Camping

Every summer, from June to August, the PA Lions Beacon Lodge Camp in Mount Union, PA holds weeklong summer camp sessions for adults and children with disabilities. Beacon Lodge is set on 583 acres of land near the Juniata River. It is completely funded by Pennsylvania Lions Club and private donations. The camp was originally established in 1948 for blind residents of Pennsylvania. Today they accept residents with varying physical disabilities and mental challenges. “Beacon Lodge is special,…

The next time I attended a camp at CRG it was just me and my two other siblings. My parents and Anthony were left at home. This time, when I stepped onto the campsite, there was no snow and it was warm enough to wear shorts and a t-shirt, but I was nervous to be attending Sibling Camp for the very first time. Without Holland, who was also attending the camp, it would have taken longer to break away from my shyness. She had already known most of the kids our age and it made it easier to make new…

Have you ever broken a bone in your life? My mom and her side of the family were at my grandpa’s campground he stays at in Iowa in a cabin, it was a august day and it was very warm. It was about 2008 and I was around 5. Every year we have a tradition of going there and going on the mississippi river that the campground is right on. We were getting around time to head back home, but before we had to empty out the water tank in the water dumping area. So we pull the camper up and it starts to…

Boy Scouts was initially something that I never truly expected to enter my life. The most exposure I had of it was cartoonish representations that I would see in the funnies section of the newspaper or spoofs of the organization in my daily cartoons. This all changed when my friend one day invited me over to one of the weekly meetings. I was a little scared at first, a group of people I didn’t know was frightening to my middle school self. But for some reason; I’m not sure now if it was the…

Sorry that it has been so long! I haven’t written much since we have met three Cowboys! If I want to be tough I can’t be writing in a diary because it looks suspicious and girly. The Cowboys have lost a bet so now we are tagalongs until we reach Fort Kearny, which we are approaching faster than I thought. Annamae and I are now going by Sam and Andy, since those are practical boy names, however, it is incredibly harder acting like one. A great deal has happened lately, we have stopped a stampede,…

I had never had to lead my own scout troop before. We were in the middle of nowhere, having just finished the first part of a long hike to our designated site. The rest of the senior scout volunteers had already left, off find a good place to settle down for the night, leaving me behind to watch the kids. Not until we were stranded did we realize we had wondered too far from the rest of the staff. The kids started to panic, one of the older kids from the group, came forth. “Where are we Mister,…

My story begins at Onteora Scout Reservation in Upstate New York. The Boy Scouts of America have an honor society known as the Order of the Arrow, which is for Scouts who wish to dedicate themselves to an order that serves others more than that of the Boy Scouts. Scouts are selected through a troop-wide vote, and I was one of the few scouts selected to participate in the ordeal to join this order. The ordeal was a series of tests in order to confirm that we, the candidates, are fit to join…

I am at camp Henry with my middle school New Branches Charter Academy.I was in the eighth grade we was with the seventh and sixth graders. We did a lot of activities and stayed there for three days.It was so cold when we went, we went in March I believe.But little did i know one out of those three days was the bestdays of my life. As soon as I got off the bus,I knew this would be a special place to have fun.When we got off the bus we see a lot of conoes and cabins and houses along the side.As we…

I never could have guessed five years ago, when I walked onto the MWBC grounds that my world would change forever. I didn’t know it then, but that cozy little patch of land in the middle of nowhere would become the biggest influence in my life. I had no inkling that the people I would meet would become like a second family to me. If I had it wouldn’t have taken me so long to get there. Growing up I was very wary of summer camp. The idea of sleeping in the woods surrounded by bugs and…

Summer Sports Camps for Kids in Minneapolis, MN Summer sports camps is a great tool to help your kids grow their skills in their favorite sport and get a little exercise over the summer months. When it comes to summer sports camps at Revolutionary Sports, there are actually many to choose from. Here are some of the options you should keep in mind for this summer. Baseball One popular sports track is baseball. In this camp, kids have the opportunity to build their hitting, fielding and throwing…