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December Kindness Calendar
Hello all! Can you believe it is the last month of the decade already!? Here are 31 ideas to keep your kindness going through December. Have a fabulous month! You can download the printable version...
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Episode 50 For the 50th episode of the POG-Cast, Soy was joined by Crash, who had amazing thoughts to share about the connections he made with campers. Unplugging and connecting face to face is one of...
View ArticleI Heart Camp Day Is February 1st!
We invite our GAC families and friends to join with us in celebrating I Heart Camp Day on Saturday, February 1st! If you’re nervous that you don’t have any I Heart Camp decorations and haven’t been...
View ArticleGAC History Book – Perfect Holiday Gift!
Are you looking for the perfect holiday gift for your Gold Arrow Camp friends and family? We have just the gift for you! Sierra Summers is filled with many wonderful pages about your favorite happy...
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The Best Gifts for Kids
Most tangible, material gifts we give our children, spouse, and friends are outdated, broken, lost, or unused within months of the gifting. We can rarely remember what the gifts from past years even...
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Episode 51 This time on the POG-Cast, we are joined by a former camper who was a photographer at camp for 2019, Swish! Swish has great insights as someone who consumed camp pictures when she was a...
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Episode 52 This week Soy is having a small Morning Assembly reunion as the co-host of the Squiggy show, Squatch, is his guest. They talk about what it’s like to portray one of the planet’s most famous...
View ArticleNational No One Eats Alone Day
“No One Eats Alone is a Positive Prevention Initiative that works to prevent bullying before it starts by teaching students to lead the movement to change the culture of middle school!” National No...
View Article2020 Dance Themes!
One of the highlights of each session is our camp-wide dance. We all come together at our Granite Grove event space for a night of kicking our heels up to some of our favorite songs. Dances feature...
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January Kindness Calendar
Happy New Year, everyone! Take a look at our January Kindness Calendar to kickstart your year with kindness. Every day is a great day to show people around us that we care! You can download the...
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Be You!
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “Be You!” It sounds like such a simple task. After all, aren’t we...
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Join Sunshine’s Happy Campers Book Club
Happy Campers is a joyful and wise parenting book. Drawing on her lifetime of experience as a camper, camp counselor and camp director, Audrey Monke shows us what is most important in the lives of...
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Episode 53. Today we’re joined on the POG-Cast by Gold Arrow Camp’s Chief Visionary Officer, Sunshine! She talks about writing books, what she loves about camp, and how she and Monkey came to run camp....
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Episode 54. Today Soy is joined on the POG-Cast by longtime camper and staff member Dobby. They have a wonderful chat about what it’s like to do the same job at camp that her dad did under Manny Vezie...
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What Is the Best Age For Camp?
by Audrey “Sunshine” Monke You probably want a number here. If you’re only going to read these first two sentences, then I’ll pick the age of nine. But my real answer is a bit more complex. When to...
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Clothing Labels
One FAQ that parents (especially first year families!) ask as they prepare for camp is, “How do I label everything for camp?” This is a great question and an important one. At GAC, we ask that all...
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Episode 55 Lyric’s back! The POG-Cast’s all-time most featured guest, Rocks & Ropes Counselor Lyric, is back! This time he and Soy talked about what it’s like to have your family at camp. They also...
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Episode 56 Today was a special day for Soy because he got to have one of his best camp friends on the POG. Tank, who worked alongside Soy on the operations team at camp and who is a vital part of...
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What One Week Of Camp Can Do For Your Child
“My shy, quiet nine-year-old went to camp not knowing a soul. She came home transformed. She blossomed. She made friends, learned a multitude of activities, felt safe, loved, confident, and happy —...
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GACentines are Back!
You know the struggle. You want to give out Valentine’s cards to your classmates, but you want something unique. Something that really shows them how special they are to you. Once again, we here at...
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