Wow! It's the Monday after a terrific Green Bay Packer Super Bowl victory.
It is definitely hard to get back into the swing of things at work. I feel like I should be running up and down Main Street in a cheesehead! For a good laugh at the power of fans - my Facebook account has a video with my brother and wife and their reactions throughout the game. I love it - and Frank (my brother) was a camper for many years at Camp - so it's slightly related to Camp!

Applications are rolling in - I am very pleased with how applications have been coming in. Right now we have 363 applications in - a great number and ahead of last year. We will send out the first round of confirmations next Monday or Tuesday. We like to do a few hundred together to take advantage of mailing rates. As always we are looking for more blind or visually impaired campers along with more deaf or hard of hearing campers. Please help me convince parents to share their children with us!

For staffing - we have a strong returning group of staff - and are beginning to interview new applicants as fast as we can. Job fairs are coming up in two weeks; UW-Stevens Point, UW-LaCrosse and Winona are the three campuses we will visit soon. The Milwaukee, Madison, Eau Claire, Whitewater and Oshkosh/Appleton areas we will visit later this month as separate visits.

The most exciting thing is that we have five applicants for our counselor-in-training program, meaning we will run it this year. We have room for 10 total - so we are halfway to our goal!

A special note to Marshfield Lions for getting our press release into their local paper. All the PR we can get really helps us get the word out. The more that know about the wonder is that is Camp, the better!

In a bit, we'll be selling raffle tickets for our annual Cash for Kids raffle. Once we have tickets out, I will be hitting up everyone I know to buy a ticket, or two....or five!

I spent the last weekend at the D2 convention in Sparta. Thank you to our campers Brittany and Chris for sharing what they love about being campers with all those in attendance. It was a powerful reminder of why we have Camp. All the Lions, Lioness and Leos I saw were all committed to making Camp happen and I so appreciate the opportunity to thank them for that work. In that district, we have two of our fabulous weekly nurses - Patti and Lynette who have been with us for many years. Thank you Patti and Lynette for your service - I am really looking forward to working with you both again!

Hmmmm after reading this post I am no longer wondering why I am tired today! It was a terrific weekend. It seems fitting to end with a quote from Vince Lombardi. It applies to what we do as Wisconsin Lions, Lioness and Leos to make camp happen. Have a great week!

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

Thank you for your individual commitment!