Mayor
gilles.decelles@yahoo.ca (Gilles Decelles)

Councilors
jacqueslecours@sympatico.ca (Jacques Lecours)
patrix.com@sympatico.ca (Patric Oevrard) (enviroment).
junecall@gmail.com (June Call)
duoteltel@acn.net (Donald Gagne)
mgubertgomes@hotmail.com (Merta Gomes)
mcgovern.tommy@gmail.com (Tommy Mc Govern)

At 10:30 PM last night Aug 31, and working with lights until midnight. The Groupe Robin Inc., hopeful developers of Pearson Creek, had a crew modify their 4 meter ramp to 3 meters in order to comply with town standards.
The forms were filled with concrete today Sept 1.

The only hurdle for the determined Robins to overcome now (in acquiring their 30% share of Eugene Park), is a positive town council vote on Sept 7 in Fulford, allowing their concrete ramp to be placed in the creek.

It’s now up to our elected councilors to decide the fate of Pearson creek, Eugene Park and ultimately Brome Lake.
They all know the facts, the behind the scenes questionable land deals between the Parks directors and Park fellow director/developer Jonathan Robin.
The shaky environmental arguments for the entire project and the still unanswered questions of just why was this unnessary project given any serious consideration, (let alone swift town approval) and why o why is this massive ramp needed !

RLB has proven a disappointment to this member, soft on development, politically correct to the point of ineffectiveness.. No longer to be entrusted (without diligent scrutiny) with the lakes best interests in any future lake related matters.

The councilors have a big responsibility to execute on Sept 7. I hope they remember the ordinary people who voted for them and vote “NO” to the Pearson Creek boat ramp. They have the power. People power.

Concerned Citizen

The ridiculous concrete boat ramp slated to go into Pearson Creek,by speculators/developers
Le Groupe Robin Inc. is one step closer to reality today. (Aug 31 2010.)
Massive amounts of steel re bars were today placed in the 12′ X 10′ forms the St Hyacinth group had assembled on the shores of the fragile creek.
An early morning concrete pour ?

Obviously not a very sophisticated group, definitely not sensitive in any way to negative publicity and backed by the present laughable and equally unsophisticated Eugene Park Association board of Directors. It is not likely they will be deterred without legal action.

Despite numerous and ongoing warnings to TBL, councilor Ouvrard and RLB that the Robin forms are substantially over sized, it appears our elected officals and compromised lake defenders are unable to conjure up the interest, or a tape-measure, to actually get over to Eugene Park and take a measurement.
(Perhaps they don’t want to know, lest it force them to confront the dreaded Robins).

Thanks to a confused and ineffectual TBL city hall and a politically correct (all things to all people) RLB, the Robin juggernaut rolls on.
What a huge disappointment for all !
With pretend environmental friends like this, who speaks for poor old Brome Lake ?

LET IT BE NOTED HERE THAT TBL AND RLB HAVE KNOWN FOR A WEEK THAT THE ROBIN FORMS ARE OVERSIZED AND GROUPE ROBIN IS IGNORING THE 3 METER MAXIMUM WIDTH IT PREVIOUSLY AGREED TO RESPECT.

Concerned Citizen

I can assure you sir/madam, the Eugene Park boat ramp is of critical importance to us all. Merely the tip of an environmental and legal iceberg that has drifted into Brome Lake.

Can money and backroom manipulating really negate the rights of citizens to determine the future of their own property ?
Do outside property developers really have the best interests of our environment at heart ?
Are our elected officials doing their best to enforce “lake protecting” town by-laws or are they following the path of least resistance when confronted with determined adversaries ?

The ramifications and consequences of the “fretting” over this much publicised boat ramp, might well sink more than a few of our local personalities and institutions.

More info in the Sept issue of the Tempo.

Concerned Citizen

Personnaly I find it stupid to build houses on top of mountains! High maintenance and not environmentaly friendly.

While some fret over a boat ramp, they do not see the tons of sediments that will be generated from that project.

and the upcoming destructive invasion of Pearson creek.

The TBL, RLB, Le Groupe Robin Inc. consortium have been hard at work in the park this week improving on dopey old mother nature.

First matter of business (after the new 20 ft wide boat ramp road) and (possession, they say being 90% of the law,) was fencing off Le Groupe Robin’s 2 newly acquired (without permission from the residents) water front lots.

For these lots to date, the residents have received an unwanted road, some sod, a fence and a horrible jumble of matted “something” all held down by a multitude strings and randomly driven 2×4 stakes driven into the lake bottom at the shoreline. Unsightly, unnecessary, unsafe, destabilizing lunacy. You can tell it’s stupid just looking at it.
The only real problem the “shoreline work” addresses of course, is getting the cost of the given away parkland up, so residents will be fooled into believing that Groupe Robin actually gave them something for their lost parkland.

Not much else to report, were all awaiting the Creek’s Concrete Colossus, the
Robin-Decelles boat ramp. We hope dumping several tons of concrete into Pearson creek will help the lake out. Should, shouldn’t it ?

We intend to be on hand to photograph the remarkably idiotic, ill-conceived event.
Hope the mayor and dignitaries from St Hyacinth and RLB are on hand.
Will advise.

Pearson Creek SNAFU.
Strike 1

Unfenced pond adjacent kids playground.SNAFU.
Strike 2

…..?………SNAFU.
Strike 3

What nonsence will they lend support to next ?

I too am very concerned with the new pond behind the kid’s playground. The council will probably have to set up another committee to resolve the fencing problem. These new councillors should stop passing the buck, step up and get something done that the citizens can actually be happy about for once. I for one do not ever want to read about a tragic accident happing there one day. GET IT DONE!

Work has begun on the “improvements” to Eugene Park on Pearson creek.
The developer, Le Groupe Robin Inc. of
St Hyicenth, with the blessings of Renaissance Lac Brome, Town of Brome Lake and our environment councilor Patric Ouvrard, started work at 5.45 AM on Tuesday Aug 17.
The 35 development residents signatures on a petition against the ramp and subsequent loss of 30% of their park. Presented to town hall on Monday the 16th. Was apparently of no consequence.

The natural narrow grassy roadway to the gravel boat ramp was first to go. Dug out, straightened and replaced by a 20 foot wide crushed stone expressway.
The fill from the excavated expressway was spread over the parks former low spot then sodded. The annoying depression, where runoff water used to be held back and filtered through gravel, before entering the lake, is no more. Already weed choked, Soles Bay is in for a rush of new nutrients.

The “Concrete Colossus in the Creek”, massive boat ramp is not yet started.
Perhaps the Decelles-Robin, 3 meter-4 meter ramp width disagreement, is holding it up.
Can’t say, nor can any of our town councilors, because they are as “in the dark” as the rest of us.

Seems to be a mayor- developer thing, with RLB and Mr Ouvrard looking in from the distant, disinterested sidelines.
These Brome Lake environmental experts had better slash their coffee-donut budget and invest in some fencing around their incredibly ill-advised new pond adjacent to the kids playground, behind Knowlton’s Carke Center.

Some things are even more precious and important than the water in Brome Lake.

Anxious to see the “progress” the environment makes next week.

I was wondering, apparently there is one of the residents of the area of which you are making reference, that just a few years (maybe a little longer than that)ago built their home there, managed to get their drive built by the other residents by claiming that their driveway was part of the roads that were being built at that time. That resident built half way up the mountain and is now trying to prevent anyone else from building any higher than he(nothing to do with protecting the mountain, just plain jealousy ) are you that family ?