CYO All Star Swim Meet to Cap the 2015 CYO Swim Season

January 28, 2015January 28, 2015Sr. Krista von Borstel 2 Comments

Mark Lee, CYO Director of Swimming, will be working with his outstanding volunteers in the swim program to present the final swim event of the 2014-15 swim season. The All Star Meet is unique in that it gives swimmers the opportunity to swim by gender and grade as opposed to cub (3rd through 5th grade) or cadet (6th through 8th).
The event will take place at the Mt. Hood College pool on Saturday January 31 from 1:00 until 5:30. This year, for the first time, All Star Swim Tee Shirts will be available for purchase by participants.

Happy New Year! Winter Sports in Session!

January 27, 2015Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

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!

Trap Camp is a “HIT”

August 3, 2014Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

Seven youngsters signed up for Trap Camp this year to learn the sport of shooting clay targets with a shot gun. All of the members of the 2014 trap team can tell you that “ignorance and carelessness” are the two contributing factors to accidents with guns. Most people are shot with “unloaded guns” and “treat every gun as a loaded gun”

Every participant in the camp was successful. They enjoyed this newfound sport and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them on a trap range someday! Way to go kids!

Ellen

Mary

Tony

Evan

Devin

Nate

Will

What?…Cougars?…How Many?

July 29, 2014Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

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.

Cheyenne Cunning is operating the Camp Howard store this summer.

What’s Up this week… Not to Miss!!!

July 27, 2014Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

1. Sunday…Jubilee Sunday with the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon – Celebrating anniversaries in Religious Life…One celebrating 75 years, (3) 60’s and (1) 50 years… Who are these fantastic women and what are their stories?

2. Monday – Thursday Trap Camp at Camp Howard! Shooting clay targets with shot guns!

3. The Camp Store and how it operates and who operates it this year

4. Behind the scenes at Camp Howard! Who is behind the scenes and what are they doing?

It’s a Wrap…You gotta See this….

July 25, 2014Sr. Krista von Borstel 1 Comment

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…

Art Camp Update…Scratchboard, Ink Drawing…

July 24, 2014July 23, 2014Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

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.

I checked out the Camp Howard Kitchen Today…this is what I found…

July 23, 2014July 23, 2014Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

One of the biggest sources of compliments at Camp Howard is the food service! They put out some great food and the kids love it. I was told at a meeting today that a Mom called the Camp Director and asked for some of the camp recipes. Seems her child has special eating needs and the camp did such a good job feeding him, he came home singing about the food! I am not surprised as i hear similar stories all the time but it always thrills me when I hear great things about our cooks and the great job they did.

You might be interested to know that several of the cooking staff voluntarily attended an in depth food safety class which included a test at the end of the course. They all passed and they are all very enthused about what they have learned. These are some of the reasons that Camp Howard is the local Health Inspectors favorite camp!

Head Cook, Fran, and crew produce some of their signature “Cheesey Rolls”

Shauna helps out with the cheesy rolls

Kathy works on cutting up the greens (much of which comes from the camp garden) for salad

John is thrilled to have the opportunity to wash dishes at camp this summer!

Drew works hard in the camp kitchen, one of the most important functions of the camp.

Ron gets the rolls ready to put in the oven

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

July 22, 2014July 22, 2014Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

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:

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

July 22, 2014July 21, 2014Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

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.