Camp Owaissi Spring 2008 News
SERVICE CLUB SUPPORT —Sunrise Rotary of Kelowna donate a utility trailer, helping here with camp clean-up.
LEADERS TRAIN —Record turnout of 42 youth for the leaders training day at Camp Owaissi.
Spring has arrived with many projects happening at Owaissi. We have known over the past few years that the pine beetle has infected many of our trees. There were concerns about safety with the dead standing trees as well as the need to make a plan for our forest. This year we flagged approximately 80 beetle kill trees close to buildings and where people gather that have since been felled. Over the past two to three months many volunteers have assisted with the never-ending job of cleaning up. We have chipped and burned; stacked and raked. We accomplished this task with the assistance of many hands and dedicated hours of hard work. All ages helped. Volunteers came out to prepare food for the work crews. We are now in the process of making future plans for any further beetle kill trees; as well as replanting. We had 60 donated fir and pine trees that were planted the last weekend in April. The following quote from Darren Genge describes this best:
"We planted about 60-70 trees and I have another 200 being donated anytime we want them in the next month. The Trees are from K & C Nurseries in Oliver, BC. These trees will get planted throughout to create a diverse forest with different sizes of trees in the future. (the majority were planted next to stumps as this is the best site for growing.)"
We had an amazing rainstorm the day after to water all of the newly planted trees. In addition we have benefited from the generous donation of a utility trailer from the Sunrise Rotary of Kelowna, BC. This was especially timely for the clean-up of the pine beetle trees.
While all of this tree work was taking place we had our youth leader training day April 5th with a record turnout of 42 youth. They experienced an overview of what it means to be a youth leader in an Anglican Camp community. This was also the Camp clean-up day so part of the day involved sharing jobs and lunch as an intergenerational group.
The summer is fast approaching and we ask for your support in bursaries, in sending kids to camp, with volunteer gifts and with prayers for a rich experience for campers, youth leaders, staff and all those who are touched by the ministry of the Owaissi Anglican community.
Secondary Schools participate in Global Awareness Program
by Peter Davison
photo peter davison
GOOD FOOD BOXES —Students from Fulton Secondary School's Global Awareness Program help to prepare boxes for the monthly Good Food Box program which operates out of All Saints, Vernon.
All Saints, Vernon designed its (new in 1998) facilities for community outreach as well as parish programming. Fulton Secondary School's Golbal Awreness Program is designed to help students become aware of situations and events in the world around them. In April they helped fill hundreds of 'good food boxes,' which for $10.00 each provide an array of fresh, nutritional foods for local families. A few days later, students from Kidston Elementary School and their teachers provided the team to serve the Saturday lunch for hungry and homeless people. Each Saturday a team from one of the local churches or community organisations takes its turn to offer this much appreciated service.
