HISTORY Winter Camp XXXV - 2011

Dates: December 27-31, 2011 Location: Beaver Creek and Clearwater cabins Cost: $44.44 Cost: $50.50 Attendance: 33 (21 youth, 12 adults) Leader: Josh Cicotte Adviser: Steve Donohue Income: $1464.47 Expense: $1386.41 WCUES Score: Incomplete Catchphrase: History is being written A catchphrase has not yet been selected for this year.

Winter Campers were faced with the toughest challenge yet to happen during the famous weekette, to save the earth everyday. Each day the campers went head to head with plagues, zombies and aliens O my!

Although each Earth saving event only took-up part of the afternoon, the theme survived and thrived. The Earth was saved from various disasters such as an Alien invasion, featuring clout shooting, the Plague, a puzzle and race against time, and nature disasters, a Genius night competition. Of course many classic Winter Camp activities were held such as Four-Way Volleyball, bread baking, and Cross Country Golf. Almost all of the planned events were carried out except for Battle Chest on clean-up day but was replaced with a rousing game of mud kickball. A near miss was the traditional time capsule hike which became optional due to bad weather. A new game was invented impromptu on setup day called shovel ball.

As usual the food was a vital part of the Winter Camp experience. The first meal was the lunch on arrival day which was Sloppy Joes. The catch was everyone was blindfolded. Believe it or not it wasn't as messy as expected. Another highlight was a new meal, the Made in Michigan lunch, which consisted of Kielbasa, Sauerkraut, Better Made Chips, and Vernor's. A new very popular breakfast suggested by Kristie Donohue was the Heart Stupid Breakfast featuring bacon, bacon and more bacon. For dinner pulled-pork returned as a donation from Steve Donohue's employer.

This year was also Winter Camp's thirty-fifth anniversary which is the emerald anniversary. As a surprise all attendants were presented an emerald greed t-shirt to commemorate this impressive achievement.

Campers left this year in good company (there were 35 campers total) knowing that next year could only be better as Winter Camp looked to the feature or the past.

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