LongTimeGone

If you want to learn that you would ever care to know about BSA summer camps  do a google search for "scout camp promotion" and then click for videos

Here are some British Air Scouts at a Wisconsin summer camp last year  http://www.wjfw.com/stories.html?sku=20150728173217 

Although far removed from the Northeast IIllinois Council, I still know a number of people who are quite well plugged in there. Yes it is a council that serves some of the wealthiest communities in the Chicago area, but the money they raise doesn't come easy. They have been trying for years to raise a capital campaign with limited success. From what I have heard was that the NEIC while party to the merger talks, simply did not see any benefit in joining up with the other councils. Three Fires Council ( western suburbs) also said no thanks. NEIC might have joined had there been guarantees that their camp, Ma-ka-ja-wan would not be closed and sold. This was a non-starter with CAC, who realized this would doom Owasippe. Despite strong and growing attendance ( of the 1000 or so campers that will no longer attentd LeFeber, Lyle, Mach-kin-o-siew and Shin-go-beek, MKJW is expecting 4-500) and very strong financials, MKJW has had a target on its back for years. The 2 reasons for this are there are no deed restrictions or covenants to preclude a sale, and there would be no opposition from the town or county to the property being developed, many of whom would love the hundreds of thousands of dollars in property taxes that would come their way. If you dig deep into the supporting docs of the "Wisconsin Project". You will find all f the camps CFET reports. It's obvious that the team evaluating MKJW had an agenda. How else do you explain the fact that in computing the final score, staff quarters ( which were marked down for such things as "inappropriate posters " )accounted for 25% of the total score while a 70 acre, clear, deep lake with no public access accounted for 1%.. Had the staff quarters been rated an F and weighted as they were at the other camps, MKJW would have ranked far ahead of all of the other camps.