The Girl’s side of camp is filling at an absolutely phenomenal pace with over 95% of the available openings already filled. First estimate is that approximately 80% of Girl’s Camp will be returning campers.

The Boy’s side of camp is also filling quickly. Session B for boys is now 92% sold out with Session A almost to 80%. Sessions C & D, which start later in the summer are not yet in danger of being full.

The tradition is continuing this year with applications from former campers already extremely high. At the present time we have 17 former campers desirous of returning as Jr. Staff. In addition, we have 10 former campers applying for regular staff positions for the first time.

Skylake also does extremely well in getting staff to return. Looking to join us again in 2000 are Jenny Maltby, Justin Barnum, Rob Burton, Colby Peterson, Frankie Wasilewski, Jeremy Bradshaw, Jeremy Aaron, Neil Roger, Sarah Bowman, Katie Ross, Claire Nelson, Andrea Serridge, Elizabeth Kanning, Johanna Lacoe, and Lillie Milton. With applications still arriving I expect we will have even more of last year’s staff before long.

We hope everyone has had a chance to visit our website. During the summer we will again be doing daily updates with photos and our daily camp schedule. Currently we are posting fairly regular notes of interest on the daily schedule page. Check us out!

Breakfast will be the first meal to receive our undivided attention. Breakfast is the only Skylake meal that is always served Buffet style. Breakfast is best suited for this style of eating because the campers after the morning flag raising either go to the Health Center for Health Check, return to their cabins for “cabin clean-up”, or proceed to breakfast. Because the campers are not all descending on the dining hall at once the lines are not very long.

If we attempted buffet meals for lunch and dinner we would have to battle long lines and we would have campers finishing their meals at different times. This would cause us to lose the special time for camp songs after meals. You probably have never experienced, or even imagined, the digestive effect 600 feet, stomping in rhythm, can have on the body. We really do have a good time singing songs after our meals.

The Breakfast meal is very important so campers are given a wide variety of fun and nutritional foods. As an example, our Sunday morning menu will be: Scrambled eggs, French Toast, Cinnamon rolls, Whole Wheat Toast, Bacon, Cream of Wheat, Fruit Loops, Corn Flakes, Orange Juice, Fresh cut melons, and yogurt and granola. It won’t be quite like the Ritz, but no one will be hungry.

The juices, muffins, fruits, breakfast meats and cereals are all varied during the week. Our menu will be posted daily on our web site during camp so you will always know what is being served.

In an attempt to continue the fun of the packages but with limits, the new policy will be: Each child may receive one package per week. The maximum size of the package will be the size of a shoebox. Each camper will receive with their camp materials a special mailing label for each week they will attend camp. These labels must be used on all packages sent to camp. All packages that do not use this label will be returned to the sender. As always, all food is shared with the entire cabin.

We have also submitted to the Forest Service our formal plan for a double sand volleyball court. The wheels of Government grind slowly, but it appears that we are finally going to receive approval and should start construction in April.