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Camp Hours
Directions to Camp
Early Pickup
Camp Clothes
Sunscreen
What NOT To Bring
Lost and Found
Extra Money
T-Shirts
Friday Pizza Day
Camp
Photos
Rainy Weather Days
Special Grouping Requests
Counselor and Group
Assignments
Family Treasure Days
Open House
Traffic Information -
PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU COME TO CAMP!
After your registration has been
confirmed, here is some information you'll need:
CAMP HOURS:
All day campers: Each day
you may drop off your child between 8:45 and 9:00 AM and pick them up between 3:45 and
4:00 PM. Sunshine Days Campers: Dropoff is between 8:45 and 9:00 AM.
Pickup time is at 1:15. Uncle Bill's Kids Club
campers may be dropped off between 8:45 and 9:00 and picked up at
12:30.
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DIRECTIONS
TO CAMP: The campsite and office is located
one block north of Pioneer Parkway (also called 303) just off Roosevelt. If
you are coming from the south:
1) Come north on 360, 157 or Cooper; turn left
(west) at Pioneer Parkway ; go just one block past Bowen to the traffic light at
Roosevelt. Turn right (north) onto Roosevelt. Drive just one block; turn left
onto Sarah and in through our gates onto the campsite.
2) You may also come north on Green Oaks;
turn right at Pioneer Parkway. At the traffic light at Roosevelt (by Campo Verde
Restaurant), turn left onto Roosevelt. Drive just one block;
turn left onto Sarah and in through our gates onto the campsite.
If you are coming from the north:
1) Come south on Collins, Cooper or Fielder;
turn right (west) at Pioneer Parkway ; go just one block past Bowen to the traffic light
at Roosevelt. Turn right (north) onto Roosevelt. Drive just one block; turn
left onto Sarah and in through our gates onto the campsite.
2) You may also come south on East Chase;
turn left at Pioneer Parkway. At the traffic light at Roosevelt (by Campo Verde
Restaurant), turn left onto Roosevelt. Drive just one block;
turn left onto Sarah and in through our gates onto the campsite.
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EARLY PICKUP: If you need to pickup your child early, please tell the counselor
in the morning and call us in the office at 274-8441 so that we may help remind the
counselor. Remember, counselors and campers follow a loose schedule and may be
participating in an optional activity. Please allow us 20 minutes time to locate and
bring your child to the front office. If you need to pickup your child early in the
afternoon, it must be before 2:45. Except in extreme emergency, we
will not be able to look for them during that last activity period. By the time we
would find them, it would be time to bring them to the front for regular pickup.
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CAMP CLOTHES: The campers WILL get dirty, so please don't send them in anything
that can't get messed up. Campers need to wear their swimsuits. Boys wear shirts with
their swimsuit, and girls wear their suits under shorts and shirts. Remember the
requirements for swimsuits for girls just finishing the 5th and 6th grades.
We ask that they wear a modest one piece swim suit.
Campers should wear comfortable shoes, with closed toe preferable. Water shoes
or Crocs work well in the water and on the trails.
However, be sure they are not brand new, as that sometimes results
in blisters. Socks tend to get hopelessly dirty or get lost very easily, so
any closed-toe shoe that does not require
socks is a better choice.
Campers need to bring a towel and a lunch with extra drinks in a
small cooler.
Please mark EVERYTHING with your child's name.
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SUNSCREEN: If your child needs to have sunscreen, and he or she is unable to
put it on themselves, please choose the waterproof, all-day brands and put it on them just
as they arrive each morning. The counselor simply does not have the time to put
sunscreen on each of the children and still allow them their full swim time.
WHAT NOT TO BRING: Money - please do not send money with your
child! Campers should not bring any electronic equipment (video games, cell phones,
etc.). Please do not send water guns.
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LOST AND FOUND: With over
480 campers here each week, it is certain that some clothing and
belongings will get lost. We do have procedures which help keep
camper and belongings together, but each counselor is responsible
for 10 - 12 campers, so it is impossible for the counselor to be the
one who is responsible to keep up with everyone's things. Talk with
your children about the importance of dressing completely after
swimming, putting items back in backpacks, and checking to make sure
they have not accidentally picked up items which do not belong to
them. ALL items your child brings
should be marked with the child's name, especially swimming items. Even with all these
precautions, kids will be kids, and things will get lost.
