Task Group – Ashgrove Adventure

2024 Theme Pre-Vote at February Task Group

Posted on February 7, 2023February 7, 2023 by Kitti

Due to a surplus of wonderful theme ideas, this year we’re revising how we do our theme voting. Campers will still be presented with 4-5 themes to vote from during this summer’s Ashgrove Adventure, with the final theme chosen and announced on the last day of camp.

However, before we get to that point, all adults and camp aides who attend the February Task Group meeting will pre-vote on the (currently 10) themes that have been presented to Task Group over the last several months. This pre-vote will narrow the long list of themes down to the 4-5 themes the campers will vote on.

Want to cast a vote for which themes will be presented to the campers? Join us at our Task Group meeting on February 16th, 7pm (6:30pm social time) in the Firefly Lodge!

Need a refresher on what the theme options will be? Check out the digital versions of our theme posters! And for those of you who’re wondering, none of these themes have ever been done at camp before (though we’ve done similar themes).

September 2022 Task Group

Posted on September 23, 2022January 3, 2023 by Kitti

Planning began in earnest for Ashgrove Adventure 2023 (Jurassic Ashgrove) at our first Task Group meeting of the year. Various dates were ann- uh, proclaimed as well as a revised method of theme voting.

This year, potential 2024 themes will be presented at Task Group from September through February (email Kitti if you want to sign up to present a theme!) and all adults and aides at the February Task Group meeting will vote to narrow the options down to 4-5 themes which will be presented to the campers to vote on during the second week of Ashgrove.

The first three themes presented were Secrets & Spies; Norway; and the Roaring 20s. Look forward to more themes, including returning favorites from the 2022 vote, at future Task Group meetings!

We also spent a fair amount of time on fun themed activities, including a word search and a cookie cutter/fun foam craft project courtesy of Carousel that could be used to make unit name tags or swaps. Instructions are below and will also be handed out to leaders along with other Program theme paperwork in the spring.

The rest of the time we spent brainstorming about dinosaurs and getting excited for Jurassic Ashgrove! We hope to see you there.

November 2021 Task Group

Posted on November 24, 2021February 16, 2022 by Kitti

All I Really Needed to Know I Learned By Being At Ashgrove Adventure

Jacqueline “Chip” Wooldridge

Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned by being at Ashgrove Adventure. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there under the trees.

These are the things I learned:

Share everything with new leaders.

Play.

Don’t hit people, even if you really want to

Put things back where you found them, especially if it belongs to Rockin’ Robin.

Clean up your own mess, or Core Staff has to.

Don’t take things that aren’t yours, unless it’s a really good idea.

Say you’re sorry when you show up late to flag.

Use the hand wash before you eat.

You don’t need to flush at Crowell.

Sack lunches are good for you.

Program plans a balanced program – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon, just wait until you get home to do so.

When you go from center to center hold hands, stay with your buddy, and stick

together.

Stop every once and awhile and just enjoy all the laughter and singing around you.

Be aware of wonder for it is abundant at Ashgrove.

March 2020 Task Group

Posted on March 29, 2020February 16, 2022 by Kitti

For years, one of our mottos at camp – come rain or soaring temperatures or fires that won’t start or any of the other little mishaps that can happen while playing in the out of doors – is “camp happens.”

The COVID-19 pandemic and mandated social distancing threw a bit of a wrench in our final Task Group meeting, but we made the leap into the 21st century and gathered by Zoom to continue our discussion of emergency procedures, discuss camp numbers, and vote on the designs for for this year’s patches and t-shirts.

We had quite the full house!

February 2020 Task Group

Posted on January 23, 2020February 16, 2022 by Kitti

Ashgrove’s Task Group meets monthly from September through March to vote on and discuss a wide variety of camp-related administrative issues. Any adult volunteer is welcome to join us on the third Thursdays of the month 6:30-9pm (well, the first half hour is socializing, so call it 7-9pm if you’re in a time crunch).

This past meeting, we had some knotty fun, reviewed registration numbers, discussed publicity, and evaluated our existing emergency procedures with an eye towards condensing 11 pages (!!) of information into something more streamlined and easy to consult. Those who showed up early also got to consult on a new Camp Crowell specific badge that GSCNC is putting together – collect all the camps! But I’m pretty sure, attempting to unknot ourselves took longer than all the other activities combined.

READY…

SET…

PLAY!