This summer we will be celebrating 30 fantastic, amazing, superb, extraordinary, life changing, memorable years at Island Lake Camp!  What better way to celebrate than to host a reunion right here on our very own grounds in Starrucca, PA!  We will entertain this fun-filled weekend at no cost with lots of your favorite activities, our delicious camp food, and special events (Did somebody say “Revival night”???)

We are so pumped to host a reunion at camp for alumni over the age of 21 once the regular camp season has ended.  Please be sure to email Wendy at wendy@islandlake.com if you can join us for the reunion.  She must have your email address in order to send you updated info as the reunion approaches.  Here are the details for this special weekend:

Who:  All Island Lake Alumni over the age of 21.  Alumni’s children are welcome, as are husbands/wives.

Where:  Island Lake Camp/50 Island Lake Rd./Starrucca, PA/18462

When:  Friday, August 21st- Sunday, August 23rd, 2015  (Try to arrive in the afternoon by dinner time.  We will serve meals up through breakfast on Sunday.)

Cost:  No charge.  You just need to provide your own transportation to/from camp and bring your own linens.

RSVP:  Email Wendy at wendy@islandlake.com to RSVP.  Saying you’re attending on our Facebook events page is not an official RSVP and you will not be added to our list.  Please email Wendy directly.

We would love to see all of our alumni at the reunion to celebrate this special milestone with us.  ILCUTHERE!

Hey teenagers, are you ready for another exciting 3rd session trip? That’s right, this summer our adventure takes us to Boston!

There are only 3 requirements for you to join us on this 4 day/3 night trip: 1. You must be entering 9th grade or up (CIT’s included). 2. You must be registered for 3rd session. 3. You must be prepared to have tons of fun!

We recently sent out a mailing to all families with campers entering 9th grade and up. That mailing included a trip enrollment form along with other important details.

If you are not currently registered for the 3rd session but would like to go on the trip, please have your parents contact us to add the session. Keep in mind that there’s limited space on this teen trip and many families sign their children up as soon as they receive the mailing.

Looking forward to a fantastic trip to Boston and Martha’s Vineyard!

Now that 2015 is here, many of you are starting to think about camp and your children’s travel plans.  In order to facilitate a smooth travel day, we’d like all flying campers to arrive and depart from NEWARK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT within the same time frame, as close to 12 o’clock noon as possible.  By keeping flights within these parameters we are able to ensure that our campers are at the airport for a minimal amount of time.  Please contact Wendy prior to booking your children’s tickets to confirm flight times:  wendy@islandlake.com or 954-688-9527.  Upon booking your children’s flights, please e-mail Wendy a copy of their tickets.

All South Florida campers should fly from Fort Lauderdale to Newark together on the same JetBlue flights.  We have not yet decided whether we will have an adult escort the children on Opening Day (June 27^th), but we will let you know once a decision is finalized.  If your children are flying to camp on a changeover day (July 16^th or August 4^th), there will be no escort to fly with them so please book your children as unaccompanied minor if under the age of 15.  On dates of travel with no escort, our staff will meet your children at the arrival gate at Newark Airport.  We will have staff names for you closer to the date of travel.  Same details apply for return flights from Newark to Fort Lauderdale.

More airport details will follow in the spring.  For now, we’d like you to book your children’s flights before the rates increase and the seats fill.  The Florida flights are as follows:

TO CAMP:  Ft. Lauderdale to Newark  Jet Blue Flight #306  Depart 9:35am & arrive 12:30pm        FROM CAMP:  Newark to Ft. Lauderdale  Jet Blue Flight #505  Depart 1:30pm & arrive 4:22pm

UNACCOMPANIED MINOR:  When booking flights, please make any necessary “unaccompanied minor” arrangements for children under the age limit specific to each airline.  Children who fly as unaccompanied minors are permitted to be escorted by an Island Lake staff member from their gate upon arrival and to their departure gate for their return trip.  We will provide a staff member’s name for you in June.   If your children are older and there are no unaccompanied minors on your children’s flight, our staff will meet those campers at the security checkpoint upon their arrival.

Please send Wendy a copy of your child’s itinerary once you have booked the flights and unaccompanied minor reservations.  You can reach Wendy at wendy@islandlake.com or  954-688-9527.  In June, we will send additional information along with Island Lake t-shirts for your children to wear on the plane to camp.  We look forward to making the travel days as smooth as possible.  Thank you!

