Sit back, put on your head phones, and let this music video fill your soul with inspiration. Happy Easter Week!
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Blazers Honor CYO/Camp Howard April 9, 2012
It was a special night at the Rose Garden for CYO Volunteers, Staff and Friends as nearly 50 gathered to spend an evening of fun and relaxation at the Rose Garden. Highlight of the evening was watching Phil Kent, CYO Coach from St. Joseph in Vancouver honored for his work with Seton Catholic High School Girls Volleyball. Coach Kent has coached for several years and turned out some exceptional teams. congratulations Coach Kent!
Special thanks to Jolie Abraham Phanton for setting up the evening for the group!
Easter Celebration just ramping up!
We are now in the season of Eastertide and it lasts until Pentecost – the time in which the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles – 50 days after the Resurrection of Christ! Many Catholic Schools are given Easter Monday off to honor the sacredness of this Holy Day and season.
Easter – The Reason I do what I do
Today is the day that gives meaning to my whole life. If Jesus had not risen from the dead then it would not make sense for me to be a Sister or to work at CYO/Camp Howard. The world would not need me in either place as they would not exist. The fact that He DID rise from the dead gives an awesome meaning to everything I do.
Thought to ponder – How does Easter make a difference in your life?
God Bless You
Sr. Krista
Observations from Karen von Borstel at Camp Howard
Karen von Borstel is the Facility Manager at Camp Howard and an excellent writer. She is our guest blogger today writing about her observations of sixth graders attending Multnomah county Outdoor School Program at the Camp Howard site.
Wet day at Camp Howard April 2012
The first yellow school busses arrived at Camp Howard today, loaded with 6th graders participating in Outdoor School. As the busses passed by the house I could hear the kids singing their camping songs, so excited to be here. Camp greeted them with a spring hailstorm and Outdoor School Counselors lining the road singing as the busses went past them. The students departed the busses in their rain coats with their waterproof shoes, laughing and singing, oblivious to the hail, and I was able to watch Camp Howard come alive once again with the infectious joy these children bring with them.
Camp has been resting the past few months, catching her breath, as we put some new boards up, painted here and there, and repaired a toilet or 2. The wildlife has taken over camp. The robins have moving in, conducting their mating rituals and patrolling the fields for worms. The camp deer wander through camp taking time to lie down and nap if they wish. The 4-point bull elk that wintered in camp just shed his antlers in the upper field. It will take a few days for them to adjust to the new arrivals, but they will, and the campers will be so excited to catch a glimpse of the animals and birds.
Outdoor School students will begin their day here at 7:00AM wakeup and then report to the Dining Hall for 7:15 table setting, flag raise, and the weather report. They will eat a hot, hearty, breakfast prepared for them in the kitchen, then on to cabin clean up and camp duties. At 9:00AM they report to Field Studies where they will learn about soils, water, plants, and animals. At noon they will eat another great hot lunch and they will be hungry. They will have walked several miles by now, through the woods, in all types of weather. They will devour that lunch and then head back out to Field Studies. At 4 PM it is snack time and then recreation. At 5:30PM they will have their evening flag ceremony, do their weather report, and prepare for 6PM dinner. This dinner will be a big hot homemade meal with hot homemade rolls topped off by dessert. They will eat like High School Football players. At 8PM they will have campfire and then lights out by 9:45PM. They will lay in their bunkbeds hearing noises they have never heard before, giggling, turning their flashlights on and off, scaring one another, walking to the bathhouse in pairs, whether they really need to go or not, just experiencing the night in the woods.
They will spend the remainder of the week here, walking miles every day, making new friends, experiencing nature like most of them never have in their lives. It is a wonderful experience just watching this process. What an adventure! They will leave Friday, worn out, but with memories they will hang onto forever.
Patron Store Coming to CYO/Camp Howard
A new concept, THE PATRON STORE, is coming to CYO/Camp Howard. Reading behind the scenes at CYO gives you up close first hand information! The Patron Store is an online shopping opportunity that was started and originated here in Oregon. Three high schools were the test pilot schools this fall. Since then, the Patron Store has added nearly 100 organizations to the online shopping concept.
The way it works is that The Patron Store has gathered a plethora of businesses to offer goods online. Whenever we, the shoppers, buy these items, a percentage of the profit is sent to the organization. One of the most interesting features will be the ability to design your own spirit wear. It will come in a variety of colors and you can design it the way you want it and it will be sent to you. I have tested it out and it I really like it. I hope you will check it out too.
I am excited about what we can expect to see from the Patron Store and I hope you will check it out as soon as it launches and become a CYO/Camp Howard supporter.
Seeing…is Believing! The CYO Spirit
This is a pretty cool video about a high school CYO player. Worth the time to watch it! Cool guys!
Convent Life – At the Beach
I guess I am not finished sharing my enjoyment of the trip to the beach. This is spring vacation after all so I shall digress!
I really enjoyed my trip around the “loop” taking our visiting Sisters through Cannon Beach, eating at Mo’s, showing them my favorite place to crab (in a motor boat), on around to Tillamook with a stop at the Cheese Factory and ice cream of course, then back to Beaverton. Lots of great visiting, story telling, thanking God for His goodness to us, genuine fun and enjoying our friends.
I hope your spring break is filled with genuine goodness. Don’t forget to check out “Mighty Macs”
Walking to the "shore" at Cannon Beach
Message to CYO Girls (Boys Please Don’t Read This)
This is a special message to the Girls of CYO/Camp Howard and your Mom’s. I would like to tell you about a film I watched tonight. It is called the Mighty Macs. It is about a college women’s basketball team, the struggle of a Catholic Women’s College and the first National Women’s College Championships.
Most of the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon watched it tonight after our 125th Jubilee celebration and we found it to be very inspirational. I think you would enjoy it as well so I would like to recommend that if you have a chance to watch it over spring vacation you might do that then drop me a line about how you liked it!
Boys, I think you might like it too! 🙂
Did you Stand Up Today?
Some 500 people gathered to stand up for Religious Freedom in Healthcare today at the Mark Hatfield courthouse in Portland, OR. The group listened to several speakers as they made known their message to passers by from Noon until 1:00 pm. Several people passing by honked and waved support to the group. If you were unable to Stand Up today, Please LIKE this article and help spread it across Oregon. God Bless you.
MaryAnn Stewart and Sister Krista Stand Up for Religious Freedom in Healthcare today.
Jackie, Tom, Elizabeth and Debbie Fessler Stand up for Religious Freedom today.
Religious Freedom Gathering today at the Mark Hatfield Courthouse in Portland, OR - approx. 500 people gathered
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