Jeff Merhige and Mike Costlow are in Chicago right now! ACA is a great chance to learn and share with tons of other camp professionals. Gary Foster, Bob Ditter, Michael Brandwein are only some of the great teachers leading sessions this week.
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Spring Camp is right around the corner! The weekend of March 18th to the 20th! Activities, friends, Big Game, St. Patty’s green dance party, green food, leprechauns…mom and dad get a weekend to themselves…what’s not to love?
We are at Cedarville University for a job fair today. Looking for the next great camp counselors!
Yes, along with the rest of the midwest, camp is frozen solid this week! Tree limbs are down, wind is blowing, ice covers everything, and we are all chilly. Summer Camp, please come soon!
Camp Kern wants to thank the Dayton Foundation for their support for the new Recreation Hall project at Kern! The recreation hall will house an indoor basketball court, indoor arts center, and will have large covered outdoor play areas. Expanding camp’s ability to offer indoor programming will make those rainy days at camp that much more fun! Don’t worry, we’ll still go on wet hikes, catch frog
s down by the pond (they all come out during the rain!) and explore the earthworm population as they emerge from their underground homes. However, after getting soaked and tired outside, now there will be a great place to play and spend time together under a roof.
Thank-you so much, Dayton Foundation! 45,000 Camp Kern guests yearly thank you!
Click here to go to the full story from Dayton Business Journal.
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meterâ„¢ reads This blog is doing awesome!.
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 7,100 times in 2010. That’s about 17 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 24 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 82 posts. There were 15 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 20mb. That’s about a picture per month.
The busiest day of the year was June 28th with 141 views. The most popular post that day was Summer Camp.
The top referring sites in 2010 were campkern.org, facebook.com, cdn.widgetserver.com, fox19.com, and twitter.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for smores, camp kern, camp kern bed bugs,
g>camp kern blog, and campkern.smugmug.com.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Summer Camp December 2008
Equestrian December 2008
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100 years of pictures on Smugmug! April 2010
Summer 2010 Update (and new stuff!) April 2010
A night under the stars July 2009
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Come join us for Winter Camp this December 10th to the 12th! Â A long weekend of fun, learning, friends, and the outdoors, all while covered in snow.
Participate in your favorite Summer Camp activities (rock climbing, archery, arts and crafts, mineshaft, Pete’s Tower) combined with Winter-themed games and fun. Â A Make A Marimba
exchange” target=”_blank”>white-elephant gift exchange, snowman building, snow-angels, sleds, tree decoration contests, and a chance to train as an “Elf”!
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Come prepared to play, relax, and get in the Winter spirit!
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In an effort to maintain transparency with our campers and parents, Camp Kern has made an open letter to our guests available at check-in and check-out during Summer Camp this year. Â The letter, attached below in it’s entirety, addresses the nuisance of bed bugs. We are very proud of the fact that we do not have a bed bug problem. The letter explains the steps we have taken to protect the campers and guests at Camp Kern.
Bed bugs are a pest who have made a resurgence in recent years, and have been dealt with in many high guest turnover industries, such as camping. Â As a camp, we have implemented an effective preventative plan, along with a rapid detection and response program.
