Happy Easter, Kern Family!
As or families gather for the holiday, we are all grateful for the support and love we receive year round from all the Kern family worldwide.
Enjoy this great weekend with your families, welcome spring with open arms, and get ready for summer!
(Shameless plug time: sessions are selling out, and this is a huge registration weekend. Don’t get shut out. Only a $75 deposit will hold your spot. www.mycampkern.com)
Today is the YMCA of Greater Dayton’s 2011 staff retreat. All of the directors from the Dayton Y are at Camp Kern, spending the day relaxing and getting rejuvenated for another year of great work at the Y.
Todays speaker was Harvey Alston, a former football coach, educator, and inspirational speaker. Harvey spoke to the ability of all people to be their “best”. Harvey’s energy and enthusiasm are infectious.
Thanks, Harvey for your time and stories.
Thank-you YMCA of Greater Dayton for being such a great place to work, and for building into your staff.
Check out www.harveyalston.com to learn more about Harvey.
To learn more about all of the great programs offered by the YMCA of Greater Dayton go to www.ymcaonline.org
We are so excited for the newest Ranger’s Apprentice book, which is being released today! Â Ranger’s Apprentice, Book 10: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja, is the final book of this great young-adult series. The series follows the adventures of Will Treaty, a Ranger in training, who masters the arts of archery, horsemanship, and diplomacy.
Ranger’s Apprentice Camp will be one of Camp Kern’s two fully-themed camps. Â Come join us for a week of living in the Ranger’s world of horses, forest and stealth!
The program is offered:
Session 3 – Coed – July 3-9
Session 8 – Boys Only – August 7 – 13
Camp Kern has collaborated with Penguin Publishing to create an online resource for other camps who may want to offer a similar program! Â This has been a great experience for the Camp Kern team, as we are one of two official Ranger’s Apprentice camps in the nation.
Click Here to check out Camp Kern’s Ranger’s Apprentice Page
Hooray! Today, our new archery targets arrived. Purchased through money received for Camp Kern’s outstanding year in 2010, these are some greatly needed program materials.
Each year literally THOUSANDS of arrows are shot by campers, and finding good targets that can hold up to the abuse isn’t easy. These were recommended by the National Archery In The Schools program. We will experiment with some straw bale targets at our elk archery range, but the main range needs more mobile targets, and these should work great.
Keep your eyes peeled, as we have more coming (hint: it’s not more targets, but you use them for archery…)
For everyone who was here to experience Ozone Zipline Adventures second weekend of the season, this past Sunday was something to remember!
Apparently, all across Ohio the weather was breaking records. Â According to the AP,
The National Weather Service says Sunday’s high of 84 degrees in Dayton topped the old record for April 10 of 82 degrees, which had been on the books since 1905.
Check out the rest of the story here, and we can’t wait for more days like Sunday to show up!
Never say that we don’t stretch our donation dollars here at Camp Kern! Â Along with the 22″ widescreen computer monitors, new keyboards and new mice…the Kesling Media Center just got some SWEET radio equipment!
The new equipment includes:
Here are some pictures of the whole thing set up. Â NOW we’re ready to make some serious radio shows!
Check out the previous blog post about the Media Center, and see pictures, HERE.
So, we are considering some new program ideas…and this is one of them!
www.pickleball.com
It’s a mini paddle game, and we’d put it on the multi-purpose courts.
Has anyone played it? Â Is it the most awesome thing ever? Â Is it completely stupid? Â If you’ve ever had Pickleball experience (or are a pickleball professional) let us know!
Today is the opening day for Ozone Zipline Adventures for our 2011 season!
Ozone has been a huge success story for the YMCA, a way for us to keep our Outdoor Education rates FROZEN from our 2008 rates, and to bring some good news to our region’s schools.
10 ziplines, thousands of feet of fun, local history education, ecological instruction and just good, plain fun make Ozone an experience not to me missed! Â Over 10,000 guests all agree that there is no better way to spend an afternoon outdoors.
Registration must be made prior to attending. Â Check out www.ozonezips.org for dates, tours, rates and online booking.
2011 here we come! Â Zip on!
