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California incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens) in the San Jacinto Mountains.Camp Joe Scherman (often abbreviated Camp Scherman) is a 700-acre (2.8 km 2) camping and recreation facility owned and operated by the Girl Scout Council of Orange County (GSCOC) located off the Pines to Palms Highway in Riverside County in Southern California.
The Camp Ouachita Girl Scout Camp Historic District encompasses a campground area built by crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s on the northern shore of Lake Sylvia, a man-made lake in the eastern part of Ouachita National Forest. The center of the campground, including its Great Hall and administration buildings, is located at ...
A video on the value of fall protection measures. Fall protection is the use of controls designed to protect personnel from falling or in the event they do fall, to stop them without causing severe injury. Typically, fall protection is implemented when working at height, but may be relevant when working near any edge, such as near a pit or hole ...
It was built from 243 acres of land, lakes, and buildings, purchased from private land, [3] [4] and named for Julia Cobb Crowell (1877–1957), a Cleveland civic leader and Girl Scout commissioner in the 1920s. [5] The land for Camp Crowell came was accumulated by James B. Kirby and sold to the Cleveland Girl Scout Council in 1937. [1] It was a ...
Over time the Springfield Girl Scouts Became the Pioneer Valley Girl Scouts with Chicopee, Agawam, East Longmeadow, Longmeadow, Hampton, Monson, Wilberham, Palmer, Ware, Belchertown and Ludlow troops. In 1960, the camp was run by the Pioneer Valley Girl Scout Council, Inc. Girls went on Quests and got special badges. Here is an example of a ...
The Girl Guides Association in England was founded in 1910 after Robert Baden-Powell asked his sister, Agnes Baden-Powell, for help starting an organization similar to his Boy Scouts, for girls. In the same spirit, Juliette Gordon Lowe , a friend of the Baden-Powell's, founded the Girl Scouts of America shortly thereafter in 1912. [ 5 ]
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The site of Camp Andrée Clark was donated in 1920 by former Senator and Mrs. William A. Clark in memory of their daughter, Louise Amelia Andrée Clark, who had been an enthusiastic Girl Scout until her death from meningitis one week before her 17th birthday in 1919. The camp opened two years later, in 1921, as a national camp.