Hi All,

To let all those interested in the OMB hearing for the Lakewood camp development know how it went, we put in 3 extremely long days of listening to all sorts of evidence by their expert witnesses and of course coming into possession of documentation and exhibit books, that no doubt used up a small forest of trees and looked like a small mountain.  We were up against 3 lawyers and I am proud to say that I think we aquitted ourselves fairly well against these 3 men.

I for one am more than happy that it is over until the Chair of the OMB makes his decision and of course we don't know how long that will take perhaps 6 months, maybe longer. 

I want to thank all of the residents that took the time out of their own busy lives to come and see and hear the case and observe hopefully the way that they twisted the policies to suit their agendas.  I also would like to take the time to thank those of you that came out for coming up at break times to tell Lee and I that you thought we were doing a good job, it was much appreciated then and now after taking a few days to be able to ruminate on the goings on, in my mind that was the most important part of the whole process, residents taking the time to not only attend but to go out of their way to let us know they appreciated what we were doing, thankyou.

To both Lee and Jeff Bott we owe them a huge thanks for initially taking on this fight by themselves.  As I said in my presentation this development matters because we have said we don't want this type of development along the lakeshore or anywhere else in the township but where it belongs and that is in the village itself, or perhaps one of the hamlets.

We need to turn out attention now to the upcoming election and finding and preparing anyone interested in running for council for that day next Oct. 25th.  We also need to turn out attention to fund raising as we must look forward to the possibility that we may need to take this fight to a higher authority, which means we need money to fight the fight.  Any one with ideas please let me know.

Thanks again to all of you who answer the call to come out and support us, know that it is deeply appreciated.

Betty Konc