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Come for a day of fun on the water. FREE to join, just show up. Check in begins at 2:00 with the parade starting at 3:00 and is open to anyone. Parade will begin at Loren’s Park, South Center Lake, and head south and continue into North Center (See Map Below). Judging will occur in the channel between South Center and North Center. Winner will be announced at approx 4:30PM by the fishing pier on North Center Lake. Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 boats in the parade! #SouthCenter #NorthCenter #CenterCityDays #BoatParade

The latest edition of The Scuttlebutt from the Center Lakes Assoication is now available! Check it out here. Also, The Spring Meeting is right around the corner. The meeting is Saturday, June 2 at Hazelden at 9:30 AM. For more info and to RSVP, please click here. #SpringMeeting #CenterLakes

The Saint Croix River Association is hosting a workshop on April 11 on Eurasian watermilfoil. The workshop will be in Lindstrom, MN, from 9-12:30, and snacks will be provided. Registration is free, but they do ask that people register so they can plan for seating and snacks. Registration is online: www.stcroixriverassociation.org/events.

You wouldn't know it by looking outside but it is officially spring. However, It won't be long and the ice will be out and the sound of loon calls will echo across the lake! Spring also means the annual spring meeting of the Center Lakes Association is right around the corner and 2018 CLA memberships are due. Your membership dues are crucial in helping to protect our lakes and allows the association to maximize the amount of weed spraying on North and South Center Lake. Unfortunaly, the DNR grant money for weed spraying has been eliminated this year so all weed spraying will need to be funded throuh the Lakes Improvement District and the lake associaton. Your membership counts and we hope we can count on your continued support. We're excited to announce that you can join/renew your membership online this year and pay by credit card! Simply visit www.centerlakes.org/join to sign up. As always, you can also join in person at the spring meeting. Details of the spring meeting are as follows: CLA Spring Meeting Saturday, June 2, 2018 9:30 AM Hazelden Betty Ford 1521 Pleasant Valley Road Center City, MN 55012 Thanks again for your support! We hope to see you at our spring meeting.

The annual spring meeting of the Center Lakes Association will be held at Hazleden Betty Ford in Center City on Saturday, June 2 at 9:30 AM. Coffee and rolls will be available. All current Center Lakes members and non-members are encouraged to attend! Megan Weber from Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species will be our guest speaker. We will also be electing officers. The President and Secretary officer positions are open. #CenterLakes #SpringMeeting

It won't be long and the ice houses will be off the lake and the sound of loon calls will echo across the lake! But before that happens, there is an important event taking place that you may not be aware of. Each year a group of vounteers spend a few hours cleaning up trash left behind from all the winter activites held on the lake. While most users of the lake do their best to pick up trash, there is inevietably a lot of trash left behind. Trash that is not picked up could end up on the bottom of the lake or your shore line. Would you please consider offering a couple hours of your time on either Saturday or Sunday this weekend? Crews will be working both North and South Center from 10-12 and 2-4 on Saturday and Sunday. Crews will meet at the North Center boat landing and the South Center boat landing. Garbage bags will be provided so just show up and we'll divide the areas of the lake out from there. If you have an ATV, UTV or snowmobile, please feel free to bring it. You can sign up here to let us know if you're coming. We'll take all the help we can get! If the slots are full in the time you're available to help, please just show up anyway. Lake Life is Great When We all Particapte! Sign up Here!

The Chisago Lakes Chamber Winter Blast 2018 is right around the corner. This years event will take place January 25th-28th! Several events will be held on North Center Lake including the Lions Ice Fishing Contest and the Wild River Snowmobile Club's Radar Run and Vintage Snowmobile Show. For more info, please see the event flyer. #WinterBlast #CelebrationofLakes

The annual Fall Meeting will be held Saturday, September 9th at the Chisago Lakes Library at 11754 302nd St. in Chisago City. The business meeting will begin at 9:30 AM followed by a speaker. Coffee and Roles will be available. All current Center Lakes members and non-members are encouraged to attend! Our Guest Speaker is Jeff Forester with Minnesota Lakes & Rivers. Minnesota Lakes and Rivers Advocates (MLR) is an advocacy group solely focused on protecting Minnesota’s lake and river heritage for current and future generations by forging powerful links between lakes, lake advocates, and policy makers. Please visit their website at www.mnlakesandrivers.org to learn more about what they do and what they stand for. One of the great ways that they can be helpful to us is in contacting our representatives. Jeff will speak about the advocacy group that he works with, and will show us how to contact our legislative reps so that we can inform them about the concerns of the lake shore owners. He will have an informative session for us! #CenterLakes #FallMeeting

By Ann Wilkinson, University of Minnesota, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory Chris Ellis, St Anthony Falls Lab, works to bring the research station online after the anchors have been set in South Center Lake, MN The harmful algal bloom (HAB) team from the University of Minnesota, St. Anthony Falls lab deployed our long-term HAB monitoring research station on South Center Lake, MN on Thursday, May 11, 2017, with help from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. This monitoring effort, led by Miki Hondzo, is funded by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative‐Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR). The research station will be continuously monitoring lake and weather conditions from May through October 2017, from its anchored location on South Center Lake. The purpose of the research station is to understand environmental triggers for HAB in Minnesota lakes. To do that, we will be monitoring vertical and temporal variability of blue-green algae concentrations, as well as water chemistry and meteorological conditions at high frequency. The research station is uniquely equipped to collect full depth profiles of the lake (14m) every two hours and can run autonomously. The data collected from the research station can be accessed remotely so we can respond to bloom events in addition to long-term monitoring. We will also be on the lake on a weekly basis to collect water samples for phytoplankton composition, nutrients and toxin quantification. This research will help us predict, where, when and why HAB form and produce toxins to help protect wildlife, recreation and drinking water in and around Minnesota lakes. A similar study using our research station was conducted on Madison Lake last summer. For more info, please visit the University of Minnesota Extension #Bluegreenalgae #SouthCenter #UniversityofMinnesota

The annual Spring Meeting will be held at Phil's Grill (Formerly The Swedish Village Restaurant ) in Center City on Saturday, June 10 at 9:30 AM. Coffee and Roles will be available. All current Center Lakes members and non-members are encouraged to attend! Our Guest Speaker is Mike Majeski, Biologist with EOR, Inc. Mike has 16years of experience as a biologist with a focus on wildlife& aquatic ecology. His work includes stream assessmentand habitat restoration, natural resource managementplans, large scale water quality studies, and rare speciessurveys. Mike manages a variety of projects includinginvasive species detection and management, streamenhancements, lake diagnostic studies, and Threatened Endangered wildlife surveys. A Silent Auction is planed again this year to help fund our Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Management program. #CenterLakes #SpringMeeting

The Chisago Lakes Lake improvement District publishes the current Lake level during the summer months May – September (pending Minnesota DNR calibration of equipment). Lake levels information including archives can be found at http://www.co.chisago.mn.us/347/Lake-Levels. Lake Level reading are also published in the Chisago County Press weekly.

The annual Spring Meeting will be held at The Swedish Village Restaurant in Chisago City 9:30 AM. Coffee and Roles will be available. Our Guest Speaker is Jerry Spetzman Chisago County Water Resource Manager. Jerry’s presentation will include an update on the HWY 20 Bridge replacement. A Silent Auction is planed again this year to help fund our Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Management program. DNR Funding has was $250,000 for the state AIS grant program this year.