What a perfect day for our Annual General Meeting and Spring Adopt-a-Road event!

The Friends of Murphys Point Park gathered on Sunday, April 26 at the Lally Homestead for our AGM. We had a great turnout of members, who received an update on our 2025 activities and financial statements. Congratulations to Derek Zeisman, David Batchelor and Stephanie Gray on your election for a two-year term on the Board. Derek Needham, Brian Pierce and Tara Langford are completing the second year of their term this year.

Following the AGM, an intrepid crew of volunteers set out from the homestead to complete our spring roadside pick-up as part of the Lanark County Adopt-a-Road program. What a haul! In addition to the usual array of cans, glass bottles (some Stubbies had been there a while!), plastic bottles and miscellaneous garbage (including a trellis), we continued our unofficial quest to build a car by collecting three more tires, a tail pipe and a piece of fender! One tire recovery involved a human chain and a very long stick to retrieve it from a waterbody.

Thanks to our volunteers (Sue, Derek N, Derek Z, Brian, Dave, Tara, Kev, Christine and Steph) for your hard work cleaning up the section of County Road 21 that travels through Murphys Point, and also to Superintendent Curtis Thompson and Assistant Superintendent Mark Read for keeping us safe as we worked. We could not have asked for nicer weather nor better companionship!