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City of OttawaSummer Day Camps 2013Win a week of Camp! Register before June 10By registering for summer camps before June 10, your registrations will automatically be part of a draw, where 50 luckycampers will win back their registered week of camp, with a value of up to $250. For details, visit ottawa.ca/summercampsCheck out the summer adventures in your neighbourhood. Remember, the more you register, the more chances to win!Preschool Half-Day Camps: Summertime fun for the little ones!Games, crafts, songs and special themes will give your preschooler lots of adventures in their own neighbourhood. Our welltrained leaders organize imaginative and interesting activities where learning and socialization are enhanced. Morning andafternoon programs at a location near you. Join us for active and creative programs full of fun!In Your Neighbourhood!If finding summer activities close to home or work is your priority, we have camps around the city for organized games,sports, crafts and special events. Themes ignite the imagination and offer a different program each week. Neighbourhoodcamps, fun clubs and park activities will keep your child active and involved while making new friends. A great way to spendthe summer in our city!Water Fun for Everyone!If you want to be wet this summer, we have swimming lessons, water sports and aqua fun for all! Your aquatic adventuresare rounded out with camp activities including games, crafts, sports, and special events.Sports Camps GaloreActive camps, specializing in skills and drills for all sorts of sports. Increase your speed, precision, and fitness levels to helpin your overall growth towards living an active life! Camp activities are included, time permitting.NEWSConnected to your communityCreative Arts Camps and Art Centre CampsBoost creativity, increase concentration and problem-solving skills, and experience artistic achievement. Many city facilitiesoffer camps with an arts component. Choose among programs in visual arts (drawing, painting, and mixed media), digitalarts (animation and moviemaking), performing arts (drama, music, dance) and creative writing.The Nepean Visual Arts Centre, the Nepean Creative Arts Centre, and Shenkman Arts Centre deliver focused artsinstruction in customised studio spaces by accomplished artists – painters, actors, filmmakers, writers, photographers,musicians. Be inspired and entertained!Specialty Camps – Be Amazed!Learn a new skill, survive outdoors, and trek around the region. Find that extra special camp that tweaks your interest themost. The options are limitless!Leadership Camps Help You GrowWhether you want to get a babysitting job in your neighbourhood, teach a group of children to dance, or be a campcounsellor with the City, our leadership programs will help you work towards your goal. Some programs include placementsand they all include friendships and fun!Excitement guaranteed! Leaders you can trust!Come play with us!SummerCampsCome play with us!Win aFREEWeek of CampRegister before June 1050 Winners!Ottawa’s largest variety ofcamps includes: sports,arts, water fun, specialty,preschool, leadership.JOHN CURRY/METROLANDGlueing together the maple veneer strips to create a skateboard are Frederick BantingAlternate School Program students, from left, Becky Sanson, Brian Carruthers, who ispouring the glue, and Joey York, who is getting ready to spread the glue on the wood.Students make skateboardsJohn Curryjohn.curry@metroland.comEMC news - Skateboarding is a lot of fun. Sotoo is making a skateboard.That’s what many students at the FrederickBanting Alternate School Program in Stittsvillehave been discovering as they have had the opportunityto make a skateboard and personalizeit with their own artwork.Almost 50 students took up the offer to beinvolved in this project, with all of the skateboardsto be on display at an art show at theschool this Thursday, May 30 from 5 p.m. to8 p.m.Members of the public are most welcome todrop into the school on Stittsville Main Streetand see for themselves these student-madeskateboards, each with unique artwork.This all came about when student teacherDustin Wenzel arrived for his practice teachingstay at the school. Although from Ottawa, he istaking his teaching course in Toronto where hewas involved in a similar project at an alternateschool in Toronto. There, he witnessed not onlythe success of the project but he learned wherethe pre-cut maple veneer strips of wood couldbe obtained and how the skateboards weremade and finished.He brought the idea with him to FrederickBanting where it was embraced by the staff includingteacher Mary Williamson, who teachesart, and the project was started, open to any studentwho wanted to participate.See SKATEBOARD ART, page 17Find your neighbourhoodadventure atottawa.ca/summercampsLeaders you can trust.Excitement guaranteed!201302-202 PRCS16 Stittsville News EMC - Thursday, May 30, 2013JOHN CURRY/METROLANDFrederick Banting Alternate SchoolProgram student Alex Harris holdsthe skateboard which he made,with its personalized paint job.JOHN CURRY/METROLANDJames Armstrong sands the edge of the skateboardthat he is making at Frederick Banting AlternateSchool Program in Stittsville.