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Category: Children’s Summer Camp

The Director’s Desk

By Dan King, Executive Director In July of 1959, Camp Ondessonk welcomed its first summer campers. Many, many individuals pitched in to prepare for opening day. Donors generously provided resources…
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Boys Week in the Shawnee National Forest

By Amanda Bailey and Sarah Petrowich Boys Week, 2018, has campers encouraging themselves to dance in the rain. Through many rounds of rainy day games, activities in the mud, damp…
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Update Camp Ondessonk Hosting Haunted Hayride and Trick or Treat Event October 27 & 28

Update-Due to the weather forecast for Friday, October 27th, the Haunted Forest Hayride and Trick or Treat event will be cancelled Friday evening. However, the event on Saturday, October 28th…
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Volunteer Program Thrives in 2017

  By Edwin Cook OZARK, IL:  Since the start of Camp Ondessonk, volunteers have been a driving force to the functionality and success of the Camp [Ondessonk] experience.  Many of…
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Camp Spirituality

Camp Spirituality- “We have received this world as an inheritance from past generations, but also as a loan from future generations, to whom we will have to return it!” Pope Francis…
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Ondessonk Snapshots

Ondessonk Snapshots-  To submit your Ondessonk Snapshots contact Tony Vrooman at [email protected]   Walker Selby poses with the twelve chairs he and his fellow scouts built for camp    …
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