Graduation
We’ve been waiting for this weekend for awhile now, and I’m not sure we’re ready for it! But ready or not, we’re celebrating Bethel Camp’s 50th Anniversary over Memorial Day weekend. We’ve got lots of activities planned, good food on the menu, and quite a few people registered who make up some of Bethel Camp’s history. One thing we’re working on that we’re excited about is a Camp Memories booklet. We’ve gathered stories from past directors (and people who played other roles in the running of camp) along with an overview/history of Bethel Camp, and Wendy has put them all together into a booklet form. We’ll be giving them out to everyone who attends this weekend. If you’re not able to make it but would like a copy of the booklet, please let us know. We’d love for you to have one.
One day last week, 5 women from Turners Creek and Bowling Creek came over to help us get the campgrounds ready for the anniversary weekend. They cleaned and cleaned, got rained on, and cleaned some more. I thought it would be interesting to add up how many years of housecleaning experience they have between them. I’ll go with a low estimate. Between the 5 of them, they’ve cleaned homes for well over 200 years. That’s the kind of people that I trust to get our buildings ready for guests. J
As I sit here in my room and type, I hear the hammering of rocks being broken into the right sizes to fit in the chimney that Roger and Shaun are working hard to finish before guests start arriving. When the old boys’ dorm was remodeled, a fireplace was added in one of the new guest rooms, and Roger had the dream of building a beautiful rock chimney outside. That dream is so close to completion. It won’t be long until we can back our van out without having to watch out for a pile of rocks. It’ll also be nice to be able to use the wood stove in the basement to keep that building warm this winter instead of paying for the electric heat.
Roger and I had several invitations to Breathitt’s graduation this year, and we wish that we could have been a part of that. But Wesley graduated from Kindergarten at Riverside that same night. It’s not nearly as big of an accomplishment as finishing 12th grade, but we couldn’t miss seeing that curly-haired boy of ours shake Mr. VanSkyhawk’s hand and get his diploma! Thinking about Wesley graduating from kindergarten brought back vivid memories of my own kindergarten graduation. Until then, I didn’t know I could remember anything from 25 years ago.
Congratulations to all the graduates. May you have a summer of peace and relaxation, before the next level of responsibility that life brings to you.
