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I’ll need to stay overnight, but I haven’t decided if it will be in a tent or Trudy camping. What campsite are you looking at? Greenbush is group camping. Were you trying to get enough people for there?
I’ll need to stay overnight, but I haven’t decided if it will be in a tent or Trudy camping. What campsite are you looking at? Greenbush is group camping. Were you trying to get enough people for there?
bnb – 6 (WI,IL,IA,OH,MN,CA)
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Originally posted by Cathunter:
Whatever you do, don’t read Dave’s geocaching.com profile.
After reading that profile (I seldom do what I am told) I think I may have to drive south to meet the author someday. I think that is the most informative geocaching.com profile I have ever read.
It’s gone. I picked it up.
For those who want to know more about lightning:
http://www.lightning.org/safety.htm
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/outdoors.htm[This message has been edited by bnb (edited 05-20-2005).]
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Originally posted by Kitch:
That’s really sad…..I would still try to do the clean-up….Maybe just have the older 4-Hers participate….consider giving them a quick 15 min discussion on what to avoid…
You could even create an better enviroment and have the chance to have a “anti-drug” speaker present……even a 4-H or Scout is at risk…..
I was active in Scouts and 4-H for many years…..I seen lots of issues with members.
Actually, considering the types of stuff we have found along the roads in the past, I think the roadside cleanup should always have been just for the older kids – wearing rubber gloves.
We still did a cleanup, but we did it in Chippewa Falls around the downtown area. We took advantage of the Main Street organization’s Earth Day cleanup.
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Originally posted by parkview:
kbraband
I have not received my camping site emailThanks
I sent the registration email to you.
Ruth
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Originally posted by jvechinski:
This program requires that you also have the free Ghostscript PDF/PS interpreter installed (install this one first).
Gosh, and I already have those installed to view postscript files. Guess I should get around to knowing how to use the applications I have on my computer some day.
This is a very serious problem up here in the boonies (and I’m not even that far into the boonies.) Barron County is particularly bad and I get the impression that the further out one is, the worse it is. My husband taught at the Barron High School last year and heard first hand a lot about meth labs from the school cop. It is a very big concern here. Recently, the schools and communities have provided public forums for education on the issue.
One of the biggest problems is that the local police forces are not set up to handle this type of problem. They don’t have the manpower or equipment to properly dispose of the labs when they find them. They also don’t have the manpower to handle the level of agression of the criminals involved. Local police forces (which in the boonies means the County Sheriff) are more used to responding to domestic abuse, drunk driving and bar fights. When you have maybe only four cars policing an entire county, it is hard to keep tabs on everything that is going on out in the woods.
Our county 4-H normally does a roadside cleanup program in the spring. We were asked to cancel it this year due to the possibility of garbage from meth labs. (And I thought dead animals, used condoms and questionable fluids in sport drink bottles was bad enough.)
It doesn’t take long to be out in the middle of nowhere where no one will notice what is going on or what you dump out your car window.
I don’t think I’m being overly paranoid. I’ve seen the incidence of this rise dramatically over that past couple of years. We don’t have a lot of other crime to report on here so we get a lot of news on major meth lab busts. The regional drug force seems to have changed their focus from setting up stings on Minneapolis dealers to busting local major meth labs. (Even in an Eau Claire hotel – not the one you’re staying in this week, Brian. )
Maybe my concern is more personal, too. A former coworker’s son became a meth addict and committed suicide three years ago.
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Originally posted by Cathunter:
Cause other peoples tents to mysteriously collapse.
Guess it won’t be quite so mysterious now, will it?
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Originally posted by hotdogs_off_trail:
I may need to get to a nice full service grocery store on this weekend….any suggestions???
Two:
Gordy’s IGA – downtown grocery store: N 44 56.154 / W091 23.714
Mega Pick N’ Save: Hwy 124 near south hotels, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Kmart, Dollar Store (trinkets, anyone?) – I can get coords this week, if you desire[This message has been edited by bnb (edited 05-16-2005).]
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Originally posted by arcangl7:
Not that anybody would want to go there, but always nice to know where it is…The nearest Hospital.
Must be tired from the drive….
It is the second line in the first posting of this subject.
Hospital: N 44 57.104 / W091 21.523
Tent. Mostly because I don’t own a pop-up. Mostly because I’m too insecure to haul and backup a trailer .
I really like tent camping – unless it is pouring down rain and windy and stormy. Then, I worry too much.
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