It's Now a Competition
The other day I received a postcard from Camp Hollymont, the girls’ camp I attended for 4 years and stopped going to when I could no longer be a camper. Yes, they still send me mail. On one side of the postcard were pictures of campers and the camp’s landscape. On the other side was a deal to give $50 off your bill for every new camper you recruit. But wait! That’s not the best part! To make sure they get as many new campers as possible, they made it a tribal competition to win the coveted TOTEM POLE!
After reading this postcard I said “Wow, even Hollymont is suffering.� This made me wonder in how many ways the suffering economy will affect my camp this year. Well for starters, there will probably be a lot of empty beds this year. Usually by January all of the good sessions are full because the camp is so popular. Will there be fewer counselors this year? Probably. There were usually a counselor, an assistant counselor, and a CIT per cluster. Will they cut out the assistant counselor this year? And then there are the CITs. Usually they get half off the cost to come to camp. This year that gracious amount will probably be cut down. The amount of money that parents put into their child’s account for snacks and t-shirts from the camp store will be cut down. People like me who tried to use that money infrequently wouldn’t even touch it.
Then we come to the question of the camp’s profits. The rent they have to pay to use the facilities no doubt went up due to the recession. If they cut counselor’s wages and cut the amount off the CITs get, would they still come out where they would have been? Well that would depend on how many campers show up this year. Undoubtedly, their profits will go down. So I guess we will see come summertime how hard Camp Hollymont and other camps alike will be hit.
After reading this postcard I said “Wow, even Hollymont is suffering.� This made me wonder in how many ways the suffering economy will affect my camp this year. Well for starters, there will probably be a lot of empty beds this year. Usually by January all of the good sessions are full because the camp is so popular. Will there be fewer counselors this year? Probably. There were usually a counselor, an assistant counselor, and a CIT per cluster. Will they cut out the assistant counselor this year? And then there are the CITs. Usually they get half off the cost to come to camp. This year that gracious amount will probably be cut down. The amount of money that parents put into their child’s account for snacks and t-shirts from the camp store will be cut down. People like me who tried to use that money infrequently wouldn’t even touch it.
Then we come to the question of the camp’s profits. The rent they have to pay to use the facilities no doubt went up due to the recession. If they cut counselor’s wages and cut the amount off the CITs get, would they still come out where they would have been? Well that would depend on how many campers show up this year. Undoubtedly, their profits will go down. So I guess we will see come summertime how hard Camp Hollymont and other camps alike will be hit.
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