Photo of a sack race between campers at Summer Advantage camp.
With summer vacation at the door, many parents may find themselves at the crossroads of panic and potential with how to help keep their kids occupied for the coming months. Stress no further and peruse the following summer camp options, just a few of what is being offered this summer in Garfield County, to see what may be best for your soon-to-be camper.
CMC Kids’ Summer Art Camps
There are a handful of spots left for the first segment of CMC’s arts camps beginning on June 14 and inspired by Paris. Education coordinator Annmarie Deter said the theme of this year’s camp is world travelers, and programming will be offered for children from ages 3.5-7 from 9:30 a.m. to noon, and camp will be from 9:40 a.m. to 4:10 p.m. for kids ages 6-14.
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Glenwood Springs Elementary School is the home to a community art-project cross over thanks to Music teacher Emma Leake. Since the school still has its students separated by cohort, Leake said she was looking to come up with an art project with the GSES artistry fellow, Delaney Meyers, that would unify everyone.
“We wanted it to be centered around some kind of idea where the kids were all coming together. Even though the kids were making their own individual feather, when it went into the wings it would have a cohesive concept,” Meyers said.
Leake came up with the idea after a trip to downtown Glenwood where the chamber has multiple sets of wings on display for it’s “Find Your Wings” campaign. The “Find Your Wings” campaign is a joint project of the Downtown Development Authority, City of Glenwood Springs and Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association, and the idea came from local business owner Chrissy Lee-Maness of Homsted. Angie An
The Roaring Fork School District will have an online registration option open for kindergarten students beginning March 8, a news release stated. There will also be the traditional, in-person registration from 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. April 16 at the school parents plan on having their student attend.
Both registration options will be done on a computer, but parents only need to do one or the other, not both, the release stated. In order for a student to begin kindergarten this fall they must be five years old on or before Oct. 1. Full or half-day kindergarten is free for local families and a copy of the student’s birth certificate and immunization records should be submitted at registration or prior to the first day of school.
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A recent encounter with one of the many area teenagers YouthZone has taken under its wing was affirmation for Lori Mueller that, 44 years strong, the youth services organization she has led for the past nine years has an impact.
“I was in the Rifle office just before Christmas, and there was a young man in the corner on his laptop doing his homework,” Mueller recalled. “He said, ‘this is the best place I can go, because I know I can get help if I need it. And, you have internet.’”
It was one of those “ah-ha” moments that come every so often working with youth, she said.