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EVERY PENNY Helps!!
On November 14, 2009,
ICO Certified Leaders Gary and Renee as well as volunteers Peter and Kasey took
six students from PS 241 across the East River to Queens. Heading south, they drove to the causeway between Queens and the Rockaway Peninsula, ending at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on Jamaica Bay.
November 7-8, 2009 -- Ten NEW CatRock Leadership Academy students stayed overnight at YMCA Camp Mason in Hardwick, NJ on Nov 7 in order to take part in their Fall Volunteer Work Weekend and begin training as ICO Youth Leaders. As led by Certified Leaders Lisa Coffey and Angela Bole and Youth Leader Kyron Slater, goals of the overnight were to:
Bond new CatRock students (games! games! games!)
Explain/instill CatRock traditions/expectations
Teach CatRock history/purpose/mission
Participate in service work (3 hour each day!)
Begin discussing what it means to be a leader
Begin discussing how to lead successful, experiential outdoor trips
A highlight of the trip was waking up before dawn on Sunday, grabbing sleeping bags/hats/gloves and heading to an open field to watch the sun rise. A few kids even joined in on a flow of yogic sun salutations!
October 17, 2009 -- On Oct 17 Certified Leaders Ray Greenwell, Craig Meisner and Emily Fitzgerald along with CatRock Youth Leaders Shaqai and Kyron and ICO Volunteers Karen, Charles and Kasey, led 20 students from CampInteractive and Kingsbridge High School on a hike in Harriman State Park.
After ten minutes of hiking on a flat path accompanied by cries of "Oh my God! How much
further?!" and "Are we DONE yet," we walked steeply uphill for about twenty
minutes. As they reached the overview, the kids were clutching each other
in pain. But at our first view out over the
neigboring valley the reactions turned to "It's so beau – ti – fuuuuuul!"
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