The Seventh Annual Newboro Lake Ice-out Contest
March 6, 2016
In closing I’d like to offer a special thanks to Geordie Kitching for his advice and encouragement in the administration of this contest.
1 April, 2016 7th Annual Newboro Lake Ice-out Contest winner responds:
Hello Rod,
It is with great humility that I accept the bragging rights mantle for this year. During my tenure I will endeavor to keep my swaggering to a minimum, my sage advice to myself and the air clear of smug self–satisfaction. Please note however, the auspicious date on which I accept this great honor.
Now, with that out of the way: thanks Rod for organizing, updating and officiating the Ice Report and Ice-In / Ice-out contests. I really enjoy following the posts throughout the winter. I’m looking forward to exercising my “rights” this summer!
Best regards,
Jim Waterbury
31 March, 2016 5:50 p.m.
5:44 p.m. Jim Waterbury of Lewis Island selected March 31st as his entry in the contest, and subject to overwhelming evidence that an ice floe has continued on Newboro Lake past sundown today, I hereby declare him this year’s winner.
Congratulations, Jim.
2016 Ice-Out Contest entries will be accepted up until 11:59, Saturday, March 12.
Has it been eight years since the first Walnut Diary posts about putting in Tony’s dock?
The first attempt at guessing the ice-out date followed in the 2009 to 2010 season.
Okay, enough maudlin stuff. Let’s get to the action. What you want to know here is where you need to post your comment in order to register for your favourite date.
Click the COMMENT button at the bottom of this post and key in your details. Entries will come to me in the order they enter the email cue, so if there’s duplication, the earlier missive will prevail. If the date immediately following the duplicate entry is still available, I’ll assign it to #2, and so on, if space permits. I reserve the right to ask you by email to select another date if no obvious solution to an overlap presents itself.
Of course this means that you must familiarize yourself with your opponents’ entries at the bottom of this page before you cast your own into the fire, so in your comment I’d like to see a usable name of at least two words, a geographical reference, and of course your chosen date for ice-out. I will edit comments which look as though they have been keyed in bright sunlight.
Unless someone has a better idea, I see no reason to depart from the basic criterion for ice-out of no patch of floating ice of an area greater than 100 square feet on Newboro Lake, Ontario.
It’s good to be back. Let the contest begin.
the Walnut Diary 
March 6, 2016 at 9:29 am
I am going to pick April 1st. Very hard to pick this year with the craziest weather we have experienced to date.
Keith Cauwenberghs – Swallows Lane
March 6, 2016 at 11:11 am
Please put me down for April 4th. 🌊 Tom Stutzman, Scott Island.
March 6, 2016 at 3:18 pm
I’ll guess Easter, March 27. Audrey Waterbury Romasco, Hopkins Island
March 6, 2016 at 4:27 pm
I’ll say March 31st. With the warmer weather this winter, the ice appears to be kind of thin.
March 6, 2016 at 5:59 pm
How about April 2nd?
March 6, 2016 at 6:35 pm
Please put me down for April 3rd. Kien Lamson, Bob’s Island.
March 7, 2016 at 7:30 am
Brian from Swallows Cottages
Please put me down for April 5
March 7, 2016 at 9:27 am
March 24th, John Lee, McCaskill Island.
March 7, 2016 at 2:39 pm
Please put me down for April 7
pete frey grass point
March 7, 2016 at 4:41 pm
Wednesday, March 30th. Doug Welch, Breezy Point
March 7, 2016 at 7:05 pm
My guess is 23 March
March 7, 2016 at 7:34 pm
Ken, Put me down for April 6th! Cherry Island
March 9, 2016 at 10:42 am
From Doug Fyfe or Emerald Island – please put me down for March 29.
March 9, 2016 at 2:28 pm
I choose March 26. Rush Cahall, Fingerboard Island
March 10, 2016 at 8:18 am
I will have to go with April 8th, but still hoping I don’t win. It would be nice to see water in March!
Mark Moyle, McCaskill Island, North Shore
March 10, 2016 at 12:13 pm
March 28. Diane Strangfeld Roth, Swallows Lane
March 12, 2016 at 9:16 am
I haven’t been up to the lake to make any observations but I’ll pick the 25th of March .
This must be the shortest winter in my lifetime !
Thanks, Stephen Wasteneys , Holder island
March 12, 2016 at 12:13 pm
Kohar Polimenakos has tentatively selected March 22nd as her entry.
April 4, 2016 at 8:50 am
Congratulations to Jim Waterbury! I picked April 1st and it it figures I would be only 1 day off. I guess I was an “April Fool” so to speak! Thanks also to Rod for doing this year after year. Hopefully when we are up to the cottage we could meet so I can say thank you in person!