If a lost and found item has a child's name on it, we return it to
the counselor each day. If it does not have a name on it, it is
placed in the Lost and Found bucket outside the camp office or is
hung in the area beside the First Aid shed. After the week is
over, it is taken to the storage shed, which is a long way from the office and most campsites. It is impossible for us to look
through the items for you after your week of camp. However, if you would like to come to
camp and search for the item yourself, we will be glad to direct you to the Lost and Found
Shed. Every two or three weeks, all unclaimed items are given to Mission Arlington.
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EXTRA MONEY? PLEASE DO NOT SEND MONEY of any kind with
your children! Any purchases at the snackshop must be made with fees pre-paid by the
parents for the campers. We do not accept money from campers at the Snack Shop. Drinks
will also be sold through the snackshop.
Parents may still pay for merchandise at the Trading Post with cash, checks, or credit
card.
If you have not pre-paid for snacks, you may do so at anytime online before
or during your camp week or on
mornings during the camp week. You will need to park head-in on the east side of the
parking lot close to the office and come to the office area to pre-pay or add money to
pre-pay accounts.
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T-SHIRTS: If you have
pre-paid for a T-Shirt, you must come in and pick up the shirt;
we do not automatically give your child the shirt.
FRIDAY PIZZA DAY: Each Friday, the camp has a special
Pizza lunch. It is free to those who would like to participate. However, please send
drinks. If you prefer that your child not eat pizza, please send a lunch.
CAMP PHOTOS: This year you will
receive a CT Memories photo package free. It contains two
photos (group and individual) mounted in a souvenir folder.
Counselors will give these folders to the parents at pickup time on
Thursday or Friday. If your child is not present on the day we
take photos of your group (either Monday or Tuesday), we will not be
able to take retakes of the group, but we will try to take one of
your camper and his counselor, so the package you receive will be
the individual photo and the group photo (without your camper).
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SPECIAL GROUPING REQUESTS: The Camp Thurman staff wants to place your child in
a group which will make his/her experience here the happiest possible, so please be
assured that we will do our very best to fulfill your requests.
However, if you made a request on your registration form for your child to be in a group
with someone, please understand that that person must be of the same sex, within one year
of the same age, and must also be registered and confirmed for the same week as your
child. With over 4800 registrations, it is impossible for us to inform you if these
requirements are not met. Please check with the "group-mate(s)" of your child to
see if they are indeed in your same week.
Once the week is full, groups are formed with requests in mind. And once these groups are
formed, it is very difficult for us to change a camper from one group to another without a
good deal of time. Closer to camp time, once a child has been informed that he is in a
specific group, it may very well bring unhappiness to another child if we try to rearrange
groups, so please do not ask to change groups when you arrive on Monday morning of camp
week. Check with us at least 3 weeks before your camp date if you want to confirm a
specific group-mate.
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COUNSELOR AND GROUP ASSIGNMENTS:
Grouping is done a couple of weeks before each camp date, and counselor assignments are made the
weekend before each camp week starts. Your child's counselor will call him or her to let
them know whose group they'll be in. When you drop off and pick up your child, you will
look for that counselor's name on the signs in front of the wooded area (see camp map). If
for some reason your child's counselor does not reach you, on Monday morning there will be
a table in the pavilion area where you'll be able to confirm your child's group and
counselor.
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OPEN HOUSE:
Our Open House will be on Saturday, June 6th, this year. Anytime
between 10AM and 3PM, please stop by the campgrounds to meet the
staff and camp board members, take a tour of the facilities, and buy
camp "stuff".
FAMILY
TREASURE DAYS: Ever wished you could come
to camp with your children? Well, you can! Our third
annual CT Family Treasure Day
will be on Sept. 12th in 2009.
RAINY
WEATHER DAYS: Our normal procedure for
rainy days is to keep the camp open. We have four
separate covered areas where we bring the campers for songs, games, and skits
until the rain stops, and then we go back out into the camp for our regular
activities.
If your child is
uncomfortable with stormy weather,
you are always welcome to pick them up early or bring them in late.
Please come through the office to arrange early pick-up or late drop-off.
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