Fulton County Ohio Media

Earlier this July, Swanton’s Memorial Park was the site of the Fulton County Chapter of Girl Scouts of Western Ohio Summer Camp.  Currently the are 22 Girl Scout Troops with approximately 225 members in Fulton County according to GSA Leader Patti Leach who oversees the operations of all the county’s troops.  This year’s summer camp hosted 40 girls along with 16 adult and teenaged volunteers and it ran Monday, July 10th thru Friday, July 14^th, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM all five days.

“Our theme this year was the ‘Magic Girl Scout Bus’, based off the ‘Magic School Bus’,” said Ms. Leach.  “We had singing, crafts and games and each day was a different theme.  Monday, we learned about dinosaurs.  Tuesday was all about science so, we did a lot of science experiments with the kids.  Wednesday was about water so, we learned about the Amazon (river) and the rain forest.  Thursday was about the good ol’ outdoors so they learned fire building and trail signs and those types of things.  Friday was about the Girl Scouts and we learned all about the founder of Girl Scouts, Juliet ‘Daisy’ Gordon Low and different Girl Scout traditions.

There was little down time during the camp as the girls were also received lessons in outdoor cooking, knife safety, fire safety and many other life skills.  “They start their own fires.  They do their own cooking.  The adults are just there to help give them guidance to all of that,” explained Ms. Leach.  And, fortunately for the happy campers, the weather was perfect the entire time.

Photo: Fulton County Girl Scout Camp