Spring is in the air and it is becoming easier to get outside and play. One of my major goals at the Boys and Girls Club is to promote a healthy lifestyle through diet and exercise. We have had a mix bag of weather this April, but that hasn’t stopped us from getting outside every day at the LCO Boys and Girls Club.
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Tristan and Sunny enjoying the fire. Only one match to light this well made fire.
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Our forts from last fall were still standing, but we did a renovation and expansion.
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Jayden, Migwan, Kalista, and McCayla were the lead builders in a couch and a bed. We had 15 kids on the construction project.
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Boiling down Sap with Bob. Bob, an ojibwe elder taught the kids the proper way to tap the trees, gather the sap and make the syrup. He taught us the ojibwe and the american names of the different trees and plants in the sugar bush.
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Maria playing the flute![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pDoGv1eEqjM/TbTtMePbDdI/AAAAAAAAA2E/bEhwEOsCKcc/s1600/photo+1.JPG")
Hide-and-go-seek at the Pow Wow Grounds
