The Community of Oxtongue Lake 

| 2010 Cottage Watch Manual |

January 3, 2012
Provincial Constable Lynda Cranney commends Oxtongue’s Cottage Watch Program

On January 3, 2012, Gisele Gunderman, Oxtongue Lake’s Cottage Watch Co-ordinator, received the following email from Provincial Constable Lynda Cranney, the Huntsville Detachment CSO/Media Relations Officer:

As I read through all the break and enters reported the last five days, your community comes up unscathed.  I can accredit this mostly to your Cottage Watch Program — congratulations!

A hearty THANK-YOU to Gisele and to all the Cottage Watch Road Coordinators who patrol our community with vigilance and dedication; and to Constable Cranney who keeps in frequent touch with the program here in Oxtongue.

While you’re on this page, why not take a few minutes to refresh your knowledge of how Cottage Watch works by browsing through the Cottage Watch manual?  This is a true team effort — and with all of us watching and taking note of any unusual cars, snowmobilers, strangers, or activity in the community, we go a long way to keeping crime out of Oxtongue. With our continued vigilance, anyone with bad intentions trying to infiltrate the community will be noticed.

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Dec 23, 2011
HOLIDAY SAFETY TIP FROM THE OPP!

Remember to remove all valuables from your parked vehicles over the holiday season, whether at home or in town — this includes cell phones, iPods, laptops, GPS devices, etc.

Drive safely and sensibly, and enjoy the holidays with your family and friends!

April 13, 2011 — read Chad Ingram’s Minden Times article on policing in Oxtongue Lake

May 24, 2011 — read minutes from Oxtongue Lake Cottage Watch meeting with OPP
(thanks to Cottage Watch Co-ordinator Gisele Gunderman!)

| Oxtongue Lake Cottage Watch Brochure |
Thanks to Andrea Armstrong and John Gunderman for designing and producing the brochure!

Read Chad Ingram’s Sept 8 article in the Minden Times on the OLRA initiating a Cottage Watch Program:

Crime Prevention Subcommittee Forms in AH

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| LIST OF OXTONGUE LAKE COTTAGE WATCH ROAD COORDINATORS |

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THE ROLES WE ALL PLAY IN THE COTTAGE WATCH PROGRAM

COTTAGE WATCH MEMBER:
ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY

• Is a good neighbour (aware and involved)
• Gets to know general patterns of their neighbours
• Reports suspicious activities to 1-888-310-1122
• Reports Crime in progress to 911
• Shares relevant information about reported suspicious activities and crimes with Road Coordinator, who keeps a log/journal
• Helps out an absent neighbour by keeping an eye on their place
• Leaves an alternate contact number for themselves for record in the community CW database and encourages their neighbours to do the same

ROAD COORDINATOR:
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• Is main point of contact for residents and cottagers on their road
• Keeps a log/journal of suspicious activities and crimes as reported to them by the residents and cottagers on their road (Note: Residents and cottagers are themselves responsible for reporting suspicious activities and crimes to authorities)
• Promotes awareness among residents and cottagers on their road
• Communicates relevant information to residents and cottagers on their road
• Provides back-up for other Road Coordinators as necessary
• Interfaces regularly with Program Coordinator and other Road Coordinators (brief meetings, e-mail communications, etc.)
  

  PROGRAM COORDINATOR
  

  Gisele Gunderman

• Continues overall coordination of the OL CW program
• Liaises with OPP Community Liaison (Lynda Cranney)
• Liaises with Oxtongue Lake Association as defined by the Exec Committee
• Is main point of contact for Road Coordinators
• Interfaces regularly with the Road Coordinators
• Keeps information about crime and suspicious behaviour as reported by the Road Coordinators
• Promotes the CW program with members of the community
• Is the keeper of CW materials (Road signs, Decals, Engravers, etc…)
• Coordinates Crime Prevention events and workshops for the community
• Checks crimealerts.ca regularly to keep up to date on reported crimes

LAUNCHING THE COTTAGE WATCH PROGRAM IN OXTONGUE

OCTOBER 2010

At the Community Centre on Saturday, October 9, Oxtongue’s Cottage Watch Coordinator, Gisele Gunderman, led an information meeting and officially launched the Cottage Watch Program in Oxtongue Lake. The meeting featured Constable Lynda Cranney of the OPP, who offered a slide presentation and answered questions from the 50+ people from Oxtongue who attended. The one-hour meeting was recorded, and that recording was divided into four roughly equal Segments of 12-15 minutes in duration, each of which is linked below.

Upon clicking on one of the links below, a new window will open, a playback console will appear, and the audio file automatically will (should!) begin playback in five seconds. Click on the <Pause Button> (or press down the spacebar) if you wish to pause playback; then click on the <Play Arrow> (or press down the spacebar again) to resume playback.

Overall, the sound quality is good, though there are sections that are a bit muffled.

| Segment 1 |

| Segment 2 |

| Segment 3 |

| Segment 4 |

HOW COTTAGE WATCH WORKS

We all should familiarize ourselves thoroughly with how the Cottage Watch Program works in the community. The best way will be to read through the official 2010 Cottage Watch Manual, linked at the top of this page.

Click on that link to have the document open in a new window on your computer. Download the file by right-clicking on the link below (Mac users, Control+click); then save the file to your desktop.

If you have any questions, contact Oxtongue’s Cottage Watch Coordinator, Gisele Gunderman.