Sunset sky above Percy Lake

PLRA September 2026 Mini Update

09/18/2026

Brian Edey

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Hydro Planned Outage

Hydro One Alert: On Sep 20 from 5:00 – 10:00 AM ET an outage affecting 4,019 customers is required for crew safety to install broadband.

Election

Good to look at the candidates’ positions on issues and to vote. Voting can be done online starting
October 16.

Greg Bishop and Andrew Nowell are competing for mayor of Dysart et al, while Pat Casey will battle Walt McKechnie for the deputy mayor position. Local Councilor for Percy has two candidates: Barry Boice and Kirby Bagg.

Dysart will be mailing a letter to all those on the Voters List, September 28. If members don’t receive that letter, they can contact Dysart by phone or email to get on the List.

direct link to Dysart’s election web page: Municipal and School Board Election | Municipality of Dysart ET AL

Last note identified a Dysart all-candidates meeting https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dysart-et-al-all-candidates-meeting-tickets-1999795005695

And KLCOA has arranged a meeting for Ward 4. But we share Mayor and Deputy-Mayor, so another opportunity.

Registration is open for the KLCOA Dysart Ward 4 Townhall webinar. Anyone can sign up through this link: https://klcoa.org/klcoa-all-candidates-meeting/

The Zoom link will be e-mailed to all registrants a day prior to event through our KLCOA membership app Membee.

All 6 candidates Dysart Ward 4 have accepted the invitation to the Townhall Webinar. Webinar format and questions for the candidates

Kennisis Lake Cottage Owners’ Association | KLCOA All Candidates Meeting

CEWF Annual Meeting

[So, in the presentations there’s an explanation for why the spit/beach collected extra logs; and work to occur on the dam this winter]

On Saturday September 12, 2026, CEWF held its Annual Communications Meeting at The Link on County Highway 21 in Haliburton. The meeting was open for any lake association member to attend either in person or online via Zoom.

[or, if you don’t link clicking on embedded links, go to CEWF.ca]

See below a high-level summary of the meeting.

To view a recording of the meeting – click here(opens in new tab) (PW is 2$Qn774Q)To view the presentation charts – click here

A screenshot of a table titled Maintenance Project Overview notably describing the Percy Lake dam repairs in Fall 2026.

A graph showing water levels on Percy Lake between Jan-Aug of 2026

And from Joe Matys a sunset

Sunset sky above Percy Lake

And from son Mark the other bears:

Starry night sky above Percy Lake