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| Adventure Ranch Seeks to Empower Youth Consider taking a walk into a wooded area and using only nature’s surroundings to make a fire. Then try to build a primitive shelter to stay in for the night. It will also be important to scout the woods to discover edible and medicinal plants and bring them back to camp. Plants found can make a great stew by cooking them inside a pumpkin with hot rocks pulled from a fire. This experience may seem like an episode of the reality show “Man vs. Wild,” and it is part of a real-life leadership effort taking place in eastern Missouri. Read more... |
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Alliance for Children & Families Magazine Issue 2 — 2011 Alliance member Great Circle, St. Louis, also helps ease the transition from deployment back to home life. Great Circle is the parent organization of Meramec Adventure Learning Ranch, which worked with an Army base to develop an innovative wilderness and adventure therapy program for active duty military members and their families. Meramec Adventure Learning Ranch also offers kayaking trips for military personnel and their families that are catalysts for reconnection. Read more... |
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ChamberNews Monthly Newsletter of the Steelville Area Chamber of Commerce - August 4, 2011 At first glance, you see graceful Oak trees swaying in the breeze, the rolling green hills of the Ozarks and the majestic bluffs of the Meramec River. But what is really happening is much more beautiful – it is the incredible experience of young lives changing. This is a place of healing, a place of nurturing and a place of discovery. Welcome to the Meramec Adventure Learning Ranch. Read more... |
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