Patti’s Post about Geocaching
Patti is having trouble getting onto the blog site, so she sent this to me to post. We should be able to get her back on line soon. Until then…
It’s great when a dream comes into reality. At Marketplace for
Entrepreneurs in 2007 the ND Nature and Rural Tourism Association had Lance
Brower from Napolean share about “Geocaching”. Geocache hobbiests coming to
Bowdon would be a great thing!! We introduced the idea during our 2007
Duckfest but the youth didn’t seem to get too excited about coming to the
session. Then we saw in the Harvey Herald where the Fessenden 5 and 6
grades received GPS units as part of a grant . We shared our geocache
information with their teacher, Janice Kanwischer, and she jumped at the
chance to have Lance Brower come to Fessenden and teach her class about this
fun pasttime. The result was a geocache box buried at a rural Bowdon farm.
There are all kinds of fun items in the box including Duckfest items,
freebies to be used in town, and trinkets. The coordinates for the sight
can be found by going to www.geocaching.com. Be sure to check out this and
another Bowdon set of coordinates when you head this way. Six Bowdon
students in total have been involved and I’m excited for them. They now
have become leaders in the planning for Bowdon’s future.
Be sure to check out the geocaching site at http://www.geocaching.com/