../CC Summer Camps
A Camping tradition
5fic.e 1935
1998 JCC
SIMMER
CAMPS
Something fun for everyone!...
ayatron
(CAMP OF THE ARTS)
Ages 7 - 17 • Kahn Building
Two four-week sessions
This camp, directed by
Nancy Gurwin, offers
intensive training to help
campers appreciate and
understand the inner workings
of theatre.
Nleyuchad
(ONE WEEK SPECIALTY CAMPS)
lst-5th grade • 4th-9th grade
JPM Building
Campers have their choice of
four different specialty camps
including:
Young Chagall Art Specialty Camp
Wet & Wild Specialty Camp
Computer Specialty Camp
Sports Variety Travel Camp
(CAMPER'S CHOICE)
4th-9th grade • Kahn Building
Two eight-week sessions
Campers get to choose one
morning and one afternoon
activity and design their own
summer of fun. There are a wide
variety of activities including:
computers, art, tennis and
many more!
Session I • June 22-July 16
Session II • July 20-August
Transportation provided from designated areas.
For a detailed brochure, please cal one of our two
convenient locations in West Bloomfield pug 661-1010
or in Oak Park (248) 967-4030
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EdItoR's NoTe
Of course, I'm a skeptic to
here are a number of things
begin with, and I'm sarcastic, too
in life I will never do. VII
—
hardly a prime candidate for a
never taste shrimp (I keep
master (or even a novice) psychic.
1 kosher). I'll never appear on "Bay-
Usually.
: watch" (for oh, so many reasons).
Several weeks ago I had a
1 I'll never bungee jump. I'll never
strange
dream which has lingered
I be able to do more than basic
with me. In fact, it began as a
c--/
1 math. And I'll never buy anything
thought
as
I
was
falling
asleep.
It
from the "Principal Secret" beauty
was late, and I was exhausted. It
line — you know that stuff Victoria
had been a warm day, a soft kind
I Principal sells on infomercials.
of
warm rather than those fierce
I don't have anything against
ones that come in the middle of
1 Victoria; she looks great. It's just
the summer, and I had left the
1 that despite her sincerity, I don't
window open much of the after-
believe her expensive creams are
noon. My children had played
any different than the cheap stuff I
outside in the sandbox, looking
get at the,drug store.
for worms and bringing them into
Actually, I don't want to buy
the garden, "where they will be
anything ever sold on any infomer-
safe."
In short, it was nothing
cial, although I am often tempted.
extraordinary — and everything
In fact, I don't like infomercials,
extraord i nary.
but I watch them. Yes, it's strange.
That night, as I was falling
But how can you not be mesmer-
asleep
beside my husband, who
ized by the fake hair Ron Popeil,
was stroking the-face of our sweet
I Mr. Infomercial himself, spray-
Talya between us, I began to
: paints on heads? Or how about
think about how remarkable —
that couple who must appear on
breathtaking — it is that every
1 a good 25 infomercials, enthusi-
inch of this child, and of all chil-
astic as all get-out about every-
dren,
and of all of us, once was
: thing from mops to juice makers?
contained in a particle so minus-
I give these people credit. They
.
cute
it cannot be seen by the
: are good. They draw me in. But I
naked eye. I tried to imagine the —\
am strong. I will not buy — that is
mere
size of it, like a drop of
1 my mantra.
water, holding within the potential
The only infomercial that doeSn't
of a human being — everything
1 even whet my appetite is the one
from the bones and muscles
for psychic hotlines. First of all, I
to
the brain and all its capabilities
I don't believe these are "master
— and I was left astonished.
psychics." Second, have you ever
It was like witnessing a
noticed that what they tell is noth-
miracle.
ing you don't already know?
The next day I felt different, as
Master Psychic: "I see you are
: though I had found a treasure: the
falling in love."
ability to see the extraordinary in
Caller on commercial: "Wow!
the ordinary. And I, who never
How did you know?"
considered herself very spiritual,
Master Psychic: "And you're
suddenly
felt closer to God, and I
wo
to o n:dering whether he loves you,
: was grateful, and content, and full
of wonder. ❑
Caller on commercial: "You are
1 right on target!"
1 Well, what really has the caller
learned from this $3.99 a minute
1 conversation? That she's in love
and concerned? But she knew this
from the start, right?
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Elizabeth Applebaum
AppleTree Editor