Dining Hall Dedicated

It was a great day at Camp Hiawatha as the expanded Dining Hall was dedicated. Cutting the ribbon were Mildred Novinger, widow of long-time Staff Member Nobby Novinger and Ruth Rogers, widow of Clifton Rogers, Council president when the camp was purchased and development started. Dick Oslund is shown by the fireplace with the plaque honoring Clarence Zerbel, one of the early Scouters in Red Buck District.

Ground Breaking for the Shower House

• The site work is completed and ground broken for the new shower house in September. Shown are Joe Erickson, Bill Davis, Dan Closner, Dewey Jones, and Bromley and Tom Hall, the contractors.

We are getting ready to replace the old shower house. Clearing and chipping were done to prepare for the demolition crew.

Camp Highlights

Camp Hiawatha opened with Dave Goodwin, an Eagle Scout alumni from Marquette presenting a flag that flew in Iraq where he served recently to camp director Shaun Clark.

Anna, an International Scout from Korea, added a lot to the camp program. She is shown with Shaun and Program Director Sam Ledebuhr.

As always, the Indiana Jones Adventure course was a big hit with the Scouts.

National Guard helps at Camp Hiawatha

Camp Hiawatha benefited greatly from the service of a squad of National Guardsmen from the Soo who spend a week at camp with heavy equipment. They helped clear site 8, got all of the unsightly stumps out of sight, and did a myiad of tasks under Doc Jewell's direction.

Two of the Guardmen were Scouts as youth, one in Doc Jewell's troop and one with Doc Bender.