The weather was perfect this year for the long July 4th weekend. The lake was crowded with boaters enjoying time with family and friends. Here are the results of the July 4th events.
Kayak Rally: 8:00 – 11:30, rain or shine. Paddle around the lake with any non-motorized vessel and collect as many tickets as you can from orange flagged locations. Print your name and phone # on each ticket and bring your tickets to the Rt 28 launch by noon. Tickets will be drawn for prizes. Don’t forget a pencil/pen and a plastic bag for your tickets.
Boat Parade: Starts 1:30 from One Tree Island. Decorate your vessel to tour the lake, entertain your neighbors, make some noise and have a ton of fun. Be recognized for best decorations and most patriotic boat.
Ring of Fire: 9:00pm. Light your flares at 9:00pm along the shoreline for the annual Ring of Fire. Flares will be available at the Rt. 28 launch from 11am to 1pm on July 4th, or call Ken Bosen (see DIRECTORS page for contact info) to arrange for flares at other times.
Keep your fingers crossed for great weather. Please be safe, and let’s have another spectacular Fourth of July on Kinderhook Lake.
A record 22 volunteers showed up at the north end of the lake on the morning of June 10th to help hand-pull water chestnuts. Due to previous year’s hand-pulling events as well as the use of our cutter boat, we had far fewer water chestnuts to deal with this year, and 22 volunteers made a huge dent in the remaining weeds. We are making a difference.
Thanks to the following volunteers who made this event so successful:
John Bruford | Lisa Benfield | Jen Clark |
Terry and Bill Cleary | Dawn and Mike Franceour | Leah Gorman (Capital/Mohawk PRISM) |
Jim Hodgkins | Ron Jensis | Bernie Kelleher |
Robin and Dan Langer | Linda Leader | George Longworth |
Diane and Doug Petersen | Lisa and Steve Puvogel | Bridget Roos |
Dan Riozzi | Rick Theriault |
Additional thanks to:
- Lisa and Steve Puvogel for allowing access to the lake across their property for our dump trailer; the dump trailer was used to transport the pulled weeds for disposal.
- Dawn and Mike Franceour for the use of their boat to provide refreshments.
- Steve Sigler for the use of his boat to transport the weeds to the dump trailer.
To help reduce the spread of this aquatic invasive species, a water chestnut hand-pulling event is planned for Saturday, June 10, 9:00 am – 11:00 am. We need a dozen volunteers for this event to be successful. As in past years, please meet at the north end of the lake with your kayak, canoe, row boat, raft, or any vessel that can navigate very shallow water. Don’t forget a rake and heavy gloves. Weeds will be transferred to a larger vessel and brought to shore for disposal. Light refreshments will be provided. In the event of pouring rain, the event will take place the same time on Sunday, June 11. Please come and be part of the solution.
So, why don’t we do this with our new ECO-Harvester? Our DEC permit does not allow it. We’re just as sorry as you!
Saturday, April 22, is Earth Day. Known as the Blue Planet due to its abundance of water, the Earth is an incredibly complex and vibrant ecosystem, where living organisms interact with each other and their environment to create the ideal conditions for life. It is much like the vibrant ecosystem that creates ideal conditions for life in Kinderhook Lake. Earth Day as a day to celebrate and preserve the natural environment. Let’s use Earth Day to clean up the environment around us. Clean up our properties. Clean up our shoreline. Clean up our lake. Make Earth Day a valuable day for our environment.
The Fourth of July weekend flew by with fabulous weather, many family/friend gatherings, and well attended KLC events.
The kayak rally saw almost 30 kayaks and paddle boards paddling around the lake. Entrants collected tickets from orange flagged locations; the more tickets collected, the better the chances of winning a prize. Winning tickets were selected for Jenny Dobray ($50 gift certificate to Steiner’s Sports), Fallon Young ($25 KLC merchandise), Kyle Hickey ($15 KLC merchandise), and Fallon Young ($10 KLC merchandise). Thanks to all the participants.
