Florida Hospital Flagler is donating $500 to Palm Coast’s Summer Camp Program. The money will provide camp scholarships for those in need.
“When parents find out that their children have qualified for the scholarship, they are just so thankful,” said Luanne Santangelo, Palm Coast director of parks and recreation.
The city’s summer camp program is in two groups: Fit n’ Fun Camp is for children who have just completed Kindergarten through fifth grade. Teen Adventure Camp is for those who have just completed grades six through nine.
Children in the Fit n’ Fun Camp, located at the Palm Coast Community Center, at 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE, participate in a variety of recreational games, themed activities, swim time at the Frieda Zamba Swimming Pool, arts and crafts and guest presentations. The camp, open now, runs through Friday, August 12th every Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Early drop off and late pick up options are available. The fee of $75 per week includes lunch, snacks, camp t-shirt and two pool days.
Campers at the Teen Adventure Camp, at James Holland Park, 18 Florida Park Drive, participate in sports, hiking, kayaking, paintball, recreational games, swim time at the Frieda Zamba Swimming Pool, arts and crafts, teambuilding and more. Fees are $100 for each week , which include one adventure field trip, lunch, snacks, two pool days and a camp t-shirt.
Campers can attend as many weeks as they like. Additionally, both groups can go on field trips, such as Zoom Air Ziplining at the Central Florida Zoo, cruising on the Black Rave Pirate Ship in St. Augustine, and visiting the Museum of Arts & Science in Daytona Beach.
Registration for both camps is available at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE, or the Frieda Zamba Swimming Pool at 339 Parkview Drive during regular business hours. For more information, log onto the city’s website or call the Parks & Recreation Department at 386/986-2323.
The Truth says
Congratulations to the Florida Hospital-Flagler donating to a good cause – but is $500 really going to make a difference? I mean, it’s going to allow one camper to attend for 5 weeks at $100 a week.
This is the only program even offered by the Parks and Rec department, largely in part due to it’s successful upbringing by past directors and staff and yet the department still employs a director at nearly $90k a year, a superintendent at $50k a year and supervisor at $40k a year and various other staff. Where does this money come from? Can we truly afford to pay these people YEAR ROUND for one successful program every year?
PalmCoastPioneers says
Palm Coasts’ Activities:
PALM COAST YMCA FULL OF ACTIVITY
For the Palm Coast YMCA, there aren’t enough days in the month, nor hours in the day to provide time for all its activities. The YMCA has a variety of programs for the area residents from oil painting to weight lifting.
A typical Monday morning at the YMCA begins at nine when the three and four year olds arrive for preschool classes. In another section of the YMCA building Jarly Jackson, a 70 year old former acrobat, is teaching exercise class. After a lunch break, it is “children’s fun time.” During this time there are also weight lifting classes in the next room taught by Tim Shanahan.
From 4-5 p.m. there is after school play hour for the school age children.
After dinner activities begin again with square dancing at 6:30. The evening ends with a youth rap session from 7:30 until 9 for the teenagers, and German lessons taught in the next room by Anne Russell.
All day people are in and out of the YMCA building, coming also to watch television, play billiards or ping pong. Also, many organizations hold their meetings in the large multi-purpose room of the Y. In other words, the YMCA has been going non-stop since its doors opened on December 11th.
The YMCA has various special events planned for the furure. One event will be a disco dance for teenagers. Plans are also underway for a spring softball team.
There are currently 352 YMCA members and the number is growing. Family memberships are $50. a year, husband and wife memberships $40 a year, single adult memberships are $25. yearly, and youth memberships are $10. Membership at the Y entitles the member the use of the facilities as well as free participation in the many classes and activities held there. Non-member must pay a fee.
This marks the first time in the YMCA’s more than 130 years of operation that it has opened a YMCA in a developing community.
According to Dr. Robert Harlan, Executive Director of the National Board of the YMCA, it is customary to open a Y in an already developed community of about 50,000 but “so far the experiment appears to be a big success.”
The beautiful YMCA building and the grounds on Palm Coast Parkway were donated by the ITT Community Development Corporation, which is also underwriting the expenses of the Y: for the next several years.
So if you’re looking for something to do, stop by the YMCA and discover the many interesting programs it has to offer. You can see for yourself why it’s a big success.
Excerpt from: ‘The Palm Coaster’, published by the Corporate Communications Department of ITT Community Development Corporation for Palm Coast property owners, purchasers and homeowners, as well as their families and friends. Vol 7, Number 2, Summer 1978, p. 8.
tulip says
I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but it would seem to me that with the HUGE amount of money Florida Hospital makes, they could donate a whole lot more than $500.00.
The Truth says
tulip: I agree. I mean, it’s great that they donated this amount and they’re not technically “required’ to donate anything but $500 for a hospital that brings in millions and millions a year.
I really hope that with the budget crisis we are facing, our leaders start to look at this facility as being a burdon to tax payers. There is not much going on in our “community center” and it’s time to cut the excess fat in our budget by getting rid of these overpaid employees.