In case any of you haven't heard, Jeff Doane passed away July 4th.
There will be a traditional memorial service for him at his church in Santa Cruz at 1 PM on the 22nd (this Saturday).
There will be a memorial service at Pico for him on August 5th at 3PM. Pioneer Camp has been reserved for those wishing to spend the night. Food will be done as a potluck.
Condolences may be sent to his home address in Santa Cruz.
Feel free to contact me for additional information. I may not have it, but I know where to get it.
A sad to say that Jeff Doane pass away last night July 4th in Santa Cruz. He will be missed at Pico Blanco and throughout Scouting. I am stunned and saddened. <Mikey
So while looking in my photo archives for pictures for the story, I can across some old camp photos from my cub scout years, and thought I'd share. I think either '93 or '94.
Okay, so i am doing a report for my forestry class on the school forest we have 12 miles north of santa cruz on Swanton road. anyway, the land used to have a boy scout camp on it, and i am wondering if anyone remembers from jeff's pico history the name of a camp up in the santa cruz mountains? and its not camp wing or camp esselen since those were in the big sur area...
Firm pays fine for dead fish By Michael Iacuessa SENTINEL CORRESPONDENT The firm involved in a county project that resulted in a fish kill in Carbonera Creek in 2004 has agreed to pay a $50,000 penalty, most of which will go toward local stream mitigation projects.
The firm, Condon-Johnson and Associates Inc. of Oakland, was hired by the county to do repair work on El Rancho Road and stabilize a nearby bank damaged by rains in 1998.
A subsurface stream existed under the bank, however, and when the company pumped a cement-and-water mixture into it, the grout traveled into the creek.
An estimated 187 steelhead trout were killed. Steelhead are considered a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
While a county Fish and Game inspector halted the project upon the discovery, Santa Cruz Assistant District Attorney Morgan Taylor said in similar future cases, it would be something the new environmental investigator in the District Attorney's Office would be called in on.
"The Fish and Game did a good job with that one," he said. "But it's the kind of thing which if I had someone on staff it would have worked out quite well too. In future large cases like this, we might have our own staff person work with them."
After negotiations with the District Attorneys Office and NOAA Fisheries,
Condon-Johnson will reimburse the Department of Fish and Game for $2,347 in investigation costs and pay $47,653 for stream mitigation projects.
Well folks, we have an "opportunity" here at camp...
The new Central Dining Hall (or Hayward Lodge, if you are so inclined) is gianormous, and we will no longer have room to assemble 300+ people in front of it to do flags. (There is also no way in hell we are getting a Cisco truck behind the kitchen ever again, but that’s another story for another time) The construction guys have carefully and painstakingly smashed the flagpoles that were there, so I need to replace those as well.
This is the perfect opportunity to relocate our “Parade Grounds” as it were. I’m looking for ideas, and I ask that you respond to this post as a new post to the GROUP, not as a reply to my post.
The only idea I have is the area outside the front of the Quartermasters and Trading Post where the horseshoe pits are, either facing the road, or facing the chapel. It’s a nice shaded location, its large enough, and its “picturesque” for lack of a better wording.
Let me know what you think, as I need to sell this idea soon.
