Milagros Aparicio greets children and their parents with a smile and a hug as they arrive at Tumalo Creek Kayak & Canoe for their first paddle lesson. The kids, ages 8-14, are quiet, wide-eyed and nervously inspecting foreign gear that are boats, paddles and dry bags. They may not fully understand the transformative experience that […]
Outdoors
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School Gardens
Cultivating Growth: for Plants and youth
During their lunch break, a handful of tweens bounce back and forth from several giant containers of water and a long table scattered with test tubes, eye droppers, additives and charts associating colors with chemicals in parts per million. The entire scene could easily be mistaken for a mad scientist’s laboratory. But creating a monster […]
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Summer Camps
Athletic Club of Bend offers a wide variety of summer day camps with activities for kids ages 3-12. Themes include junior tennis clinics, great outdoors, multi-sport, wet and wild, mountain bike camp and more! Sign up for weekly sessions running June 18 – August 31. athleticclubofbend.com Base Camp Studio offers week-long art camps for kids […]
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Not your grandma’s stickball
Lacrosse gains ground on the west coast in the high desert
Lacrosse (LAX), originally known as stickball, got its start as a major community event played by Algonquian tribal members (near the Great Lakes), over several days and involving 100 to 100,000 players. In these days, goals were set between topographic features ranging from 500 yards to several miles apart. Holding sticks with sinew netting, deerskin […]
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The Coolest Sport in Town
Youth hockey focuses on teamwork
Put those old ideas about ice hockey in a deep freeze. It’s quickly turning into the perfect sport for kids! Sure, the game can conjure up some rough images, not the least of which are fistfights and missing teeth. And yes, while there’s still a trace of hockey’s more violent traditions at the professional level, […]
