Rochester Post Bulletin 10/27/1997
Jamie Swanson has been playing and hiking in Camp Kahler since she was 9 years old.
That's why 12-year-old Jamie, her 10-year-old sister, Elizabeth, and her 12-year-old friend, Hope Amundsen, had circulated a petition among Camp Kahler neighbors for the past month. Jamie was hoping the buyer of the camp southeast of Rochester would keep it intact and not chop it up for housing.
``It's been too much fun'' to play in the woods of the 70-year-old camp for it to be turned into a subdivision, said Jamie.
Her worries appear to be over. The 80-acre property was sold at auction for $240,000 Saturday and its new owners, Dean and Teresa Waldof of Rochester, plan to build a single-family home there within a few years, preserving the rest of the densely wooded site.
``It is just a gorgeous piece of property,'' Dean Waldof said. ``We want to try to keep it as much in that condition as it is now.''
Dean and Teresa met several of their new neighbors after the auction and ``we're elated'' at what's to come, he said.
Dean is an engineer at IBM and Teresa owns Puzzles Plus Fun Shops in Rochester's Apache Mall and in La Crosse and Eau Claire, Wis.
