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    The Lake giveth

    Feb 20, 2020 4 minutes
    By David Zimmer

    Q: “Every year all kinds of stuff appears on the shoreline at my cottage. Mostly it’s junk, but one time I found a perfectly good canoe that I returned to a family across the lake. Did I really have to? Can I just keep things that wash up on my beach?”

    I know reveals that just about every cottager has been the recipient of random flotsam and jetsam. Some of the usual suspects, like waterlogged fishing bobbers and crispy pool noodles are just plain crap. The rest run the gamut from the good (a shiny new cooler) to the bad (soiled

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