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Mitchell's Bay Marine Park ALSO A
CAMPGROUND!

One of the BEST fishing hotspots in Ontario! Mitchell's Bay can

"hook you up" to numerous fishing tournaments & duck hunting opportunities!

• Campsites Close to beach, playground, restaurants, and shopping
• 250 Boat Wells
• 30 Amp Shore Power — Located on the northeast shore of Lake St. Clair —
• Water See map on page 4 for vicinity....
• Ice, Bait, Snack Shop
• Gas & Pump Out Via Boat: Follow buoys XE2, XE6, XE8, XE10, then due east to XM11
• Picnic tables Via Car: Off Hwy. 401; Algonac or Marine City Ferry; or via the Bluewater
• Clubhouse Bridge on Highway 40
• Outdoor deck & BBQ
• Showers & Laundry

PHONE: 519-354-8423 Fax: 519-354-3289

www.MitchellsBayMarinePark.com email: info@mitchellsbaymarinepark.com

of Father Gabriel Richard, an early mis- what he called the "Great Interdiocesan the Algonquin Club of Detroit & Windsor.
sionary in Michigan whose flock included Doctrinal Debate" of 1956, during which You can also do dinners in January at the
French-Canadian trappers. Legend has it he determined that although muskrat is a Monroe Yacht Club, Erie VFW Post, and
that because trappers and their families warm-blooded mammal and technically Trinity Lutheran Church in Wyandotte.
were going hungry not eating flesh during flesh, the custom had been so long held Now I know why the Algonac
Lent, he allowed them to eat muskrat, with along Michigan's rivers and marshes that High School mascot is.... the Muskrat! ...
the reasoning that the mammal lives in the it was "immemorial custom," thus allowed Don’t do it, no don’t... muskrat loooooove!
water. under church law.
The Detroit archdiocesan commu- For the record, Sorry.
nications department said there is a stand- Bishop Povish didn't
ing dispensation for Catholics downriver much care for muskrat
-- in Detroit's southern suburbs and below as a meal. He wrote
-- to eat muskrat on Fridays, although no that "anyone who could
documentation of the original dispensation eat muskrat was doing
could be found. penance worthy of the
A 2002 archdiocesan document on greatest of the saints."
Lenten observances, in addition to outlin- Would you like
ing the general laws of fast and abstinence, to try a full Muskrat
says, "There is a long-standing permission Meal? Surprisingly (to
-- dating back to our missionary origins in me anyway) there are
the 1700s -- to permit the consumption of several locations where
muskrat on days of abstinence, including you can satisfy this de-
Fridays of Lent." sire! The Harsen’s Is-
The late Bishop Kenneth Povish land Lions Club has held
of Lansing wrote in a 1987 column in The an annual “stag” dinner
Michigan Catholic, Detroit archdiocesan in February since the
newspaper, that "no (formal) dispensa- 1960’s. Dinners also in
tion was ever given to allow Catholics to February are with the Elk
eat muskrat on Fridays." He referred to Lodge in Flat Rock, and

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