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July 9, 2020
ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO
A publication of
Northglenn-ThorntonSentinel.com
VOLUME 56 | ISSUE 48
Summer camp, socially distanced Camp Kind finds a great space to work and play under the tents BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The first big white tent went up early in June, just southeast of where the Big Dry Creek Trail crosses under 112th Avenue. Rabbi Benjy Brackman said he was unsure of how Chabad of NW Metro Denver was going to handle its camps for the summer of 2020, with the added burdens of COVID-19 and social distancing in place. And, as if to confirm his suspicions, the Broomfield elementary school where he planned to host his signature summer camp, Camp Kind, announced that the space would be unavailable. “This year, with COVID, everything came to as screeching halt,” he said. “There were no camps, no places to volunteer and no buses to get the kids around. School district’s are not renting them out and plus, if you were able to get a bus, you’d need twice as many just to give the kids space and keep everyone socially distanced.” That was a special problem for one of Brackman’s signature summer camps, Camp Kind. It depended on getting the kids out in the community, volunteering at area non-profits. “But we’ve been working, over the last couple of years, to develop a kindness curriculum for that,” Brackman said. “We have been coming up with programs and projects that we can do in camp.” And, Brackman had an open lot next to the Chabad’s headquarters, just grass and dirt. “So we thought about doing camp here, and the more we thought about it, the more it made sense,” Brackman said. “Because of social distancing, we’d want the kids to be outside. That makes it a more relaxed and if they are outside, the kids don’t have to wear their masks the whole time. And the kids and the parents liked that.” SEE CAMP, P13
Nora Phillips shows off the bow she tied to the top of the pine cone she’s decorating as a gift for the Colorado Rabbit Society. PHOTOS BY SCOTT TAYLOR
Thanks to COVID-19, Rabbi Benjy Brackman had to change the way his summer camps operated. Rather than use a school classroom for Chabad of NW Metro Denver’s two day camps, Brackman set up tents outside at the Chabad’s Westminster location. The site is currently hosting two day camps, Camp Kind and Camp Gan Izzy.
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