2 December 2008
PressRepublican Says: Let My ‘Wingo Go
Posted by admin under: camps .
The PressRepublican of New York has observed one of the effects of the Girl Scouts reorganization: camp closures. They’ve called on the GSUSA and the trustees of a memorial fund to reopen Camp Tapawingo.
Most notably, that resulted in Girl Scout councils having to merge, and the North Country Girl Scout Council — once a strong local organization — had to combine with councils from Albany, Schenectady and the Hudson Valley to form a mega group of which they are only a small part.
With size comes bureaucracy, and the new leadership has insisted on formal leases and legal procedures in dealing with local camps, a change in protocol and attitude that has rubbed members of the Turner Board the wrong way. This and the water problem combined to close Tapawingo for the past two years, and no agreement is yet in place for 2009.
At least the water problem has now been fixed, and it’s time to break the logjam.
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Camp Tapawingo needs to reopen next year. Let’s hope the two sides can come together in a spirit of compromise and get it done for the sake of all concerned.
That’s what I’m sayin’. Let’s really let the girls go wild by getting them out in nature with the wildlife. How can you appreciate what you don’t know?
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