50 - Sunday, March 31, 1985 - North Shove News

Travel

Swapping favorite spots

*M ALMOST embarrassed to admit it but |
know more about travel in foreign countries
than I do about many parts of my own

country.

Auyway, a reader is anx-
ious to hear about any cozy
hide inns, guesthouses and
watering holes on the Islands
so if you have any favorite
spots, let me know so we can
help her out.

Special spots are some-
thing like recipes — people
hate to give away the secret.
With today’s economy
everyone’s business is in
jeopardy, especially those
depending on luxury spen-
ding. If we want our
“special spots’? to stay in
business so that we can en-
joy them, we'd better make
sure they get lots of plugs.

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DEAR BARBARA:

This may seem like an odd
aspect of travel to discuss in
your column — nothing ex-
otic!

Have you had any experi-
ence with kids in summer
camps? How should I find a
good one to.send my daugh-
ter to this summer? She's 10
and has uever been away
from home by herself.
ANSWER: When | was 10, 1
joined C.G.I.T. — not
because | was all fired-up to
become a wholesome,
religious Canadian girl but
because they had a summer
camp. Every girl J knew
went to this marvellous place
for a couple of weeks in the
summer and J’d set my heart
on going.

I struggled through a long
winter knitting booties for
the undrprivileged, serving
at church socials and singing
hymns while decked out in a
middy blouse and a navy
blue skirt.

Finally the time came to
sign up for camp and I raced
home with the form. My
parents refused (o let me go!
I never found out why.

If tears and tantrums have
ever worked they should
have that summer — many
other parents would have
“pleaded with the camp io
take this kid. Instead, !
spent the loneliest two weeks
of my life followed by weeks
of being feft out of alt the
nostalgia and inside jokes.

My own kids started with

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wore the same jeans and
shirt for a week — day and
night. [t seems that the bays
had peck-holes (or said they
did!) into both the shower
roozas and the dorms and
not one girl in the place un-
dressed for a week.

Still, they had a great tinfe
and were always anxious to
return,

Camps run by reputable

church and service organiza-
tions are generally well run,
with trained, experienced
counsellors. Id be leery of
any private camp where
many of the staff were
teen-agers.

I'd be aware of co-ed
camps -- boys and girls at
10 don’t mingle all that well
and by the time they get a bit
older they mingle too darn
well,

The most frightening
thought is that some parents
send their kids off to camp
without doing any checking
on the standards governing
the place, For example, B.C.
has no legislation governing
children’s camps — these
fall somewhere between
community care standards,
building codes and = the
Health Act.

The B.C. Camping
Association is a private
organization of between
60-70 member camps. The
Association sets standards
and does regular checks on
members fo ensure that the
standards are kept. hey
publish a guide to member
camps and you can get a free
copy by sending a self-ad-
dressed stamped envelope to:
B.C. Camping Association,
c/o 535 East Broadway,
Vancouver VST 1X4.

The brochure also outlines
the standards maintained
and gives the parent some
guidelines to follow in

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Remember, not all kids
are as gung-ho about camp
as Twas and 1 wouldn't push
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Sometimes the first camp-
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time, af 12, a close girlfriend
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they told everyone they were
half-sisters with some wild
stories about the divorces in
our family,

Want to know the worst?
f envied those kids!

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