DATE 2006 EVENT GRADE or Age  Apr28-May1 Deans Retreat adult deans April 28-30 Jump Start Weekend adults/youth June 10-11 Fiftieth Anniversary Gathering everyone! June 12-15 Vintage Ventures 55+ years June 16-18 Women's Weekend adult women June 22-24 Grandparents Camp 1 Gndprts /kids June 24-25 CIT Training 16-17 years Jun 25-Jul 1 Arts Alive 7th-'06 grads July 2-5 New England Youth Event 7th-'06 grads July 6-9 Faith Foundations 4th-5th July 9-15 Peace, Love and God's Way 7th-9th July 16-22 Spirit Quest 8th-9th July 16-22 Senior High Expectations 10-2006 grad July 23-29 Peace's Pieces 5th-7th July 23-29 Wilderness Awakenings 10-2006 grad Jul 30-Ag 5 Sr. High Manitou Island 10-2006 grad Jul 30-Ag 5 Middler Spirit 8th-9th Aug 5-12 White Mountain Adventure 10-2006 grad Aug 6-12 All Around Me 6th-7th Aug 13-19 Celebrate Your Song 4th-5th August 20 A Day at Camp K-3rd Aug 21-23 Grandparents & kids 2 grandprts/kds Aug 23-26 Lighten Up, Loosen Up, Imagine  adults Sept 1-4 Family Camp   families Sept 9 Dedication of the labyrinth everyone October 28 Fall Work Day adults & yth

At PL:

PL's Fiftieth Anniversary

Creation of the PL Labyrinth

Sr. High Manitou Island camp established

Camps now listed by grades camper is entering

Brick Oven built on Manitou Island (Rocky Ackroyd)

Front of Lodge painted

Lodge steps and railings repaired

Front of Balbrook Painted

New floor in Balbrook bathroom

S-2, S-3 & S-5 painted

S-1 & S-2 re-wired

New screens in S cabins
(Bethel Men)

Cabin bathrooms painted
(Roger Condit)

Cabin 11 painted

1/2 cabin 12 roofed

Cabin 8 bathroom floor re-built
(Ron Ashworth)

Cabin 9 floor painted

Mission Focus: Hurricane Karina relief through Back Bay Mission

Cost of a week at camp: $285

OMC co-chairs:
Joanne Bartlett
& Karen Choate

Director: Rev. Bryan S. Breault

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Outside PL

Iraq war continues, 3000th US casualty by year's end

Jan 4 - Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon suffers stroke and is rushed to hospital where he remains in a coma.

Jan 25 - Radical Islamic Hamas movement sweeps to victory in Palestinian elections

Jan. 30: Coretta Scott King dies

March: "Duke" Cunningham and Jack Abramoff scandals

Feb: Vice-President Dick Cheney shoots hunting partner in the face

July 3: Former Yugoslav republic Montenegro declares independence

July 5: Ken Lay of Enron dies

July 12: Beginning of one month of fighting between Israel and Lebanon 

August 1:Cuban President Fidel Castro 'temporarily' delegates power to his youngest brother, Raul, while he undergoes surgery.

August: Planet Pluto demoted to "Minor Planetoid"

Sept 4: Steve Irwin "Crocodile Hunter" killed by stingray

Sept 10: Britain foils major attacks on multiple US-bound planes.

Sept 12: Pope Benedict XVI quotes Byzantine emperor Emperor Manuel II Paleologus who said in 1391 that the Prophet Mohammed brought 'things only evil and inhuman.' The pope's speech, held during a visit to Germany, causes outrage in the Muslim world.

Sept 18: Demonstrations in Budapest after Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany admits to lying ahead of general elections in April.

Sept 19: Coup d'etat topples Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra after five years in power

Oct 9 - North Korea conducts its first nuclear test

Oct 17: Population in the USA reaches 300,000,000

Oct: Mark Foley scandal

Nov. 7: Democrats re-take control of both sides of Congress

Dec. 26: Former President Gerald Ford dies

Dec. 30: Saddam Hussein executed

Hot Topics:
YouTube
Escalating violence in Iraq
Immigration
Foley Scandal
E-coli in the spinach

Movies:
An Inconvenient Truth
Little Miss Sunshine
The Departed
Borat
Babel
Cars

Songs:
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
Here It Goes Again (Treadmill video) - The Raconteurs
How To Save A Life - The Fray
Put Your Records On - Corrine Bailey Rae 

President: George W. Bush