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Our Website is Being Redesigned
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The web site is getting a facelift! In addition to aesthetically redesigning our website to better showcase our services, we are improving the menu structure for a responsive user-friendly browsing experience. It will be easier for parents, teachers, and user-groups to find information and explore their options. Of course, the site will also be mobile friendly, and it will incorporate a range of accessibility features.
Watch for our new site…COMING SOON!
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As part of our ongoing commitment to impose ourselves less and less on the natural environment around us, Camp Kawartha has initiated a shoreline naturalization project with the Kawartha Lakes Environment Council. Members of the Council have taken a lead role in developing a plan with the assistance of Helen Batten of Basterfield and Associates. The plan illustrates active planting of native trees and shrubs, grasses, creating a “no-mow” zone, and encouraging wildflowers and aquatic plants. Shorelines often suffer by our need to be in the water. Instead, we should see shorelines for what they are – vital components of an ecosystem, linked to water quality, preventing erosion, filtering contaminants, and retaining carbon, nutrients and sediments.
Thank you to the Council members, Bill Ratcliff, Lois Wallace, and Rob Little for their work and willingness to help.
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Pathways to Stewardship & Kinship
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The
Pathways to Stewardship and Kinship model is an exemplar of how to engage children at every stage of their development to help them understand and respect the living systems that support us all. The model is now being
sought out in other jurisdictions, and to our delight, far-afield. Executive Director, Jacob Rodenburg has been asked to speak in September about PSK at the national conference for the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums in Calgary! Congratulations Jacob!
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Our thanks are extended to Jim Moloney, Riverview Park and Zoo Manager & Curator, for sharing the PSK with his colleagues.
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Camp Kawartha Gear Travels Well!
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Heather and Jeffrey Chalmers take Camp Kawartha with them on their trips. Here, Heather is wearing her durable
Camp Kawartha ball cap while the sun is setting in the Moroccan Sahara near Merzouga, Morocco. The cap also visited Portugal on this trip!
Show us where you take your Camp Kawartha gear by emailing a photograph to Susan at
philanthropy@campkawartha.ca, we’d love to feature it on our web site.
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Sloan Public School Provides Accolades
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Our Outdoor Education department often gets compliments, but our guests from Sloan Public School went out of their way to express their appreciation. We are gratified to know that everything from food to programs to staff were so prized. Thank you Mr. Penfold for sharing your reviews!
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Support Sending Kids to Camp
Camp Kawartha's Annual Surf 'n' Turf Gala Dinner & Auction
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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Virginia Woolf
Thanks Virginia, we couldn’t have said it better!
Tickets are now on sale for the
30
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Annual Surf ‘n’ Turf Gala Dinner & Auction! The event is set for
Saturday, June 22
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from 4:30-9:30 p.m. and will feature our always amazing meal, plus those fabulous live and silent auctions. Come prepared to celebrate as we work toward helping send kids in need to have a life-changing experience at camp!
To register online visit
campkawartha.ca/surfnturf, or you can call 705.652.3860 to register over the phone. Tickets are $175.00 per person, $150.00 for Alumni and students. Corporate tables of 8 or more are encouraged!
Bring someone over 90 years and they get in for free!
Help us give a child an opportunity like no other. And here’s to dining well! Cheers!!
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Less than 100 Days to Summer Camp! Register Today!
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Looking for a great summer experience for your campers?
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Please note this will not replace regular contact from Camp Kawartha via email that you will receive regarding Summer Camp.
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Chex TV Visits March Break Camp
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It was another wonderful year of March Break Camp at the Environment Centre. Thank you to all the families and campers who joined us!
Don't forget Summer is coming up and Environment Centre Summer Camp Sessions fill up quickly!
Register Today!
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Spring is on the way and with it comes great seasonal learning opportunities!
Do you want to inspire your students to learn about, appreciate, protect and care for the Otonabee Region Watershed?
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705-652-3860
or
james@campkawartha.ca
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Spring Activities for Kids
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When spring arrives (it officially arrived on Wednesday, March 20th) nature seems to take a deep breath, preparing for the spectacular changes that are coming. Bird chatter is one of those changes, and we will soon see the return of swallows, swifts and nighthawks to hummingbirds, robins and warblers. The chatter escalates because it is time for that all-important mating season.
Consider this year helping one of our little over-wintering chatter-boxes, the chickadee. You can make a chickadee nesting box with your child.
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Camp Kawartha is an accredited, award-winning, not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to the promotion of the highest standard of programming, with a particular focus on outdoor environmental awareness, outdoor and environmental education and stewardship.
Registered
Charity # 12453 9214 RR0001
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705-652-3860 1-866-532-4597
info@campkawartha.ca
campkawartha.ca
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