OAKWOOD LAKES

DEVELOPMENT

ASSOCIATION

NEWSLETTER

Officers / Directors

President Dennis Langley      #30

V.President David Nettleton  #46

Treasurer Martha DeBoer     #11

Secretary Janie Wittmeier     #42

2005-2008 Don Muth        Trl ‘D’

2005-2008 Barry Williams

2006-2009 Mark Reed            #5E

2006-2009 Robert Schultz      #20

2007-2010 Randy Keppen Trl’E’

2007-2010 Darrell Whittington#7E

2008 ANNUAL  DUES

You will find a billing enclosed with this newsletter for the 2008 Oakwood Lakes Development Association Annual Dues.  Please pay your dues to any of the officers or directors listed at the beginning of this newsletter. To pay by mail you may send to Oakwood Lakes Development Assoc. % Martha DeBoer 11 Oakwood Shoreline Drive , Bruce , SD 57220 .  The future of Oakwood Lakes depend on you.  Your lake needs you.

 13 residents moved from

Wagon Wheel Resort area

 We are sorry to see some of our membership leave, including Barry Williams who served on the Board of Directors.  We wish you all the best in all your new lake ventures. 

PERCH  HABITAT

This is a run down on what needs to be done as described by Jeff Grendler, SD Game & Fish.

      This is what is done.  Tree with rebar in base of tree goes into cardboard tube.  Tube gets filled up with concrete.  Trees get placed into the lake.

      This is what already is on hand:  100 Christmas trees; card board tubes to hold trees to be filled with concrete; and rebar.

      This is what is needed:

Concrete 1 cubic yard

      First thing that needs to get done: Cut rebar into 11 inch pieces.  Cut cardboard tubes into 7 to 10 inch lengths, chain saws used to do this will go through three chainsaw blades.  Drill holes through tree base to fit rebar and insert rebar.   Next: Place tree with rebar in cardboard tube base and stand along fence as straight as possible.  Pour concrete with shovel into cardboard base.  Let sit for two days to harden.  Place in water in about 8-10 different spots (GFP).

      What is needed from the Association is three to four chain saws with good blades, cost share for concrete, drill with drill bit, hammer to pound in rebar through base of tree, hand saw or hatchet to trim base of tree, and the MANPOWER.

      This will take probably about 6 hours to accomplish.

      Ideally we will be looking for at least 10 or more volunteers.  Randy Pitts, Jeff Grendler and another Officer will all be there to help.  This will be done at the Park.

HABITAT  WORK  DAY

Date set for April 12^th  at 9am   with April 19^th as back up in case of rain on the 12^th.  The sooner we get these in the water the better for perch spawning.  The Association will furnish noon lunch which  will be served at the work area for the volunteers.  Please call Janie 627-5466 or email oakwood@itctel.com if you can help out on the 12^th so we will have a count as to who will all be there. 

Directory of Residents

A Directory will be provided to the paid 2008 members of Oakwood Lakes Development Association.  Upon payment of your membership dues of $20.00 you will receive a directory listing the residents of East and West Oakwood and the resort area.  If you have had a changes in your information please let Janie Wittmeier know so that the corrections can be made in the 2008 directory.  In 2007 we had  64  paid  members.

Sympathy Extended 

Dennis Langley’s mother passed away this past Monday 3/31 our sympathy to Dennis and family. Also to the family of  Carm Hagen, daughter of Punk and June Caldwell of cabin #39.  Carm passed away January 2008

Scuba Divers Fixed Aeration line on 9/30/07

Someone neglected to take care in moving out their boat lift or dock and broke the aeration line. Therefore two scuba divers needed to be hired to repair the line.  The two divers were DJ York and Chad Christianson. It was a Cold Windy and Rainy day.  They were in the water by 1:30pm and at 2:15pm they were out of the water and getting their suits off.   Cost to repair the line $300.00  plus cost of repair materials.  BUOYS will  be PLACED  over the AERATION LINE out from the pump shed.  If putting in your docks or boat lifts prior to the buoys being put in place, PLEASE stay out far enough so as not to catch and damage the aeration lines. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Area  Calendar of  Events

