Keepin' Busy in the Winter

Winter is always an interesting season out here at Evergreen. First of all, when the snow comes and stays it is SO PRETTY out here. Secondly, our lives move in waves of quiet and busy-busy. You hear a lot about retreats (busy-busy!) and you know we do guest groups, but I thought I'd give you a quick overview of how we keep the seasonal staff busy here on the quieter days.


Colter and Julia have been sorting through the thousands of slides, that include pictures encompassing 1963-1999, that have been living in the Nurse's Station for the last several years. They're putting the slides in order, tossing fuzzy ones, and we're going to be scanning them ... we'll be showing the pictures at our upcoming (June 11-13, 2010) All Staff Reunion, and posting some of them in our "Camp Evergreen - History in Photos" Facebook group. Colter also works with Dave frequently (fixing, building, maintaining) and Julia is planning Trails Away and working at the barn.



Alexis is our administrative queen: she's been planning for Junior High Retreat, calling churches and prepping for staff Bible studies. She'll be on the road for Camp Days later this month.



Emily has been working on winter outdoor education materials: researching, writing, lesson plan, activity creating. (We have snowshoes now -- did you know that? It's the funnest!) She'll be on the road for Camp Days at Prairie this month, and then next month, she'll be one of the friendly faces at our Teachers' Convention booths across the province.

Elishia is out at the barn as I type this, so I don't have a photo of her in action, but she's been wrangling.

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Alyssa Neudorf said…
I wonder if my dad is any of those pictures. He was a camper there some were in those years.
8:02 pm
Camp Evergreen said…
It's totally possible, Alyssa!
5:33 pm
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