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Joseph A. Hines, camp ranger at the Cabrillo Beach Scout Base, surveys the site as his wife, Olivia, and Cub Scout leader Jeff Mitchell talk outside the ranger’s camp house. Hines and Mitchell are opposed to the Harbor Department relocating the camp to make way for a proposed marina.
By Emanuel E. Parker
Staff writer
Members of the Los Angeles Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America say it’s not true they monopolize the Scout camp at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro.
The also say they hope to rally public support to prevent the camp from becoming part of a marina project to be developed by the Los Angeles Harbor Department.
The Harbor Department’s proposed $20 million, 950-slip Cabrina Beach North Basin marina would swallow the 12 to 19 acres now occupied by the Scout camp.
Harbor officials have said they would replace the camp with a recreation area that “would be open to all youth organizations and not be limited to Boy Scout use as it is now.”
Joseph and Olivia Hines, resident camp rangers at the Cabrillo Beach Scout Camp, and Jeff Mitchell, leader of Cub Scout Pack 611C, headquartered at Point Fermin Elementary School in San Pedro, said many organizations use the camp in addition to the Scouts.
The camp site is on city property operated by the Harbor Department, which leases it to the Scouts on a 30-day option lease. This means the department can reclaim the land after giving the Scouts 30 days notice to move.
Mr. and Mrs. Hines and Mitchell said many organizations not affiliated with the Scouts can and do use the camp after first making reservations at Scout headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. Applications are available at the camp.
Besides the Scouts, the camp is used by the Latter-Day Saints (Mormons), YMCA, YWCA, Salvation Army, Free Methodist Church, Utah State University, the San Diego Military Boys School, the Audobon Society, the Mexico Boy Scouts, Hobi Cat Sailing Regatta, Sol Cat Sailing Regatta, the U.S. Army, the Girl Scouts of America, the Sierra Club, the Mariner Leader’s Skippers Association of Southern California, the Central American Boy Scouts, participants in the Little America International Cup Race, St. Marks Lutheran Elementary School, the Cabrillo Marina Museum, and visitors from Canada, Idaho, ….
Scouts — A11, col. 4
Keywords: Bert Keller, Cabrilloa Beach Youth Waterfront Sports Park, California, Camps, Councils, Fort MacArthur, Jeff Mitchell, Joseph A. Hines, Ken Steindler, Los Angeles Area Council, Pete Mandia, San Pedro Harbor West Channel, Scouting
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