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NEWS ABOUT: summer camp

summer camp stories: 12 news summaries

(Newser) - Some 18 years after a Pennsylvania camp counselor was shot in the head and raped as she died, cops have charged the son of a famed Metropolitan Opera bass with the brutal murder, the New York Post reports. Jeffrey Plishka, 46, has long been suspected of the crime, and... More »

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New York City • murder • rape • Pennsylvania • Metropolitan Opera • DNA evidence • summer camp • Jeffrey Plishka • Paul Plishka • Laura Ronning

 Flu Battles at Camp 
 Spark Fears for 
 School Year 

Purell abounds; symptomatic kids sent home

Jul 27, 09 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - With a swine flu resurgence expected in the fall—before an H1N1 vaccine is available—schools are getting a head start on fighting the disease, the Los Angeles Times reports. The scene at summer camps may provide a preview: Hundreds of youngsters in Southern California alone have been sent home... More »

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health • disease • children • school • college • university • University of California • epidemiology • summer camp • swine flu • H1N1 virus • sleepaway camp

Swine Flu Leads to Unhappy Campers

As outbreaks spread like wildfire, counselors quarantine kids

Jul 23, 09 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - H1N1 may not have ended civilization as we know it, but it’s ruined a lot of stays at summer camp, the New York Times reports. Camps are dry tinder for flu outbreaks, and many have canceled or postponed this year's sessions. Others have been split nearly in half... More »

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parenting • public health • children • quarantine • Maine • summer • Tamiflu • summer camp • swine flu • H1N1 virus • sleepaway camp

Atheist Campers Learn Archery, Swimming, Skepticism

Nonbelievers' kids need fresh air, too

Jul 18, 09 12:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Atheist parents have it rough: They can't exactly pack the kids off to Bible camp for the summer. That’s changing, thanks in part to establishments like Camp Quest, a humanist-staffed getaway that promotes skepticism. Counselors teach the scientific method and deliver lectures about famous free thinkers. Kids are... More »

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religion • atheism • atheists • summer camp • bible camp • Camp Quest • Answers in Genesis

 Parents Save, 
 Send Kids to 
 'Camp Granny' 

In recession, grandparents replace summer camp for many

Jul 15, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(AP) - The lingering recession is forcing cash-strapped parents to cancel camp for the kids—instead, they're being packed off to their grandparents'. The arrangement shifts the child-care burden to grandparents, many of whom enjoy the extra time with their grandchildren. Mom and dad save money and get some time to themselves,... More »

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parenting • recession • grandparents • frugality • recession depression • summer camp

(Newser) - Family members of dozens of black and Hispanic children turned away from a suburban Philadelphia swim club plan to sue the club for discrimination, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The director of the camp has turned down the club's invitation for the campers to return. "The children are permanently scarred,... More »

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discrimination • children • Pennsylvania • lawsuit • summer camp • Valley Swim Club • Creative Steps Day Camp

(Newser) - The suburban Philadelphia swim club at the center of a racism controversy will ask the day campers it disinvited to return, the local ABC affiliate reports. "We are very very sorry that this had to happen," the club president tells WPVI-TV. He had sparked the incident by saying... More »

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federal courts • discrimination • children • Pennsylvania • race relations • Philadelphia • racism • civil rights • swimming pool • racial discrimination • summer camp • Valley Swim Club • Creative Steps Day Camp

OPINION

 Pool Bans Black Kids?  
 What Decade Is It? 

Racial discrimination sends us back to the 1950s

Jul 10, 09 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A largely white suburban Philadelphia swim club’s barring of black and Latino campers was so backward “I thought I had fallen into a time warp,” writes Annette John-Hall in the Inquirer. Things like this happened in the 1950s—when singer Dorothy Dandridge booked a room in a... More »

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children • Pennsylvania • race relations • swimming • Philadelphia • racism • civil rights • swimming pool • racial discrimination • summer camp

Black Kids Booted From Swim Club Over 'Complexion'

Suburban pool rejects summer campers,
cites 'complexion'

Jul 9, 09 12:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Philadelphia summer camp says it may take legal action after a suburban swim club rejected its campers, the Inquirer reports. On their first visit to the pool, the children said they’d overheard other poolgoers complaining about black people frequenting the swim club; soon after, management refunded the $1,... More »

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race • children • Pennsylvania • Philadelphia • racism • swimming pool • racial discrimination • summer camp

Vick's New Gig: Counselor
at Boys & Girls Club

Former quarterback trades in construction work for something more familiar

Jun 30, 09 3:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Vick has begun working at a Virginia summer camp after leaving his job as a construction worker, the Virginian-Pilot reports. The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback is finishing up two months of house arrest after his conviction for abetting dogfighting; he’s required to work a job. Vick began yesterday... More »

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sports • Atlanta Falcons • Michael Vick • football • probation • dogfighting • house arrest • summer camp • Boys & Girls Club

Germany Bans Group Behind Nazi Summer Camps

'Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend' indoctrinated children with racism, minister says

Mar 31, 09 2:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - The German government today banned a neo-Nazi youth group it says ran summer camps where children were instructed in racist and National Socialist ideology, Der Spiegel reports. “Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend,” the German Youth Faithful to the Homeland, allegedly included military exercises and “racial science” classes—which discussed... More »

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Germany • Wolfgang Schauble • Nazi • German • Neo-Nazi • right wingers • extreme right • summer camp

 Summer Camp 
 on the Rocks in 
 Tough Economy 

Tradition shaken as families' plans up in the air

Mar 12, 09 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - As recession hits parents’ wallets, it’s forcing many to debate whether they can afford to send kids to summer camp, the Wall Street Journal reports. Camps are expecting more financial-aid requests, while parents look to day camps and cheaper nonprofit alternatives. “A number of camps say families are... More »

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personal finance • recession • economy • financial crisis • summer camp

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