Posted July 29, 2010
The Camp Board would like to send a big thank you to all the volunteers who were able to come to camp after the big wind storm at the end of June.
The volunteers were absolutely great at getting trees removed so we could reopen the camp. Bob Waitley along with Dick and Linda Lee were among the first to show up and were there multiple days. Our neighbor, Bob Mitich, came right over to help get generators hooked up to keep our refrigerators working. Stacie, Rupert and Andy Gregory brought their trailer to help move brush, loaded up wood and came back again the next day to help again.
We had two great loggers from Centerville, Donny Rude and his friend Fred. Donny’s mom from Middleton called and told him he should come up and help on his day off. Way to listen to your mom, Donny! Those boys could cut wood.
Rob Smith made the trip up from the valley, stopped in Cascade to rent a trailer since he didn’t have one and worked 10 hours. Janet Benoit slept in their cabin with no power, but also showed up to move brush. Ryan, Carole & Jake Henggeler came and brought a generator and moved brush. Kathy, Dennis, Kaylene, Drew and Jacey Weaver brought their horse trailer to haul brush, stayed over night and worked again the next day. Ken Roberts showed up with another generator Wednesday evening and returned Thursday with his skidster that could really haul the brush around and stack the big downed trees. It made the brush clean up about 50 times faster.
Our staff of JR, Shirley & Kara jumped right in and did their best to provide food (without power or water) as well as remove brush. Kara’s parents, Lori & Perry Jenkins, also drove to Nampa to pick up and deliver another generator for the refrigeration and pump power. Andy Ward and his crew from Town & County Electric in Nampa gathered up supplies to make the trip to get our power service repaired. They even hauled our rented generator back to Nampa to save us a trip.
Rob Aman, Dennis Patrick, grandson Brandon & son-in-law Cole with the Aman family reunion camp also came to help get everything done for their group to come in on Saturday. Carrol Warlick, a long time member of the Pine Acres group, also lent a hand.
I hope we didn’t leave any names off. We can’t thank everyone enough for dropping their own chores to come help with the clean up. When I first saw the camp on Tuesday morning, I wasn’t sure how long it would take us to get the camp in shape. I was amazed how good it looked by the time I left Thursday evening. The Aman family came in on Saturday and had a great time at their family reunion.
There is still a lot of work to do, but were able to continue with the rest of the camps this season. We also appreciated all the other people who got in touch with us but were unable to come earlier. We’ll be having our end of the season work weekend August 27 – 28. Look for more information soon.
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