Founded 1928 | Camp Menominee for Boys | Eagle River, WI THE WHAT MADE YOUR DAY EDITION FRIDAY JUNE 22, 2018 What Made Your Day? By CJ Ashley Before taps, all counselors and campers gathered in Wasserman Hall to spend some time reflecting on another amazing day at the friendly confines. JASON kicked us off and discussed how what made his day was when PATRICK MCCORMICK made his birthday speech at lunch. Several different ‘what made your day’ followed as numerous counselors and campers took to the stage. NATE BEERMANN’s day was made by successfully completing a tennis match with fellow camper, ETHAN MANN. JOEY HOFFMAN’s highlight of the day came during the last two minutes of a competitive basketball game in the ’12 and under’ category in ‘King of the Camp’. Finally, the most humorous moment came when counselor JONAH BROWN took to the Everybody laughing together in Wass Hall. stage. What made his day was taking multiple hard losses in basketball to his Cabin during general. JONAH demonstrated his amazing attitude and took this in his stride and was able to have another great day along with the rest of Green Nation. King of the Camp 12 and Under Newcomb By Jake Herman The sun was peeking through the clouds on a picturesque Thursday at Camp Menominee. On the sand volleyball courts, the Thunderbirds took on the Dragons in Block 2 of King of the Camp. As the match began, the Dragons surged out into the lead thanks to their sturdy back line of COLE ADAM and MAXWELL MASON. However, as game one was threatening to get away from the Thunderbirds, they responded with a huge comeback to force a tie breaker. JACK BERGER and his spiking ability made the difference as the T’birds took the first set. In set two, DRAKE ELMAN and CHARLIER EISENBERG helped the Thunderbirds continue their momentum and take an early lead. However, RYAN WEIL and KHAIRI BROWN led the Dragons to fight back to once again leave us deadlocked in a tie. The game winning moment was produced by CHARLIE SANFORD as he made a great diving catch, taking a face full of sand in the process. The New Jordan Spieth By Editor This propelled the Thunderbirds to a 2-0 victory. Great game JACOB BROWN has taken to golf like a duck to everyone, including coaches ISAAC WEISS and ADAM BALTZ. water. At lunch, TOMAS C ADLER stepped up to the P.A to inform all campers and counselors of Birthday Speech By Editor JACOB’s achievements. It was the first time JACOB Yesterday, our youngest camper PATRICK MCCORMICK had ever hit a golf ball and he was hooked from turned 7. Testament to PATRICK’s attitude as he did not that first swing. JACOB improved throughout his want to make this all about lesson and by the end, had successfully won a himself. Instead, PATRICK chipping contest against Tom. JACOB has already confidently stepped into said that he will be back for more lessons with TOM and will be asking the middle of the Mess his parents for Hall to thank all his golf lessons after friends, counselors and Camp. staff for making his day special and tell everyone how happy he was to JACOB smiles as celebrate his birthday at TOM lists such an amazing place. JACOB’s golfing Time for a birthday speech. achievements. Attitude Determination Heart Leadership Spirit Sportsmanship World Cup Scavenger Hunt By Editor World Cup fever is high in Camp at the moment, so Program Manager ETHAN WEISS and Head Counselor JOSH INGRAM decided to create a World Cup edition of the CM favourite ‘Scavenger Hunt’. ETHAN and JOSH hid 20 different country’s flags around camp for each cabin to try find. To find each flag, teams were given a sheet of paper with clues to their location and each flag would be worth different points depending on their distance from Wass Hall. RAY DONG was able to unriddle several clues to help his cabin race towards the flags. JACKSON MERCHANT worked extremely well with his cabin to ensure they stayed together as a team and did not lose any points for splitting up. There were several different tactics on show throughout the Teamwork is the key to success. scavenger hunt. Cabin 3’s ZACHARY FORMAN began working through the riddles in order whereas Cabin 10 decided to go for the flags that were furthest away from Wass Hall. This tactic proved to be the decisive act as once all points were tallied, Cabin 10 won by a single point. Well done Cabin 10; ANDREW MARKS, BEN KITE, JAKE FELDMAN, ERIC GOODMAN, JEREMY BACH, MICKY RACENSTEIN and BECKETT NELSON. 1st – Cabin 10 with 21 points. 2nd – Cabin 15 with 20 points. 3rd – Cabin 6 and Cabin 18 with 13 points. Big 10 Tennis By Coltan Gage Yesterday marked the end of a very successful Big 10 Tennis practice. AIDEN PATRUNO and EMILIANO VAZQUEZ showed off some of their amazing volleying skills, DASH WINDLE NBA Draft Recap (1st Round) By Editor and AARON PELTS Draft Pick Name Team demonstrated their agility and XANDER 1 Deandre Ayton Suns SCHILLER, BRADY 2 Marvin Bagley III Kings WEISS, BRADY KAY 3 Luke Doncic Hawks and BEN LAZARUS Celebrating a perfect shot. 4 Jaren Jackson Jr. Grizzlies had perfect control 5 Trae Young Mavericks skills. Shout out to CONNOR HIRSCHTRITT for winning a 6 Mohamed Bamba Magic free canteen for hitting a cone on the other side of the 7 Wendell Carter Jr. Bulls court. CONNOR hit it so hard it almost went over the 8 Collin Sexton Cavs fence into the courts behind. Thank you to all campers 9 Kevin Knox Knicks for having a positive attitude towards Tennis and a 10 Mikal Bridges 76ers willingness to learn. LUCKY CANTEEN 143. 11 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Hornets 12 Miles Bridges Clippers By Editor 13 Jerome Robinson Clippers Success 14 Michael Porter Jr. Nuggets Completing your first lap around the lake in water- 15 Troy Bron Wizards skiing is a monumental achievement. It takes skill, 16 Zhaire Smith Suns determination, the right attitude and spirit to keep 17 Donte Di’Vincenzo Bucks getting back up to try again. Yesterday PAMELA ADER 18 Lonnie Walker IV Spurs congratulated CHARLIE SANFORD on completing his 19 Kevin Huerter Hawks first lap to a round of applause by all counselors and 20 Josh Okogie Timberwolves campers. Well done CHARLIE. 21 Grayson Allen Jazz 22 Chandler Hutchison Bulls 23 Aaron Holiday Pacers PAM and 24 Anfernee Simons Trail Blazers CHARLIE 25 Moritz Wagner Lakers smiling 26 Landry Shamet 76ers with his 27 Robert Williams III Celtics award. 28 Jacob Evans Warriors 29 Dzanan Musa Nets 30 Omari Spellman Hawks Attitude Determination Heart Leadership Spirit Sportsmanship .