Friends of Camp Palmer
We are going to have a place to keep track of old and new friends. This will be a place to keep in touch with one another.
Let me introduce myself for those who may not remember me. I was the naturalist in 1976 and the Program Manager since 1977. I am learning to navigate this site. Wish me luck!
Email your questions about the site, camp or anything else to Chuck Wurth
The Third Annual Celebrate 4-H Camp Palmer event will be held on Saturday Cotober 2, 2010. Come to tour camp and try out our Challenge by Choice activities. There will be activities for the young and the not so young. After a free will offering lunch we will have an auction of baked goods, Camp Palmer program activities, and other items. Mark your calendars now to save the date.
Activities start at 10 AM and are free of charge except the Youth Dance ($3.00)
New this year are evening events: 7 - 8 Campfire activities, 8 - 10 Bean Creek Coffee House Entertainers and 9-11 Youth Dance ($3.00)
Check back for more information.
The celebration is planned by the Friends of Camp Palmer who are currently looking for more memberships. Contact Chuck Wurth at wurth.6@cfaes.osu.edu for information on how you can be of help.
All camp volunteer spring clean-up day
Saturday, April 10th-8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
4-H Camp Palmer will begin their 63rd season of operation this year. Your help is needed with opening camp and doing some need projects. Please be prepared to bring own tools, work gloves and needed materials. For youth under 15 years please be accompanied by a parent.
· Spring cleaning of cabins
· Leaf raking
· Helping to assemble our new central camp playground thanks to recent donation from
· Landscaping
· Finishing touches on covered bridge entrance
***This work day qualifies for the Give a Day, Get a Disney Day Program.
As you can see below I continue to serve children as an assistant principal at a very large middle school (1,500 students) in a suburb of Charlotte, NC). I pull on many of the teachings you and camp provided me and thank you for that! I love the web page and the pictures. The improvements are amazing. I hope you have a great summer as the season begins for 4-H camp and I still am jealous that I do not get to start another summer, but constantly pull on the many great memories and experiences those summers provided me.
Camp Palmer lives within everyone who attends,
Shannen Bretz
Porter Ridge Middle School Pirates
Assistant Principal
Steve Arnold and company of the First United Methodist Church of Bowling Green had a wonderful time at camp April 18 -20. As part of their stay they gave two hours of community service to cleaning up the farm house yard in anticipation of welcoming the new Executive Director who will be living there. Thank you to all who helped
Auglaize County Service Project
Local Volunteers Build Railing at 4-H Camp Palmer
see photos - click on Bridge Railing Project
Local volunteers recently traveled to 4-H Camp Palmer to build a railing for a three hundred feet boardwalk that covers a marsh area at the camp. The boardwalk leads campers back to an Adirondack sleeping shelter for outpost camping.
The project was sponsored by the Auglaize County 4-H Committee and funded by the donation of materials by Lowe’s in Defiance. The project was under the direction and leadership of Steve Sidener of Waynesfield, Greg Leffel of St. Marys and Don and Lois Baumer of Minster.
Other volunteers participating in the project were: Angie Baumer of Celina; Ron Winner and Eric Vanderhorst, both of Minster; Shawn and Scott Sidener of Waynesfield; Christopher Schwartz of St. Marys; Jonathan Walterbusch of New Bremen; Sam Greve, Mick Jones, Morgan and Beth Miller, all of Wapakoneta. Other contributions for the project were made by Joni Leffel of St. Marys; Barb Topp of New Bremen and Heidi Brookhart of Waynesfield.
GET CONNECTED
There will be a section where you can sign in and tell us the year(s) you worked at camp and what new buildings, programs or events you remember happening while you were there.
Chuck Wurth
Summer Naturalist 1976
Program Manager 1997 to present
SHARE YOUR STORY
If you have a story you would like to share about your camp experience send it by email or mail a letter. Typed responses are preferred. The best way would be to email a Word attachment. Go to Chuck Wurth to send an email. Contact information to send a letter can be found on the Home page.
Suitable stories will be posted as I have time to get them on the site. Write in a language and mindset suitable for a camp audience of 9 years old. Be wholesome, kind and caring in what you tell.
