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GREAT Central Location!       Entrance                               New
                           Easy access to the best of  to the                               wetland
                             Lake St. Clair and the    Clinton                                areas
                                  St. Clair River!     River                               being built
                                                       from
Family owned & operated for 55 Years!                  Lake                                     ...
                                                                                            shallow
                                                                                              water
                                                                                            areas on
                                                                                           south side

         www.ecartemarine.com                          Continued from page 7 Marine                                 of the
         A Full Service Marina                         Sheriff Update...                                           Clinton
                                                       The “Clinton River Mouth                                     River
 Heated & Cold Storage       Certified Marine Techs    Habitat Project” is underway                               entrance
         Winterizing            Quicksilver Dealer     for coastal wetland resto-
        Service Calls          Volvo Penta Dealer      ration for frogs, birds, rep-       during the winter, both the
         Prop Repair              Marine Surveys       tiles, and fish.                    St. Clair and Macomb County
                                                       	 According to the                  Marine Sheriff’s officers pro-
Ships Store - Marine Parts  Inventory of Pre-Owned &   Army Corps of Engineers, the        vide a week’s training to mid-
 Snack Foods - Ice - Pop     Antique Boats for Sale    $2,000,000 project removed          dle school kids in both public
                                                       invasive species and will es-       and private schools to attain
     Seasonal &                Gas - Diesel            tablish wetlands by planting        their Boaters Card.
Transient Dockage               Pump Out               native species to create four       	 The St. Clair Sher-
Clean Washrooms             Dockside Power,            different habitat types rare in     iff educates approximate-
                            Water, & WIFI              the area but will provide ben-      ly 1,600 kids and Macomb
    with Showers                                       efits to fish and wildlife. Activ-  Sheriff reaches over 5,000.
                                                       ities will take place through       Late spring each year, the
        mParSoortiftR.nfeCicatvhtljeaeeurdisrt         May 2019 which eventually           Macomb Marine Sheriff re-
                                                       will provide nursery habitat        ward the kids who scored
                      google maps                      for fish and a stopover for         100% on their Boater’s Card
                                                       migrating birds flying through      Test with a day of boat patrol
4729 Old River Rd., Port Lambton, Ontario              the area...
519-677-5691 Toll Free: 866-361-8104                   along with                          and BBQ. Hopefully the next
                                                       a planned                           generation will know more
                                                       walk-                               about the boating rules than
                                                       ing path                            ours.
                                                       around the                          	 2017 was also the
                                                       perimeter!                          30th anniversary of The Ma-
                                                                                           rine Safety Program. A new
                                                            Please                         Anchor was erected outside
                                                       note how-                           the Macomb Marine Sheriff
                                                       ever, the                           continued on page 17
                                                       fill for this
                                                       marsh was
                                                       dredged
                                                       from the
                                                       Shipping
                                                       Channel near the Firecrack-
                                                       er and deposited into these
                                                       new areas which could be
                                                       a temporary boating hazard
                                                       until we see some vegeta-
                                                       tion growth. The new areas
                                                       shown may be only 1-2’ deep
                                                       so take care to not hug the
                                                       shoreline in these areas.
                                                       	 DID YOU KNOW

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