What is the Shadow Lakes Association Inc (SLA), and why do they always ask me to pay annual membership dues?
The Shadow Lakes Association Inc is a local group of volunteers made up of seasonal and permanent residents who care about our little piece of paradise here in the City of Kawartha Lakes. They represent concerned people between Norland and Coboconk, who use the Shadow Lakes and Gull River waters, and want to see them protected. They do this by: publishing two newsletters a year about what is going on in the area that directly affects us all, and distributing them to every homeowner and cottager with lake access; maintaining this web site; posting reminder speed signs at various places on our waterways; providing the navigation buoys to indicate dangerous shoals and safe channels for boaters; providing numbered signs that mark the roads running off Hwy #35 and Baseline Road; and sponsoring the Annual Mo Park Rock Bass and Sunfish Childrens’ Fishing Derby; among other things. Since all this costs money, they ask every seasonal and permanent resident in the area to contribute a small annu