Highlands East mayor Dave Burton and councillors Angela Lewis, Ruth Strong, and Cec Ryall, visited the Haliburton Highlands Outdoors Association (HHOA) fish hatchery May 1 for a tour of the facility.
Burton had met with HHOA president, Dan Smith, during a recent fish stocking on Paudash Lake and wanted to learn more about efforts across the County.
The team from Highlands East donated $5,000 to support various HHOA activities, including its community hatchery program, which has seen volunteers stock County lakes with more than 800,000 fish over the past 30 years.
As part of this year’s efforts, through April HHOA stocked approximately 26,000 fish into 12 local lakes.
