Hey All!

As many of you know, there was quite a bit of damage to Chano during Hurricane Irene.  There are trees down, chalets destroyed, etc. etc.  Aside from storm damage, Chanco is in need of a little love, as one reunion guest commented.  Buildings need to be powerwashed, rooms need to be painted, work needs to be done. 

We would like to make this year's work weekend the most successful one yet!  Come for a day, stay for a night, and give back to that little place that is much more than just sticks in the woods.  The weekend is October 28-30.  We will all be crashing in Watkins.  Bring food. Leave your money at home.  The weekend is free in exchange for our volunteering.

If you'd like to make a donation towards supplies, click the button below.  For more information and/or to put your name on the list, email me at annkrannitz@gmail.com

Hope to see you all there!

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Hey Everyone -

I will try and get a more structured outline of events up here sometime this week. For now, however, I will give you a quick rundown of what will be happening at the reunion. continue reading »

WE NEED YOU CCAA MEMBERS!!!  It is almost time for camp to start once again, and the CCAA is sponsoring a work weekend JUNE 4-6 where we will help get camp ready for this summer.  You can help in multiple ways:  attending the work weekend AND by clicking on the store tab here on chancoonce.com and making a $25 donation towards the supplies we need to get the last several years of tea papers mounted and hung on the walls of the dining hall!  This is one of the many projects we will be tackling during the work weekend.  Other tasks will include waterfront cleanup/tree continue reading »

Registration for the September 11th-13th Chanco Reunion is underway. In just a few short weeks we need to let Chanco know how many alumni will be attending. If the spaces we've reserved are not full, they will open up part of the conference center to other groups, so please, please, please REGISTER NOW!!! This year we've reduced both lodging rates and meal rates to make the weekend more affordable. Conference rooms will be $80 for the weekend, a chalet will be $25 for the weekend, and you may still camp for free with your own tent. continue reading »

Would you like to help out for the May 15-17th work weekend, but you don't have the time to spare? Are you able to contribute both manual labor and a little extra cash to the CCAA? We will be building/rebuilding picnic tables while we work to get camp ready for summer. If you check under "Newest Stuff", you can make donations towards the materials needed for tables (all donations are tax deductible, of course). This will be the CCAA's gift to Chanco! What a great way to help out the camp ... and you know just where your money is going! continue reading »

Greetings,

I hope all are well! I was just wondering what ever happened to the 5M Capital Campaign? Did the consulting firm ever give a report to the COJ Board compiling all the interview data? I would love to see any info on that. If anyone knows anything, please post it here. Thanks.

Don't forget about spreading the word to everyone you know about sending their child to camp. This is the time that parents start deciding their summer plans and sign kids up for camp. Lets continue to build on our hard work from last year! I wonder if we can get a waiting list again at Chanco!

I'm sure if you contact the Chanco Office (phone: 757.294.3126 or chanco.org), they would send you some brochures so you can give them to your neighbors, your child's school, and your work place. This is an easy way for the Alumni to support camp in the most beneficial way!

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Summer is fast approaching and there is work to be done. Chanco needs us! I know many of you mentioned after the reunion that you were anxious to get back to camp ... here's your chance!

The CCAA will be holding it's work weekend on May 15-17. Arrive Friday in the late afternoon/evening, hang out around the campfire with us, spend the night in a chalet and be ready to wake up bright and early Saturday morning for a full day of work. If you can only come down on Saturday or Sunday, that's fine, too.

We've talked to Jim Sitzler, the Camp Director, and we have a long list of things that need to be done. We will be doing lots of fun stuff like repairing and possibly building picnic tables in the campsites, repairing benches in the amphitheater, removing stumps, building tent city (remember the tents at old camp? They still use them!), carrying boats down to the waterfront, possibly doing some repairs to the bathhouses ... and whatever else Jim can come up with. We will need tools and materials for all of our projects, so let me know if you can help us out. My email is annkrannitz@gmail.com

Jim also informed us that the out-trip cooking gear is a little on the "I can 't believe we can eat out of this" side (his words exactly). We will get a list from him of items that need to be replaced and we'll set up a little online store so that you can purchase items to donate. We'd like to be able to completely replace the gear for the summer as a little gift from the alumni.

We'll see you all in May! continue reading »