Officially summer has arrived. Green grass and mosquitos abound, and this signals the emergence of some of our famous summer camps with a few additions over the next couple of months.
I believe the first one we see is the Art Adventure Camp starting mid-July with our infamous instructor, Lisa (who masquerades as an aquatic leader when she isn’t teaching camps and both of which she does very well). The art camp is broken into two age ranges, and I always make a point to poke my head in there a few times during the week because the creations that they passionately construct are pretty darn cool and way beyond whatever I could dream up.
Also happening during that time frame are a couple diving camps led by another infamous aquatic leader, Cherie. These camps will transform you (hopefully) from the kid that just curls their toes over the edge and bounces up and down incessantly while the lineup starts to mutter at the delay (going by my childhood memories) to a dynamic player that flawlessly performs a double flip-back, triple-lutz half-gainer with a twist while the whole pool applauds. I would recommend checking out our leisure guide at the front counter or at www.rdck.ca to get the actual program description, dates and pricing on all our programs and what to expect. Just saying…
We’ve upgraded our previous end-of-July boys camp to a Survivor theme, which has some interesting twists planned within that I’m forbidden to talk about, and we also have a kids drama camp that covers all kind of theatre focused games and culminates in a end of week performance. Drifting toward the end of summer is our Girl Power Camp (which fills up extremely fast) and this year’s theme is “Around the World in Five Days”, which covers various countries sports, games, crafts customs — you get the idea.
Just prior to that camp is a new one for us, the Summer Dance Extravaganza, where three cutting edge dance instructors from Simon Fraser University will be travelling to Creston to do some pretty intense dance training for a couple of youth age groups and times throughout the week. This one also ends the week with a small presentation to friends and family, and possibly autograph signing if necessary.
This is but a taste of what’s happening around here over the next couple of months. Again, check out our leisure guide to see this and many more activities that will make writing your “How I Spent My Summer” essay in September a piece of cake.
Neil Ostafichuk is the recreation supervisor at the Creston and District Community Complex.