“To me, the Dining Hall was the heart of Boys Camp. It quite literally had a pulse that you could both feel and hear from inside and around the building. When I think about this building my mind is flooded with random memories, like Cody running full speed and crashing into the north wall before […]
“When I think about the Boys Camp dining hall, what comes to mind is what would be going on behind the scenes after meals. You know what I’m talking about – about four or five people side-by-side in a sweaty dish full of steam, scraping copious amounts of ketchup, syrup and (worst of all) egg […]
“On pizza night a couple of the counselors put on the roller skates and started doing to lap through the kitchen and delivering pizzas. My best buddy Pipes would jump and grab onto those horizontal steel rods that hold the place up going at full speed to the cheers of the boys. I’m sure that’s […]
“My first recollection of the boys’ camp dining hall and kitchen was in the early 1950s at a winter camp. We slept in the lodge and ate in the kitchen – the dining hall had NO heat. I came early the following summer and helped nail the siding on the kitchen/dining hall. My fondest memories […]
“Rrrrrrright! The banging of spoon on plates. The scraping of chairs. A sudden silence replacing the cacophony of boyhood chatter in a Clearwater lake dining hall. A respectful silence. An anticipated silence. “Rrrrrrright!” delivered with crisp, Australian-rolled “r”s. It signaled the end of breakfast, the beginning of a new day and Cobber’s daily breakfast talk. […]
“I was studying at the University of Toronto and would spend my summers on the farm until it was time to trip up to camp. I was there for the raising of the trusses of the roof. My claim to fame was that I laid a good part of the floor and most of the […]
“In 1995 I was dating my future wife, Tammy and she was spending the summer working at OPC Boys Camp as the camp nurse. After a few weeks I went up to camp for a visit, and accompanied her to breakfast. Never having been to camp myself I had no idea what was awaiting in […]
“It’s hard to put into words the magic that happens in the dining hall. From the first night of pre-camp reconnecting with old faces, and welcoming new, to the memories of learning and teaching God’s love through service and conversation. The dining hall was a part of so many memories, such as campers and staff […]
“My first year at camp was 1948 or 1949. At that time a large tent on a platform was used for dining. During the a summer in the 1950’s a day before camp opened a big wind storm came through and knocked the tent down and ripped it badly and of course dropped it on […]
“I have been working at camp as a nurse for many years. One summer when I was a camp nurse at Girls camp, I visited our son who was a camper at Boys camp. We were eating lunch in the dining hall and the music played for an announcement by the Boys camp nurse (the […]
