Camp Connection 2019

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Index of Advertisers Bald Eagle Sports Camps ......................................................... 10

Morrissey-Compton Educational Center .................................... 7

Camp BizSmart ....................................................................... 21

Nike Tennis Camps................................................................... 15

Castilleja School ...................................................................... 18

Oshman Family Jewish Community Center.............................. 16

City of Mountain View Recreation Division ................................ 9

Palo Alto Art & Soul ................................................................. 16

City Of Menlo Park Parks & Recreation Department .................. 7

Palo Alto Community Child Care .............................................. 23

City Of Palo Alto Recreation Department................................. 13

Palo Alto High School Speech & Debate Camp......................... 16

City Of Palo Alto Earth Day ...................................................... 19

Run for Fun Camps .................................................................. 15

Community School Of Music And Arts ..................................... 14

Sand Hill School (Children’s Health Council) ............................ 11

Dance Connection Palo Alto ...................................................... 4

Stanford Explore...................................................................... 14

Destination Science ................................................................. 14

Stanford Jazz Workshop .......................................................... 17

Emerson School......................................................................... 7

Stanford University Baseball Camps ........................................ 18

Growfit Sports Camp ............................................................... 22

Stanford Water Polo Club ........................................................ 14

Harker School ............................................................................ 2

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Kim Grant Tennis Academy ........................................................ 3

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Animal adventures

Farms, shelters provide hands-on interactions with livestock and pets

by Christine Lee and Linda Taaffe

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he Midpeninsula’s agricultural heyday may be long gone, but that hasn’t prevented hundreds of local youth from spending their summers mucking out stables, milking cows and collecting eggs from chicken coops on local farms each year. The Palo Alto area is home to a handful of farms that host summer camps aimed at connecting youth to nature and their surrounding environment through hands-on interactions with the animals that live there. And for those who prefer to pamper and care for indoor pets in a more urban environment, now there’s a camp for that, too. The nonprofit Pets In Need is expanding its animal camp program into Palo Alto for the first time this summer, providing youth the opportunity to learn about animal care and training.

Organizers from various camps said providing youth the opportunity to interact with animals is important in passing along a sense of responsibility and respect for nature’s creatures and their habitats to the next generation.

Below is a list of some local camps that involve animals and nature.

Pets In Need

Far left: A shelter dog learns basic commands from a camper during a training session at Pets In Need. Photo courtesy of Azeel Buksh, Pets In Need. Above: Campers feed the barnyard animals at Hidden Villa. Photo courtesy of Hidden Villa.

environmental botanists.

By the end of each session, she said, campers should be well-versed on how to properly leash, walk and groom an animal.

Hollander said the most important goal of the camp is to teach the next generation how to responsibly care for animals so that maybe one day there won’t need to be shelters because every animal will have a home.

“We give kids the tools on how to be successful pets owners and what they can do to help out in order to care for their pets,” she said.

She said it’s been amazing to see the impact that the program has on both the kids and pets.

“The kids get to see the whole process of how their work has paid off when a shy dog comes out of its shell,” Hollander said.

Each weekly session operates from 10 a.m.to 3 p.m. weekdays.

Summer sessions start in June. For more information, go to petsinneed. org/youth-programs.

games and the opportunity for each camper to work one-on-one each day Under the supervision of the Pets In with a shelter pet.

Programs manager Marsa Hollander, Need team, local youth ages 8 to 14 will get to socialize and train dogs and who launched the camp programs at the group’s Redwood City shelter other pets at Palo Alto Animal Serthree years ago, said the Palo vices starting this June. The Alto camps will include nonprofit animal rescue dog-training sessions, group, which recently guest speakers who teamed up with the will educate campcity of Palo Alto to ers about different operate the animal careers that involve services shelter, is working with aniexpanding its camp mals and presentaprograms to the East tions by K-9 officers, Bayshore Road site.

Deer Hollow Farm professional dog trainWhile each weeklong ers, animal behaviorists session has a slightly difSince Deer Hollow Farm is located and veterinarians, as well as within Rancho San Antonio Open Space ferent focus, camps are filled with educational activities, crafts and field trips to the nearby Baylands led by Preserve, youth enrolled in its Summer 6 • Summer Camp Connection 2019

Wilderness Camp spend a lot of time surrounded by nature while working with domestic farm animals, as well as exploring wildlife habitats in the 3,988acre park. And because campers are required to leave behind all electronic devices, the only sights and sounds they’ll experience are those at the preserve.

During the one-week camp sessions, which run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m every day, campers ages 6 to 14 years old spend a portion of each day interacting (continued on page 8)

Top: Working with chickens and other farm animals is part of the daily routine at Deer Hollow Farm. Photo courtesy of Deer Hollow.

