On the road again...

It's this time of year when our staff at Kanata start going in several directions and we seem to catch up with a random text message or email. This pass weekend Jen Baldinelli was at Kanata taking a Wilderness First Aid course, Ryan Eves was in Chapel Hill at a Camp Show and I was in Wilmington on Saturday and Raleigh on Sunday at Camp Shows. Although I didn't like getting up at 5:30 a.m. to drive to Wilmington on Saturday morning it was great to see some of our campers down there and be able to tell the story of Kanata to new families.

We spend a great deal of time going to camp events and we see a lot of people who come to Kanata or have heard of us, but the best way for new people to have the Kanata experience is by a present camper or family inviting them to attend. Thank you to all of you who have hosted a camp night in your home and thank you to all of you who have invited a friend to attend camp with you. We are looking forward to another great summer of returning friends and for all of the new campers who will be with us this summer, we look forward to meeting you!

Your Camp Director,

Dave Bell

Camp Nights

This past Saturday I had the priviledge of being in the home of two of our campers.  The family opened their home up for a "Kanata Camp Night".  These events are an opportunity for us to share the story of Kanata in the community.  

At a camp night the host family invites friends over for a casual gathering, usually with snacks, and our staff team will show up to show the Kanata video, give an overview of the camp experience and answer any questions that the guest may have.  We know that the best way for new campers to come to Kanata is through word of mouth advertising by our present campers, and this gives them an opportunity to also share their Kanata experience.  

We do several of these events every year and we would love to have you consider hosting one in your home in the future.  Look forward to seeing you this summer!

Your camp director,

Dave

Come meet us on the road!

This time of year at Kanata is when we start to get kind of busy. I see less and less of our staff because we end up going in many directions as we begin to recruit campers and staff. Tomorrow is our first official recruiting event of the year, and we will be at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh from 12:00 noon till 3:00 p.m. reconnecting with old campers and sharing our camp program with "yet to be" Kanata campers. We will do several more shows like this in places like Raleigh, Wilmington and Charlottesville, Va. We also do "Camp Nights" in the homes of some of our campers. They open their house up, invite a bunch of friends over and our staff show up and tell about the great things going on at Kanata. I hope to see many of you on the road at a camp fair or a camp night at your house.

Not only are we recruiting campers, but Ryan Eves, assistant summer camp director, will be busy the next few months visiting a number of colleges along the east coast trying to find the best staff to be counselors this summer. We are very lucky because the majority of our staff have been campers with us and they know exactly what Kanata is supposed to feel like in the summer.

We hope to see many you on the road this year, but more importantly we want to see you at Kanata this summer.

If you love Kanata be sure to tell a friend!

Your Camp Director,

Dave