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Pilgrim Lodge History
2006

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Summer Staff

DATE

2006 EVENT

GRADE or Age 
Apr28-May1 Deans Retreat adult deans
April 28-30 Jump Start Weekend adults/youth

June 10-11

Fiftieth Anniversary Gathering everyone!
June 12-15

Vintage Ventures

55+ years
June 16-18

Women's Weekend

adult women
June 22-24 Grandparents Camp 1 Gndprts /kids
June 24-25 CIT Training 16-17 years
Jun 25-Jul 1 Arts Alive 7th-'06 grads
July 2-5 New England Youth Event 7th-'06 grads
July 6-9 Faith Foundations 4th-5th
July 9-15 Peace, Love and God's Way 7th-9th
July 16-22 Spirit Quest 8th-9th
July 16-22 Senior High Expectations 10-2006 grad
July 23-29 Peace's Pieces 5th-7th
July 23-29 Wilderness Awakenings 10-2006 grad
Jul 30-Ag 5 Sr. High Manitou Island 10-2006 grad
Jul 30-Ag 5 Middler Spirit 8th-9th
Aug 5-12 White Mountain Adventure 10-2006 grad
Aug 6-12 All Around Me 6th-7th
Aug 13-19 Celebrate Your Song 4th-5th
August 20

A Day at Camp

K-3rd
Aug 21-23 Grandparents & kids 2 grandprts/kds
Aug 23-26

Lighten Up, Loosen Up, Imagine 

adults
Sept 1-4

Family Camp  

families
Sept 9 Dedication of the labyrinth everyone
October 28

Fall Work Day

adults & yth

 

At PL:

PL's Fiftieth Anniversary

Creation of the PL Labyrinth

Sr. High Manitou Island camp established

Camps now listed by grades camper is entering

Brick Oven built on Manitou Island (Rocky Ackroyd)

Front of Lodge painted

Lodge steps and railings repaired

Front of Balbrook Painted

New floor in Balbrook bathroom

S-2, S-3 & S-5 painted

S-1 & S-2 re-wired

New screens in S cabins
(Bethel Men)

Cabin bathrooms painted
(Roger Condit)

Cabin 11 painted

1/2 cabin 12 roofed

Cabin 8 bathroom floor re-built
(Ron Ashworth)

Cabin 9 floor painted

Mission Focus: Hurricane Karina relief through Back Bay Mission

Cost of a week at camp: $285

OMC co-chairs:
Joanne Bartlett
& Karen Choate

Director: Rev. Bryan S. Breault


Outside PL

Iraq war continues, 3000th US casualty by year's end

Jan 4 - Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon suffers stroke and is rushed to hospital where he remains in a coma.

Jan 25 - Radical Islamic Hamas movement sweeps to victory in Palestinian elections

Jan. 30: Coretta Scott King dies

March: "Duke" Cunningham and Jack Abramoff scandals

Feb: Vice-President Dick Cheney shoots hunting partner in the face

July 3: Former Yugoslav republic Montenegro declares independence

July 5: Ken Lay of Enron dies

July 12: Beginning of one month of fighting between Israel and Lebanon 

August 1:Cuban President Fidel Castro 'temporarily' delegates power to his youngest brother, Raul, while he undergoes surgery.

August: Planet Pluto demoted to "Minor Planetoid"

Sept 4: Steve Irwin "Crocodile Hunter" killed by stingray

Sept 10: Britain foils major attacks on multiple US-bound planes.

Sept 12: Pope Benedict XVI quotes Byzantine emperor Emperor Manuel II Paleologus who said in 1391 that the Prophet Mohammed brought 'things only evil and inhuman.' The pope's speech, held during a visit to Germany, causes outrage in the Muslim world.

Sept 18: Demonstrations in Budapest after Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany admits to lying ahead of general elections in April.

Sept 19: Coup d'etat topples Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra after five years in power

Oct 9 - North Korea conducts its first nuclear test

Oct 17: Population in the USA reaches 300,000,000

Oct: Mark Foley scandal

Nov. 7: Democrats re-take control of both sides of Congress

Dec. 26: Former President Gerald Ford dies

Dec. 30: Saddam Hussein executed

Hot Topics:
YouTube
Escalating violence in Iraq
Immigration
Foley Scandal
E-coli in the spinach

Movies:
An Inconvenient Truth
Little Miss Sunshine
The Departed
Borat
Babel
Cars

Songs:
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
Here It Goes Again
(Treadmill video) - The Raconteurs
How To Save A Life - The Fray
Put Your Records On - Corrine Bailey Rae 

President: George W. Bush