Far left: A camper socializes a cat during a summer camp session at Pets In Need. Photo courtesy of Azeel Buksh, Pets In Need.

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Two girls bond with a goat at Jasper Ridge Farm. Photo courtesy of Alyssa Houk, Jasper Ridge Farm.

about the wildlife that lives there.

And, on occasion, Morgan said campers have been able to catch a glimpse of bobcats, coyote, deer and other wildlife (continued from page 6) (from a distance) in their natural habitats.

“It’s nice if you have a kid that just with goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits, chickens and a cow as part of their daily “chores” needs to take a break, reconnect, find something special,” Morgan said. on the 10-acre working farm.

Registration for Deer Hollow Summer Participating in activities such as milking a cow and collecting eggs helps Wilderness Camp opens on March 2 for children “really get that connection of Mountain View residents and March 18 where their food comes from,” said Jes- for the general public. For more inforsica Morgan, senior recreation coordi- mation, go to mountainview.gov. nator at Deer Hollow Farm, which is Jasper Ridge Farm operated by the city of Mountain View.

“They may discover things like that Jasper Ridge Farm provides local milk they’re served cold every day is ac- youth the opportunity to experience tually hot when it comes out of a cow,” farm life firsthand while socializing she added. “It’s such a reconnect to the animals used for the nonprofit’s animalbasics in life: You’re learning about assisted therapeutic programs offered where your food comes from, connect- year-round to those with special needs. ing with nature and having special moThrough the farm’s Youth Volunteer ments with livestock.”

Program, children ages 6 to 18 help care After tending to the farm animals, for the group’s animals and maintain the campers spend time hiking in the sur- farm, which is located at Webb Ranch in rounding open space preserve, learning Portola Valley.

Whether it’s taking the sheep out for walks, grooming the bunnies or playing with chickens inside their coop, all of these interactions help socialize the animals so they are calm in the presence of people, said General Manger Alyssa Kouk.

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Animal adventures

Campers at Pets In Need team up with dogs to train and socialize them.

Photo courtesy of Azeel Buksh, Pets In Need.

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often brought offsite to children’s hospitals, assisted living facilities or homeless shelters to provide comfort and unconditional love to those who might be battling life-threatening illnesses or facing other life challenges.

Animals don’t mind if you’re homeless, have lost your hair from cancer treatments, or if you have a disability, Kouk explained.

Being in the company of animals has also proved beneficial to many of the volunteers, she said.

“I always see so many smiles,” she said. The farm often becomes their “happy place,” she added.

When not socializing the animals, the volunteer youth help with barn chores, such as scrubbing water buckets, painting tools and mucking out animal stalls.

“We’re just trying to teach youth in the community that understanding of giving back and volunteering and helping people in need,” Houk said, “and at same time, what it means to take care of animals, and the gentleness and kindness animals can give.”

The Youth Volunteer Program operates year-round and gives youth the opportunity to help out on the farm about twice a month. Jasper Ridge Farms also offers more traditional, weeklong summer camp programs for children with special needs. For more information, email info@jasperridgefarm.org or call 650-703-5199.

wilderness and farm camps, in particular, aim to show campers how everything is interconnected.

“We want children to understand where the things they encounter in their daily lives — such as food and clothes — come from,” he said.

“Many of the youth have never been to a farm so their experience with food starts in the grocery store.” Sidel added.

“Their experience doesn’t go back to the source, so coming to a camp with farm animals they get to meet in person is a powerful and joyful experience to them.”

Depending on the age group and the particular camp, activities can include a combination of everything from backpacking and archery to farm chores, cooking and arts and crafts.

A camper milks a goat as part of her “farm chores” Hidden Villa. Photo courtesy of Hidden Villa.

Sidel said he hopes that children will become more curious and reflective about the things they encounter in their Hidden Villa daily lives after interacting with animals For the past 75 years, Hidden Villa’s and experiencing life on the farm.

“Former campers from our camps 50 summer camps have given children the opportunity to spend time on its Los Al- years ago can still vividly recall their tos Hills farm surrounded by animals experience with farm animals at the and the wilderness. Its programs, how- camp,” Sidel said. “It’s because it’s so ever, expand well beyond learning about stimulating; it engages all five senses.”

Hidden Villa offers a variety of day farm animals and nature.

Launched in 1945 as the country’s and overnight camps that range from first multi-racial summer camp, the or- five days to a month. Registration for ganization has long emphasized respect all summer camps is open. Programs for others and the environment, as well fill up quickly. For more information, as what it means to live in a community. go to hiddenvilla.org. Q Many of the camp activities, such as Associate Editor Linda Taaffe can feeding the animals, picking raw wool be reached at ltaaffe@paweekly.com. and taking the goats on a walk, help teach responsibility and leadership About the cover: Campers at Pets skills.

