Category CYO/Camp Howard

Happy New Year! Winter Sports in Session!

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It has been a while since my last blog entry so I will try to get back with it and bring you up to speed on what is going on with CYO/Camp Howard!

We are into the winter sports of Basketball and Swimming. Swimming completed the end of season Championships and all that remains is the All Star Meet which will be held Saturday January 31st at Mt. Hood Community College.

The CYO Championships meet saw Our Lady of Lourdes from Vancouver, WA win the overall championship! All Saints took second and Valley Catholic finished third. Over 800 youth between grades K and 8 participate in the CYO Swim program, an all time record number of swimmers for the Greater Portland program.

Basketball competition is in its third week of play and end of season tournament play begins the end of February. Championships run through the second weekend in March.

Track and Field, Baseball and Lacrosse are gearing up for spring and registration is open!

What?…Cougars?…How Many?

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The Camp Howard Store is one of the most popular activities at Camp Howard.  A daily trip to the center of camp commerce finds campers and counselors alike excited for every trip!  You will find all kinds of things at the camp store, candy, pop, snow cones, pop corn, frisbees, cameras, gatorade, water, flashlights, jewelry, Camp Howard Commemorative Pins, and stuffed animals such as the Camp Howard mascot, the COUGAR!

Camp Howard after all, is located on Cougar Mountain in Clackamas, County between Sandy and Corbett, OR.

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It’s a Wrap…You gotta See this….

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PORTRAIT Art Camp ONE is over and I have to say…”what a great group of kids to spend a week with!”  Hailing from All Saints, St. Cecilia, St. Matthew and Valley Catholic!  AND… passionate about art!

Special thanks to instructor, Joanne Kollman, local artist extraordinaire who presented the Portrait Art Camp and made it happen!

 

The day ended with an art show attended by parents and several of the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon.  Student artists shared about their work and what they learned.

Great representatives from their schools!  It was a great week!  Here are a few great memories…

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Art Camp Update…Scratchboard, Ink Drawing…

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Day 3 and the kids are in art heaven!  Draw and paint in the morning, swim in the afternoon, more drawing, painting, scratching, inking then Mom and Dad come to pick them up from art camp and they show them all they have done during the day.  Mom and Dad are thrilled to see their excitement, enthusiasm and passion.

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Light, Value Patterns, Notan, building an art vocabulary at Art Camp!

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Wow…a treasure packed opportunity for the art camp campers this week!  Joanne Radmilovich Kollman has pulled out all the stops to give the campers the very best possible art experience possible and this is only day 2.

The camp, billed as a “Portrait Art Camp” has lived up to it’s title.  Starting with black and white mediums, Joanne got the concept of “value” across the the youngsters as they worked with various forms of charcoal and pencil.

Today, color was introduced in both watercolor and oil paint.

We took an hour off from 1:00 to 2:00 for a refreshing swim in the pool, came back ready to paint!  Joanne set up a pear on a white plate and showed the students how to start an oil painting.  Can’t wait to show you some results!

Morning shots: “reductive drawing with the eraser” We are “taking away” after adding dark values to the paper:

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What did Jenna Bass do at the CYO Staff Work Party?

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One of the annual traditions at CYO/Camp Howard is the annual work party at Camp with the CYO staff to help get the camp ready to open for the summer camping sessions!

Karen von Borstel had a list of projects including putting new mattresses into the cabins so the staff helped move mattresses around.  Other projects included getting Cougar Award ready for the Cougar Campfires.

After the work party was over, the staff went down to the trap range for a trap shoot.  What is a trap shoot?  You launch clay targets into the air and shoot them with a shot gun.  It is a fantastic target shooting game!  Jenna Bass won the event this year which gives her bragging rights on the staff for a year.  Unfortunately no photos of Jenna.

Karen delivering new mattresses

Karen delivering new mattresses

Bill Fogarty and Jeff Sevilla

Bill Fogarty and Jeff Sevilla

This new mattress does not pass the new mattress test!

This new mattress does not pass the new mattress test!

Taking mattresses into the cabins

Taking mattresses into the cabins

Ann Reinhart & Marguex Hunter

Ann Reinhart & Marguex Hunter

Jenifer Kluthe and Karen von Borstel

Jenifer Kluthe and Karen von Borstel

Bill Fogarty getting ready to blast some targets

Bill Fogarty getting ready to blast some targets

Marguex Hunter, Mark Lee, Jeff Sevilla, Ann Reinhart, Jenifer Kluthe,

Marguex Hunter, Mark Lee, Jeff Sevilla, Ann Reinhart, Jenifer Kluthe, Jenna Bass!

