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Show Stake Hee-Hivers Enjoy Outing At Provo Canyon Fifty-six tired but exuberant Bee Hive girls returned Friday evening from a five-day encampment encamp-ment held August 23-27 at the Provo Canyon MIA Home. Planned since early last fall, this year's encampment was a particularly enjoyable event both from the standpoint of educational education-al experience and financial achievement. A Stake bazaar was conducted early in May to raise funds for transportation for all the girls. In addition each class worked individually within with-in each ward to raise money for the trip and some of the wards were successful in raising funds sufficient to pay all expenses of their group of girls, even to their spending money. Traveling by specially chartered charter-ed Burlington bus, the girls stopped stop-ped at Timpanogas to enjoy a lunch prepared and furnished bv the Roosevelt Ctake. The group then toured Timpanogas Cave 1 before going on to the Provo Canyon Home. Recreational activities were planned in advance by the Provo Canyon Home recreational leader lead-er and the girls found their days filled with an enjoyable round of tennis, hiking, badminton, table-tennis, folk dancing and Other games. Special classes in textile painting proved an exceptionally ex-ceptionally well received activity. activi-ty. This year's encampment was under the direction of Stake Ecc Keepers Mrs. Ellen Rawlings, who recently received a citation award from the General Board for 12 years of service in Bee Hive work, and Mrs. Virgie Murphy. Mur-phy. They were assisted by Mrs. Myrtle Nealson, of Vernal, a former for-mer Roosevelt Ward Bee Keeper; Mrs. Donna Brown, Bee Keeper from the Montwel ward, and Mrs. Gladys Drollinger, Bee Keeper from the Ioka ward. Participating Par-ticipating in the outing were 19 girls from the Roosevelt Second ward; 11 girls from the Roosevelt Roose-velt ward; 4 from Ballard ward; 6 from Bennett; 6 from Ioka, and 9 f i om Montwel. |