Many uniquely decorated boats attended this year’s boat parade around the lake. Winners included Linda Leader (most patriotic boat), Christine Ebel (funniest boat – Lake Pirates), and the Sindlinger Family (most creative boat). Thanks to all 9 participants for taking the time to decorate their boats, join in the hootin’ and hollerin’, and add to the holiday fun! See photos of the boat parade on the GALLERY page.
July 4th is just around the corner.
Kayak Rally: 8:00 – 11:30. Paddle around the lake with any non-motorized vessel and collect as many tickets as you can from orange flagged locations around the lake. Print your name and phone # on each ticket and bring your tickets to the Rt 28 launch by 11:30. Tickets will be drawn for great prizes, including a $50 gift certificate to Steiner’s Sporting Goods and gift certificates for KLC merchandise.
Boat Parade: Starts 1:30 from One Tree Island. Decorate your vessel to tour the lake, entertain your neighbors, make some noise and have a ton of fun. Be recognized for best decorations and most patriotic boat.
Ring of Fire: 9:00pm. Light your flares at 9:00pm along the shoreline for the annual Ring of Fire. Flares will be available at the Rt. 28 launch from 11am to 1pm on July 4th, or call Ken Bosen (see DIRECTORS page for contact info) to arrange for flares at other times.
Keep your fingers crossed for great weather. Please be safe, and let’s have yet another spectacular Fourth of July on Kinderhook Lake.
During the morning and early afternoon, July 4th turned out to be somewhat of a bust – at least weather-wise. But that didn’t stop a decent contingency of 26 brave souls from turning out for the Kayak Rally. Congratulations to the winners: David O’Neil ($100), Jessica Smith ($50), Corrin Farmer ($25) and Angelika Nelson ($25). Thanks to the 40 lakefront property owners who put out orange flags and ran out between raindrops to give out tickets.
Although the boat parade was officially cancelled, five decorated boats ignored the rain and paraded around the lake on their own announcing their arrival with great fanfare. By mid-afternoon the rain had stopped and boaters wasted no time getting out on the lake to enjoy a rain-less afternoon.
Sadly the Ring of Fire was not as vibrant as usual, perhaps due to the weather. However, there was no shortage of spectacular fireworks displays around the lake lasting well into the night. Hoping everyone made the best of the Fourth of July and the rest of the holiday weekend.
Kayak Rally: Start anywhere on the lake at 8:00am using any non-motorized watercraft and race to collect tickets from various flagged locations around the lake. Bring your tickets to the Rt. 28 boat launch by 11:30am. All tickets will then be entered into a drawing for some great prizes. We are still looking for shoreline volunteers to fly a flag and distribute tickets to rally participants. If you are willing to help, please call Russ Camadine at 518-857-6853. In case of inclement weather and the event is postponed, red flags will be flown at One Tree Island and the Rt. 28 and Rose St. launches on the morning of July 4th. Rain date for this event will be July 5th.
Boat Parade: Decorate your boats and meet at One Tree Island at 1:30pm. The last few years have seen very few entries, so we hope this year will be better attended.
Ring of Fire: Light your flares along the shoreline at 9:00pm.
Merchandise: KLC and One Tree island logo merchandise, as well as flares for the Ring of Fire, will be available July 4th at the Rt. 28 Boat Launch between the hours of 11:00am and 1:00pm, and afterwards at the Rose St. launch.
Volunteers gathered at the north end of the lake on Saturday morning to help pull water chestnuts. While the task seemed daunting to 11 weed pullers, in 90 minutes an amazing amount of weeds were pulled. Thanks to the following volunteers:
Eva Nelson, Andrew Nelson, Daniel Nelson, Betty Breed, Bill and Terry Cleary, Dan and Robin Langer, Steven Sigler, Mike Sigler, Lisa Benfield.
Refreshments provided by Fran SIndlinger and John Bruford
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