 

Art Camp with Joanne Kollman proves inspiring and productive for youth artists

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Joanne Kollman, a local artist known for her portrait paintings has teamed up with CYO/Camp Howard to offer a week long art camp at the convent of the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon.

The camp begins at 9:00 in the morning and finishes at 4:00 daily giving the youngsters the opportunity to really get into art all day.  It has been a great start to the week and the kids are doing an awesome job!

The camp will delve into portrait work, architecture, nature and relate to the elements of art including value, color, shape, space, texture, line.

Joanne Radmilovich Killman

Joanne Radmilovich Killman

Joanne at work

Joanne at work

artists at work!

artists at work!

artists at work

artists at work

artists at work

artists at work

artists at work

artists at work

CYO Fourth Grade Boys Seek City Championship

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Valley Catholic won the fourth grade boys City Championship this year by defeating Our Lady of the Lake of Lake Oswego,  This was Our Lady of the Lake’s first defeat in the championship that found five teams representing the school in the six games played over the weekend.

Valley Catholic won the contest with a 35 – 23 margin.

1. Valley Catholic 4th Grade Boys 2. Our Lady of the Lake 4th Grade Boys

 

CYO High School Basketball Championships Central Catholic vs Jesuit…

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Nearly 600 high school youth participated in the CYO High School Basketball season this year with a snow storm forcing the end of season tournament to be moved to the following weekend.  CYO Basketball Director, Jenna Bass did a masterful job of finding gym space to finish of the season for the men and women and “make it happen!”

In both boys and girls Championship play, the closing minutes of the games found the teams in very close proximity to one another and tied in several instances.  Jesuit managed to pull it off with 5 of their 8 players with three missing due to their class retreat.

Central Catholic Men gave Jesuit a great game and it was anyones to have up to the end with a final score of 56 – 53 Jesuit.

Dulcich’s Jesuit Women’s team made it clear they came to play.  After an 8 – 0 start, Petrusich’s Jesuit Women’s team came alive and tied the game.  After a back and forth through out the game pattern, Petrusich’s Women went ahead by 5 and Dulcich Jesuit could not catchup.  A great contest between two groups of senior women who enjoyed playing one another.

Central Catholic Second Place CYO Championships

CYO Championships 2nd place Central Catholic Paddy Ellis 15, Joseph Wilson 45, Gunnar Vik, Cole Warner 22, Matt Hart 40, Michael Haines 24, Sam Gomez 25, Will Paustian 23, Cole Boileau 41, Dante Carnevalie. COACH Brian Vik, ASSISTANT COACH Jeff Paustian

CYO High School CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM Jesuit

CYO Championships 1st place Jesuit Tommy Kaempf 41, Nebea Fekede 14, Jack Tayler 12, Christian Thurley 20, Kaeden Klein 50, Brendan Rude 52, Justin Krack 25, Jack Hamburg 45. HEAD COACH Jim Kaempf, ASSISTANT COACH Dave Sebastian

Jesuit High School Girls CYO HS Championship team 1st place

Jesuit High School Girls CYO HS Championship team 1st place Molly Petrusich 35, Megan Wark 34, Robin Hackman 40, Megan O’Mara 43, Sydney Sirgy 33, Molly Donlon 45, Anne Shields 5, Lauren Brandt 3, Sarah Shank

CYO Championships 2nd place Girls team.

CYO Championships 2nd place Girls team. Rachel Dulcich 20, Megan Furster 30, Abby Wachter 2, Frannie Orlando 55, Cece Wehrley 0, Alex Gill 44, Clare McCarthy 33, Mollie Handkins 1, Maddie Connall 21, Teresa Anctil 34, Julia Shafter 22, Maddy Mathews 32.

A New Year, 365 Blank Pages

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As I say good-by to 2013, not a bad year at all, as a matter of fact,
quite a good year for a year with a “13” in it!
Looking ahead, I wonder, “What will this year bring?”
Who will drift in and out of our lives?
What exciting things lay ahead?
Let us embrace this new year
Make an oath to better ourselves
Become that person we strive to be!
When the new year comes to and end
we can look back and say,
“It was a good year!”
May God Bless our Efforts!