Our Teens Learning to Play Volleyball!

Volleyball is another new activity we're adding to our repertoire here at the King Street Center.  Here's a great video of our teens and one of our staff members trying it out with a tennis net we rigged up to be close to volleyball height.  It's certainly new to us here and we're hoping to develop a partnership with some local volleyball coaches to be able to build a good foundation for mastering volleyball!  And we love it already...  Enjoy!  Let us know if you'd like to help.

 

Delicious Lemonade!

Some shots of the Lemonade Stand from today:

By the way, the King Street staffers ordered 4 citrus coolers, one without sugar.  Delicious.

T-shirts!

What's green, blue, and red all over the King Street neighborhood?

Why, US, of course!

If you see someone wearing a King Street Center t-shirt, let them know that you believe in King Street, too.

Vicky Wins Award from Police Foundation

Go Vicky, Leisa, and Mary Alice!

Here's the story from WCAX.

Kids's Lemonade Starts on June 23rd!

We're ramping up for the 2009 Kids' Lemonade season, and to celebrate, Teen Futures Coordinator Jim Young tried on the stand's lemon suit today.  Mmm . . . delicious citrus drink.

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

Last fall, Rick Stoner generously donated a Shipwreck Tour trip to King Street.  So, this Wednesday, the Afterschoolers got to go to the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, travel out on a boat, and look at shipwrecks.

This trip was great because we were on a boat.  No, really.  That's what was so great. 

Seriously. 

For example, the adults didn't know until we got there how many of the children had never been on a boat before, and the children were FASCINATED.  On the way down to the boat, a lot of the kids asked, "Why do we have to wear these lifejackets," and when the adults said, "They keep you safe on the water," the kids said, "But what if we fall in the water?"  And, as soon as the boat started moving, all the children were amazed by the wake.  One girl asked, "Why does the water move like that."  There were a lot of opportunities for impromptu science lessons.

Also, we got to learn about the Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV), which is what the scientists at the Maritime Museum use to film the shipwrecks. While we were out there, we got to see live footage of a shipwreck on the New York side of the lake.

Thank you, again, to the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and to Rick Stoner.  This was a wonderful opportunity for the children of King Street.

Vacation Camp 2009

One of my favorite things about vacation camp is taking the King Street Kids on a hike. Extended time in the woods isn't a common event in a lot of our kids' lives, and their comments reflect an astonishment at every flower, tree, animal, rock formation, and view that they see.  In honor of that, when we went to Shelburne Bay this year, we gave cameras and video recorders to the King Street Kids so they could document their favorite parts of the trip.

Some of the highlights included finding the skull of a rabbit, identifying flowers, eating trout lilies, skipping rocks in the water, and just staring at the beautiful view.