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Encyclopedia WinterCampica - Service Project
Winter Camp III marked the first, albeit unofficial, Winter Camp service project. Several Arrowmen invested a bit of Free Time that Weekette in reinforcing a bridge over the stream behind Clearwater cabin. In preparation for Winter Camp IV, it was proposed that Winter Camp offer a day of service to the camp in exchange for an additional day of camping. This offer was accepted, and camp service became an official part of the Winter Camp program. Over time, the tradeoff ceased, but camp still runs for 5 days and includes a service project.
Entry Created: 01/15/1999 Last Update: 01/24/2021
Witahemui Department
| Winter Camp | Project |
| III | Reinforce bridge behind Clearwater cabin. |
| IV | Paint the inside walls of Clearwater and Midway (now Lang) cabins. (A curious shade of aqua was used.) |
| V | Service took place, but the project has been lost to time. |
| VI | Service took place, but the project has been lost to time. |
| VII | Varnish the inside of Hidden Valley (now Johnstone) cabin. |
| VIII | Carve a new section of Ranch Road out of the woods around High Point cabin so that the road would no longer pass directly through that campsite. |
| IX | Clear a new summer staff campsite near the Trout Lake building. |
| X | Tear down a barn on the Frischkorn property located adjacent to D-A and now part of the Ranch. |
| XI | Insulate the walls of Little Prairie and Shady Oaks cabins. |
| XII | Clear the Trout Lake skill center, clean out a storage barn, and clear brush around Midway campsite. |
| XIII | Remove the walk-in refrigerators from the main kitchen. |
| XIV | Move shelves and camping gear between storage buildings. |
| XV | Clear a new summer corral in Trout Lake subcamp, paint the inside of a new shop wing, move USDA food from a barn to the main kitchen, sort and fold tents, and clean the new barn. |
| XVI | Clear low-lying brush in a pine grove near the dining hall. |
| XVII | Clear impinging vegetation from around all latrines in camp. |
| XVIII | Repair the fence around the Lonesome Pine Shooting Sports Area and perform various construction tasks, including drywalling and painting, at the Trout Lake building. |
| XIX | Paint the building later installed in the Trout Lake firebowl and assist with remodeling in progress at Tamarack (now Draper) cabin. |
| XX | Assist with remodeling in progress at Chippewa cabin. |
| XXI | Install bunk rails at Trout Lake cabin, plane boards to be used for benches, collect railroad ties from around camp, and assist in the gutting and burning of the interior of High Point cabin. |
| XXII | Clear a new road to the Beaver Creek shower building to bypass Beaver Creek campsite, varnish the inside of Forest Edge cabin, and sort, stack, and burn scrap lumber in The Pines which had blown down in the previous fall's storms. |
| XXIII | Clear out a barn in the main camp maintenance area in preparation for remodeling. |
| XXIV | Varnish the interior of Lakeview cabin and insulate the old Administration building in preparation for its rebirth as a museum. |
| XXV | Burn a supply of railroad ties at the Beaver Creek firebowl, paint the basement of the new museum, insulate Ranch Director Frank Seery's cabin, remove the fireplace from Lang cabin, and clear part of the Pedro Trail. |
| XXVI | Inspect canoes for necessary repairs, clean Hilltop cabin in preparation for further work in 2003, and burn accumulated brush at several locations in Trout Lake subcamp. |
| XXVII | Clear out the old Health Lodge/Ranch House/Baden-Powell House (which included some demolition) and assist in clearing a camp barn. |
| XXVIII | Assist in building a fishing pier behind Frischkorn cabin for handicapped access to fishing grounds near Trout Lake. A second project, drywalling at the Baden-Powell House, never really got off the ground. |
| XXIX | Lay floor and ceiling tile in the Baden-Powell House and assist in fencebuilding in camp. |
| XXX | Burn accumulated timber from the clearing of a new campsite in Trout Lake subcamp (dubbed "Fire Trees" by Jonas Lowe, later adopted by the lodge and named "Migisi"), lay tile in the Baden-Powell House, and pull nails from scrap lumber at the barns. |
| XXXI | Clean up after a cabin expansion project at Schneider cabin, raise posts on the handicapped access nature trail in Trout Lake subcamp, collapse and burn the Beaver Creek executive and Treasure Oak C latrines, and update the software at the camp trading post. |
| XXXII | Move approximately 30 cords of logs felled while the Ranch's new disc golf course was cleared, assist in splitting this wood, and retrieve a number of display cases that had been donated to D-A by a Dearborn jewelry store. |
| XXXIII | Split and move wood, and burn brush, near the Trout Lake building, capture and relocate swans living on Lockwood Lake, burn the original Clearwater latrine, and dismantle the 12' wall at the COPE course in Jack Lord. |
| XXXIV | Split and haul wood near the Friendship Center and clear the enlarged campsite at Hawthorne Hill, which included burning brush. |
| XXXV | Split wood at the Martin Building, move wood at the barns, collect cut wood at the disc golf course, and burn the old fence and accumulated brush at the Silver Spur Corral. |
| XXXVI | Clean and organize a storage barn, move cut firewood at the north of camp, and refinish fiberglass canoes. |
| XXXVII | (Silver Trails SR) Clean the dining hall (including the fireplace mantel and all mugs on the rack), flip overturned picnic tables in camp, cut and clean up storm-damaged wood, build and rebuild wood racks, and stack cut wood on those racks. |
| XXXVIII | Paint the interior of the main camp shop barn, including work in the restroom, the primary vehicle service area, and the metal grinder. A plaque in the barn commemorates this work. |
| XXXIX | Thoroughly clean the dining hall kitchen, split wood at Trout Lake cabin and move it to the Martin building, install a new deck on the camp's blue trailer, redeck the Chevy stake truck, and install bed rails on the yurts at the summer staff campsite. |
| XL | Split firewood, swap out mattresses, clear brush along the roadsides, and paint offices in the Martin Administration Building. |
| XLI | Vast collection of demolition and relocation activity at The Pines. |
| XLII | Clear and burn accumulated brush at the under-construction Lost Lake campsite and deep-clean Beaver Creek cabin. |
| XLIII | Clear the hill behind Wyckoff Lodge, clear a fallen tree by Beaver Creek cabin, Tear out drywall and insulation in one of the wings in Jack Lord cabin, and clear a barn at the front of camp. |
| XLIV | Worked on brush clearing and general maintenance at Fort Wayne in Detroit. At camp, cleaned out a barn while sorting artifacts from pre-MCC councils and burning a ridiculous amount of expired popcorn. |
| XLV | Service projects involved fires at 3 separate locations, and also some moving: firewood to the Martin building and big objects at a house on Wilder Road |
See also:
- Apr´es-Cardiac Meal
- Beaver Creek
- Bugout
- Businessman's Lunch
- Candidate Lunch
- Chain Saw Safety Video
- Communist Government
- Competition Lunch
- Continental Breakfast
- Continental Lunch
- Dinosaur Bacon Breakfast
- Doughboy Breakfast
- Extreme Bowling
- Greco-American Lunch
- Green Eggs And Some Kind of Pork Breakfast
- Hearty Canadian Breakfast
- Holiday/Service Day
- Lumberjack Breakfast
- Meal On Wheels
- MREapalooza
- MREapolooza
- Picnic Lunch
- Polish Breakfast
- Real Genius Day
- Roaster Lunch
- Rotary Lodge
- Shrub Song
- Splash Down Lunch
- Tarzan of the Apes Lunch
- Tron/Service Day
- Turducken Dinner
- Will It Stick?
- Winter Camp XLIII
