The summer meeting was a blast and I had lots of fun!!! The weather was hot and the bugs weren’t as bad as i thought they would be. The people were awesome!!!

Sixteen of the 17 members of the NYLC gathered in southern Illinois near Carbondale the weekend of July 25-27 to hold their summer meeting. The group camped in tents and participated in outdoor education activities led by Curt Carter, director of the Land for Learning Institute. Although it was hot and humid, the group kept cool swimming, canoeing and kayaking. They also helped cook some fantastic campfire meals, made presentations on their individual projects, selected candidates to be elected as officers, learned about historic primitive tools, participated in a session on how to conduct meetings using parliamentary procedure, got better acquainted with raccoon circles and other activities and enjoyed fishing and visiting. Photos of their activities are included.

National Youth Leadership Council at the Summer Meeting in Southern Illinois

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Hey yall,

Well your 2010 NYLC Team had their summer meeting at Little Grassy Park in Illinios!!! It was a great time in the outdoors!!! We met our three new members and had some “family” fun camping!!!! It was awesome!!!!!!!

NYLC Summer Meeting 2010 was a great success. After ariving at camp and getting to know the new members we did team building skills. We did “racoon circles” and went on a “blind” hiking train. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it is where you form a human train and everyone closes their eyes but the leader. Then the leader is in charge of getting you to your destination. This was quite funny. We also took nominations for a new leadership team for the NYLC; so in a few weeks you will have a new officer team for your NYLC. The next day was the 8 mile canoe trip on the lake but before that we had training on how to conduct a proper meeting by using parlimentary procedure. On the canoe trip we learned that everything was just “right around the bend” as Capt. Curt would say. After that we were all extremely tired so we went back to camp, ate supper, then went to bed after hearing a few campfire songs. Sunday was the last day, therefore we all ate breakfast and then said all our final goodbyes. We are all looking foward to Pheasant Fest 2011 in Omaha, Nebraska where we will meet again. Check the website soon for the announcement of the new NYLC leadership team and we hope we see you at Pheasant Fest 2011!

Hey fellow ringneck and whistler members. Hope you all are having a good summer. While you all are doing summer activities the Pheasants Forever/Quail Forever National Youth Leadership Council is holding its summer meeting June 25-27, 2010 in Jonesboro, Illinois. Check in later this weekend to see updates from our meeting and all the activites we are participating in.