WHAT: While CAMREC nurtures each of us it also needs our care. Help maintain CAMREC's facilities and prepare it for the winter ahead! A variety of projects will be available for all ages, abilities, and interests. There will be plenty of time to catch up with friends, connect with new folks, get in a few card games and go on a hike or two! There will also be committee meetings going on throughout the weekend including a board meeting Saturday.

    Examples of Projects to Choose from:

• Organize skis, snowshoes, outdoor game equipment 

• Chop firewood with hydraulic wood splitter

• Clean & maintain fire places

• Treat chapel interior wood w/ oil

• Deep clean all buildings

• Burn brush piles

• Winterize plumbing

• Prep tubing run

• Wash windows

    Interested in volunteering for a few more days?  If you are interested in participating on a volunteer work team arriving as early as October 14, please express so on your registration. Potential  projects would depend on participants' experience. Some project examples could be:

• Repair heated sidewalk

• Seal floor gaps in cabins 

• Repair lodge plumbing & drywall

• Replace jet pump in pumphouse

• Remove cabin screen doors & repair

• Build new trail signs and/or new camp sign

• Deep clean & touch up original staff house above the camp office

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WHO: People of all ages are welcome so bring your family and friends to enjoy a volunteer work-weekend in nature together.  

 

COST: Lodging is FREE and food will be donation based with a suggested amount of $20 per person.

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FOOD: A menu and ingredients will be provided by camp for 4 meals starting with Saturday breakfast and ending with Sunday breakfast.  All participants are encouraged to take a turn helping prepare meals, setting up for them, and cleaning up after them. A sign-up sheet will be provided on-site. If anyone in your group has any dietary needs, please make note of them on the registration form. 

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WHAT TO BRING:

• Work clothes & shoes, work gloves 

• Optional: rake, loppers, wheelbarrow

• Bedding

 

WHY: Your volunteer support and involvement is what keeps Camp CAMREC whole and Washington Mennonite Fellowship connected!

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REGISTER: on this page to assist us in our preparations. If you have any questions or would like to register a different way, email Brisa at director@camrec.org or call us at 509-548-7245.

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