1. The Illinois Lake Management Association (ILMA) is hosting its annual conference at the I-Hotel & Conference Center in Champaign from March 4th through March 6th, 2024. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Trent Ford, Illinois State Climatologist, who will discuss Climate Change and Water Resources in Illinois. Registration info can be found at ILMA-Lakes.org
No ice for the Derby - but join the fun and Raffle at Alibi’s!
The Ice Fishing Derby is officially cancelled due to the warm weather. But there’s good news! There will be an Ice Fishing Derby Raffle at Alibi Pub and Grill on Sunday, February 18th from 12-4. In addition to the Green raffle tickets 1st Prize $1,000 Gift Card to “Butcher on the Block”, there will be numerous meat raffles, 50/50 raffles, and more. You can purchase raffle tickets at the door.
1. With single digit temperatures forecast starting this weekend, we might finally be heading towards “safe ice”. As such, this is a good time to remind winter lake users about the need to exercise particular care when venturing out on the ice as it does form. The MPOA website (wlmpoa.org) has a video posted on how someone falling through the ice can perform a "self-rescue". Winter lake users are also reminded of the presence of the rip-rap collars around O'Brien Shoals and Wickline Island, and that ice formation may have changed in those areas of the lake that had been dredged.
Welcome our new MPOA Board President.
Let’s get to know Brad Dennison. My grandmother bought a lakefront house in Sunrise Ridge subdivision in the 80s when I was just a little kid. It was a weekend house and we spent as many summer weekends as we could there. Then even when the lake would freeze we spent some winter weekends up there as well.