In Need team up to socialize and train shelter animals. Photo courtesy Marc Sidel, senior director of of Azeel Buksh, Pets In Need. programs at Hidden Villa said the

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NO JAZZ EXPERIENCE REQUIRED ON THE STANFORD CAMPUS FINANCIAL AID AVAILABLE

For ages 17 and under. Aid application deadline is March 1, 2019.

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Stanford Baseball Summer Camps

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DIRECTED BY THE STANFORD BASEBALL COACHING STAFF

Baseball School and Games Camp (Ages 6-12) Session #1 4 Day School & Games Camp June 17 – 20, 2019 (Monday-Thursday) 9am-4pm 5 Day School & Games Camp June 17 – 21, 2019 (Monday-Friday) 9am-4pm Session #2 4 Day School & Games Camp July 15 – 18, 2019 (Monday-Thursday) 9am-4pm 5 Day School & Games Camp July 15 – 19, 2019 (Monday-Friday) 9am-4pm Session #3 4 Day School & Games Camp July 22 – 25, 2019 (Monday-Thursday) 9am-4pm 5 Day School & Games Camp July 22 – 26, 2019 (Monday-Friday) 9am-4pm

Advanced Kids Camp (Ages 7-12) July 29 – August 2, 2019 (Monday - Friday) 9am – 4pm

NEW! Skill Development Camp (Ages 13-16) August 5 – August 7, 2019 (Monday - Wednesday) 9am – 4:00pm

Advanced Hitting Camp (Ages 12-18) August 9 – August 11, 2019 (Friday-Sunday) 5pm – 7:30pm (Friday) 10am – 12:30p (Saturday and Sunday)

FOR DETAILS AND REGISTRATION GO TO

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SATURDAY

APRIL 13 9AM-1PM RACE STARTS AT 9AM PALO ALTO BAYLANDS

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EXTRA PERKS Earn special coupons, discounts, or raffle tickets for biking to the event and/or bringing in unwanted athletic shoes to recycle.

Celebrating Palo Alto’s 125th Birthday!

JOIN US FOR...ELECTRIC VEHICLE RIDE & DRIVE | LIVE MUSIC ARTS & CRAFTS | ZOO ANIMALS | OUTDOOR GAMES | BIRD WALK | RAFFLE | ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC SAFETY RESOURCES...and much more!

5K/10K RUN & WALK PLUS KIDS DASH Runners, walkers, kids, dogs—all are welcome in this friendly race and walk for water conservation.

PRE-RACE PACKET PICKUP DAY: Friday, April 12 at Palo Alto City Hall, King Plaza

SAVE THE DATE

SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2019 For details and to register, visit: cityofpaloalto.org/earthday Share your stories and pics! #GreatRaceforSavingWater #BaylandsEarthDay Summer Camp Connection 2019 • 19

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June 3rd – July 26th • Adventure Riding Camp for rising 1st - 8th

• Two Wheelers Club for rising K - 3rd

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Camp BizSmart

10-Day Product Design & Business Pitch Competition (ages 11-15) Check out the website for the latest info on all program offerings, dates and locations.

Santa Clara University Silicon Valley Community Foundation San Mateo July 7 - 19 June 17 - 28 July 21 - August 2

BizSmart Global Workshops 6-Day Teen Designathon (ages 16-19)

10-Day Alumni Accelerator (ages 12-16)

Santa Clara University July 14 - 20

Santa Clara University July 21 - August 2

BizSmart Global International Workshops Design Thinking Workshops Around the Globe (ages 11-19) Check out the website or contact us for information.

Workshops ďŹ ll quickly! Sign up early to get your preferred dates.

Apply now at CampBizSmart.org or call (408) 472-6701 or (408) 472-2861

SPORTS CAMP During School Breaks - 4 - 13 year olds

OUR CAMPERS DISCOVER NEW PASSIONS, ENGAGE IN A VARIETY OF SPORTS AND GAMES AND LEARN THE VALUES OF TEAMWORK AND SPORTSMANSHIP

Drop-in Days Available Cost: $95 per day, $425 per week Camp Hours: 9am-4pm Complimentary Care: 8am-9am & 4pm-6pm For more information: Info@growfitpe.com | 650.394.6176 | growfitpe.com/sh | 3151 Edison Way, Redwood City 22 • Summer Camp Connection 2019

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IT’S TIME FOR THE BEST SUMMER EVER The Y provides quality summer programs for children of all ages and abilities to • Learn team skills and play a new sport • Develop social skills and make new friends • Have fun in a safe and inclusive environment Choose from over 300 affordable day camps and other summer programs for children ages 5–15 located throughout Silicon Valley.

For an overnight camp experience, check out YMCA Camp Campbell.

Financial Assistance Available

Search & register for a camp near you

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