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RAFFLE TICKETS FOR THIS CAR ON SALE STARTING AT THE YARD SALE JUNE 27TH - Only 500 raffle tickets will be sold before the drawing in September. Tickets go on sale SATURDAY, JUNE 27th AT BRIARCLIFF LODGE for our fund raiser with Lynn Community Elder Services. Briarcliff Lodge Adult Day Health Programs and the Round-The-Pond Yard Sale are at Rt. 129, Lynnfield Street and Kernwood Drive. Ticket sales were off to a fast start at the Yard Sale with 40 already sold. Contact us for raffle tickets.
Get your ticket for this almost Classic 1991 Geo Metro, little green machine for our raffle -only $25/ticket, 5 for $100. Once 500 tickets are sold, the drawing will occur or will happen on September 15. Buy your chance to win this little fun dream car for only $25. Our deep appreciation to Steve and Betty Dumas for the car donation, Salem Collision of Peabody for the auto body work and R+R American on Sluice Pond in Lynn for the mechanical restoration.
SATURDAY, June 27th, 2009!
Our first Round-The-Pond Yard Sale with SPA/LCES volunteers for recreational activities and seniors at Briarcliff Lodge Adult Day Health was a big success. This Round-the-Pond Yard Sale was held from 8-12 on June 27th, the same day as the Wyoma Square Merchants Festival. For those who got placed on our map and listed , please call Linda Perry at Briarcliff Lodge 781-598-4570 for forms to complete to have your remaining items over $25 listed here. The event was sponsored by the Salem 5¢ Savings Bank and SideKim Food Services of Lynn.
MONEY CALENDAR RAFFLE WINNERS-Watch this winner calendar for your name in June!
| NOTICE- State support of the weed treatment program has been suspended for this coming year due to cutbacks. Please contact city officials to discuss your weed management problems. To continue our efforts to FIGHT THE WEEDS, we are sponsoring another Money Calendar with the drawings every day in June. We need your help to sell the car raffle tickets so that the SPA can work with the city and Lynn Water and Sewer to have enough funding to continue weed treatment this year.
PLEASE READ NOTICES POSTED BY CITY OF LYNN FOR USE OF THE POND AND PERSONNAL SAFETY.
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Here's How You Can Participate!!
The Sluice Pond Association organizes events and activities for members of the 165 households that meander along the shoreline of this 55+ acre urban pond located in Lynn, Massachusetts. Along with neighbors and the general public who use the pond for boating, fishing and swimming, members of the Sluice Pond Association are volunteers in the preservation of this natural resource.
The Sluice Pond Association is working to identify private sources of funding for a boat wash station that will assist the pond abutters to keep invasive weeds out of Sluice Pond. Funds are being sought for pond beautification projects and to assist officials in maintaining a safe boating and swimming environment.
Currently the Sluice Pond Association is working with the City of Lynn through state funding in the maintenance of the pond as a prime recreational site in Lynn. Other partners include the Lynn Water and Sewer Commission, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and local Merchants who are members and Friends of Sluice Pond Association. We received assistance of the Commonwealth through the City of Lynn Department of Community Development to eradicate the native and invasive weeds in the Spring of 2007 and 2008.
To learn more about our success in eliminating weeds from Sluice Pond , click here:
June/July 2006-2008 Pond Weed Treatment
HISTORY OF SLUICE POND ASSOCIATION
The Sluice Pond Association began in the 1950s as a social group of pond abutters and has remained active through several iterations of organizational growth and state/federal recognition of the organization. In the late 1970s and early 1980s the Association mounted it’s first effort to eradicate the weeds from Eels Cove where a primary source of water for Sluice Pond feeds in from the Cedar Brook. There has been a great deal of concern over the years that there may be inappropriate discharge to the pond from housing developments further upstream. This has not been substantiated by water quality measurements and consultants with Aquatic Control Technology have described a natural process of bubble formation due to weed activity that looks similar to soap suds in the cove. However, reports that one or more pond abutters have not tied into city sewer lines or tied in without removing old septic systems remains a concern. In the early 1980s, that part of the pond was manually dredged by boat, a process too costly and not effective enough to match today’s chemical treatment of weeds.
In the late 1800s, there was an assessment of the ponds fed by Cedar Brook and forming the “Strawberry Chain” of ponds that flow to the Atlantic Ocean through Lynn. It showed that Sluice Pond had the purest water and the pond was considered for the town water supply. A decision was made instead to create the largely unnatural occurring ponds within the Lynn Woods Reservation; Walden’s Pond, Breeds Pond, Birch Pond that are used as water supply sources in Lynn and surrounding communities. Naturally formed ponds from the Cedar Brook (Cedar Pond, Sluice Pond, Flax Pond, Goldfish Pond and the Floating Bridge Pond) are maintained for recreational purposes by abutters and the City of Lynn. Sluice Pond is currently under review as one of the few glacially formed ponds in the Northeast by geologists at Salem State College..
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