Join the Watershed Tour! October 9th
Fall colours will be at their finest during the October 9th Upper Columbia Watershed Tour. The Tour will be a great opportunity to see what makes this a great place, while talking with your neighbours about what our watershed needs, ...
Shoreline Clean-up September 21st
Every September, tens of thousands of Canadians band together through the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup to fight shoreline litter, a key threat to our waterways. This September is the 20th Anniversary of the Shoreline Cleanup. Over its history, the Shoreline ...
Ambassadors Make Summer Splash!
The Lake Windermere Ambassadors are making a big splash this summer with the re-development of their annual Regatta event. Coined ‘Lake Windermere Summer Splash’ (not to be confused with the Rotary Club’s Splash Park) this free family event will literally ...
High Waters in the Columbia Valley
Water is likely on everyone’s minds these days given the recent heavy precipitation events on the east slopes of the Rockies - and right here in the Upper Columbia watershed. The Board of the Lake Windermere Ambassadors would like to ...
Invermere Students Study Shoreline
When studying science, there are lots of opportunities for us to learn from our own backyard. This spring, the Earth Sciences class from David Thompson Secondary School teamed up with the Lake Windermere Ambassadors to study science on the shores ...
Kinsmen Beach Work Party – May 16th
Spring is here! It's time to add some new plants to our Kinsmen Beach restoration site. We have chosen new species based on which plants thrived after last year's planting. A consultant from Tipi Mountain nursery will be on hand ...
Watershed Conversation a Success!
The Lake Windermere Ambassadors hosted a watershed conversation on April 9, 2013. Thirty guests and five presenters attended this half day event. Information shared in the presentations included: defining our watershed; forestry impacts on water and what a Community Forest ...
Join the Watershed Conversation, April 9th
"This is our Watershed" Workshop The Lake Windermere Ambassadors are pleased to announce that we will be hosting another Watershed Conversation April 9th with the theme “This is our Watershed.” We hope you can make it! What: Get to know ...
Come to our Annual General Meeting
Our Annual General Meeting will be held Thursday, March 28 2013, from 7 to 8 pm at the Lake Office (625 4th St, south Annex of the Service BC building). Pizza will be provided! All Lake Windermere Ambassadors members are ...
The Lake Windermere Ambassadors hosted an event designed to tap into local knowledge and build greater awareness of watershed issues. Dr. Anna Warwick Sears, Executive Director of the Okanagan Basin Water Board, was the keynote speaker and addressed an audience ...
The Ambassadors will have a booth at this year's Scarecrow Festival, aka Windermere Fall Fair, on Sunday, September 16th. We'll be testing people's Lake IQ with our trivia board. Participants can enter to win an "I Love My Lake" t-shirt ...
Be a part of the Great Canadian Shoreline Clean-up, Saturday, September 15th, 2012! This is a truly unique event where your single day of volunteering not only has a direct impact on the health of your local shoreline, but also ...
Lake Ambassadors need Volunteers
We still need a volunteer for one more day of water quality monitoring. This is your chance to take a leisurely trip down the lake and learn about monitoring techniques and lake ecology. We will be heading out Tuesday, September ...
Lake Windermere Regatta participants and volunteers all had a good time at this year's Lake Windermere Regatta. New activities this year included stand-up paddleboard demos and race, an invasive-species hide-and-seek game by the Take Action Team, and a drawing for ...
July 21st, 2012 Regatta – Lake Fun Activities
Our third annual Regatta will be held July 21st 2012, from 1 to 5 pm at Kinsmen Beach, Invermere as part of Summerlude 2012. Come out for a fun filled afternoon of lake activities and hands-on water wonder learning opportunities ...
As many beach-goers have noticed, the exceptionally high waters this spring and summer have led to soggy conditions on Kinsmen Beach. On the east side of the beach, high waters swept away many of the native plants added to the ...
Growth for the Ambassadors in 2011
The Ambassadors have grown substantially in 2011. This has been the first year we have stood on our own as a BC Society and we will be holding our first AGM in April to mark our accomplishments. This year we ...
On July 23rd 2011 we held our second annual Lake Windermere Regatta, a day of celebration of Lake Windermere as a community resource. The Regatta involved a "Love Your Lake" photo contest, water stewardship education, swim races, a kayak and ...