April 12 Perch Habitat work day

April 24   Sioux   Valley    Meeting

May 3       Ditch Clean Up      9am

May 16-18   State   Free   Fishing

June 7^th  Association Annual Meeting

July 12-13 Brookings Arts Festival 

July 24-27  Bruce 125^th  Celebration

2007 ADVERTISERS FOR FOOTBALL   FUNDRASIER

We appreciate the following businesses for their advertising and support of the Oakwood Lakes Development Assoc. Football Fundraiser. Please support these businesses when you have the opportunity.

Sertoma Butterfly House Sioux Falls

D & D                               Brandon

Oly’s                              Brookings

Handi Mart                    Arlington

Lee’s Dairy Mart          Arlington

AmeriStar Real Estate  Sioux Falls

Afiac   Shelly Kruse    Brookings

Drains Unlimited                White

M & M Service                    Bruce

Jay Egge                      Sioux Falls

Arlington Inn                Arlington

Wiehr’s Septic Service Arlington

Plagman’s Food Center Arlington

Afiac    Kim Harms         Colman

Brands Service                    Bruce

Volga Ag Center  Volga & Bruce  

Farmers Elevator         Arlington

Bunker Auto                Arlington

The Ridge                            Bruce

Willmott Gravel                  White

Larson Auction            Brookings

Interstate Batteries      Arlington

Muth Electric              Sioux Falls

Weiland Marine     Lake Poinsett

Richland State Bank           Bruce

Rural Construction             Bruce

Kneip’s GMC               Arlington

Auction   Service           Arlington

Trail-Eze Trailers           Mitchell

Spilde Electric                Arlington

Adee Honey Farm               Bruce

14 - 81 Grille                 Arlington

Ditch Clean Up

Saturday May 3^rd  – 9am, meet at the Shelter located at Wagon Wheel Resort. Need volunteers to help with the 3 miles of ditch.

New Motor Installed

December 2007 the Marathon motor that was purchased in October 2006 burned out and needed to be replaced. This is the motor on the east side.   With the approval of the Board of Directors, Larry and I headed to Sioux Falls to get a new motor. Decided to purchase a GE brand 5 hp which had a higher torque and was an all cast motor at the price of $335.16.  Larry installed the motor on Monday December 24^th but when starting up the motor it ran clock wise instead of counter clock wise.  With no clue how to get that changed he called on the assistance of Dennis DeBoer.  So on Christmas day night Dennis and Larry headed to the pump shed and Dennis got the wires switched around for the motor to run counter clock wise and the motor is running great.   The motor on the west side has been making a noise for some time now and may need to check it out.  A big thanks to the help of Larry and Dennis, the aeration system remained in operation through the winter.  

Oakwood Lakes Development Assoc.

Janie Wittmeier, Secretary

Po box 917

Clear Lake , SD 57226-0917

East   Lake   Zero   Oxygen

As per Jeff Grendler, Oxygen levels on East Lake were down to zero early March.  Subsequently they believe there is probably significant fish kill on East Lake . He states they will not find out how severe until ice is out, when they will do some test netting to determine how severe.  They will know more in late April.   

FUND  RAISER REPORT

2007 was the 10^th year of the Football Book Fund Raiser.  It has been a very successful fund raiser for the Association starting out in l998 with the printing of 200 football books to 500 books printed  in 2007. 30 books go to the advertisers. The remaining  470 books were all sold  at $10.00 each.  Weekly winnings of $2,250.00 was paid out over the 18 game period.  Proceeds of this fund raiser help with the cost of operation and maintenance of the aeration system.  Thanks to the advertisers and to the 470 people purchasing the books.  Thanks to all who sold all the books.

Janie Wittmeier, Secretary, Oakwood Lakes Development Association.  4/5/08 150 printed and delivered or mailed to members and non-members of Oakwood Lakes Development Assocation.

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