of all property owners on the lake, because they didn't feel their membership was worthwhile, or they couldn't see any benefit to themselves? The issue is not the cost of the Newsletter, but the principle of commitment and belonging and unifying into a strong and cohesive group, democratically administered to the benefit of all. Send your $12.00 dues to Kathryn Bean, Treasurer, DLPOA, N. 2803 Stout Rd., Spokane, WA 99206 or to DLPOA, Rt. 1 Box 588, Loon Lake, WA 99148. TODAY while it is now before you. We'll do our best to give you all the issues as we see them, and report them to you in the NEWSLETTER.
GUN CONTROL? A question of the future, but presented for your thinking and discussion in the year to come. The problem: uncontrolled shooting along the lakeshore or in close proximity, presenting probable endangerment to life and property. Sometimes this shooting during the night time hours, like 1:00 or 2:00 a.m., random shots out into or across the lake. We are not speaking of fall hunters in particular, but should consider that implication also. It has been suggested to your Board of Directors that we have an established restricted no shooting area around the lake, so that violations will be reported and prosecuted. Continued occurance can create a very aggravated situation. What do you think should be done? and who should have responsibility for seeing something is done'7 Let your Board members know. The June meeting would be an excellent time to voice your opinion.
QUICKIES - Fish planted in Deer Lake this spring. 7500 Rainbow and 25,000 Eastern Brook trout, all legal size.
*County to consider regrading and graveling back service roads behind Salvation Army camp.
*County will start building a new dump site with dumping into container boxes. Open Sun., Mon Tues., Wed. and Thurs. Collection point will be at Loon Lake instead of present dump site.
*SECOND CLASS SHORELAND HEARING conducted in March and again in April at Newport Washington attracted as many as 700 concerned property owners, fishermen, and community leaders (our Board and wives were in attendance). The D.N.R. conducted hearings to cover proposed sales of second class Shorelands on Diamond Lake. Formula's were given to establish outward boundaries or line of navigatability, it was readily apparent in the undertones at both meetings that future actions along this line were highly likely. The first hearing asked for input. The second hearing was a re-evaluation of the first and how the D.N.R. was going to proceed. At both hearings majority opposition was voiced. It is possible that future hearings may be necessary to resolve the issues at Diamond Lake. Options by the Diamond Lake Improvement Assoc. are being reviewed with legal counsel. More discussion to follow on this at the Annual Meeting on June 19th. Plan on attending and seeing how Deer Lake fits into this picture.
*Wes Wagoner reports that at his own Deer Lake fish hatchery only an average hatch was achieved and 5000-plus fish were planted. Better success for next year, Wes.