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Some days, I informal my head and wonder where the world is going. I’m doing a lot of that these days as I lookout the Girl Scouts of North East Ohio, claiming shortage, try to close and sell five of their seven camps. I’m backing the grassroots protestors who are fighting this.
The GSNEO also wants to cut the word “camp” and re-christen these places “Primary Leadership Centers,” a vapid phrase that sounds like a tacky for-profit college, not an outpost deep in the woods with platform tents, fire circles and outhouses – but stop: They want to scrap the outhouses, too.
It was bad enough years ago when the fussy ladies in ask of Girl Scouts here banned night hikes at camp (“unsafe,” they said.) Now they lack to clamp down on camping. How sad.
I was a Girl Scout when I was young. Wasn’t everybody? I went to Brownie day group at the North Chagrin Reservation’s Strawberry Lane and to Settle crash Julia Crowell in Peninsula for two weeks as a Girl Scout.
Source: Plain Dealer (blog)