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- Bluebird Day 2007
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Bluebird Day 2007
On Saturday, April 7th, over 300 children and adults crowded into the Gopher Campfire clubhouse to participate in the 25th annual Bluebird Day where they learn about the habits of bluebirds. They also get to build a bluebird house to take home. The club served over 300 hot dog lunches to all participants partially through the generosity of Hutchinson’s CashWise grocery.

Virgil Voigt, the organizer of this annual event, along with Richard Smith presented a slide show about the life cycle of bluebirds to an overflow crowd in the clubhouse. They learned that bluebirds are members of the thrush family of birds and are related to the robin. At one time, bluebirds were a vanishing species until organizations like Gopher Campfire and the Hutchinson Bird Club took steps to provide them reusable nesting sites.

After the presentation, the kids moved out to the screened in portion of the club to build their bird houses. Fortunately, the club had blocked the windows with plastic and added portable heaters to take the chill off the 35 degree outside temperatures.

As the pictures below will show, the kids had a great time pounding nails into the pre-cut pieces of their bird houses. By 2:00 pm there were only 50 houses left from the original 300 sets. It was a real treat watching the joy-filled faces as they accomplished this task.

A BIG thank you goes to those volunteers who were involved in making this annual event a BIG success. Some of those volunteers (and we are sure to forget some) are Dale Kenning, Robin Dolezal, Bruce Dolezal, Leon Goldsmith and Randy Flaig - who provided the carpentry know-how; Rocky Lambert and Joleen Nowack and their kitchen crew who served all those lunches; Richard Smith who helped with the program; and the generous contributors – CashWise Grocery, Stearnswood, Simonson Lumber, DockRite and Spruce Ridge Resource Management.

Ray Wight, member

Come and Get It!	Chow Time
Giving Instructions	Poundin' Nails
Look What I Made	Proud House Builders
Lots of Busy People	Another Crowd Shot
Teamwork	More Teamwork
Finishing Up

Bluebird Day 2006
The event was held at the clubhouse on April 1, 2006. All kids and grownups had a great time.

Check back for pictures and details.

Bluebird Day 2005
The event was held at the clubhouse and was a great success. All the kids (and grownups) had a great time. If you missed it this year, make plans to come out next year.

Below are some of the pictures from the event. Click each to view a larger image.

Everybody In Action	Swing That Hammer
Proud Kids	Smiles All Around

Last Updated: 11-11-2007