What a Summer!

It was a terrific summer! It really was, and it may have been the quickest summer on record. Without even being sentimental, it truly seems like just yesterday we finalizing the 2009 staff training, getting all of our supplies and transforming Chapman Elementary School into YMCA Camp Quinnipiac.

The humidity has finally broken and cool weather is on its way, which can only me a couple of things; camp has come to and, school will be starting soon and plans for the 2010 camp season will soon be underway!

The YMCA Camp Quinnipiac staff and I would like to thank all of the campers who made this summer everything that it was; fun, exciting, memorable and simply great! We would like to thank the Cheshire Herald for all of their promotions of YMCA Camp Quinnipiac, especially the Jokes of the Week and the Camper's Choice Awards. That was a new and different aspect of YMCA Camp Quinnipiac and hopefully one that we can continue into the future. The Jokes of the Week were a definite hit with all of the campers, I just wish that I could have won at least once. I guess that I will have to work on my jokes for next year! We would also like to thank Chartwell's for donating all of the food to YMCA Camp Quinnipiac for our great family nights. I think that this year's family nights were fantastic and really exemplified what camp is for all of the families that attended, and those that got to sing the bear song! Lastly the staff and I would like to thank Chapman Elementary School for allowing us to "run-a-muck" of the school and use every square inch that we could to make it a great summer for everyone that attended YMCA Camp Quinnipiac.

Now that summer is officially over we have a request for all of our YMCA Camp Quinnipiac parents. Included in our blog page, under the favorite links section, is a link to our 2009 YMCA Camp Quinnipiac Camper Survey. Please take a few minutes and fill out the survey as best you possibly can. We use the information gathered in the survey to make YMCA Camp Quinnipiac better for future generations of campers.

If you have any Lost and Found items that you and your camper were not able to re-collect by the end of the summer please be sure to contact the Cheshire Community YMCA. The Lost and Found items will be kept for about a week, until the first full week of September, will then be donated to Good Will.

If you have any questions about this summer of camp, future summers of camp, the YMCA Camp Quinnipiac 2009 Camper Survey or Lost and Found items please be sure to contact the Cheshire Community YMCA.

Again, thanks for a great summer. Please enjoy the school year and hopefully it will fly by faster than this summer did and we can all enjoy another summer of great fun at YMCA Camp Quinnipiac!

Thanks for a great summer,
Coach Mike & the YMCA Camp Quinnipiac staff