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August 27, 2008
Ocracoke Youth Center provided a summer of fun
By SUNDAE HORN  Ocracoke’s kids are back to school now, but many youngsters have good memories of The Ocracoke Youth Center’s summer fun program, which offered a wide variety of activities for kids from kindergarten through eighth grade. Enrichment classes included sign language, gardening, quilting, sailing lessons, and soccer skills. The sculpture class with Amy Howard created some colorful birds to add the Youth Center’s front yard beach scene. The Art-to-Go class helped Kitty Mitchell paint sea creatures on the Fat Boys Fish Company truck, which won a prize in the July 4 parade. Junior pirates could sign up for a week of pirate camp where they learned about all things piratical, dug for buried treasure, and sailed on the schooner Windfall. Claire Senseney taught the summer adventures day-camp program for third and fourth graders. The kids did arts and crafts, swam in the Pony Island pool, watered and weeded the OYC garden at Ocracoke School, and explored the Ocracoke outdoors. A summer fun day camp program was also available for the younger kids in grades K -2. Anne Garris organized the summer’s activities around a fairy tale theme, with a new story each week to inspire art projects, games, and field trips. They also got some pool time each week at the Island Inn pool. OYC also provided free swim lessons taught by Jennifer Garrish. Starting with baby aquatics, for ages 6 months through 3 years, Garrish showed parents how to introduce their children to the water and taught beginning swimming skills. There were several different classes at different skill levels for kids in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, and a morning swim club for middle-schoolers. OYC would like to thank all the instructors and volunteers who made the summer programs so successful. Special thanks also go to The Island Inn, the Pony Island Motel, and The Castle Bed and Breakfast for use of their swimming pools. Thanks to Ocracoke United Methodist Church, Ocracoke Volunteer Fire Department, and Ocracoke Assembly Church for use of their buildings during the summer programs. Click Here To View Slideshow |
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