ANNUAL MEETING ATTENDED BY RECORD NUMBER

The Annual Meeting of the Ten Mile Lake Association was attended by at least 155 persons, believed to be a record attendance. The membership heard Patrick Welle and Charles Parson of Bemidji State University, who discussed their recently published study of Water Clarity and Lakeshore Values, sponsored by the Mississippi Headwaters Board. Because for the short term a grassy lawn down to the beach will raise a given property's value, but the same lawn over time will contribute to water pollution, Welle and Parson recommended that local governments develop serious incentives to urge owners to restore and maintain natural shoreline buffer areas.

The Association elected the following persons as new officers: Tom Cox, President; Al Griggs, Vice President; Joyce McManus, Treasurer; and Anne McGill, Secretary. Elinor Chase was selected as a new Resident Director, and Ken Regner as new Summer Resident Director. The Association also recognized the contributions of Stan Benbrook, Tate Lane, Larry Urbanski, and Bob Crabb, each retired after 9 years on the Board of Directors; and Don Willis, who retired from the Presidency and became Chair of the Advisory Committee.