It's Ice Cream Social Time!

Join us on Saturday (August 14th) at 2pm for our ice cream social!

We'll have a variety of individually wrapped ice cream for our members to enjoy (free), so don't miss the fun!

There'll be plenty for kids and adults alike!

Reminder: Annual Meeting Saturday, August 21st

Please join the APBA Board on Zoom for our annual meeting Saturday, August 21st at 10:00 a.m.

We'll get you up-to-date on the happenings of the summer, and get your input on what you'd like to see us work on in the coming year.

If you're interested in becoming an APBA Board member, please email us at adamspointbeach@gmail.com.

We'll send an email out next week with the link to the annual meeting, so please watch your inbox.

See you for ice cream!

Jeanne, Larry, Maurice, Stephanie, Hallie, and Ann

APBA Board

June 24, 2021 Update

The summer fun has begun!

To our long-time members, welcome back! To our new members, of which we have many, we are grateful you found us! You'll soon discover the beauty of not only Queechy but also our APBA community. We look forward to seeing everyone at the lake and making new friends.

Starting Saturday, the beach is open seven days a week.

Our lifeguard team will have familiar faces—Naomi, Caroline, Taylor, Jiana, Jake, Mia and Lauren. Please say hi and welcome our new guards, too—Sam and Haley.

Just a couple of reminders:

• When the guards are "on the chair," please direct any questions to the other guards on duty so as not to distract the guard watching the water and the safety of our members.

• Please keep the area around the lifeguard picnic table clear so members can approach the table without obstruction. It may look just like a picnic table to us, but it's their "office" and needs to be accessible to all.

• Please remember to sign in with the guards and sign out at the side table so we may provide accurate contract tracing for the Department of Health.

COVID Updates from the Department of Health

We just received confirmation from the Department of Health that all COVID restrictions have been lifted. Whether you wear a mask or not is volunteer and at your own comfort level.

Out of respect for everyone's personal comfort level, we still have social-distancing signs up around the lifeguard table and will leave it up to the guards if/when they would feel comfortable to remove them.

We will also still be doing contact tracing as well as providing hand sanitizer for all.

Town of Canaan Swim Lessons

If you're a resident of Canaan, you can sign your children up for free swim lessons. Learn more on the Town of Canaan's website here.

Looking forward to another wonderful summer!

APBA Board

APBA Membership Open!

Applications are available on our website, so please download your membership form and join the summer fun!

Membership is open to Canaan and New Lebanon residents.

Town of Canaan Swim Lessons Approved!

We're excited to share that the Town of Canaan Board has approved swim lessons for this summer for Canaan residents!

Please check the Town of Canaan website for updates. As of the writing of this email, the following are tentative dates:

• July 5, 10AM–12PM - Registration and swim testing

• July 6, 10AM–12PM - Classes begin

• August 13, 12 PM - Classes end

COVID Protocol Update

On June 24th, we confirmed with the Department of Health that the governor has indeed lifted COVID restrictions. We may operate at full capacity this summer. Mask wearing and distancing is voluntary and at everyone's personal comfort level.

Beach Setup Day is May 22nd!

Join the APBA Board on Saturday, May 22nd at 10AM to set up the ropes and dock. Many hands make light work—plus, it's a good time to celebrate our reopening together.

We're excited to see you all this summer on the beautiful shores of Queechy Lake!

Please visit our website for more information and follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

End-of-season update

Thank you for your support!

Another APBA season has come to an end, but none as challenging as this one. We never thought our little beach would have to deal with navigating a pandemic, but because of your help, we not only financially survived, we also successfully kept each other physically safe!

We're happy to report there was not a single positive case of COVID traced back to our beach. You should all pat yourselves on the back a few hundred times! We thank you for your cooperation and thank our guards for their extra efforts.

Welcome Our New Board Members!

At our annual membership meeting, we did not have a quorum (which is only 10% of membership), therefore we could not hold an official election for the Board. The current Board appointed Hallie Halpern, Ann Macartney, and Stephanie Guelpa for a one-year term. Jeanne, Larry, Maurice and Charlie will also remain on the Board.

Our officers for the 2020/2021 year are as follows:

President: Jeanne Veillette Bowerman

Vice President: Larry Green

Treasurer: Maurice Bowerman

Secretary: Stephanie Guelpa

More Heartfelt Thanks

We'd like to also send a huge thank you to Dawn Hoag who resigned from the Board this year. Her tireless work at managing membership, creating beach passes, and communicating with the lifeguards kept us humming right along. She will be greatly missed.

Our final thanks go to the lifeguards who hung in waiting for the season to start, not knowing if they'd even have a job! Caroline, Naomi, Taylor, Jake, Jiana, Lauren, and Mia all stepped up to get us across the finish line when staffing got tough at the end of the season. We are so lucky to have them and hope they come back next summer!

Thank you all one more time for loving APBA enough to keep us safe and strong. And don't forget to take the survey!

Our deepest gratitude to you all!

Jeanne
President APBA

HOW WILL 50% CAPACITY BE ENFORCED AT APBA?

We know no one wants to show up at the beach and get turned away, but while we're under NYS Health Department COVID restrictions, we may only operate at 50% capacity. But how will that work?

Occupancy functions on a first-come, first-serve basis. The goal is that everyone will be kind, patient, and cooperative. So, say someone’s been at the beach and frolicking in the sun and water for four hours, and then the guards announce we are now at maximum capacity. A new family comes in wanting to enjoy the lake, finding out we're full. Our hope is that the members who have already been there for four hours will be gracious and leave, allowing for more members to enjoy the day. However, we obviously cannot force people who have been at the beach already to vacate. We can only keep additional people from coming in.

It's up to the membership to be on an honor system, for the safety and benefit of all. Today, you may be there first, but tomorrow you may be the guest waiting on the pathway for someone to leave so you can enjoy the lake.

Our hope is that people will be cooperative and compassionate so everyone can enjoy the beach.

OUR GUARDS ARE DOING AN AMAZING JOB!

We've only had one day (yesterday) where we hit capacity, and our guards were gracious and polite in enforcing the difficult rule of having to turn members away. When capacity hits, the guards will announce it on their megaphone. We'll also post it on our Facebook page and Instagram, so be sure to follow us!

Please remember, this is not a rule the guards or the APBA Board created. It's a rule that comes down from the NYS Health Department. So, if you've already been on the beach a few hours, please consider making room for the new people arriving, and always be respectful of how difficult this unique summer is on our lifeguards.

Above all, APBA members are friends and family, and we were friends and family long before COVID. Help us keep the beach safe as well as be kind to your fellow members.

We'll survive navigating this new world if we all bring a beach tote full of patience!

Happy 4th!

Jeanne Veillette Bowerman

President APBA

APBA 2020 Season Update - APBA Opening June 13th!

Please read the President's Letter for our COVID Update on how we will manage the beach during this time.