Guide to summer fun: robots, rockets and watersheds
Monday, June 2, 2008 11:32 PM PDT
By The Daily News
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E-mail this articleIt’s high time for families to be finding fun things for kids to do this summer. The following is a sampling of 4-H activities slated for youth. If your agency or group has summer events you’d like to publicize, please send them to frontdoor@tdn.com or to czimmerman@tdn.com
4-H summer programs are sponsored by Washington State University (WSU) County Extension. For more information, registrations forms and deadlines, contact Jennifer Leach, (360) 577-3014, Ext. 4, or e-mail her at jleach@wsu.edu
4-H Saturday Club: Variety of activities, from 1-3 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays through July 12. For grades 2-8. $10 per day.
4-H Robotics Camp: 1-4 p.m. June 18-20, for grades 3-6. $15 for camp.
4-H State Teen Conference: June 29-July 1, for grade 9 and older. WSU Pullman campus. $125.
4-H/Watershed Voyages Natural Resources Camp: 1-5 p.m. July 7-10, for children grades 3-6. $20.
4-H Rocketry Day Camp: 1-4 p.m. July 21-23, for grades 3-6. $30 includes rockets and supplies.
Camp Picasso
The Morgan Arts Centre in Toledo presents a two-summer camp sessions for kids ages 6-16. The camps use Picasso’s “Blue Period” and “Rose Period” to organize activities in crafts, pottery, sculpture, architecture, drawing, painting, tie dying and silk screening. The first session starts July 14 and the second starts July 21; both run from 9 a.m. to noon Mon.-Thurs. $80 fee covers one week session, camp T-shirt, a light snack and all art materials. Reduced rates available for families. For more information, call Di Morgan, (360) 864-4278.
Longview Parks and Recreation
A full slate of activities for preschool to teens is presented from June through August by Parks and Rec. To find out more about youth sports, free concerts at Lake Sacajawea, Mother-Son outdoors adventures, dance, crafts and much more, go to mylongview.com and choose the link to summer programs.
Class catalogs also are available at the Parks and Rec office, 2920 Douglas St., Longview. Registration opened in May and is on a first come, first serve basis.
Get the buzz with library summer fun
Catch the Reading Bug is the this summer’s theme for all kinds of free events for all ages and families at public libraries in the local area. Please note locations; events happen throughout the county.
Sign up to play the summer reading game and read for fun and prizes! Come visit the Bug Jungle in the Longview Library Lobby, and see live bugs in their habitats -- butterflies, ladybugs, praying mantises, a giant hissing Madagascar cockroach, meal worms and more.
Summer registration begins June 13 at your local library. For more information, visit www.longviewlibrary.org
Cowboy Buck and Elizabeth lead the kick-off at 10 a.m. Sat., June 21, at the Kelso City Hall.
Oregon Shadow Puppets: Presenting “Anansi the Spider,” original shadow play with live music by Deb Chase and Mick Doherty, 2 p.m. Tues., June 24, Longview Public Library
Show time! Bee Movie: The hit comedy film that everyone’s buzzing about! 11 a.m. Tues., July 1, Kelso Public Library
Puppet Show: Longview’s Youth Services Librarian Jan Hanson’s annual puppet tour, featuring ... BUGS! There are three shows, so you can’t miss it:
2 p.m. Tues., July 8, Castle Rock Library
2 p.m. Wed., July 9, Longview Library
2 p.m. Thurs., July 10, Kalama Library
Buggy Magic Louis Foxx: Buzz in for un-BEE-lievable buggy tricks by a master magician. All shows take place Wed., July 16, at these times and locations:
11 a.m. - Kelso Library
2 p.m. - Longview Library
4 p.m. - Kalama Library
Recycle Man and the Dumpster Divers: The “waste band” presents an awesome concert that puts music to the message: Away with waste. 11 a.m. Tues., July 22, Kelso Library
Summer Reading Picnic: Free family picnic with hot dogs, ice cream, drinks, and the acclaimed “Waiter! There’s a Fly in My Song” concert by Eric Ode, from 6 to 8 p.m. Tues., July 29 on the Longview Library lawn.
Parade Day: It’s Kids’ Day at the Cowlitz County Fair, so join your buggy library friends parading to the fairgrounds.
Meet at the corner of Commerce and Florida Avenues in Longview at 10 a.m. Wed. Parade takes place from 11 a.m. to noon, ending at the fairgrounds, where kids are admitted free.
Metamorphosis for teens
Longview Library kicks off its teen program for summer with a rock concert on the lawn, featuring two groups, Beg to Differ and The Other Band, who will open for Out of Order. Free pizza. 6:30 p.m. Tues., June 24.
Anyone going into grades 6-12 in fall 2008 can sign up to read for fun and prizes, get free stuff. Read 10 books, get a free book. No library card needed.
Sign up June 14 after school, in Longview Library or on-line.
Go to www.longviewlibrary.org
Theater Camp in the Gorge
The Columbia Gorge School of Theatre in White Salmon, Wash., announces its 12th summer of actor training for young people. Students may sign up for one, two, four or six weeks of study in acting, singing, dancing, TV/film acting and “the Biz,” in workshops led by theater professionals from across the country.
Students also will perform in a show at the White Hawk Theatre at the Blue Moon Ranch in White Salmon, 90 miles east or Portland. Some shows will also perform at the Bowe Theatre, across the river in Hood River, OR.
Artistic Director and Acting Teacher Jesse Merz, who previously worked in theater in Longview, recently produced three readings of new shows at the Manhattan Theatre Club Studio in New York.
CGST’s new dance director, Alayna Boyton, is from New York City and has performed and choreographed across the country. Her BFA in Performing Arts is from Western Kentucky University. The new musical director Kari Zimmerman, also from New York, just finished a national tour with “Evita,’ playing the role of Eva Peron’s mother. She has performed at the Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in England and earned her degree in voice from Western Washington University.
Find out about the program, fees, scholarships and group rates at www.TheatreCamp.com. For information on the nationwide scholarships and the Columbia Gorge-area scholarship, please call Jan at 509-493-1213 or 1-800-405-3450.
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