Cub Scouts Pow-Wow
At Camp Pretty Pond
MATT SUTTON (left) and leader Charlie Clean,' of Oak Island looks on as
Josh Spivey of Den 5 (Tuscaroras) burns his name onto the back of a totem
carved in camp craft classes.
MORGAN VARNAM deftly ties a clove hitch in knot-tying competition.
However, his den lost the match to the Apaches of Den 7 (seated).
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FITZGERALD HALL slides into a good start on the obstacle course, posting
one of the best times for the morning at 56:5.
BY SUSAN USHER
It was some pow-pow.
Or, as Program Director Gina
Spivey summed it up, "Cub Scouting
at its best, that's what camp is all
about."
Eighty Cub Scouts from all across
Brunswick County donned head
bands with feathers and carved
totems last wee* as part of a week
long day camp held at Camp Pretty
Pond, a regional Girl Scout camping
facility at Boiling Spring Lakes.
Based in rustic cabins overlooking
a calm blue lake surrounded by
woodlands, each den of boys took on a
tribal name? Apache, Tuscarora,
even Tomahawk, and fashioned a
teepee out front.
That was just for starters as
campers combined having fun with
learning in a week-long series of
Indian-iheme outdoor adventures.
Activities culminated Friday, which
was both parents day, competition
day and sleep-over for the Webelos.
After learning how to use the sharp
instruments safely, the boys carved
totems using pocket knives they got
to keep. Using hachets. they chopped
with the grain of the wood to begin
hollowing out a cypress log canoe
much like those used at one time in
this area.
Camp allowed the Cub Scouts to
finish off a lot of work begun in their
packs, said Mrs. Spivey, and to start
new activities that required team
and individual effort such as first aid
lessons, volleyball, water play and
crafts.
When they were not so good, the
boys hugged a tree for five minutes
or so.
But when they were good, they
were very good, challenging
themselves to excell.
In one event, to shouts of "Come
on! Go!" they raced along an
obstacle course that demanded
sliding on a suspended rope seat,
climbing a fence rail, waddling
across a series of tires, racing across
an on-ground balance beam, wriggl
ing through two barrels and swinging
across the monkey bars before mak
ing a furious dash for the finish line.
When the Apaches (Den 7) won a
knot-tying competition against a den
of older boys Friday morning under
the sharp eye of Camp Director
Frank Blackmon, T.J. (Tony) Ward
of Bolivia had a ready answer. "We
practiced a lot," he said with pride.
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PAULA PERGERSON of Boiling Spring Lakes helps T.J. Ward lace a leather scarf ring as fellow camper Wesley
Williams watches.
WORKING WITH THE GRArN of the wood, Jason Norris and Sam Mintz take a turn at hollowing a cypress log into
a canoe similar to those used by Waeeamaw-Sioux Indians and other early inhabitants of the area.
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