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Busy Beavers and Short Haul Truckers at North Woods
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My, how time flies as the season approaches and yet another
volunteer work weekend has come and gone! We hope to see many more faces new and
old during the traditional Memorial Day Work Weekend.
Many thanks to all who came up to camp this past weekend
to make it a very busy one indeed - Dave and Herb
Brasseur, Mike McCarthy, Glenn
Hodgdon, Dave Fuente, Jeremy
Adams, Kate Bowie, Keith
McCarthy, Carole Gary, Geoff
Ball, Chris Meyers, Fran
Rogers, Jill Gary, Josh
Otlin, Jennifer Christian, Jason
Rogers, Andy Sherman, Todd
Fournier and Greta.
We accomplished a great deal including:
 | The ski boats were put in the water and inspected
despite the low level of the lake. |
| The first stages of cleaning out and organizing the
office portion of the Barstow office and infirmary building has been
completed. |
| Large sections of blow down and stumps along the road
on the way down to the office have been removed. |
| The canoes and rowboats were carried out of Fireside. |
| The path to the Chef's Cabin has been cleared. |
| All of the brush in the old Wilderness and Forestry
area was dragged and chipped to create a massive pile near the Sandy Dock
for use elsewhere in camp. |
| The first stage of cleaning the Roehrig Center was
completed. |
| The floors in two of the cabins in the old Senior
Section and one in the new Middler Village were painted. |
| The new garden behind Arts & Crafts was tilled. |
| More construction debris was picked up around the
Junior House. |
| The Arts & Crafts building was cleaned and supplies
stored away. |
| The lower ball field was seeded by the green thumb
brigade just before the rains came. |
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Finally, two truckloads of furniture donations were picked
up from Simmons College as a benefit of the school's continuing efforts to
renovate dorms. We now have a wonderful collection of dressers, desks, beds,
mattresses and chairs which gives us the flexibility to:
| Create a large functional surface area for campers to
use inside Arts & Crafts and move the picnic tables outside. |
| Revamp the Drama room and organize the costume closet. |
| Solve some of the staff clothing storage dilemmas in
the cabins. |
| Increase the workspace in the conference room in the
office. |
| Provide more counselor beds throughout camp. |
| Upgrade the seating options in the Roehrig Center and
MacGregor Hall with chairs more in keeping with the wooden charm of the
structure. |
| Meet some of the expanded program storage needs in the
Lodges. |
| Build extended storage/work surfaces in the new
Maintenance Emporium. |
We are truly indebted to Linda and Roy at Simmons College.
Fran Rogers deserves special mention for not only his tireless efforts to keep
an eye out for equipment useful to the camp, but also for showing the current
generation of staff what it really means to work... he left a foursome of much
younger men in his dust when it came to hauling this furniture from dawn until
dusk!
So if you would like to participate in the fun, whether it
is to paint, haul brush, stain, sweep, move sailboats, set up program areas,
etc. please join us for all or part of this weekend. The festivities start on
Friday night and end on Monday.
Come one, come all!!
See you this weekend,
David Goodwin
North Woods Director
"Look at the three loons out by Chase Point"
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