Death of a friend...

Okay, so it may not exactly be the death of a real person, but it sure does feel like it. This weekend, I recieved an e-mail from a group that had been dedicated to saving the local Boy Scout camp I grew up with. Camp Avery Hand in Mansfield, OH has been on the chopping block for over a year or more now with the local Heart of Ohio Council. It is with much regret that the council board at the request of the Scout Executive, Barry Norris, has been wanting to rid the council of this beautiful camp and so succedded this past Thursday night.

So how do I feel about the situation? Well, yesterday was suppose to be a "happy birthday to me" kind of day. Today...well, things are just depressing to say the least. It is dissappointing that the people at the Scout office and board are so biased towards the other camp, that they can't see what they are doing to the people down here. Without going into much detail, there is a group of people up North who knew this was coming and so put Firelands Scout Reservation into a permament easement, meaning that that camp can never be sold pretty much. So now this council will once again loose another fine camp because of high overhead in the form of administration and other Scout execs in the area. Shame on you Barry Norris and the rest of the council board. Instead of saving Scouting in the area, you may have helped to put another coffin nail into it.

The most dissappointing thing for me at moment is the thought that I may never be able to take my son to the camp I played in or worked for 10 summers in. There are a lot of memories tied into that camp and now that will soon be all that is left, memories of some of the best years of our lives.

Another birthday....

Well, I can hardly believe that I soon will be 43. Yikes, where has the year gone? I really don't have much to say at moment, but I will try to start blogging personally this year. I think it would be very thearaputic for me to do this. I'll start more tomorrow.