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Celebrities are just part of this season's plans
at the JCC Day Camp.
LONNY GOLDSMITH
Staff Writer
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Keshet (second- to fifth-graders).
Those programs range from $250 to
$735 per session.
The JPM also offers four one-week
programs that aren't offered in West
Bloomfield: Young Chagall Art Camp,
Wet and Wild Camp, Computer
Camp, and a Sports Variety Camp,
which are $160-170.
Some of the biggest interest has
been in the JCC's Maccabi Pro Sports
Camps. Fourteen sports are offered,
two or three per week. Five new sports
are making their debut this summer:
yen if a 13-year-old doesn't
like golf or basketball, learn-
ing the game from a super-
star may help to get him
turned on. Enter Tiger Woods and
Grant Hill.
Their one-day appearances (Woods
during the week of Aug. 3, Hill the
week of Aug. 10) at Jewish Communi-
ty Center Day Camp programs high-
light what will be the camp's most suc-
cessful season of enrollment.
The Kahn JCC in West
Bloomfield has 2,102 kids signed
up thus far. There are 150 at the
Jimmy Prentis Morris JCC in
Oak Park. Parents have registered
their children for 6,213 camper
weeks, up 1,000 weeks from last
year.
"We've dramatically upgraded
the grounds, and increased what
we offer to the campers," said Stan
Trompeter, the camp's director.
A slide has been added to the
pool at Camp Ruth, behind the
More children than ever will be at this sum-
Kahn JCC, and an obstacle
mer's JCC Day Camp.
course for younger kids has been
constructed to go along with the
14-station ropes course built last year
NFL flag football, kickboxing, golf,
for the older kids.
horseback riding and lacrosse. Half of
While the present looks promising,
the sports are held at off-site facilities.
Trompeter is hoping for more in the
The popularity of pro golfer Tiger
future.
Woods this year has drawn 120 kids
"Our first concern is with the reno-
to golf, and while the other first-year
vations of the JCC and what we do
programs have also drawn well, in-line
with the campers if the weather is
hockey has gotten considerable inter-
bad," he said. "We will have three
est, with 112 enrolled.
pavilions built for next year that house
"We had to cut the number off at
150 each, which would be all of the
some point," said Trompeter. "Soccer
kindergarten through fifth-graders.' ,
Zone (where the camp is being held)
Trompeter also looks forward to
has four rinks, but we didn't have any
cleaning the pond and possibly build-
more room for more kids."
ing a bridge that would lead to an
Football and rock climbing, con-
island there.
ducted at Planet Rock in Pontiac,
The camp offers two sessions, June
kicked off on Monday.
22-July 16 and July 22-Aug. 14. Both
"I play a lot with friends and want-
the Kahn and JPM Centers offer
ed to learn more," said 8-year-old
camps for three age groups: K'Ton
Zach Ainsztenin, \Nrho's at the football
Ton (2 1/2 to 4-years-old), Chaverim
camp. "I'm having fun so far, and it's
(kindergarten and first-graders) and
not even my favorite sport."
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