LEADERS: After seeing our column on Resting Waters, the Girl Scout camp in Kane, Dawn Campbell Blaisdell of Lewis Run wrote to us about her own camping experiences — and the people who made them special.

She writes, “I would like to make note of two of the greatest Girl Scout leaders: Ida Simons and Ni Carlson. Our troop was Troop 21. We always looked forward to going to camp Resting Waters, and seeing the friends we made from the other troops.

“We’d bring empty cans, to bake in, cook in.

“And our favorite of all was singing around the campfire, telling stories and most of all S’MORES. Marshmallow, Hershey chocolate bar, graham cracker, cooked over open fire. Put together and bite into it. Yum Yum. Dee-lish-us.

“Our crafts were made from old greeting cards. The face of it, you could make a cross or book marker.”

She added that if the front wasn’t written on, you could tear off the back and use it like a postcard to write a letter to family.

“We did a round robin letter, where all in the troop would write a note on it, sign it and pass onto the next person to write and sign, pass on for the next person give to our leader to mail.

“Leaders are best. It takes a special person to be a good leader.”

Dawn also remembers the Girl Scout meetings she would attend in Bradford.

“And we would always write up that we had our meeting, on Friday, at the John Ley Girl Scout House on West Corydon. I would take the article, to Bradford Era on side door, between Era building and at that time Rosen Furniture Store.”

The meeting would be especially exciting when the girls were preparing for camp.

“That special night was a meeting to be ready with our permission slips and etc. to be ready for our trip to ‘Resting Waters,’ a trip you’d never forget.”

BEAR: Gordon Gould gave us a ring on Wednesday to tell us about a visitor he had recently.

“I saw bear tracks on my front porch around 2:30 this morning,” he said.

The hibernation is over.