Almost from the beginning of the Clary Lake Water Level Petition, attorney and Clary Lake shore owner Robert Rubin has served as counsel for the Association in their role as intervenor in the petition proceedings. His advice and assistance over the past two and a half years on behalf of the Association as well as to me personally in my role as Petition Spokesperson has been invaluable and was instrumental in bringing the Clary Lake water level petition to a successful conclusion. I consider him a good friend and we all owe him a debt of gratitude for his selfless service to the Association and for his commitment to the preservation of Clary Lake.
Well, Bob has been making plans to retire for some time now, and he has finally gone and done it: he is no longer practicing law. His wife, Cheryl Ayer, a practicing attorney and recently elected Clary Lake Association Board member, has agreed to take over the role of counsel for the Association as intervenor in the Clary Lake water level petition proceedings. To that end, I have sent a letter to the Department requesting they update their Service List to reflect this change in representation.
While the petition process is behind us (thank goodness), the Service List itself has not been dismantled and is still available for information distribution to certain State agencies and other interested parties, of which there are quite a few. Departmental procedural orders regarding the Clary Lake water level order will be sent to the Service List. This update also serves to remind the Department that the Clary Lake Association is still here, waiting, and watching.
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We had a good meeting of the Clary Lake Association yesterday, reasonably well attended though I had expected a somewhat larger turnout given how much we promoted the meeting. I remain somewhat chagrined that so many Clary Lake shore owners either aren’t interested in joining the Association or just can’t be bothered. I’m also surprised that some folks actually show up for the meetings, but are still unwilling to join! What’s up with that? The Clary Lake Association is 
By now many of you will have received a copy of the Clary Lake Association’s 
The Clary Lake Association Board met yesterday afternoon at the home of George and Margaret Fergusson to discuss, among other things, the upcoming Annual meeting. This year’s annual Clary Lake Association meeting will be Saturday August 2nd at 2:00 PM at the home of Ellis Percy and Joann Tribby. They live in the last house at end of the Madden Road in Jefferson. The rain date will be the next day, same time same place. The big item to be voted on at this year’s meeting will be the revised bylaws. You may recall that a Bylaws Committee was formed at last year’s meeting and charged with the responsibility of reviewing and revising the Association bylaws. The last time the bylaws were revised was in 2001 so they’re long overdue for an overhaul.
Hi All! I have created a new 
At last, something good to report! You will recall back in July of last year it came to our attention that the Internal Revenue Service had revoked the Clary Lake Association’s 501(c)3 non-profit status somewhere back around 2007. We were never made aware of this change in status by the IRS. I first posted about this matter when it was brought to our attention by Mr. Kelley and I first wrote about it on .jpg)
There is an article on the front page of this week’s Lincoln County News about the recently issued water level order for Clary Lake. I was interviewed at length yesterday morning by the reporter, Dominik Lobkowicz and I gather from statements in the article that he also subsequently interviewed Paul Kelley, who continues to posture and complain as if people still cared about what he thought:
Now that the State’s Water Level Order has been issued, the dam owner faces a number of daunting tasks and a challenging time line to complete the work of bringing the dam property into compliance with the Order. The Clary Lake Association has made it publicly known that we are ready and willing to assist the dam owner in completing this work but to date they have not expressed any interest in having us help them. It also remains to be seen just how willing the Membership really is to help Mr. Kelley with his problem. Nonetheless the Clary Lake Association is confident that sooner or later we will be asked for help or even asked to take over ownership of the dam completely and feel therefore that it is in our current best interests and long term goals to start acting like the stewards of Clary Lake that we claim to be.
At the Association’s annual meeting last month, the membership voted to work on updating the 
Our treasurer Linda Gallion tells me that she’s received only 44 membership renewals so far this year. The majority of our members pay up at the Annual meeting but this year a number of people showed up for the meeting but must have forgotten their checkbooks. It is not unusual for membership renewals to trickle in for a while after the annual meeting. It’s not too late! Dues are $25 and you can sign up online if you want.
I’ve updated the 
Finally got around to posting the proposed agenda for the Annual Meeting scheduled for this coming 
