She is what we call a lifer around here. She's been coming out to practice or games every day since she was 4 years old. She started out as one of my summer campers, and now she is on my camp staff. She's very responsible and great with kids.
She is what we call a lifer around here. She's been coming out to practice or games every day since she was 4 years old. She started out as one of my summer campers, and now she is on my camp staff. She's very responsible and great with kids.
It's really up to the campers, what they want to work on. Some people come with specific goals, others don't really care what they work on, they just want to become a good all-around rider.
Ramos and a dozen other campers spent the morning Aug. 27 harvesting pine cones with the help of employees of the U.S. Forest Service. Following them on their journey to the past was a documentary film crew from KVCR, a PBS station in San Bernardino. Dani
There's not a lot of happy campers around here with just the way things have been going. The old adage is 'hard work will get you out slumps.' It's certainly not a lack of effort on our part. We've got to get a win or two to get the confidence back.
Different people have different mindsets. Some campers have satellite dishes for TVs. I'm here to camp. The restrooms are adequate for camping. McCormick's State Park is a little nicer and bigger, but here at Fowler you can camp right on the water. It's nice and it's quiet, ... It's a good experience and it's not far from Terre Haute.
He used to drive a boat around the lake and pull us behind on inner tubes. He also read campers' mail, from mom and dad and from grandparents. And if someone's mom baked cookies, he would make the camper get up on a chair and jump up and down for them, without telling him why. All of this happened at lunch, in front of everybody.
We've signed agreements with all of them. I think they're all pretty much happy campers at this point. When we couldn't give them an answer, it was frustrating for them.
We've got to do something. Fowler Park has the Pioneer Village and camping on the lake, which was its drawing card. Now it's not. If you watch most campers today, they have modern, up-to-date equipment. It's not bringing a tent and roughing it. Prairie Creek with electrical hookups has no primitive sites, like Fowler or Hawthorn.
There are a lot of hoops to jump through to do that. We had a couple of public meetings. We talked to the campers. We told them what our management was going to be in the future.
You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
For many years we've been disturbed by the fact that there are a lot of campers and illegal hikers, motorcyclists going into the sanctuary, ... We're very concerned. We've had a number of burglaries and break-ins.
When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.
Sometimes when we work with high school students, do drills, we try to get a workout alongside them. We're trying to teach them, but this is not only for the campers, our coaches are also showing us new material and information we can work on.
Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.
After the city lost all of its recreational supplies and equipment in the storm, at one point we were uncertain if we were going to be able to hold our annual summer camp. But thanks to the tremendous outpouring of support, it looks like we will be in great shape and we are looking forward to another exciting summer for our campers.
If I could go back and change about five plays and make them go our way, we'd probably be happy campers right now. We weren't that far off.
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