Volunteer Life
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What is it that we do each day? Sometimes we don’t know!
Fixing a wobbly porch board in a camper cabin
Deep clean of the Paris Bathroom
All-staff meal during “changeover day” which occurs every Saturday. During changeover, the current campers pack up and depart at 10am, wherein we have approximately five hours to clean all the cabins, bathrooms, and make small fixes around camp before another session of campers arrive.
Stringing up a volleyball net for a group of campers who requested more recreational activities.
“Crew” is the term applied to all grounds, kitchen, admin staff and volunteers.
Testing a bin of flashlight batteries
Tools of the trade
Channing Tatum, spirit animal, taped to the roof of DJ, the EZGo.
Walking back from the recycling and sorting station
One of many phones absentmindedly scattered around camp
Bathroom restock run!
Inspecting a smoke detector alarm
Logging lost and found items
Recyclables sorting
Helping the kitchen shuck corn. Some campers even joined in!
Counting chair inventory on the Pinecones Porch
More chair inventory at Newbeginnin dance pavilion
Chair delivery to the Camphouse
Entrance to the two new composting toilets attached to the largest dance pavilion, Hands Across. Each toilet costs $10k alone (not including installation labor). Funds were raised to get them installed last year.
Inspecting one of the collecting bins with a technician, By the way, this was totally optional! Volunteers aren’t asked to open any hatches and discouraged from fiddling with other operational parts. We were just curious how it worked.
Wood shavings, used to help break down the organic matter.
Chair repair #1
Chair repair #2, sans clamps
Crew off duty
Late evening crew hangout
Last changeover day meal before heading home!