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.
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:
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
Bill Fogarty and Jeff Sevilla
This new mattress does not pass the new mattress test!
Taking mattresses into the cabins
Ann Reinhart & Marguex Hunter
Jenifer Kluthe and Karen von Borstel
Bill Fogarty getting ready to blast some targets
Marguex Hunter, Mark Lee, Jeff Sevilla, Ann Reinhart, Jenifer Kluthe, Jenna Bass!
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 at work
artists at work!
artists at work
artists at work
artists at work
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.
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.
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 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 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. 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.
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!
Karen (Camp Howard Facility Manager) and I took a tour of Camp Howard this past week and I have to tell you…doesn’t matter when you go up there, the scenes are always different! The Bull Run River lies between Camp Howard and the magnificent view of the Bull Run Reservoir. Mt. Hood is perched above and behind the hills where a partial view is still stunning. On this day, a thick bed of opaque clouds filled the valley between the camp and the other side of the gorge holding the Bull Run River. It was spectacular!
We toured around the camp where she and her trusty helper, Larry Wood have been cleaning up from the fuel reduction project at Camp by the Oregon Dept. of Forestry this past summer which completes 3 summers of work on fuel reduction. What is fuel reduction? It is the removal of the flammable brush under the forest that is the real culprit in the case of a fire. This flammable material helps fuel the fire and destroy the trees.
The result of this process has been a cleaner camp, made it possible to continue the process of cleaning up the forest floor, and increased the ability of the camp to fight a forest fire.
The winter improvement project this year is the renovation of the interior of the Greenwood cabins. We did the interiors of Fircrest cabins last winter so it is time for Greenwood! Little girls up to age 10 stay in Fircrest and little boys of the same age stay in the Greenwood cabins. The little boys will be happy to come to camp next summer and see the improvements made. What are we doing?
All of the walls in the cabin are being repainted and then the bunks are getting a nice enamel coat. The light fixture covers are being replaced which will give the rooms a brighter cleaner look. Mirrors will be installed on the walls. Karen is taking all of the windows out of all the cabins, removing the paint, removing the window pane, putting new windows in if necessary, glazing the windows, priming the wood then putting a coat of enamel on the windows and finally painting the interior of the door.
The Fircrest and Greenwood cabins are the original 12 cabins at Camp Howard. I expect we will get many more years out of the cabins due to the good work done by the staff on the buildings. Last year, Bill Fogarty who runs the camps summer activity programs, stayed on for a few weeks and led a paint crew in staining and trimming the exteriors of the cabins.
Jen Weld Field, Portland, OR
Saturday December 7th was historic in the State of Oregon High School Football due to the fact that the two largest Catholic Schools in the State met for the first time in a State Playoff Game!
If you were at the game you know how bitterly cold it was especially after the sun set behind the tall MAC building! But the faithful from Central and Jesuit were enthusiastic through out the contest!
As for those of us in the neutral section of the facility, we had a wonderful view from an interesting perspective. We were able to watch the interaction between the two teams and the spectators. An emotionally charged game it was but the camaraderie between the two groups was one of respect and I think thoughtful appreciation for this great event.
I appreciated the fact that SEVERAL of the players from each team had been members of local CYO Football teams.
It was anyone’s game practically to the last three minutes when Central Catholic kicked a field goal to go ahead by 10 points. This was a very close game and a fun one to watch. In the end, Central Catholic and Coach Steve Pyne won and for the second time in 60 years they are the best in High School Football!
Jesuit, and coach Ken Potter have certainly had their share of State Championships over the past few years as well.
I am glad I had the opportunity to attend the game and watch one of Oregon’s special sport moments!
The 2013 CYO Championship Volleyball playoffs provided plenty of action and excitement for all in attendance. The eighth grade playoff game between St. Matthew of Hillsboro and Christ the King of Milwaukie, was one of the most exceptional CYO volleyball contests I have seen in a long time. The teams each split a game, going into over time and in the final game of the match the teams were nip and tuck to the very end when St. Matthew prevailed. People got more than their moneys worth!
Some 1300 young women participated in this years volleyball program with all but a few teams participating in the end of season tournament.
The teams, coaches, and parents are to be commended for the participation and support they show to one another and to their teams.
Third Grade CYO Volleyball Champions – St. Francis, Roy and Visitation Verboor “The Fighting Dutch”
Third Grade CYO Volleyball Second Place St. Clare
Fourth Grade CYO Volleyball Champions Cathedral School
Third Grade CYO Volleyball Second Place St. Anthony
Fifth Grade CYO Volleyball Champions The Cathedral School
Fifth Grade CYO Volleyball Second Place St. John Fisher
Sixth Grade CYO Volleyball Champions St. Agatha
Sixth Grade CYO Volleyball Second Place St. Pius X
Seventh Grade CYO Volleyball Champions All Saints
Seventh Grade CYO Volleyball Second Place St. Cecilia
Eighth Grade CYO Volleyball Champions St. Matthews School
Eighth Grade CYO Volleyball Second Place Christ the King
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