Mark your calendar for an event that only comes around once
every 100 years.
Camp
Fire's
Centennial
Celebration
Thursday, June 3rd
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Camp
Tanadoona
Honor our history, celebrate our accomplishments and look toward our
future at this event at Camp Tanadoona. Program highlights include a
historical Camp Fire exhibit, treats around the camp fire and a silent
auction. Local dignitaries will speak, including a welcome by Mayor Tom
Furlong, City of Chanhassen.
Free and open to the public. Donations
welcome.
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Happy 100th Birthday to Camp Fire!
Camp
Fire turns 100 today,
March 17th!
In 1910, a group of professionals involved in educational
and recreational work with youth joined together to create Camp Fire,
an organization whose founding goal was to advance the healthy development of
girls and young women. A century later, Camp Fire
has expanded to welcome all youth and remains true to these early goals, with
its mission of creating caring, confident youth and future leaders.
Celebrating 100 Years of Camp Fire
We hope you'll join us in a year of celebrations marking Camp Fire's
Centennial. As we celebrate, we will:
Reflect on past and current successes of Camp Fire,
our camps and our programs.
Renew connections with alumni around Minnesota.
Reinvest in Camp
Fire for the next 100
years.
Centennial Website
Visit our new Centennial website to learn about the history of Camp Fire in Minnesota, view historical and alumni photos, read stories of how Camp Fire has touched people's lives, share your own Camp Fire
memories and more!
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100 Years of Camp Fire
An exhibit at the Minnesota History Center
Minnesota History Center  | A new exhibit celebrating the history of Camp Fire in Minnesota opens this week at the Minnesota History Center. With photos and artifacts from as far back as the 1920s, the exhibit provides a rare look into how Camp Fire has changed over the past 100 years and how it has remained true to its mission through those changes.
The exhibit is part of a year-long celebration of Camp Fire's Centennial. "We are excited to work with Camp Fire to
create an
exhibit in the Minnesota Historical Society's library lobby in
recognition of
their Centennial," said Lori Williamson of the Minnesota Historical Society's Collections department.
"Materials from the Minnesota Historical Society's Collections,
in addition to pieces from Camp Fire's own historic collection, allow us to see
many aspects of Camp Fire life," Williamson said. "It is a great opportunity to revisit some of
these wonderful pieces and make them available to visitors."
Historical Camp Fire artifacts.  | The exhibit includes photos, Camp Fire uniform vests, a ceremonial gown, Camp Fire books and a variety of newsletters, flyers and other paper artifacts.
"I have fond
memories of being in Camp Fire myself," Williamson said. "It is fun to see what has changed over
time and what has stayed the same."
Join us for a special viewing of the exhibit Tuesday, April 27th, 4-6 PM
Come see the Camp Fire exhibit at this special viewing for alumni and supporters. Camp Fire staff and board members and History Center curators will be on hand to talk about the exhibit and Camp Fire's history. There will also be a station where alumni can share their stories of Camp Fire. Free and open to the public.
The exhibit is open March 15, 2010 to June 18, 2010. Admission to the Library is free. Please visit the Minnesota Historical Center website for Library hours.
Minnesota
History Center Library
345 Kellogg Blvd West, Saint Paul, MN 55102
www.mnhs.org/historycenter
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Look Who's Coming Back to Camp Tanadoona this Summer!
They'll be at camp this summer. Will you?
Register for camp here.
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Featured Partner Site of the Month
Learning Literacy through FILM at Cathedral Hill
Club members work with professional rappers to express themselves through music.  | The Camp Fire club at Cathedral Hill Homes in St. Paul meets once a week and provides an
important outlet for the youth that live in this housing community. Like other
CommonBond sites where Camp Fire has partnerships, Cathedral Hill Homes offers
daily youth programming in its Advantage Center.
Most of this programming is built around offering youth structured homework
time and other important academic support. Camp Fire
Wednesdays give Cathedral Hill kids a chance to participate in fun games and
enrichment activities in a group setting, building new skills and engaging in
different kinds of learning in a way that supplements their academic
work during the rest of the week.
This year, Cathedral Hill is a pilot site for an
exciting new curriculum called FILM (Finding Inspiration in Literature and
Movies). AmeriCorps VISTAs at Camp Fire
have been working to develop this curriculum for use at all Camp Fire
club sites. Youth at Cathedral Hill have
enjoyed participating in FILM projects that engage them in reading
multicultural picture books, drawing superhero comics, writing riddles, playing
vocabulary match games and doing other fun and engaging
literacy-building activities.
The FILM curriculum is a project of Camp Fire's AmeriCorps VISTA, Eva Cohen. VISTA, which stands for Volunteers in Service to America, is an AmeriCorps program with the overarching objective of combating poverty in America. Camp Fire has had VISTA members for the past three years through the City of St. Paul's VISTA program. This program focuses on enhancing afterschool programming for youth in St. Paul in order to improve educational outcomes for low-income youth. At Camp Fire, Eva has developed the FILM curriculum for use at multi-age programming sites.
Currently, youth at Cathedral Hill are watching short sections from
the film August Rush. This section of the FILM curriculum focuses on the
importance of music in the movie and youths' own lives. During a recent August
Rush-themed club session, Eva
brought in local rap artists MC Harv and Truthbetold to perform for youth and
conduct a rap-based writing workshop. "Club members were thrilled to have the
opportunity to meet real professional musicians and do creative work alongside
them," Eva said.
According to club member Raphael, Camp Fire
is, in a word, "Fun." At Camp
Fire, he says, "you
learn a lot. You can do lots of things. You're really in a group." Club
member Khadra says that she has lots of fun playing all the games.
Camp Fire is lucky to have strongly
supportive partners at Cathedral Hill. Program manager Matt Valerius and
AmeriCorps staff Brandon Boat are always present and engaged in activities
along with youth during Camp
Fire time, bringing an
energy and sense of humor that's contagious. Brandon jokes that "My biggest complaint [about Camp Fire]
is that the kids have too much fun."
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Camp Fire Featured in Local Newspaper
Camp Fire and Camp Tanadoona were the subject of three articles recently published in the Chanhassen Villager
The Thursday, March 11 edition of the Chanhassen Villager featured a front-page article about Camp Fire's Centennial and Camp Tanadoona. In addition, the paper contained a full-page feature with two articles about Camp Tanadoona's history and Camp Fire's current efforts to reach out to the Chanhassen community.
Read the articles!
Celebrating a Century at Camp Tanadoona
Camp Tanadoona: Where Kids Go to be Kids
A Governor's Summer Getaway
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Valentines for Veterans
Youth
from three Camp Fire
clubs made valentines for veterans at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis as part of Camp Fire's
national Salute to Veterans in February.
Club
members at Trail's Edge talked about what it means to be a veteran before
making the valentines. Club leader
Emilie said, "We talked about the many different ways someone can be a 'vet'
and had the youth think about what kind of sacrifice it would be to leave home
and all your family and friends to go to 'work' like our veterans do."
At Hayden Heights,
the conversation about veterans was very personal: two of the club members have
fathers who are veterans. To say thank
you and show their support, club members made extra valentines to give to their
friends' fathers.
Camp Fire's Salute to Veterans is a part
of the Department of Veterans Affairs National Salute to Veterans Week, which
always occurs the week of Valentine's Day.
Camp Fire youth pay tribute to veterans with
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Best Regards,
Marnie K. Wells, Chief Executive Officer
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