Blo*Lancaster FamHi Ing, Saturday, July 31, 1993 Day Campers Learn About The Community LOU ANN GOOD Lancaster Farming Staff LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) A sun-splashed day greeted 312 children who attended the 4-H Summer Day Camp recently. Lancaster County Park was the site where the day campers partici pated in fun-filled activities under the theme “Getting to Know Your Community.” Firemen and ambulance work ers taught the children how to deal with disasters. A fire trailer was parked on the grounds and groups of students took turns entering the trailer and settling in the nooks and crannies of the small rooms. Then smoke was piped into the trailer and fire alarms shrilled. The chil dren needed to crawl and feel their way to safety. Most of the campers enjoyed crawling through the maze and feeling for the door where they could escape in safety. They knew this was not a real fire, but an activ ity to teach them how to escape from a real fire. Eight-year-old Kevin Rice of Elizabethtown said that escaping from a fire was old stuff for him. He said he had to escape from two fires in real life. He eagerly told his fellow campers how he dialed 911 and that he could not awaken his dad until the fire sirens sounded. “I think it is a good thing to have this fire trailer,” he said. “So we Day campers peer through the window to see how smoke rises about two to three feet above the ground. The Lancas ter County Fireman’s Association set up the fire trailer to teach kids fire safely. The outdoor pavilion It flavored with (he aroma of grilled hot doge and friendship. Five-year-old Erica cools off by eating ice cream. leant how to escape from fires.” Ambulance workers explained how the ambulance helps people and that it is nothing to be afraid of even though the siren sounds scary. On the other side of the Held 11-year-old Jessica Schmidt and her mother, Laurie, told the cam pers all about raising sheep. “Look, each of you are wearing a name tag today," Laurie told the campers. The sheep have their ears pierced and wear ear tags so people can identify them.” She told how the lamb Pepper needed to be bottle fed five times a day because the mother ewe could pers watched as Penn Laurel Girl pate. There is cooperation and not take care of him. Scout Council presented a puppet acceptance with everyone. Four-H Some of the campers had never show on learning disabilities. is for everyone.” had the opportunity to pet a sheep “I like the puppet show best Of the games and activities before. Seven-year-old Jonathan because it shows how each person planned, Parker said, “It’s really an Jaynes loved to pet the woolly is special,” said one of the campers, educational experience, although coats. He said,‘The big sheep feels ‘The neat thing about 4-H Day the kids aren’t aware of it. the like a rug, and the little one feels Camp,” said Zoann Parker, 4-H games are really teaching the chil like a carpet.” extension agent, is the diversity of dren the importance of coopera- In another area of the park, cam- youth organizations that ' id- tion.” V As Laurie Schmidt, right, ex[ jins the care that sheep require, a 4-H’er caps the Dorset’s head with a baseball cap. M p e This day camp activity teaches children the importance of working together.
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