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Chimney Corners Camp : Becket chimney corners camp "YMCA Summer Camps"

Chimney Corners is a single-sex girls camp that acts as a sister camp to Camp Becket. It is situated about one mile away from Becket, on Smith Pond. Chimney Corners offers many opportunities for young girls, including horseback riding, tennis, soccer and many other sports and arts activities. The camp, directed by Shannon Donovan Monti, is divided into three different age groups: The Junior Unit, for girls ages 7-12; The Intermediate Unit, for girls ages 12-13; and the Senior Unit, for girls ages 13-14.

Many girls start going to Chimney Corners at ages seven or eight and end up returning to camp every summer until they are 13 or 14. Girls older than 14 can take part in one of the youth travel programs, then become an aide in the Aides Program or travel to a South Dakota Reservation in a program called REACH (Reaching, Educating and Caring for Humanity), and then become an Assistant Counselor and Counselor. Some of the oldest Chimney Corners staff members have been to the camp for over 13 years.

Initiated in 1991, the primary goal of the REACH Program is to enable teens to develop leadership skills through a service-oriented experience, based in a Lakota Sioux Native American community in South Dakota. The services our teens will provide may involve physical labor, humanitarian service, or a combination of both, and are designed to heighten the importance of volunteer service for the benefit of others. The REACH Program incorporates visits to pow-wows, Badlands National Park, Wounded Knee, Mount Rushmore, and the Crazy Horse Monument.

Located in the southwestern corner of the Cheyenne River Reservation, participants will stay in the Red Scaffold community center. Red Scaffold is a small town consisting of 15 -30 homes, churches, cemeteries, and playgrounds with a population of approximately 100 - 150 people. REACH groups will also partner with the Sioux YMCA located in the town of Dupree.

The Aides program at Chimney provides the opportunity for around 30 young women to connect with each other for eight weeks. The girls live in one building called the Aides Quarters with their leader, provide services for the camp, participate in leadership training programs, and interact with the campers. The Aides program involves many traditions, including the important process of a name selection. Each Aides group must come up with a name with the word "aide" in it, such as "Invaiders" or "Illuminaides." The Aides will also have to write a song to go with their name. Most songs reffer to events of the summer and include some of the Aides' inside jokes. Both Becket and Chimey Corners Aides often say that they will never forget their Aides summer. Almost every Aide or former Aide will agree that their Aide's summer was the best summer of her life (as said in the Incineraide's song) and they all reffer to their fellow Aides as sisters.

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Chimney Corners Camp Aides Names:
2008- Scintillaides
2007- Jubilaides
2006- Invaiders
2005- Incineraides
2004- Exhiliraides
2003- Brigaides
2002- Discombobulaides
2001- Tornaidoes
2000- Yippie-Ai-Aides
1999- Millenniaides
1998- Renegaides
1997- Milky Waides
1996- C.I.Aides
1995- Illuminaides
1994- Ricochaides/ 1990- Shaides (Shades)
1989- Decaides
the first Aides Group to have a name was the Band-Aides