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Camp Mak-A-Dream is a cost-free camp for children (ages 6-13), teens (ages 14-18) and young adults (ages 19-25) with cancer and their siblings (ages 6-17). The facility is located approximately 65 miles east of Missoula, Montana on I-90 at the Gold Creek exit, just 3/4 of a mile south of the Interstate. The camp offers a variety of activities including swimming, ropes course, archery, outdoor games, hiking, fishing, crafts, and group cabin chat plus much, much more. In addition, educational workshops and discussions are offered at our Teen Camp and Young Adult Conferences (YAC). You can learn more about Camp Mak-A-Dream at Camp Mak-A-Dream.  Past president Bob Dolly uses a big Komatsu front-end loader to build up the dike that protects a 16-foot-deep pond from a shallow marsh at Broadview Pond. (Billings Gazette photo) In January, 2003, Montana PikeMasters members rounded up heavy earth-moving equipment, then braved wintry temperatures and falling snows to operate it and spend a week building up a dike that was threatening the fishery at Broadview Pond, about 30 miles north of Billings. Under the direction of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, they raised the level of the dike to protect a 16-foot-deep pond that stretches along the railroad. The dike now separates that portion of the pond from a shallow marsh on the other side. The Billings Chapter of Montana PikeMasters spread some Christmas spirit in the waters of Lake Elmo, an urban fishery in Billings Heights. Chapter members came with their boats and then bundled, weighted, transported and then sank Christmas trees in the lake to create new fish habitat for the lake. The Christmas trees were donated as was much of the brick and cable that was used to weight the clusters of trees. The sunken tree clusters should provide hiding cover for fish in the lake.  On October 4, 2001, Chapter Secretary Joe Stenglein presented Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks with a check for an aerator windmill to help the fisheries of Laurel Pond. The pond, which sits on the edge of Laurel, is a popular community fishery and an easy place for youngsters to fish. It was subject to both summer kill and winter kill because of its shallow depth. The aerator should help the fish to survive, grow bigger and please the young fishermen who use the pond. |
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