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An International Flavor
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FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1990
SUSAN GRANT
Staff Writer
A
new Tamarack
Camps summer pro-
gram mixes camp and
travel with an international
twist.
Earlier this week, 32 teens
from four countries left on
Tamarack Camps' Specialty
Travel Trip.
For the next four weeks,
campers will split their time
between Camp Maas in Or-
tonville and trips to Wash-
ington, D.C., Pennsylvania
and northern Michigan.
With Camp Maas as home
base, the teens will tour
Washington, D.C., for six
days, take a three-day white
water rafting trip in Penn-
sylvania and visit
Tamarack's Camp Kennedy,
a former hunting retreat in
the Upper Peninsula, for five
days.
David Share, a 9th grader
at West Bloomfield High
School, said he is looking
forward to the traveling, es-
pecially the white water raf-
ting trip.
Share originally planned
to go to Specialty Village,
but signed up too late. He
isn't complaining.
The travel trip "sounded
more interesting to me than
the other," he said.
The program gives Jaimee
Green, a 9th grader at West
Bloomfield High School, a
chance to travel and enjoy
camp at the same time.
Usually, going to camp
means she is unable to
travel with the rest of the
family.
But the opportunity to
make friends was what con-
vinced Jaimee to join the
specialty trip.
"I want to meet a lot of
new people," said Jaimee,
who does not know anyone
else on the trip. "I want to
meet all the new kids and
see what life is like where
they live. I think it will be
fun."
Creating Specialty Travel
Trip gave those 9th and 10th
graders who could not par-
ticipate in the overcrowded
Specialty Village program a
new way to spend their
summer, said Jeff Metz,
Tamarack Camps' assistant
executive director.
"The idea was to give it an
exciting twist not found in
Specialty Village," Metz
said. "I think it is an oppor-
tunity for teens to travel and
see a part of the United
States they have never
seen."
In addition to the travel,
the trip features an interna-
tional mix not found in other
Tamarack programs.
Although French, Soviet
and Israeli teens have been
involved in Tamarack, they
had always been a minority
among the American
campers, Metz said. But the
Specialty Travel Trip mixes
a group of 12 Americans,
nine French teens, 10 Soviet
Jews who recently arrived in
Detroit and one Israeli.
"The opportunity for a
cultural exchange is the
most exciting part of it,"
said Metz, who hopes the
trip will spark life-long
friendships. "American kids
will learn what life is like in
other countries." ❑
Operation Exodus
Starts In Ann Arbor
At the opening event for the
Ann Arbor Operation Exodus
campaign, $149,065 was
pledged as part of an interna-
tional project to raise $3.6
billion worldwide to settle as
many as 300,000 Soviet Jews
in Israel in three years.
Organized by the Jewish
Community Associa-
tion/United Jewish Appeal,
the Ann Arbor campaign has
a fund raising goal of
$380,000 in pledges by Sept.
30, payable over the next
three years.
Irving Nussbaum, owner of
New York Carpet World and
the keynote speaker at the
event, stressed the urgency of
raising funds to aid the hun-
dreds of thousands of Soviet
Jews who have applied for ex-
it visas.
Temple Israel
Sets Fund-Raiser
Temple Israel will host a
summer celebration of good
food, wine and music 7:30
p.m. Aug. 11.
Twenty
four
area
restaurants will provide ap-
petizers, entrees and desserts
with a selection of one hun-
dred wines served by area
distributors. The evening will
include a silent wine auction,
raffle prizes, band music by
Mel Ball's "Intrigue" and
strolling musicians in the
courtyard.
The Art of Food and Wine is
an annual fund raiser for
Temple Israel. There is a
charge. For information, call
the Temple office, 661-5700.