Recreation department keeps children busy during summer months
Published 12:00 am Wednesday, July 22, 1998
By MICHAEL KIRAL / L’Observateur / July 22, 1998
DESTREHAN – “I’m bored. What is there to do?”That question is as much a part of summer as heat waves and swimming pools. Parents are always looking for ways to keep their children occupiedduring the long, hot summer days.
The St. Charles Parish Recreation Department Summer Camp providedparents an answer to that age-old question this summer, providing a variety of activities at a rate cheaper than most babysitters.
Campers, ranging in age from 5 to 12 years old and divided into age groups, participate in a variety of indoor (arts and crafts, card games and board games) and outdoor (basketball, softball and volleyball) activities.
Each activity lasts 50 minutes to keep the campers from getting bored with one activity.
Movie days are held twice a week and special days, such as pizza day, are held throughout the six-week camp. On Wednesdays campers go to thebridge parks for physical fitness exercises. And campers are picked to beCampers of the Week, getting a prize for being selected.
The camp is conducted by junior counselors, JTPA counselors and Counselors in Training, those who are too old to attend the camp but want to learn how to be counselors.
The camp opened the second week of June and concluded July 16. Cost forthe camp was $25 and included two T-shirts. The camp was held at sixsites throughout the parish. There was also a special education site at theHarry Hurst Middle School site with one of the highlights being Water Day, where the campers could have fun in the Slip and Slide.
“It helps kids in the community,” Ulysses Frontha, senior counselor at the Harry Hurst Middle School site since 1991, said. “The recreationdepartment does a good service for caring for the kids. They can dosomething constructive over the summer and stay out of trouble. TheCounselors in Training can learn job skills and find how it is in the real world. It is a learning experience for them as well as the kids. It is awonderful program for the kids.”
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