Donated camp rarely really a camp
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- Donated camp rarely really a camp
- City lacks adequate shelter for homeless and ‘camping’ is illegal
- Troops moved their camp after the site fell to opposition
Donated camp rarely really a camp
Albany Times Union NY
vidgraphic {margin: 0px;padding: 0px;height: 70px;width: 55px;border-top: 1px solid #666666;border-left: 1px solid #666666;border-bottom: 1px solid #666666;vertical-align:top;}. apthumb {margin: 0px;padding: 0px;height: 70px;width: 105px;vertical-align:top;border: 1px solid #666666;overflow:hidden;}–> Donated camp rarely really a camp Conservationist’s land gift becomes more a timber-harvesting site than a Boy Scout camp By LEWIS KAMB Hearst Newspapers First published in print: Thursday January 29 2009 TENSED IDAH It’s been 62 years since conservationist Virgil McCroskey donated 400 acres of timberland near this village in Idaho’s panhandle to the Boy Scouts with big ideas for a big new camp. But don’t expect any pup tents or even the faintest whiff of smoke from Camp McCroskey these days. Falling trees extinguished the campfire years ago. Rarely used for camping the land instead has become a moneymaker for the Inland Northwest Council of Boy Scouts. ver the past 35 years the council has clearcut and otherwise logged parts of the gift collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars some going to pay off the mortgage on council headquarters in Spokane according to a former member of the council’s directors board. Never mind that McCroskey shunned logging in his later years supporters say or that he specifically cited how the Scouts should use the land when he deeded it in 1947: “for camp and recreational purposes the site to be known as ‘Virgil Talmadge McCroskey Camp.
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City lacks adequate shelter for homeless and ‘camping’ is illegal
Lawrence Journal World KS
She said the Lawrence Community Shelter actually does not turn people away when the temperature is below freezing. During those times Tasha said the crowd in the shelter reminds her of sardines in a can. In warmer weather when not selected in the lottery Tasha has resorted to camping. ?There?s not much else you can do? she said. Gerald Zephier who has been staying at the Lawrence Community Shelter for several years said he also camps if turned away at the shelters. He said police have ticketed him twice for violating the city?s ban on camping on public property. Homeless campingLast ctober the city bulldozed a large homeless camp near the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Depot station east of downtown.
Troops moved their camp after the site fell to opposition
Houma Courier Louisiana
“Before they had started out for their evening’s march one of the most violent of southern thunder showers came up and drenched every one to the skin. Although the air was cooled yet the roads were extremely muddy causing as much discomfort as the burning rays of the sun. “After camping in a roadside pasture burning the fence rails in their cook fires early the morning of August first “. the boys were again marching. In a short time they came to Labadieville… the boys were again marching. In a short time they came to Labadieville. (and) at 9 o’clock the Regiment turned off from the road and halted in the shaded lawn of a deserted plantation.
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