Star Tribune Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:56:00 GMT
Summer camp for thousands of young people will be preserved as park
Trust for Public Land buys Camp Fire camp in Chisago County, will preserve as open space. A Camp Fire property that for decades was a summer destination for thousands of Minnesota kids would be preserved as a regional park in a $3.8 million deal with the Trust for Public Land. The fate of Camp Ojiketa, on the shore of Green Lake at Chisago City about 30 miles northeast of St. Paul, worried hundreds of former campers who rallied to save it. Calling themselves the Ojiketa Preservation Society, they started an e-mail campaign and raised $28,000 to help save the land from development. ... The Minnesota Council of Camp Fire USA decided two years ago to sell Ojiketa because it no longer could operate four camps, said Andrea Platt Dwyer, the council's executive director. Camp Fire had hoped to sell the land for about $5 million, but a declining real estate market made that impossible, she said. Camp Fire is "thrilled to sell the land in a way that's going to preserve it," she said.
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