Changing of the guard

After a lifetime of stewardship in the Bronte Creek watershed and Mill Creek Watershed and more than a decades time at the helm of the Ted Knott Chapter, Bill Christmas has announced his retirement as club president. Bill's engaging personality has inspired many volunteers to roll up their sleeves and help with a multitude of restoration projects targeting the Mill Creek subwatershed (Grand River Watershed) and  Bronte Creek Watershed (Halton Region). Whether rolling river rock to create vortex weirs, planting trees to enhance riparian zones or pit-tagging Brook trout for ecological monitoring, Bill can make the most tiring and  grunt-filled work meaningful and fun!  He is an avid flyfisher and tyer and has even engaged community members by teaching them casting techniques or how to tie a woolly bugger. Thank you, Bill, for all that you have done and continue to do for the  chapter!

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​With Bill's departure, we ring in a new era for the chapter. At our Annual General Meeting, held October  25th 2018 the club elected Kristin Wazbinski Wojcicki as the new club president. Kristin  has volunteered with Trout Unlimited Canada and the Ted Knott Chapter for 5 years and she is the first TKC President who does not fly fish...yet!   She has had diverse field experiences that have led her to restoration ecology,  where she has   helped   plant trees and shrubs creekside to enhance riparian zones, built sediment mats and  brush mattresses to  protect, stabilize and build new streambank and preformed kick & sweeps to collect  bugs for ecological monitoring.  She enjoys working alongside all the generous volunteers who give their time to improve water quality in our community, so come out to our next volunteer work day and say hi! 

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Bill and volunteers releasing Brook trout to a rehabilitated stream

Kristin planting native shrubs creekside in the headwaters of Bronte Creek