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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Posts Tagged ‘summer camp’

Camp Fair AZ 2013 success!

Raising Arizona Kids Camp Fair 2013 Phoenix Chandler

Camp Fair AZ 2013 has finished and hundreds of Valley parents now have firm plans for their kids’ summer activities. Tesseract School Shea Campus hosted the event in north Phoenix on Saturday and Camp Fair AZ moved to Chandler Preparatory Academy in Chandler on Sunday. If you attended one of the events, we welcome your [...]

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Ice Den creates new sports venue

Kids play Sabakiball on the Ice Den's turf-covered rink. Photo by Daniel Friedman

The Ice Den in North Scottsdale has mixed things up this summer by converting its newest ice rink into a family-friendly turf field. This 17,000-square-foot venue differs from the Ice Den’s other two ice rinks because it has a refrigeration system built under a concrete base floor, allowing the space to be used as either [...]

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Yes, chef!

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I’ve hired a a personal chef. I know, money is tight. Times are tough. We’ve got a Bar Mitzvah coming in a little over a year. But, cooking’s never been my thing. My husband, Mark, loves to cook. He’s a great chef too. So I never bothered to force myself into culinary-improvement mode. But with [...]

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Stressed-out summer

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I just read a blog about summer camp for at-risk youth and realized that it meant mine. Because as of today, their third full day of summer vacation, they are at risk of being throttled, pummeled and bound and gagged by none other than their delirious mother, who is truly at the proverbial end of her [...]

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Summer’s coming, time to find a camp

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Yesterday, Camp Fair AZ at Tesseract School’s Shea campus provided information on summer camp to hundreds of parents and likely great summer experiences for their kids. Camp Fair happens again today at Seton Catholic Preparatory High School, 1150 N. Dobson Rd. in Chandler. Hours are 10am-3pm and the event is free. Parents collected brochures and flyers [...]

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Kids say the darndest things.

The mom at my gym told me there were water spots on her son’s letter and that he’d circled and labeled them “tears.” Can there be anything more painful than that?

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Art meets water

Lynn Trimble returns to the Arcadia neighborhood of Phoenix, where her three children grew up, to see what’s new at the Shemer Art Center and Museum where they once enjoyed exhibits, art classes and outdoor festivals.

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Happy campers, merry wives

Lynn Trimble describes a recent Childsplay summer camp performance, shares news of a Shakespeare production coming to select movie theaters and looks ahead to her visit with daughter Lizabeth to the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City.

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Pardon my Pandora

When Lynn Trimble learned of the 5th Annual Pandora Festival, featuring staged readings of works by women playwrights at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts this weekend, she began musing about all things “Pandora” — with some unexpected results.

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"The Borrowers"

You might think of “borrowers” as the folks you only see when they need a lawn mower or hedge clippers. But Lynn Trimble previews something better by far — the Childsplay production of “The Borrowers” opening April 30 at Tempe Center for the Arts.

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