Registration for Camp 56 youth summer day camp now open Camp to

take place weekdays July 10-21

Shaw Local News Network

Learning Stage, the education committee of Princeton Theatre Group, will be offering Camp 56, a two-week summer day camp for youth entering third grade through 2023 junior high graduates from July 10 through July 21 at St. Matthews Lutheran Church, 416 Dover Road in Princeton.

Participants will have the opportunity to experience and take part in live performances while learning about many aspects of producing a show.

Camp directors are Reid Tomasson, a 2023 graduate studying filmmaking at Columbia College in Chicago, and Jenna Tremblay-Reilly, a graduate of Rhode Island College in musical theater who later went on to earn her master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling with a specialization in expressive arts therapy and drama therapy.

Tomasson’s professional acting credits include Paramount Theatre (Aurora) and Festival 56 with community acting and directing credits at Stage 212, Engle Lane Theatre and Illinois Valley Community College. Reid has directed children’s theater at Stage 212 for two years, Camp 56 in 2022 and has served as a children’s theater choreographer in more than a dozen productions at Stage 212 and PAC.

Tremblay-Reilly is a crisis clinician for Child & Family Services and RISE Counseling. She works at Barrington Christian Academy as the chair of the

Performing Arts Department, where she is a K-12 full-time performing arts teacher, director/choreographer of middle and high school plays, musicals and showcases.

The director team is working closely with Artistic Directors Jimmy Calitri and Tim Seib to produce an immersive experience.

The camp is in cooperation with Festival 56, which has been in located in Princeton for the past 20 years.

Camp directors will engage campers in a series of activities including song, dance, makeup, costuming, trips to the Festival sets and visits with cast and crew. The culmination of the camp experience will be an onstage appearance as part of the chorus ensemble in five to 10 performances of the Festival 56 production of “Something Rotten.”

The camp fee is $125 per child and need-based scholarships and family discounts are available. Registration forms can be picked up at the theater or by emailing learningstage@festival56.com.

Forms also can be accessed online at festival56.com under the education tab. Forms, along with registration fees, can be mailed to the Festival box office at 316 S. Main St., Princeton, IL 61356.

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Obituaries

Erna Anna Buchholz

Born: February 26, 1926 in Bad Orb, Germany

Died: May 14, 2023 in Peru, Illinois

Erna Anna Buchholz, 97 of Peru (formerly of Granville) passed away on Sunday, May 14, 2023 at Manor Court, Peru. The family will have a private service at Dysart – Cofoid Funeral Chapel, Granville. Fr. Patrick DeMeulemeester will officiate. Cremation rites have been accorded. Burial will be in St. Joeseph’s Catholic Cemetery, Spring Valley.

Erna was born on February 26, 1926 in the beautiful town of Bad Orb, Germany to August and Maria Weisbecker and was welcomed home by her sister Margot. She lived in trying times during the war in Germany and met her husband Bruno there in a cafe’. She married Bruno Buchholz on September 9, 1949 and spent 61 wonderful years together. Erna and her husband immigrated to America with their son Roland in 1954 and built a life for their family in Granville. Erna’s whole life was for her family and making a loving household. She was a fantastic cook and baker and loved hosting all her children and grandchildren. Holidays with everyone home was her highlight and had many laughs playing cards with her children at the kitchen table late into the night. She was compassionate and loving beyond compare, had kind words for everyone, and always a smile. Erna enjoyed planting flowers and traveling. She and Bruno made numerous trips back to Germany. Erna was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

Survivors include her two sons, Roland (Debbie) Buchholz of Burlington, WI and Tom (Donna) Buchholz of Crystal Lake; two daughters, Heidi Buchholz (Norman Dasenbrook) of Rockford and Carmen (Jeff) Shevlin of Peru. Also surviving are 9 grandchildren; Lauren (Greg) Gromoski and Derek Buchholz, Allison, Daniel, and Monica Buchholz, Spencer Humpal, and Erika (James) Sprong, Scott (Karina) Shevlin, and Ryan Shevlin and 14 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Bruno in 2010.

Online condolences may be made to her family at www.dcfunerals.com