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APAT SHALOM PAY CAMP

21 /2YEAR5 — KINDERGARTEN BOUND

Session I: June 19 - July 14
Session II: July 17 - August 4

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2 Morning Program
3 & 5 Morning Programs with Supervised Lunch
3 & 5 Full-day Programs with complimentary lunches on Wednesday
Extended-Hours Available
Weekly Themes • Water May with Wading Fools
Nature • Crafts & Cooking • Outdoor Adventures

"Special Visitors": animals, puppeteers,
musicians, naturalists and story tellers

Also: Parent-Toddler and Vuot For Me"

For applicationo,
call Eileen Weiner, Camp Director
&51-5105

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A RECREATIONAL DAY ./AMP
FOR CHILDREN 3- 11 YEARS OLD

JUNE 19 AUGUST 1 1

TWO-WEEK SESSIONS/BEFORE & AFTER CARE AVAILABLE

ON THE BEAUTIFUL GROUNDS OF

THE ROEPER SCHOOL

2190 NORTH WOODWARD • BLOOMFIELD HILLS

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Day camps fulfill a big niche in youngsters'

summertime activities.

Adat Shalom's warm, experienced staff

Camp DrieVITATIOVI

Day-Time Fun

SUSAN TAWIL
Special to the Jewish News

anyard keychains, knock-

h ockey,
ockey, and nature trails.

Likewise at the West Bloomfield
Jewish Community Center's "tradition-
al" Camp Ruth. The beautiful camp
grounds behind the JCC have pavilions
for music, nature, and arts and crafts
instruction, a ropes course, a pool, a
miniature golf course, and a pond big

Ahhh, the memories of day
amp! It's the primal antidote
for the summer bore-
dom blues, keeping
kids busy and happy
throughout the long
sunny months.
The tried and true
summer fun formula of
swimming, sports, and
arts and crafts has been
standard day camp fare
for generations. Each
facility, however, culti-
vates its own "camp
spirit," often reflecting
the physical grounds of
the camp and/or the
make up of the camper
population.
Max Sandberg makes a friend at Adat Shalom Day Camp.
Some camps are heavi-
ly trip oriented, especially those with
enough for canoeing and fishing.
limited camp grounds and those for
The regular day camp program at
more adventuresome older campers.
Cranbrook also stays on-site, utilizing
The Jewish Community Center's
the newly built "natatorium" for swim-
Teen Travel camps for 5th-9th graders
ming, and the 360 acres of rolling
feature daily field trips for activities
grounds, athletic fields, and notable
such as miniature golf, horseback rid-
facilities at Cranbrook for other activi-
ing, and in-line skating.
ties.
Beth Yehudah and Bais Yaakov
Increasingly, there is a trend toward
campers take 2-3 trips per week, going
specialization of camper interest, most
boating, bowling, strawberry picking,
notably in the Jewish Community
to Marvelous Marvin's, the Ann Arbor
Center and Cranbrook camps.
Hands-On Museum and, most years, a
New this year, the JCC will offer
trip to Cedar Point.
"Imagitivity" camps in the Jimmy
Children at Camp Simcha take sim-
Prentis Morris Building in Oak Park,
ilar weekly trips, with the highlight trip
with week-long sessions focusing on
of the summer a ride in a (tethered)
various art and science topics. Groups
hot air balloon.
include "Ocean Exploration," led by a
Ganeinu Day Camp, in Farmington
marine biologist; "Magic," taught by
Hills, and Summer Impressions Day
professional magicians; "Comedy," led
Camp, in West Bloomfield, both have
by a Second City improv troupe; "Air
five acres of camp ground. They take
& Space," utilizing a mobile planetari-
some field trips during the summer,
um; "Rocketry" and "Nature Camp."
but mostly stay on-site.
Also offered by the JCC are one-
At Willoway Day Camp in Wixom
week "Maccabi Pro Sports Camps,"
— with 20 acres, including nature
targeting sports such as golf, rock
trails, two pools, an archery range, and
climbing, canoeing and kayaking, fenc-
a go-kart track — there is little need
ing, and kickboxing, along with the
for trips. Other than waterskiing, pon-
less exotic football, volleyball, baseball
tooning, and similar water sports
and basketball concentrations. A JCC
which are held on nearby Walled Lake,
"Camp of the Arts" theater, led by
all activities take place at the camp site.
Nancy Gurwin, will produce Grease