Recognizing Outstanding Staff Leaders with the Sam Award: Miriam and Avner
Each season, two of our summer staff are honoured with the prestigious Sam Award. This award, which was named in honour of past benefactor and committee chair Sam Reisman, was first given in 2007. It is presented to two Camp George staff members who best exemplify the...
Nitzotzot Reflection: Part 2
Nitzotzot campers Marcia, Mala and Misha reflect on summer 2019.
Nitzotzot Reflection: Part 1
Nitzotzot campers Micah, Asher, Nathan and Lev reflect on summer 2019.
My Lessons from Camp Brought Around the World
Camp alumna Veronica Botnick reflects on her first summer away from Maple Lake and shares her experience spending 5 weeks in Rwanda.
Shabbat Shalom from Maple Lake
Read this week’s Shabbat message from camp director Jeff Rose
Looking at the Challenges in our World
This week our tikkun olam/ social action Project Barak group focused on identifying and explaining the issues that are most impacting our world. They identified the greatest challenges affecting them and their generation from their perspectives.
The Best Things Around Camp
Zane, Braydon, and Cole are three first time campers in Nitzotzot who left us on Sunday. We checked in with them before they departed to see the top 10 things they are going to miss about camp.
The Magic of Maple Lake: A Visit with History
Associate Director Karen Kollins writes, “We have always known that the Camp George story started long before our first summer in 1999 but today I learned a part of our story that had never been shared…”
Getting the Full-Summer Experience
Carly, Chloe, and Naomi are all Kochavim full-summer campers for this year. Between the bittersweet feelings of first session ending, and second session getting closer and closer, changeover was a perfect benchmark of transition for them. For Naomi, it’s her first...
