WHAT’S IN THIS EDITION OF THE KINNERET HIGHLIGHTS? THE CAMP KINNERET STAFF This special fall edition of the Kinneret Highlights was written by our summer Did you know that…? staff for all of our campers and their families to read and enjoy! There are In 2016, we received over 125 notes from all of your specialists and group counselors. You can read their applications to fill 30 positions messages and remember everything you learned and experienced during the not held by returning staff. summer of 2016! We re-interview all returning former staff each year to ensure Campers, find the sections that your counselors that they will continue to have a wrote especially for your group! positive impact in camp. Senior staff members participate CAMP KINNERET ENROLLMENT FOR 2017 in a mandatory pre-employment Although it may feel like a long way off, next summer will be here before we drug testing program and are rd know it. Returning family enrollment begins Tuesday, January 3 ! As a subject to random testing returning Camp Kinneret family, you will have priority during the entire month throughout the summer. of January. You should receive your enrollment information by Thursday, We conduct yearly professional th December 29 . New families can begin to submit their applications on background checks on all of our th January 16 . Ask your friends to call us today to be added to our mailing list new and returning staff. and to receive information about our camp program and our application Our staff members attend process. 35 hours of staff orientation and training before camp begins. CAMP KINNERET CAMPERSHIP FUND Our senior staff members are Each year our campership fund enables children to attend Camp Kinneret required to attend weekly who otherwise would not have the opportunity to experience a summer at evening staff meetings. camp. Named for our previous directors, Sam and Rochelle Hoffman and Our CILTS (high school interns) Harold Gordon, this fund allows us to share their vision of a child-centered, attend pre-camp training and nurturing camp with children of all backgrounds. If you would like to make a orientation as well as 1-on-1 tax deductible donation, please see our website for more information and goals meetings and weekly ways to contribute: campkinneret.com/camp-kinneret-giving group meetings. Our campership fund is one of many administered through the American Group Photos Camp Association (ACA). This October, fifteen of our staff members helped to raise campership funds by pledging to run, walk, swim, or bike as part of the In December, we will mail your ACA’s annual Camp Moves Me fundraiser. As of the printing of this newsletter, group photos along with another they have raised over $3500! We want to extend a huge thank you to the personalized letter from your camp families, staff members, alumni, and friends who supported us through counselor to your group members! their donations. Look for them in the mail! Make sure to check out the last page of this newsletter for information about our annual Thanksgiving weekend “Sharing Smiles” donation drive! summer one of my favorite times in my super fun, and you guys were amazing From Group Counselors: life. No matter what activity we were at, swimmers during our games of Red Light you guys always found silly things to Green Light at the pool. Playing with you Star Buddies laugh about and make each individual guys in Miwok Village was always such a Hey guys, how are you all doing?! I hope day special. blast, from pretending to be kittens, your school years are going well, mine I cannot remember a time where there playing with all of the food, or buying has been really fun so far (although I’d was more laughter and pure happiness everything in there with the awesome much rather be at camp again with you). then this last summer, you guys truly did cash register. Even though camp was I’ll never forget the fun times that we had, open my eyes up to a new meaning of such a blast and I never stopped laughing we all shared so many laughs and good the word fun. I hope that you all have a when I got to hang out with you guys, I times together. Do you remember the fantastic school year and I can’t wait for know you’re all having such a great time time that we set the record for the camp to start again this coming summer. at school and I know I am too. I hope you longest round of red-light green-light in Thank you guys so much for such a fun guys always remember all the funny the pool? I still can’t believe we pulled and joyful summer, I will remember it times we shared as the Funny Froot that off! always. Loops, and I hope to see you guys next summer and hear about all your funny Not a day goes by where I don't think Love always, stories! about all the fun times we had last Jacob summer, and it just makes me want to Love, Og’s Potato Pals start camp all over again! It didn't matter Phoebe Hi Og’s Potato Pals! How are you guys what activity we were at, whether it was doing? I hope you’re all having a great Storybook Buddies & Pancake Pals gym, field, gaga, or arts and crafts, we time in school and having so much fun! I Hey Storybook Buddies and Pancake always found a way to make that time miss camp and getting to hang out with Pals! How is school going? I hope you are special. And how can I forget the hike to you guys every day so much! We had so all enjoying it and making some new the Lemonade Tower? The mermaids’ much fun being super silly during all of friends. I miss you all so much. We had so lemonade was the best that I've ever our games of potato says. You guys were much fun together all summer long. tasted. so fast when we raced through camp Remember hiking to the Lemonade Thank you guys for making every day at with our jetpacks, and when we Tower and talking to the mermaids? And camp a great day, always finding new pretended to be cheetahs. I remember going swimming in the pool every day ways to make me laugh, and making this how much you enjoyed juice bars every was so much fun. Of course I loved all the last summer one of my favorite times in day, and we had so much fun being able games we played like foxes and hounds my entire life. I hope you are all having a to make them and then feed them to the and run and scream gaga. I loved telling wonderful school year, and I can’t wait for animals! I bet the goats Buzz and Woody stories and talking about breakfast and camp to start again next summer! You really enjoyed them. I miss hanging out in being super silly with you guys all are all stars and I am so thankful that I the cold, Miwok Village air conditioning summer long. I miss making storms for got to know every single one of you. and getting to build those awesome you all at boating and helping you choose your colors for tie dye. I still remember a Love always, towers and race tracks in Box World! lot of the jokes you guys told me. You Jacob I hope you guys have an amazing year! It guys were just too funny! And we can’t Lucky Charms was amazing getting to know all of you forget about playing on the whale watch How are all of my Lucky Charms doing?! I over the summer, and I bet you’re all or playing games on the grass. I also hope school is off to a wonderful start, learning so much and having such a fun loved putting on our jetpacks every day mine certainly is. Even though school is time in Kindergarten this year. Hope to and riding our skateboards to get up going well I think about camp all the time. see you next year! good morning mountain. I am still I will never forget all of the fun memories Love, working at camp, but I am the office now that we made together last summer. Do Phoebe getting things ready for next summer. It you guys remember that day where we Funny Froot Loops doesn’t feel the same to be at camp had to find all of those hidden pizza Hey Funny Froot Loops! I can’t believe without you all here. I’ll tell Og hello from boxes, or when we hiked all the way up to we’re all already back at school; camp you all! I miss you all so much and I hope the Lemonade Tower and talked to the feels like just yesterday! I miss spending your year is going well. Keeping being mermaids? Or how about when we had my day having so much fun with all of creative and keep smiling! Olympics week- we got so many points you guys hanging out at camp. I know I Love, for the yellow team, I still can’t believe we had so much fun laughing and playing Callan got all of those points at archery! with all of you! Even though I love school, Goofy Guppies I loved getting to know all of you guys this I miss all of our fun activities at camp.