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Volume 9, No. 10
Friday, May 3, 2024
Red Oak Camp – A Great Place for Kids to Commune with Nature By Donna Robinson editor@karlovecmedia.com
mer enrichment program, operating the camp out of the red-painted house next to Corning Lake, said A little over 75 years ago, in David Faulstitch, executive director 1947, a Hawkins teacher named of the current camp. Frank Dempsey decided to start a ND The kids were known as the Red LA T R I K camp for kids in an old farmhouse Barn Boys, he said, adding the boys near Holden Arboretum. day camp operated for about five He deemed it Red Oak Camp years out of the farmhouse, eventuand brought students out for a sum- ally expanding to a boys overnight
sleep-away camp, where they slept in old army tents across from Sperry Road near Bull’s Woods. In the 1950s, Dempsey purchased the property next door behind Lantern Court on Kirtland-Chardon Road, Faulstitch said. “The original plan for the camp was to provide service work, then also to explore nature about plants
and horticulture. Archery, canoeing and swimming was also introduced to give the kids some directed activity but mostly exposure to nature,” he said, adding it was named Red Oak Camp in honor of the area’s most common species of oak tree. Dempsey was close friends with Warren Corning, who was instrumental in growing the Holden Arboretum and whose great passion was horticulture, Faulstitch said. Five years after the overnight camp began, one of Corning’s daughters, Allyson (a.k.a. Sunny), formed a camp for girls in 1957, calling them the Chincapin Girls — name after a species of white oak tree, Faulstitch said. Chincapin did all the things boys did, but Sunny was a life-long equestrian and the girls had horseback riding as a core component, he said. “The camp always served school-age children from first through 10th grade, with boys and their activities, and girls and their activities, occupying separate areas of the camp,” Faulstitch said. “In the first summer, there were about 12 boys in the Red Barn program, then we added the girl’s overnight program, and
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Red Oak campers reach new heights while they enjoy participating in recreational tree climbing activities last June.
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Hornets Baseball Off to a Great 13-3 Spring on Diamond By Alan Kornspan sports@karlovecmedia.com
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Freshman Lucci Cantini leads Hornets with a .488 batting average.
The 2024 Hornets baseball team is having a great season as they are currently 13-3 heading into the last two games of April. Helping the Hornets to a great start this season has been their excellent pitching and hitting. For the season, through 16 games, the Hornets pitching staff has an excellent earned run average of just 3.25. A key metric that has helped the Hornets staff achieve success this year is their accuracy on the mound. In fact, in 98 innings pitched this season, the Hornets staff has amassed 122 strike outs and only allowed 40 base on balls. See Baseball • Page 9
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