(updated 2025-07-30)

Current NSOLA executive

Following on from the elections at the AGM, the current members of the NSOLA executive are:

• President: Simon Smith
• Vice president: Vacant
• Past president: Marie Hulse
• Treasurer: Oriana Muzzin
• Secretary: Piper Huggins
• Director: Tracey Mallen
• Director: Peter Lausch

Members of the executive can be reached by emailing the president at executive@nsola.org.

Reports

• Minutes of the 2024 AGM as reviewed and adopted at this meeting.
• President’s Report by Marie Hulse
• Treasurer’s Report for year ended 2025-06-30 by Oriana Muzzin
• Frontenac Provincial Park Updates. Park superintendent Ben Chabot’s update on what’s new and what’s happening in Frontenac Provincial Park.
• Report of Invasives by Walter Abicht
• Update from the Ecosystem Grant Working Committee by Piper Huggins

Governance

Simon Smith will be chairing a group to develop a Guideline to Assist the Executive Committee in its Planning of the Annual General Assembly. If you have any input or wish to be part of this group, please contact Simon at executive@nsola.org..

Directory of Residents and Cottagers

This list of names and contact information is maintained by Mike Kramer. For privacy reasons it is not published on the web, but is available to any member of NSOLA – email Mike to request a copy. Please verify your details and those of any of your neighbours and send any updates to Mike.

REMINDER: NSOLA sends occasional emails to all its members with relevant news or notices of meetings etc. If are not receiving these please contact Mike  to ensure your email address is correctly included in the directory.

Lake Partner Program (LPP) water testing

The starting point for data on the lake water quality is the Ontario Ministry of the Environment page. Search for “North Otter Lake”, or follow the link to the Open Data Catalogue. The latest information available is for years up to 2024.

There is a good overview of the LPP on the  FOCA website. From here there are links to the database of results covering all the tested Ontario lakes. For more details still, there is a very detailed 42 page FOCA report on the LPP.

Wildlife

Loon chicks were raised on North Otter Lake for the for the first time in a number of years. See here for photos by Keith Dunn.

Watersheds Canada

Watersheds Canada has been contracted by NSOLA to survey the shoreline of our lake and report its findings and recommendations for improving the lake ecosystem. This survey will be conducted this summer, entirely from the water, and will not involve visiting any property nor any interaction with the property owners. The end result will be a report to NSOLA and individual personalised reports sent to each property owner. The work is being funded by the Ecosystem Grant we received from South Frontenac Township. For more information see the Watersheds Canada website which has a lot of relevant information.