Welcome to the Westford Friends of East Boston Camps

Feb 27 UPDATE: Despite the recent rain and warm weather, Winterfest WILL STILL BE HELD!
We will still conduct the hayrides, have live music and refreshments next to a roaring fire in the recreation hall fireplace, host the nature walks, and have an outdoor campfire. Ice conditions WILL NOT permit ice skating on Burge's Pond or an on-ice ice fishing demonstration, and winter sports (skiing, sledding) will be limited by the amount of snow present.

The day are starting to get longer, but winter isn’t over yet, and it is especially beautiful up at the Camps. Please join us for a celebration of winter beauty and winter activities on Sunday, February 28.

The event will include:

Live Music
Hay rides!!
Ice Skating - SKATING CANCELLED, unsafe ice
Sledding (bring your own sled)- SLEDDING DEPENDENT ON HOW MUCH SNOW FALLS on Saturday/Sunday
XC Skiing (bring your own XC skis)- XC SKIING EXTREMELY LIMITED due to melting
Ski and Snow Equipment Demonstrations
Ice Fishing Demonstration- Equipment demonstration on land, unsafe ice
Nature Walks: Your choice of:
  a walk around the pond with local photographer Frank Winters
     (bring your camera), or
  an upland walk with Bob Shaw. Campfire
Hot drinks and treats in front of the fireplace

If you think you will be able to attend, please let us know at:
Your RSVP will help us plan but is not required for attendance - if you feel like coming on the spur of the moment please join us for the fun!

• Westford Sportmen’s Club
• RJ Bradley’s Ski & Sport Shop
• Starbucks
• BJs Wholesale Club of Nashua

A number of you have asked about the East Boston Camps t-shirts that some of us were wearing at the spring BBQ, which unfortunately are not available. But we will have a limited number of high quality Westford Friends of EBC T-Shirts at the Fall Festival, in sizes Small, Medium, Large, or X-Large, for $20. If you are interested in reserving one, please email

The Friends would like to thank all of you who turned out for the Fall Foliage Festival.

If you have any thoughts about this event, please feel free to contact us at:

• 3 family portrait sittings and prints, from Peacock Photography
• weekend night hotel stay with breakfast for 2 adults and 2 children, courtesy of the Burlington Marriott
• landscape oil painting by Westford artist Laurie Miller
• framed digital print, by Westford photographer Frank Winters
• framed Stony Brook photo, by Westford resident Marian Harman
• watercolor by Bob Frank
• print and frame from Mary Jane Brunelle
• 2 Nashoba Valley Ski or Snowboard lift tickets
• 2 Nashoba Valley Ski Area Witch's Woods tickets
• two 80 minute massages, courtesy of Elements of Burlington

• Fujofilm Finepix JSO 8.2 megapixel digital camera, from Newton MotoPhoto
• desk lamp iPod player, courtesy of Westford Home Lighting
• Christmas tree with delivery, courtesy of Stony Brook Farms
• $100 savings bond plus safe deposit box rental from Enterprise Bank
• $25 gift cards to Bamboo Restaurant
• 20lb bags of Wild Bird Seed from Mackay Hardware
• Black and Decker Gizmo can opener
• 2 large free pizzas from Papa Ginos
• ... and more!

2009 Spring Barbeque

The Friends would like to thank all of you who turned out for the Spring Barbeque. The weather was wonderful (well, up until that thundershower!), and the turnout was overwhelming! We want to thank the musicians, Inimicus and The Roasted Ramblers for entertaining us. We also want to thank the former East Boston Camps campers for the pictures, the stories, and the support. For those of you who entered the raffle, we're sorry that the rain kept us from holding the drawing as planned - we will be drawing the name of the winner at our next Friends meeting on June 15 and announcing the winner shortly thereafter.

For those of you who took the opportunity to join the Friends, we are very grateful for your support. For those who did not have a chance to join but would like to, please Join the Friends now.

Thanks again, and please look for future Friends events to support the Camps.

Check out the photos of the event below and more photos on westford.com.