Center offers fun learning for youth
ABES News Services
CAMBRIDGE-- Area children and young teenagers have the opportunity each Saturday to be occupied with a fun, learning experience the Pine Street Committee's (PSC) Fall Youth Enrichment Program. The program, geared for children ranging in age from 6 to 14 years old, runs from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Empowerment Center on Pine Street in Cambridge, and is so enjoyable a couple of younger children have joined.
About a dozen children from various ethnic backgrounds have been participating in these free sessions where youngsters learn beginner's chess and enjoy recyclable arts and crafts projects. Although the program started October 11 and will end December 20, area children are still invited to join the group. For more information, call (410) 228-2250.
"This is one of three year round scheduled community youth activities that we have been doing for the last three years. Each year we try to come up with something different," said program coordinator Octavene Saunders.
"Basically what we are trying to do is provide some type of hands on learning and fun throughout the year for the children in the community without cost," she added.
The fall program has come on the heels of the PSC's successful Summer Youth Program and will be followed by the "Kids Corner" starting in February 2009. "It is an amazing opportunity to work with the youth in our community, in that my father-in-law, Robert Davis, inspired me to volunteer and help in the community and he's 83 years old," said volunteer Julia Davis.
"The thing that I notice most prominently is we don't do enough for the kids, we don't do enough for the youth in this town. This is an excellent opportunity for the local children to come together and have peace and happiness for a couple of hours and enjoy themselves," she said. "It's just really an interesting class because it is all ages and these kids are very creative they give me ideas," said Patty Logan, who also volunteers. "We are going to be doing a mosaic which I haven't quite designed yet. That will be in before we are finished in December," she said. This past Saturday the children were busy making and decorating picture frame holders made from popsicle sticks. The project was suggested by Queen Pack, one of the children in the program. After that, the children made Christmas decorations from crab shells that were cleaned and sanitized. Previous projects included transforming old 33rpm records into bowls and other useful items.
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