YWCA Camp Hochelaga Centennial Celebration

This YWCA Camp "Hochelaga" is an Iroquoian name meaning "Beaver lake" derived from a St Lawrence Iroquoian 16th century fortified village at the heart of, or in the immediate vicinity of, Mount Royal in present-day Montreal, Quebec.The Camp itself tho is located in South Hero VT. right on Lake Champlain which was named of course after French explorer Samuel De Champlain.
Isn't history fun and interesting ?
Even More interesting is the fact that, Camp Hochelaga and the Cabot co-op, are both celebrating their 100th Birthday this year.

So let's just go ahead and light the candles and let the fireworks begin !!!

Never mind ! 200 candles might be overkill, but we will light up the place even without all the the candles..

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This was an outdoor event so as I was loading the Van for my trip over to the lake, I was a bit worried about wind and rain since I had a nice 

"Red Sky in Morning,

Sailors take warning"

View.

Upon arrival it was windy and cloudy.

Not much going on but the Young Women Volunteers were busy getting things ready.

Tricky getting set up since there was a nice breeze as I got ready.

I was in the heart of activity at the entrance so I was happy about that.

Nothing would stay put on the table so I had to clip or weigh everything down

but at least it wasn't raining.
I drove tent stakes into the ground at each corner so I wouldn't go sailing on the lake.

So as the starting time arrived I was all loaded up and ready to go.

Quite a few questions about the Whey Powder throughout the day.

 The dual Centennial Celebration drew a lot of attention from everyone.

Pre-op Prep Room 

Board of Directors President Mrs Moe Kaplan stopped by to welcome, thank and acknowledge the Cabot Farm Families for their support by being here today.

Sign in table for attending the event

They divided the visitors into groups and did tours starting under the flag pole

and walked around the facilities.

And of course everyone stopped at the Cabot Tent to try the cheese, express their gratitude for us being there and extol the virtues of their favorite cheese.

There was a very consistent line of visitors at the entrance all day.

And of course a very consistent, happy and smiling crowd at the table all day as well, they said I didn't look like I was a hundred years old !

An exciting happy faced crowd so it was a very worthwhile event for all concerned.
You can tell by this crowd which cheese was the favorite of most of the young'ns

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At the closing of the event Executive Director Deb Sawyer (holding the Mic)

and Camp Director Hannah Bogard to her left were lake side giving their closing remarks, which I was not taping of course, but they acknowledged and thanked Cabot for being there which drew cheers and applause from everyone, which was very nice.!!

Following that we all folded the tents, packed up and headed back home and as I was crossing the lake on my way back home, I was thinking well so much for the bad weather day, other than the wind early, and there was nothing cheesy about the day at all, other than what was on my table, turned out to be a beautiful sunny day.

In case you didn't watch the news there was a story about the event on WCAX.

WCAX Broadcast of the day.

Ok Thats it for me & Glad I could be a part of a great event.
Jim
Ovr'n Out.