Summer fun at camp with the YMCA By WDIO Updated: May 23, 2024 - 4:16 PM Published: May 23, 2024 - 4:09 PM ...

After Culinary Camp, my younger son decided he wanted to be a chef, and you know, that's a life skill that he can take for the rest of his life. YMCA camp does more than just fill a child's day.

Families are headed to the Lake of the Ozarks for the holiday weekend and beyond, and Ameren Missouri and the Missouri Highway Patrol are teaming up to encourage life jacket use.

Camp safety is in the national spotlight, at Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center near Kalamazoo, CEO Zach Klipsch is assuring families that safety remains first.

And we have good news for parents, too: Tampa YMCA summer camps — including Camp Sierra and many others — are still accepting new kids, even with the summer camp season starting next week.

Camp Foster, on East Okoboji Lake in Dickinson County, has a unique offering each year: what its leaders believe is the only fully integrated camp for child burn survivors in the United States.

Registration is open for Summer Day Camp at the Greater Scranton YMCA. The 2025 Summer Day Camp Program will operate for 11 weeks, beginning Monday, June 9, and running through the week of Aug. 18.

And, to give them the tools to fight the spiritual battles of life… and these are by and large internal, he said. The Santiago Retreat Center is on 500 acres in Baker Canyon.

Camp safety is in the national spotlight, at Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center near Kalamazoo, CEO Zach Klipsch is assuring families that safety remains first.