30 April 2009
Yo, Ho, Ho, No River of Rum
Posted by admin under: camps .
Last October I read about the Northern Star Council in Minnesota selling Rum River Camp in an effort to pay for the urban base camp they were planning to build and to renovate their other camps. The council seems to be backing away from that decision after they received the money they needed in the form of a grant. Jim Adams at the Star Tribune shares the good news.
Things are looking up for Twin Cities Boy Scouts who feared the Rum River Scout Camp they have enjoyed for decades in Ramsey might be sold by the Northern Star Council.
The council’s top executive, John Andrews, sent an e-mail to Scout leaders this month, noting about $6 million from a grant and other sources have taken “a great deal of pressure off the idea that any property will need to be sold … to achieve current Council goals.”
Two potential buyers, a developer and the Trust for Public Land, have inquired about Rum River since October. His internal e-mail to interested Scouts said the two parties were told the 167-acre wooded camp is not for sale and “would not be for some time to come, if ever.”
The pressure isn’t completely off and supporters still need to shake the bushes to get the funds needed for the council but this sounds like a step in the right direction. If the council isn’t getting the price they want or they just don’t feel like selling it sounds like the tradition at Rum River Scout Camp may live on.
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- New, Yes, New BSA Camp
- Boy Scout Sell-off
- Singing Hills is Silent Now
- Controversial Executive Changes Councils