We’re excited to tell all of our camp parents that this summer we will be working with Bunkline Outfitter for all of your camper clothing needs.  Remember, Island Lake is not a uniform camp so anything you’d like to purchase is completely optional.  Bunkline will start their road show at the end of February in New York with details below.  We will also remind you of their road show in your February Island Laker newsletter.  We will include a pamphlet about Bunkline in your winter folder and then you will be able to go directly to their website at www.bunkline.com.  We will let you know once you can order directly from their website.  The following are their road show details:

BUNKLINE OUTFITTERS  800-435-6888

Come to the show to receive FREE SHIPPING on orders placed at the show only.
SATURDAY, FEB 28, 2015 WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK
HYATT HOUSE hyatthousewhiteplains.com
101 Corporate Park Drive 914-251-9700
White Plains, NY 10604
9 AM – 4 PM

SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2015 LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK
HOMEWOOD SUITES BY HILTON homewoodsuites3.hilton.com
CARLE PLACE-GARDEN CITY 516-747-0230
40 Westbury Avenue
Carle Place, NY 11514
9 AM – 4 PM

SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2015 PARSIPPANY/WHIPPANY, NEW JERSEY
HYATT HOUSE HYATThouseWhippany.com
1 Ridgedale Avenue North 973-775.3064
Whippany, New Jersey 07981
9 AM – 4 PM

Come and try on your camp clothing – see how it fits
– feel the material. Make getting ready for camp FUN!
We request you to make an appointment. If you don’t have an appointment you will
have to wait until we can help you. Appointments come first. Don’t wait to make
your appointment as the times fill up quickly.
• It may be easier to try on clothes if your camper wears a tank top and shorts or
leggings under their clothes
• Do not bring sick children or parents.
• In case of bad weather or unforeseen problems please call the hotel. We will notify
anyone who has an appointment as we will have your phone number. If you do not
have an appointment please call the hotel to confirm the show.

We hope you all had a wonderful New Years celebration.  New Years is a great time to look back at your entire year to reflect.  We hope many of our Island Lakers took time to reflect on their summer experience at camp, with much anticipation of what’s to come this upcoming summer.

With that said, here’s our own reflection of last summer with a variety of photos that we blogged throughout camp.  Enjoy and again, happy New Year!

All of is at Island Lake would like to take a moment to wish all of our camp families a very Happy Hanukkah and an early Merry Christmas.  We hope you all enjoy the holidays with your loved ones.

Wishing you all the best,

Bev, Mike, Matt, Wendy, Craig, Trip, & Dustin

With the holiday season upon us, why not give the gift of Island Lake Camp to your children?  If you have not yet registered your child for summer 2015, please don’t hold off any longer.  Some bunks are already full in certain sessions and we’d hate to have to turn your children away from bunking with their friends.  This inevitably happens every summer and we’d really like to prevent that from happening to any of our “happy campers” this year.  The only way to assure that your child will be placed back in a bunk with their friends is to enroll them now, before it’s too late.

Registration forms are sent out with your newsletters monthly to families who have not yet enrolled for summer 2015.  If you no longer have your enrollment form handy then you can go ahead and print one here right off of our website.  Just click the link at the top of this page that says “Families” and then click the link on the left hand side of the page that reads “Forms & Mailings”.   The “2015 Enrollment Form” is right there in a pdf file for you to open, print, fill out, sign the back, and return to our NY office.  We’ll then enroll your children and mail you a confirmation shortly thereafter.

So what better gift can you give your children for Hanukkah or Christmas than the gift of ILC?  We may be biased, but we think camp is the greatest gift any child could receive.

With that said, we wish all of our Island Lake families, returning and new, a very happy holiday season.  May the upcoming festivities bring you joy, love, laughter, family bonding, and most importantly, lots of gifts!  (Wink wink!)

Happy holidays to all!

Fondly,  Your Island Lake Family   (Bev, Mike, Matt, Wendy, Craig, Trip, & Dustin)

We hope our Island Lake families had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  With winter just about here, it is our hope that your children still have camp on the brain and are continually sharing their wonderful ILC summer 2014 memories with you.  Our countdown for next summer has already kicked into gear as the opening day of camp will emerge upon us before we know it.

Our camp reunion on November 22^nd was a huge success!  Screams of excitement filled the air as campers and staff embraced one another.  We had a fantastic turnout, including children who flew in from other parts of the country just to see their camp friends.  The reunion never seems to last long enough though.  Time flies when we’re having fun catching up with many of our Island Lakers.  Check out our reunion photos posted right here on our website, on our Facebook page, and on our Island Lake app.

A reminder to all families, returning and new, don’t forget to read our monthly newsletters.  They are located right here online, as well as in your regular postal mailbox at the start of every month. Our newsletters provide important information for you, including enrollment and availability updates.

Speaking of enrollment, if you have not yet registered your child for summer 2014 but plan to do so, please, please, please do not put it off any longer.  Some bunks are now completely full.  We truly do not want to turn away our loyal campers, so let’s avoid that from happening.  You can register your child with the registration form mailed to you with your newsletter or you can download the form here on our website under “Island Lake Families” and then “Forms & Mailings”.  For those of you who registered your campers prior to December 1^st, keep an eye on your mailbox (the snail mail kind) for your children’s special edition ILC t-shirt that will arrive shortly after the New Year.
We hope you had a great Thanksgiving and we wish you and your families a spectacular holiday season!  Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, and a happy and healthy New Year to all!  ILC U THERE!

Hey campers, staff, & parents, have you seen the link on our homepage for our new virtual tour of Island Lake?  If not, check it out & take the tour right now!  Just click our logo at the top right of this page to take you to our homepage and then click the “Virtual Tour” at the bottom of the page.  You will feel like you’re back at camp once again.

Hey parents, check out this article from the Huffington Post,…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mitch-and-stephanie-reiter/why-parents-are-thankful-_b_6181484.html