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Girl Scouts Sell Western Illinois Camp
MOUNT STERLING, Ill. (AP) -- The Girl Scouts of Central Illinois has sold a 1,000-acre camp in western Illinois.

The Quincy Herald-Whig reports that the Girl Scouts sold the Wildwood Girl Scout Center in Brown County to an undisclosed buyer. The camp has been open since 1971, offering camping, horseback riding, hiking and other activities.

The Girl Scouts say they'll use money from the camp's sale to open a center in Quincy for troop meetings. They say as many as 2,000 girls used the camp annually in the mid-1990s, but that fell to about 330 girls in 2009. It costs $140,000 a year to maintain the camp.

The camp's proposed sale brought protests last year from one Girl Scout troop in Quincy. They refused to sell Girl Scout cookies.

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