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Back To Basics
Three private camps are emphasizing
the outdoors to attract campers.
fun and safety, we instill the values that
our environment and our selves are our
best resources.
"Self-reliance, resourcefulness and liv-
r nearly a decade, over-night
ummer camp has given chil-
ing harmoniously in a group are the
lessons of the Tamakwa experience."
dren an alternative to their
The camp has expanded its canoe
year-round urban lives.
tripping, acquiring a bigger fleet of
Camp puts them in touch with the
canoes, state-of-the-art camping gear,
basics of life — drawing on their inner
resources and strengths, using their abili-
and more trippers (canoe guides). "In
ties to work as a team, and
recent
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"Considering we belong
Bale,
to such a hi-tech, comput-
e have
erized generation, this
gone
seems more important
from a
today than ever," says
staff of
Laurence Cohn, director of
six trip-
Camp Maplehurst. "Once
pers and
again, traditional camps are
a total of
appealing to both parents
about 40
and children and, across the
trips all
board, camps are looking to
summer
offer low-technology activi- Canoe paddles are everywhere at Tamakwa. to a staff
ties."
of 15 trip-
Camp Maplehurst, Tamakwa and
pers who
take out more than 100 trips."
Camp Sea-Gull are among the many
camps who are ambitious about sticking
Tamakwa added a new woodworking
program last year, with a focus on the
to their philosophies. Nourishing kids'
camp and the Algonquin area. Kids
souls and providing safe physical and
emotional environments were among
carving their own canoe paddles is now
their top goals.
part of the daily summer landscape.
Doing their best to ignore technology
The camp also is expanding its ropes
and trends, some camps are greeting the
course and climbing wall. With equip-
new millennium by bringing kids back
ment built into the trees and the natural
to the basic camp fundamentals. Yet to
wooded environment, the fun builds
continue meeting the changing needs
teamwork, self-confidence and sense of
and interests of today's children, private
accomplishment, Bale says.
A new sports complex, including an
camps are contimmlly renovating and
adding equipment and programs.
in-line hockey rink and new basketball
court, has been added.
At Tamakwa, in Algonquin Park,
Ontario, "Our facility and physical
At Camp Maplehurst in Kewadin,
plant are top notch; we've entirely re-
Mich., "we provide a place to form
built them in recent years," says Dave
friendships, where children learn to live
Bale, co-senior director. "But aside from
together and solve conflicts," says
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