August 13th 2012

John Lucas will be the team leader again this year. John and Ellen are from Iowa and have been coming to Second Family Camp for many years. The Sojourners volunteer work days are Monday-Thursday for 3 weeks. Friday, Saturday and
Sunday are days for resting, site seeing and worship.

We would welcome others to come and join us for any or all the time they will be here.

The LakeView building was the focus of the sojourner team this year. This building was built by the Boy’s Scouts in the late 40’s. As an FPYC building, it has had various names and uses throughout the years. It has been used as the caretaker’s
house, boy’s cabin, craft building, canteen, store room, dock house, rainy day activity area, and classrooms. Now it has 5 sleeping rooms, 3 classrooms, waterfront room, and storage. The interior looks very different. With the lake view and breeze the sleeping rooms might just be the best on camp! Some started cleaning up camp. The dead trees that were removed will keep the wood stove going this winter! The fall work list was greatly reduced-ovens cleaned, shelving and storage scrubbed, rooms organized and the dining tables cleaned from up to down!

The team leader was John Lucas. John and Ellen come from their home state of Iowa to attend Second Family camp-this was their 6th year. The other couples traveled quite a distance from their home states to volunteer here-Texas, Kentucky and Oklahoma. They did enjoy our cooler weather; it stayed in the 70’s and 80’s while they worked here. Gary and Joanne Nading, Mike and Diane McEndree, LeRoy Murphy and Dave Engebretson were also here helping.

Some of the couples went sightseeing during the weekends-International Falls to cross into Canada, Duluth, Grand Rapids, and the bear center in Orr. Gary and Joanne Nading also arranged a tour of the open pit mine in Babbitt. 

We are very appreciative of the work that they did here at camp- and would like to thank each of them for contributing to making Flaming Pine Youth Camp a great place to be!