Girl Scouts bring camp to home
Courtesy photoROBERT PIERCE • Leader & Times
Part of the fun of summer for youth involved in both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts is that of summer camp.
Unfortunately, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, these young people will not get to experience that fun this year, but Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland (GSKH) as launched a new program that takes the great outdoors inside for families looking to engage their girls this summer.
Camp at Home offers six weeks of unique Girl Scout programming for girls across Kansas, and GSKH spokesperson Kaitie Foley said the idea for the event came after physical summer camps were closed for this year because of the pandemic.
“We really want to give the girls a summer experience and something they could still do from home,” she said. “Our team worked really hard and came up with this idea to have camp at home. We still wanted to deliver our same great programming to these girls, just through a different avenue this year.”
Camp at Home begins Monday, and girls can celebrate sisterhood and fun. Camp sessions will be filled with songs, crafts, engaging activities, special and community guests, all provided with a flexible schedule.
“They’ll definitely still be getting to experience the great outdoors at home too,” Foley said. “All of our camps are focusing on a different one of our pillars, including outdoors. There’s one coming up for July called ‘The Wildlifer Challenge.’ That’s one of two camps that really especially focuses on the outdoors this year. They’ll be learning about everything from starting a fire safely to using a compass to leaving a space better than they found it to becoming a master camper all from their own home.”
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Joe Berry, Washburn Rural Jr.
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Cougar Downing, Olathe West Jr.
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Lonell Lane, JC Harmon Jr.
Jack Chapman, BV Northwest Jr.
Brandon Eckles, Olathe South Sr.
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GUEST COLUMN, Derrick Johnson, CEO of the NAACP
Too many Black people in America are dying.
We die driving our cars. We die playing outside. We die babysitting. We die eating ice cream. We die sleeping in our own beds. We die and die and die at the hands of the police who are sworn to serve and protect us.
Even then, we are not done dying. We die giving birth. We die trying to breathe. We die when doctors under-treat our heart attacks and dismiss our calls for help.
We die because we are overrepresented where it hurts, such as poverty and prisons, and underrepresented where it helps, such as higher education, elected office, and the federal judiciary. We die from many causes, but one stands out from all others: racism.
We die because we are overrepresented where it hurts and underrepresented where it helps
The expendability of Black lives is not a flaw in the system; it is the system. We are meant to die or, at the very least, we are not meant to be protected, to be respected, to be valued, to be considered fully human. That is how racism works, and it has operated efficiently throughout American history.
It is no accident that we disproportionately work in the lowest paying jobs, and live in communities where the water is unsafe to drink and the air unfit to breathe, where polluters ply their trades, where schools are starved of resources, where green space or even a grocery store can be hard to find.
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