Happy Birthday to our December birthday boys and girls! Bully for you and don’t forget to thank the kitchen staff for your cake! 12/2 Eli Goodman 12/2 Gaby Sanabria Torres 12/4 Ethan Rane 12/6 Jack Sorenson 12/7 Joshua Koutroubis 12/7 Asher Borstein 12/8 Dillon Conway 12/9 Zachary Schlacter 12/10 Noah […]
On this Thanksgiving, I want to share with you our traditional grace, a poem by Edwin Markham: There is a destiny that makes us brothers, None goes his way alone,All that we give into the lives of others,Comes back into our own. Come Thanksgiving each year, I find myself feeling […]
With autumn weather upon us, it would be easy to thing that things have been quiet at camp. While the lodge may be quiet and the grass is growing tall on the athletic fields, the work of camp never stops. There are lots of things that need to be done […]
Join Team North Star and help raise money to send kids to camp! 2016 Team North Star Members Andy Shlensky Max Goldberg Dan Lichtenstein Nathan Margrett Max Rosenfeld Oliver Rockman Zach Blumenfeld Chad Prater Dylan Jacobs James Freedman Cameron Beltzman Jaden Beltzman Adam Beltzman Rachel Beltzman Alyssa Shlensky Jami Shlensky […]
Last month I wrote to you about the North Star Settle Up Challenge, a gift matching campaign that invited our camp alumni to match donations made by our current staff from their camp paychecks at the end of the summer for the benefit of Camp for All Kids. I am […]
Vickie and I hope you are enjoying your summer. Even though there is always “plenty of camping left,” it’s hard to believe there is only one more week left of second session. It’s been an amazing summer at camp with some big new additions. We built the brand new Fieldhouse, […]
Now that we are a couple days into second session, it is time for an update on how the first few days are going. After the busses rolled into camp on Sunday, we immediately got underway with unpacking and then challenge games. challenge games are when cabins compete with each […]
Now that we are a couple days into second session, it is time for an update on how the first few days are going. After the busses rolled into camp on Sunday, we immediately got underway with unpacking and then challenge games. challenge games are when cabins compete with each […]
The second session of North Star’s 72nd summer is officially underway! When we got off the bus, the staff and the 8-week campers were cheering like crazy to welcome our new campers. It was a beautiful sunny day and it dried out the puddles from last week’s rain. As the […]
One of our Intermediate campers summed it up this way. “Fourth of July is one of those days that makes you wish camp went on all year.” When you walk into the dining hall, the guys are singing and dancing. Born in the USA, Party in the USA, Proud to […]
Last night was our annual Hatchet Hunt! The Hatchet Hunt is an event where every cabin competes to try and find a hatchet hidden somewhere on camp property first. The game is a combination of a scavenger hunt and a race and requires every camper’s participation. During the hunt, the […]
