New Camper Cabin Design!
Thanks to our volunteer architects (also parents of campers) Alex Jenkins and Graham Whiting (www.whitingdesign.ca), we now have a draft of design plans for our new campers cabins. What do you think? Send us your comments.
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Dining Hall Addition is one month away from completion!
The primer is on and the paint is coming tomorrow. 4 more weeks until occupancy!
School Kits from Missions Program donated to MCCO
On Friday November 18th, a group of 35 Silver Lakers delivered, donated and packed the approximately 500 school kits assembled during the summer Missions program. Mini campers right up to CILTs had a tour of the MCCO Material Resources Warehouse, packed school kits into shipping boxes and enjoyed a pizza lunch! Thanks to our friends at MCCO including Bob Lebold for a great service experience!
New Initiatives are being installed today!
As part of our 50th anniversary capital campaign, we are revitalizing the initiatives area (Family Camp area for old timers!) by adding 6 new team building elements. We have also opened up the circle area around the timber-frame shelter to create open space for co-operative games and other fun activities. The elements are being built into trees and telephone poles – check out the pictures of the installers transporting the poles from the camp office to initiatives (it took half a day to get them back there).
Drywall is up in dining hall addition
The windows are in, the siding is on and the drywall is up and has a few coats of mud. The addition looks great! Still aiming for a mid December occupancy date.
50th Celebrations draw to a close
It has been a wonderful year of celebrating Silver Lake’s first 50 years but we also took time to dream about the future.
Having three celebrations, all very different, all at different times of the year, made it possible for many more “Friends of Silver Lake” to attend at least one of them.
The 50th Silver Lake SMORG attracted many people from the Niagara region who just had to re-live once more this great fundraiser, which has built so many cabins at camp.
Rockway Mennonite School was large enough to accommodate a big crowd not only there to reminisce but to hear about plans to rebuild the dining hall and add a washhouse/infirmary building. The fire, which sounded like such a disaster in February, started to sound like an opportunity to make major improvements.
But the best place to celebrate camp is at camp. Dedicating the new dining hall on Labour Day weekend brought everything full circle and envisioned the future, confident that Silver Lake will continue to be a blessing and an inspiration for many a future camper.
Thank you to the 50th Anniversary Planning Committee. Thank you to the Board that saw this as an important event in the life of Silver Lake. Thank you to staff who gladly accepted this extra workload on top of running camp. Thank you to all the “Friends” who attended and continue to hold Silver Lake in their hearts.
Henry Pauls
Chair – 50th Anniversary Committee
Another Update on Dining Hall Addition
Thanks to John Dyck and his keen helpers, the electrical is just about complete! Here are a few photos and the electrical work and the new roof and shingles.
Raising the Roof!
The rooms are partitioned, the roof is just about ready for shingles and the contractor says we are on schedule! Here are some pictures from this week.
Walls are up!
Things are really moving along well. The basement floor is now poured and they have completed framing the outside walls and are now working on the inside walls. Roof trusses come Monday so the roof will go on next week and John Dyck (our Ace electrician) is driving up to re connect the electrical – thanks John!
Dining Hall Addition Underway
The foundation is now poured and framing begins next week! Lots of excited projects going on this fall so be sure to mark October 28, 29 & 30 into your calendars for Fall Work Weekend.