9-week Kings Kamp spurs kids' creativity, summer learning

YOUNGSTOWN

A summer day camp at E.B. Family Life Center promoted creativity and self-sufficiency, prevented summer learning loss and packed multiple activities into the nine-week session.

Kings (Keep Integrating New Generations) Kamp, which concluded Friday, began June 13 at the center, 7 S. Garland Ave., with a daily average of 35 campers from kindergarten through fifth grade. Campers hailed from Mahoning and Trumbull counties; Deacon Darrell McGhee handled transportation.

LaDonna R. Walker, director, supervised the program from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays. She said the youth choir, mime group, sign language and Spanish students from the camp will participate in a service at 10 a.m. Sunday at Elizabeth Missionary Baptist Church, 1210 Himrod Ave., which sponsors the camp. The center is the former church on the East Side.

Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) funded the camp through a grant and donations also came from church members and T.J. Rogers, 2nd Ward council member.

Walker said she takes the family life center’s mission, “Strengthening the Community One Family at a Time,” to heart.

Read more about the camp in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.