First off, if you were looking for up to date Save Westana information, go to our facebook page and our blog (Save Westana Girlscout Camp).....here you will only find my own blogging.
But, if you are here on purpose...holy cow, what a week! A week ago tonight, we were sitting around a table at a leader meeting talking about what we could do to save Westana. We were thinking initially about ways to get the word out to troops and parents to send letter to council in answer to their letter to members soliciting feedback due to a notice that our lease would be increasing from $5,000 a year to $25,000 a year. If you read my last blog here, you saw that I was starting up a facebook page and a blog devoted to the cause (on behalf of our group of leaders' unofficial efforts to get things going).
By the weekend our numbers were growing, and we were getting responses from very interested people. By Sunday, I sat down for 4 hours with a very knowledgeable local GS dad who's daughter and family had put hundreds of hours into Westana in recent years.
By Monday night, while trying to spruce things up, I saw the first newspaper article on line......I was in the newspaper (just not as me), as was one of my pictures. The paper didn't contact us, but they did quote our sites correctly, and the information from the DNRC and from the other organization who's lease rate increased was very helpful at getting us on the right track.
But, if you are here on purpose...holy cow, what a week! A week ago tonight, we were sitting around a table at a leader meeting talking about what we could do to save Westana. We were thinking initially about ways to get the word out to troops and parents to send letter to council in answer to their letter to members soliciting feedback due to a notice that our lease would be increasing from $5,000 a year to $25,000 a year. If you read my last blog here, you saw that I was starting up a facebook page and a blog devoted to the cause (on behalf of our group of leaders' unofficial efforts to get things going).
By the weekend our numbers were growing, and we were getting responses from very interested people. By Sunday, I sat down for 4 hours with a very knowledgeable local GS dad who's daughter and family had put hundreds of hours into Westana in recent years.
By Monday night, while trying to spruce things up, I saw the first newspaper article on line......I was in the newspaper (just not as me), as was one of my pictures. The paper didn't contact us, but they did quote our sites correctly, and the information from the DNRC and from the other organization who's lease rate increased was very helpful at getting us on the right track.
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