Camp Miakonda is open the year round. Not only do we service our Scouts but we offer Scouting families and opportunity to camp on selected weekends during the summer months. A variety of non-scout groups also rent the facilities. The expansion of our camping program does two things:
1. provides both Scout groups and non Scout groups with additional camping opportunities.
2. Expose Camp Miakonda and the Erie Shores Councils facilities to these groups.
The need to develop and maintain a quality volunteer is critical to the safe operation of the camp and provides for the overall enjoyment of the grounds.
The key to doing a good job is training and understanding the job. A job orientation is provide and to each new camp director. We ask each new camp director to work with a current director as an assistant for one weekend. Then we have the new camp director manage a weekend with an experienced director to observe and assist as needed.
The overall responsibility is to manage the facilities, enforce camp policies, check units or groups in and pass out keys to building used, secure proper paper work, inspect cabins and areas prior to groups checking out and collecting of keys.
Conduct leader orientation with groups using camp.
Provide staff coverage at Memorial Cabin in case of an emergency and notify 911 and others on the emergency phone list.
To answer the camp telephone, take messages for staff or campers while they are at camp. Provide supervision and work assignments to the camp commissioners. Provide supplies for restrooms, batteries for smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors.
We provide four meals over the course of the weekend; you bring your own bedding or sleeping bag. During the summer months you can setup your tent, an area around Memorial Cabin / Camp Office is available as a tent site. You may also bring your family with the understanding that your primary responsibility is to the Camp Directors job. Miakonda lodge is a facility that the Camp Director and his / her staff utilize during the course of the weekend; this cabin has a kitchen, extra sleeping quarters and the first aid station. People using Camp Miakonda look to this building as the first building they go to for an emergency of general questions. |