Darling White Lake Centre: January 2025

Saturday, January 4, 2025

2025!

Happy New Year, and welcome to 2025.

It seems like Y2K was just last week’s news, not that of a quarter century ago. But time marches on, unconcerned with our feelings or perceptions.

There’s an ancient Chinese proverb/curse that says, “May you live in interesting times.” And 2025 is certainly shaping up to be all of that. Whether your personal interest is politics, or technology, or sociology there is sure to be something that will either please or infuriate you (or both) in the coming months.

But in the midst of all that ‘sturm und drang’ there is a small sea of tranquility at the Darling White Lake Centre, where your friends and neighbours come together for fun and relaxation. Most days of the week see some sort of activity at the Centre, whether it’s Tuesday’s knitter-knatter, Wednesday yoga, Thursday coffee hub, or Friday’s darts. Toss in the odd special event such as a Live ’n Learn session (in March it’s Dr. Zoe Bunnell talking about eye care), crafting, or line dancing lessons and the Centre is a busy place indeed.

There’s something for everyone, so come on out.

And, as always, kudos go out to all the volunteers who so selflessly contribute their time and efforts to making the Centre a success.

We look forward to seeing you in 2025.

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Rentals

The Darling White Lake Centre is available to rent for special events, meetings, family get-togethers, small commercial activities, and so on. The following facility user fee schedule applies.

Rentals

For private (i.e. not open to the public) or commercial events not requiring the use of the kitchen, the fee is $65 per calendar day (or part). The rental fee is $100 per calendar day (or part) if the kitchen facilities will be used in support of the event. For any event expecting more than 60 attendees the rental fee will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In all cases, prior approval of the Executive Committee is required for any rentals.

NOTE: If alcohol is to be served/available at the event, the renter MUST obtain a Special Occasions Permit (here) and provide a copy to the Executive Committee no later than 1 week prior to the event. Failure to do so will result in the reservation being cancelled. Both the approved Rental Application and the SOP must be posted at the Centre during the event.

For a copy of the Rental Application, click here. To see photos of the main room and kitchen, click here.

Public activities

Community events that are open to the public, such as dinners, euchre, yoga, coffee hub, general meetings, etc. are charged $2 per person per event.

These fees are payable to the Darling White Lake Centre by the hall's renter or the event's sponsor.

The Centre is to be left in a clean condition with all interior and exterior elements in the same condition as they were found. Should that not occur additional cleaning and/or damage charges may be levied.

The organizer(s) of any public event/activity must complete a DWLC User Agreement prior to commencing any such activity. For a copy of the User Agreement, click here.

Executive Committee

The Darling White Lake Centre (DWLC, or "the Centre") is owned by the Township of Lanark Highlands and is managed by an Executive Committee consisting of volunteers from the local community.

The Committee operates under By-Law 2023-1853 (here) and in accordance with the policies and procedures contained within its Operating Guidelines (here).

Current members of the Executive Committee are:
Brian Cairns, President
Brian Needham, Vice-president
Patrick Kelly, Treasurer
Brenda Guiney
Karen Cairns
Larry Paquette
Jacqueline Cairns
Sandy Geier

The Executive Committee meets on a regular basis. The meetings are posted on the Centre's calendar, and are open to the public. Minutes of past meetings are available here.

Any member of the Executive Committee can be reached at: DarlingWhiteLakeCentre@gmail.com.