the green spot blog

Pardon the pun in the title - I just couldn't help myself. You may wonder what is so punny about the title so allow me to explain. Monday was one of our favourite days of the year - it was Seniors Day at Camp Evergreen! Yes, yes - we spend a lot of time talking about how summer camp is one of our most favourite too but if our staff could pick a single day to be their favourite in spring - I bet that they would choose Seniors Day. The day is quite wonderful - especially because we eat so much good food! Fresh baked cookies in the morning, full table service for lunch, and then fresh baked cinnamon buns (the size of your head) in the afternoon. Now if that doesn't make your mouth water just thinking about it - I don't know what will. After coffee and cookies in the morning - we tour around the camp a little, showing our cabins to folks who haven't seen all of the new ones and the spots where some of our old cabins used to reside. No matter how many times I ...

Four weeks ago, Mennonite Disaster Service came to serve us.  Serve us they did.  Words can not easily express our gratitude, but we will try.  The cabins are farther than we had hoped, and the archery range is being used in the last week of camp.  From our perspective it was great partnership.  Summer camp was not at all impacted.  Besides mosquitoes and some cold nights there really wasn't much stress. One of the biggest accomplishments was putting on our metal roof.  This will not only keep the cabins dry, but will allow us to finish the cabins right through winter. Where do we go from here?  The Board will be evaluating the progress early in fall, and our goal is to finish these cabins so they can be used by our campers next summer with as much volunteer labour as possible.  If you missed out on the opportunity to help this summer, we will be having workdays through the winter and invite you to join us. The archery range cabin being...

MDS's time here at Evergreen is winding down.  There are only two days to go!  With your help we have gone further than we had hoped.  The cabins have been perfectly set up to finish with as much volunteer help as possible.  We will let you know as soon as we can when we will be looking to work on the cabins. In addition to the cabins, MDS has done a fantastic job on our new archery range. A close up of the deck. Steps off the front that the campers will use to retrieve their arrows. We will enter from the back of the deck. Crestwood has fascia. Sunwest now has a great ramp that will accommodate campers and guests who are in a wheelchair.

Here we are in the middle of week number four.  While the outside of the cabins remains similar, MDS is still hard at work and we're hoping to keep them busy this week. Doors and windows are now in. We've started on the soffit. Bunks are underway.  The plan is to cut all the material to length and then store them in each cabin. And the archery deck and steps are almost complete.

Our final week of MDS has arrived.  Hank and Viola Remple are our leaders this week.  Don Plett, one of the MDS Board members is here as well.  The big question on all our minds is will there be enough work this week. On Monday we started putting the windows and doors in. The ramp underway on our second barrier free cabin. And we can expect some more headway on the archery range as well.