This year is planned as the
final year of major construction for a while. At the end of the day, we’ll
have a comfortable facility for 100 + , with indoor accommodations for
up to 80-90 people. Designs are being finalized and the work should be
completed by mid-May, with the pond to be dug in the fall, ready for the
summer of 2007. Here is what we plan for this year
Completion of the Dining
Hall barn, by adding a dining/program porch, more windows, and a leak-free,
sound-dampening roof
Completion of the Kid Barn,
by enclosing the area in the rear to create a screened porch for art
programs and our youngest campers; creating a teen gathering space in
the north stalls; and adding screens in front to keep the bugs out.
Building four more cabins
(2 with one room and 2 with two rooms). We are using more imaginative
designs, to create more natural light, more storage and loft space in
each room.
With the help of the Yestermorrow
Design/Build school, adding a pedestrian bridge between the large and
small farm fields, making for drier feet on trips to the wetland
Digging a 2 ½ + acre
pond, to be dug in the fall for the summer of 2007
Campers from the summer
of 2005 should look for the fused glass window we made last summer,
now installed in the Dining Hall barn.
Volunteer
projects in the planning stage
Complete the straw bale
cabin – 3 work days over 3 weekends
Mark trails and post boundaries
to insure neighbor privacy
Plant four-sided sunflower
hedge and garden
Make colorful signs for
camp areas
Make paintings for cabin
doors
Hang camper tiles from last
summer in designated areas
2005
Fall volunteers help with site work:
Mindful of the joys of eating
and picking fresh berries in August, CGC volunteers planted about 70
raspberry and blueberry plants this fall. Thanks also to Champlain Valley
Union High School’s Fairbanks freshmen, who planted additional
berry plants for us as a riparian buffer while studying the Lewis Creek.
Volunteers from IBM marked
more of our trails on the mountain – we now have the east-west
blue trail and the loop green trail completely marked, as well as most
of the north-south orange trail. Thanks to Ted Scharer for making this
possible.
Construction
completed summer of 2005:
The construction began in March and was completed just in time for camp!
Here’s what we accomplished
We performed a major renovation
of Art Barn, with a kitchen, a multi-purpose room with bamboo floors,
a handicapped accessible bathroom and two break-out program rooms
We built the Main Bathhouse,
with 8 toilets and sinks, and 4 indoor and 3 outdoor showers (and no
spiders!)
We built two 2-room handicapped
accessible cabins
We developed a septic and
water system for 122 people and upgraded the electrical system to support
our camp project
Cabin Fever Summer a great success!
During the summer of 2004, CGC ran 4 weeks
of construction programs with international volunteers and former camp
families. In the fall, Middlebury College students volunteered to help
complete the cabins. As a result of these programs and the additional
work of our carpenter team, we were able to complete 5 cabins, with significant
work completed on a sixth, a straw bale cabin due for completion for the
summer of 2006. Our carpenter staff also built a handicapped accessible
ramp and a handicapped accessible bathroom for the farmhouse.
