August 6, 2009

We had a McHenry County Distinguished Citizens Dinner planning meeting in the morning. The dinner is really shaping up to be another great event this November.

Then it was out to Camp Lowden to help with the storage closets in the maintenance building. Rick Rhoads started by adding a couple of closets for NYLT and Wood Badge storage. Dave Savone and others framed three additional closet spaces to finish out the side. Two will be for summer camp storage. On Thursday Dave Savone, Don Reis, Steve James, and Jim Zeigler were adding the roof portion so there can be additional storage on top for larger items.

As things were going pretty well, Dave added a new rack for the paddles and oars since the old one was about to fall apart.

After finishing the work for the day Dave and I stopped at the Boeger Leadership Lodge. Wow, what a difference a few days makes. With the stain on the outside and the area being graded it really looked great.

Then it was off to Canyon Camp to be with my Crew for the last couple of days of the Venturing Summer Camp. More tomorrow on that.

Family Night, July 16

I went to Camp Lowden for Family Night on July 16. Wow! I've never seen that many people at camp for a Family Night. The grounds were full of families picnicking for dinner and around the field was standing room only for the games.

In addition I had the opportunity to be involved in two award ceremonies. One was the presentation of the Heroism Award to Joah Jahnke that I posted yesterday. The other was an overdue Eagle presentation to Sean McCleary who left for college before we were able to have his ceremony.

Work continues on the Boeger Leadership Lodge with the back side of the roof being completed except for the space where the solar cell will go.

And the landscaping started with the placement of some of the retention walls.

One of the changes to both of our summer camps this year was the addition of the paint ball range. It has proven to be a big hit with the campers.