An opportunity to help prepare a local campground for Girl Scout Camp takes place this weekend. The Scott family donated the former Honey Bend campground to the Girl Scouts of Central Illinois. This will be the first summer for Camp Soar Resident Camp. Camp Soar Director Jessica Yeager says the theme for this summer's camp is "Choose Your Own Adventure."

"The girls will get a packet in the mail, prior to coming to camp. They will have three choices for each session and they'll get to tailor their camp experience to exactly what they're interested in. So there are 25 different options for camp sessions and it really just runs the gamut of interests and every girl should be able to find something that they will enjoy."

Before camp begins, however, some clean-up and preparation needs to take place. Some of the work includes painting picnic tables and fenceposts and gardening work. Yeager says volunteers for the clean-up are needed.

"The camp is really just such an amazing donation to Girl Scouts and now that we're offering community programs, it's just a great experience for the public and for Girl Scouts to have. We're open to the public year-round for camping, we offer these community programs for kids to come to that aren't necessarily Scouts, so it really is just a great asset for the community and Scouts as well. We would like to be involved with the community, we'd like the community to be involved out here, so we just feel like it's a win-win situation for everyone involved to have this awesome property for all of us."

The Clean-up Day takes place from noon to five on Saturday at the camp, located in Honey Bend. Lunch will be provided for all volunteers. Also, a community Earth Day celebration takes place at the camp from 10am to noon on Saturday for children of all ages. Five dollars covers activities, crafts and snacks. For more information about the celebration or clean-up, you can contact Jessica Yeager at 217-720-2089.Thomack 4/6/15