Sparky & Explorer Camps

hey hey hey!

here's our first featured camp update. i'm gonna start with the little kids cuz they're so cute.

SPARKY CAMP
sparky camps are for our youngest campers (grades 1-3) and they always start on a wednesday and go to saturday. you get to spend 3 nights and 4 days making new friends, playing games (like capture the flag, counsellor hunt, and jug 'n' jog), singing songs (YODEL 'n' HUM), and doing activities. activities range from the climbing wall, pony rides, wagon rides, archery, high ropes, canoeing, crafts...and so much more. we have super cool speakers and lots of music.

EXPLORER CAMP
this camp is the next step up from sparky. grades 3-5 own the land! the week either starts on a monday or tuesday (depends which month you come in). have a chance to conquer the wall, scale our high ropes, ride a bucking bronco (just kidding - our horses don't know how to buck), and games...oh the games! capture the flag, jug 'n 'jog (cuz it just wouldn't be camp without j 'n' j), bucket ball, knights - riders - princesses, and more!

DATES:
Sparky 1 - July 18-21
Sparky 2 - August 8-11
Explorer 1 - July 16-21
Explorer 2 - August 7-11

there's the camps of the week. if you have any questions please go to the camp evergreen site!
peace out
c-bear

spring is here!! (almost)

greetings. c-bear reporting.

the snow is melting and everything is getting muddy out here. unfortunately it's just part of the story. i don't think that we could have spring without mud out here. it's supposed to be something beautiful like 14 degrees today and 15 tomorrow. awesome. but i hear that we're in for a bit of cooler weather and more snow. but it always happens. we're just about in april and that means the trees will start budding and the mud will start drying and SPRING will be right on it's way to ... way for it ... SUMMER!

over the next few weeks, i'll be updating this twice a week. once will be to feature a camp and the other will just to say hello. i'll have some updated pictures of the building next week - i just don't have my camera with me right now.

ah man! summer. hundreds of excited screaming kids and camps...lots of camps - and camp staff! hey, i'd love to hear about what your favorite part of camp is! i'm starting to play programs and set up the schedules so i'd love to take some suggestions.

here comes summer!

peace out - c-bear

Yay for Snow!!!

well, we thought it was going to warm up, and it did...for a while. then, overnight we got about 3 or 4-ish (i'm a bad estimator :p) inches of snow. however, it is warmer again, so it's starting to melt all over again. talk about a lot of mud and ice! not a whole lot has been going on lately, ken (our own resident chef) has been doing the sanding for us in the welcome center, and is just about done. a great big thanks to him! the painters are coming in on thursday (i think anyway, don't quote me on that!) and that is really exciting. as cool as the snow is though, i'm ready for some warmer weather. i can just imagine how amazing summer is going to be with the sun shining and warmness that happens that time of the year! i love it.

we also have another member of our staff that joined us two weeks ago. his name is omiunu, but most of us just call him johnson. it's a lot easier to pronounce for us less phonetically gifted :). he is from south africa, which i think is awesome and, prayerfully, he'll be with us til around august. omiunu is an amazing guy who is cheerful without fail, and i think it'll be a good time. that's about it, and i have to jet now, so i'll talk with y'all in a few days! (if you couldn't tell already this is steph, by the way) ttfn!

horses

hello, hello.

well i just thought i would dedicate this update to horses. not much has been going on here this last week. we're just working here to prepare for summer and such. our office building is getting sanded (the step right before we do the floor and then paint). we should be occupying the building by the second last weekend of april...that's totally exciting. dave is working really hard to make sure that our buildings all get a little tlc before this place comes alive in april.

our camp brochures are out and if you haven't received one yet or are looking to go to camp for the first time or try us out for something different make sure that you contact us at 403-638-4230 or email me at: program@camp-evergreen.com so that i can send you a camp brochure. we're going to be starting to feature one of our camps each week with pictures and information on top of our regular post so that you can learn a little more about each camp.

HORSES. our beautiful beautiful horses. i think one of the reasons that i'm going to talk about them is that, not only do i love them, but almost everybody that comes here has a little bit of love for them. not everybody but almost everybody. i got a question in the last update about a foal that was born last year named Storm. yes! we are definitely keeping him. he's a total sweetheart! here's a picture of him:

storm was pretty funny because when he was born he was almost black but he was kinda of blue roan (which just means he has a bit of white hair mixed in with his black) - just like he is in the picture, then he started getting a bit of red in his coat (like his mom in the background of the picture) which meant he was possibly going to be a red roan (my favourite) and then he started REALLY getting white...yikes...

but he eventually went back to the blue roan color just like in the picture. we're pretty happy about that because blue roans are always nice lookin' horses. his leg is all healed up and he's bouncing around like a happy little boy. except he's not so little anymore.

there's about 4 more babies that will be arriving in april/may. i always love that time of year and all the new babies running around.

i should be off. there may or may not be a post next week as i will be on holidays. i'll see what i can do about recruiting steph to update. have a great day. oh, and thanks for the countdowns alyssa!

Stay Strong in His Grip,

c-bear

ode to fleisch 92

k - so i don't even know if i spelt that correctly...i'm not german - i'm scottish and in gaelic...we'd probably throw some silent q paired with a couple of "lls" that make a "ch" sound.

was that confusing to anybody else?

there has been a "thing" brought to my attention (it's not serious...well - it might be...heh heh) that the band that provided the most excellent music at our Family Meltdown was missed in last week's credits. so - they get their own post. their VERY own post. not just because vicky (featured beside me...vicky has the blond hair) mentioned that they weren't mentioned but also because they did an amazing job. the music was cool but i always enjoy watching dale use all his percussion stuff (like a rain stick! and something that resembles a giant gourd). the picture here is of the band. dale friesen is in the orange, vicky in the white, andrew is on drums, krista quapp is wielding the violin (she's a long standing camp staff...i think she even mentioned that she's one of those staff that just never leaves) and then gerry on the piano. the guy who is not shown is harley who is actually vicky's dad...he's the most awesome sound guy. i was even blessed to hear him sing that weekend! they're one of my favourites! and they do the song "meet me in the river" by jon buller and it's a lot of fun.

they're all from...well they're all either from or related to people from coaldale...and for those of you that have NO idea where coaldale is...it's east of lethbridge alberta...where the wind blows hard.

so i just wanted to say that i really really appreciated them and maybe...just maybe we'll get to enjoy them again in september when maybe, just maybe they'll come and be the band at the sr. high retreat (rise up!). i hope i hope i hope.

anyways, i think i'll head out for now. it's my birthday on saturday (march 3rd) and i've got a men's retreat to prepare for. hey, if there are any dad's that check this or kids - tell your dads that we've got a men's retreat planned for March 23-25th. It's going to be an awesome time!

stay strong in His grip,

cort