Sandy post., July 30, 1981, Image 9

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SANDY OREGON THURSDAY
Ih c bandy Post
Area News
Scouts fill Meinig
Some 120 G irls Scouts, mothers, brothers,
sisters and leaders gathered last week for thè
annual Alpine Day ( ’amp held at Meinig
Park in Sandy.
The children are from Sandy, Boring,
Orient and Cottrell
A number of activities took place at the
camp, including an overnight stay on Thurs­
day. Arts and crafts, singing, badges and, of
course, some good old fun kept the scouts
busy.
The girls ranged from first to ninth grade,
but the day camp turned into a coed affair, as
a number of boys had their own version of
Julie McCann, 9. (top) created
her tree in an arts and crafts
workshop. While the older
scouts were doing their thing,
a group of pre-schoolers, or
Widgets, show off their mouse
faces they created. Another
group that didn’t fit the tradi­
tional (iirl Scout camp was the
brothers of some of the girls,
including Steve Amstad. 10.
Derek Richardson. I I. and
Brian Cox. 9, who found time
to make some boats to sail in
No Name Creek at Meinig
Park. Mice were the camp
mascots and Anna Knotts
shows off Daisy Duke (below
r ig h t), another workshop
creation. Anna celebrated her
10th birthday at the camp last
Tuesday.
Needless to say, Meinig Park was a busy
and confusing place Unaware visitors might
have needed a cat for protection.
I he mouse, you see, became the camp
mascot. It is rumored that a mouse was
responsible for leaving all kinds of messages
during the camp, according to director
< harlotte Brinser, so the mouse became a
very large part of the daily routine. There
were mouse hats, mouse puppets, mouse but­
tons and mouse faces, and so on and so on.
But the mouse explosion didn’t keep the
scouts from doing some serious business.
There were also service projects, including
pit king up litte r at the park, taking flowers
and baskets to the Sandy Senior Center and
taking a tour ot Oral Hull Park for the blind,
where they put on blindfolds to simulate thè
sightless.