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...Following registration
the camp assembles for
group pictures.
Junior Camp
* Andy
Price's cabin
* Josh Brunk's cabin
* Nathan
Roe's cabin
* Dierdra Steiginga's
cabin
* Andrew Brunk's cabin
* Terry
Pisano's cabin
* Nathan DeMar's cabin
* Leona
Smith's cabin
* Dorothy Reynolds'
cabin
* Allison DeMar's cabin
* Dorean
DeMar's cabin
During the week
* Brian &
Taylor Sutton with Josh Brunk. Both brothers later got Camper of the Week awards.
* Pastor
Byrd addresses the camp inside the lodge before
Tuesday's lunch.
* The kitchen staff prepare the serving line on this
day celebrating our Nation's freedoms.
* James Pisano stops by the kitchen for a Super Soker refill of water.
* Karen
York, from the Salem Bible Church, prepares desert.
*
Kitchen director Carolyn
Nezbeth checks the schedule for the day's events.
* Chubb, Kande and Jeff take turns
cooking hamburgers over the hot grill.
* Mary Manning prepares a
salad plate as Jennifer
St.Johns makes pudding.
* Julie Byrd serves lunch and taught
the Junior Campers too.
* Dumenda and Kondi also helped serve on the main chow line .
* Valerie
serves cheese sauce at the
salad & fix'n line.
* A few
additional salad line
photos.
* A couple of campers try to avoid the camera.
* Britton
Steiginga enjoys his lunch.
* A photo of Wednesday's
Kitchen Staff
* Pastor Byrd presents awards to the Campers of the
Day
* Wednesday's supper was pizza.
* Looking North from the dam towards our
area of the Park
* Stephen Hixson smashed the pinyata and sends candy flying
!
* This year instead of the formal banquet night, the senior
camp
had a western theme for
supper.
* Pastor Harlan Alspach was
the evening speaker.
* Nathan DeMar was halfway cleaned-up when I
took this photo.
* The all important job of making more water
balloons.
Nature's
creatures
The park's naturalist, Amy Fitton, showed
campers some of the creatures & plants
around
them during a lecture at the lodge and also later on a hike.
Several types of
nonpoisonous snakes,
crawdads and turtles
were displayed.
Counselor Nathan DeMar handles a milk snake.
Skit Night -
Wednesday
* Three elderly ladies get 3
wishes from a jeanie
* Terry Pisano's cabin is
on stage
* Another cabin on stage
* Valerie's
cabin on stage
* Dorothy Reynolds' campers on stage
* Dorean is a teacher trying to get her high society girls
outdoors
* Andy's campers acted out a no-contact boxing match
*
Steve DeMar's campers were
in a boat, harassed by a fly
* Leona's Garden Club is
apprehensive to admit a
new member
until they
discover he has their
favorite candy
* Nathan DeMar's campers flee from
something just off stage
* Campers free their fellow camper
from the mean counselor Andrew,
and later turn all his mean tricks on him.
* Steve Benson's campers did a
'What's My Line'
skit
Horse Back Riding & Miniature
Golf
This year senior
campers got to go horse back riding on a 4 1/2 mile path. The Junior
camper went miniature golfing, along with a few other activities.
* The camper hear instruction before
they saddle-up
* Our horses were saddled and waiting for our
arrival
* Patience Farmer gets on
her horse
* Daniel Widgeon is all ready to go
* Ben
DeMar on his horse
* Soon everyone in our group had
a horse assigned to
them
* Time to 'hit the trail'
* Several of the campers ride by on their horses
* Danyelle
Birtcher and Elijah
Hamm
* Ben DeMar and James Pisano ride by
* Eric
Reynolds, Amy and Lynsay
Nezbeth head off down
the trail
* In about an hour they came back. After
watering the second group rode the horses.
* The junior
campers went to the Miniature Golf park.
* Notice that the girls played golf, but the boys found the nearby
creek fun.
* Josh Brunk talks with Tracy Lee
.
* Dorean DeMar talks with
her campers following lunch.
Camp ends
...Kande and some of the Campers
.
Folks began to leave as Leona,
Pastor & Julie Byrd and Andrew Brunk
talk..