Monthly Archives: March 2011

Congratulations to Kayla and the rest of the survival experts here at camp on their successful completion of the first ever Intro to Wilderness Survival program. The program ended Monday evening with a race around camp that incorporated all the survival elements the group had learned over the course of the program. As the program drew to a close each person left camp with their very own survival kit, including a compass, fishing line and hook, a candle, a bandana, and an array of other items. If you’re interested in more programs like this one feel free to join us [...]

This is a Thought of the Day that we sometimes use during Staff Orientation and before the Ocky Olympics at Boys Camp.  I received this quite a few years back as an email forwarded to me by Gary Graham.  I still can't read it without tearing up.  When read as a Thought of the Day, whoever is reading it usually needs another person or two as a back-up to take over reading if the first person gets too choked up.  I hope you enjoy it.  Its message is very powerful. Brent Birchler Boys Camp Director  Two Choices What would you do? You make the [...]

This is my all-time favorite Camp song, hands down.  It almost disappeared a few years back, but I'm glad to say that it is still a Camp favorite and is always sung at the Blue Feather Banquet every session.  Does anyone else have a favorite they'd like to share? Titanic Oh they built the ship, Titanic, to sail the ocean blue, And they thought they had a ship, that the water wouldn’t go through But the Good Lord’s raised his hand and said, “This ship would never land.” Chorus: It was sad when the great ship went down, hit the [...]

Thank you to all of our staff and volunteers who helped out getting Camp spruced up over the past week and giving our prospective families some amazing tours!  As you can imagine, the winter weather was pretty rough on the property and it took a lot of work to get the things ready for Open House.  It meant a lot to us that so many of our summer staff came in to help the year-round crew with the clean-up effort.  A big thank you goes out to Nurse Peggy's husband and son, Dave Sr. and Dave Jr. for all of [...]

What a great day at YMCA Camp Ockanickon, Inc.! Not only did we have an incrediable Open House yesterday where we met some wonderful families and new Campers....we also had a new full-time employee start! Lynn is our new School Aged Child Care / Lake Stockwell Assistant Director.  Lynn started working last summer as a Village Chief at Stockwell and loved camp so much that she continued working in our School's Out Program once summer was over.  I am really excited to be working with Lynn and we are counting down the days until Camp starts! Welcome to Camp, Lynn!