Volunteers help prepare Camp Ponderosa for winter

SWAN LAKE - On Saturday, Oct. 30 over 60 volunteers helped prepare Camp Ponderosa Veterans and Retreat Center for winter. They brought shovels, axes, weedwackers, wheelbarrows, tractors, chainsaws and two portable sawmills. TJ Wendt and Steve Perrone worked under camp managers Allen & Linda Erickson's direction to get the much-needed projects done before winter comes.

Camp Ponderosa is located across Highway 83 from the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation District office at mile marker 59. The West Montana Veterans Stand Down & Food Pantry, founded by the Ericksons, owns t...