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Show YCC Program Keeps Youths Busy Being a Youth Conservation Corps participant at Bryce Canyon means 8 hours of work each day, of which 2 is donated to environmental awareness education. The camp at Bryce Canyon National Park consists of Five lients and a relaxation and shower shed, known as "Tent City" and is home for youth 15 to 18 years old Each day 12 members of the YCC group are assigned to camp duty. Their responsibility is to clean the city, cook breakfast and dinner, have a snack ready for the crew when they return from work and follow other work plans made by camp directors. The cook tent is placed on a foundation with screen walls. Inside there is a grill, work tables, freezer, refrigerator, stove, sink, storage space and cooking and eating utensils. The larger storage area and deep walk in refrigerator box is at camp headquarters One tent is for girls living quarters and one for boys. The camp coordinators share two separate tents while one is placed primarily for programs and meeting purposes called a "Pow Wow Tent". A shower schedule is planned which include a bath a day for each of the residential crew members. A fire pit has been built with benches for evening programs, campfire cooking, and community singing and in their group there is a guitar, mouth organ and a banjo. The residents of "Tent City" provide their own entertainment, are allowed to go to lodge activities or other scheduled activities around the area as long as they use the "buddy system" at least two people at all times. Park rangers present programs for the crew. They also attend campfire programs presented by the rangers at the campgrounds within the park. They go on moonlight hikes down the trails and have an enjoyable but well supervised time. "After all, Bryce Canyon is an ideal place to spend the summer," Clark said. Coordinators over the 15 residential crew include John and Pat Kittleson, considered at the camp "Ma and Pa" work leaders The Kittlesons plan the menus, order food, make assignments for camp and help the crew to keep the camp in tip-top shape. Other leaders are Kathy Kitcheu, environmental coordinator and Diane Cookson. work leader Non-residential work leaders include Beverly Roe. Doug Talbot and camp director Jim Clark and project manager, Jim Hannah The summer has been accident free, Kathy and Diane have been trained extensively in first aid, while Jim Hannah has continued his training until he has become an emergency medical technician instructor. The two camps work together. They include 15 residential crew, living at Tent City and 15 non-residential crew living in communities of Garfield County. They are divided into groups of six. Sometimes each group is working on separate projects, sometimes two or more groups are combined to work on a specially hard project. When the crew is working, they work hard, painting picnic tables, posts, signs, garbage cans, fences "Anytime you see anything around Bryce Canyon National Park painted "Natures Natural Brown' color you know the YCC crew was there," Clark said. The big trash barrels within the park have been painted brown, then splashed with red cedar. "They look good in the beautiful Bryce setting," he said The work plans are made by different leaders of the park at the first of the season, rangers Pat Pollock, Roy Willis, Bob Ott and Jim Hannah, advisor and superintendent Thomas Hobbs The number one priority this year was Queens Garden Trail on Sunrise Point The kids build the rock work around the brail, covered the path with chipped rocks and hauled gravel. They will cover the path with ground-up shale but this won't be completed until the summer of 1979 They dug a trench, poured cement, a base and placed the rocks One job compiled, which makes the crew proud is cleaning of the storage area. "It is always difficult to make a storage area look nice," Clark said. They removed the wire fence, put a high brown board fence around the area as well as enlarged it. HI B LMawMH t ; mm mm 1 JBsRLssw Bmmmhh mm af)-r MmWtmWlm atfBgMHHkr 0r .1 iwK9M - rfisB sast'ni MB Vrlin Heaton, Salt Lake City helps to clean Tent City as the other members of the residential Youth Conservation Carps help make the park more pleasing to the public. The many projects include remaking paths, the storage area. |