 Hello, Columbia. Welcome to our edition of Telling Our Story, Exploring the Parks. I am your host, Wanda Austin Herndon. Join us as we explore our parks. Welcome to another edition of Telling Our Story, Exploring the Parks. Today, we're going to explore all the mini summer camps that we will be offering this summer in City of Columbia Parks and Recreation, starting with the rolling one. I'm Andy with the City of Columbia Park Rangers. I am a park ranger at the Salute Riverwalk. I am here to tell you about our summer kayak camps here with the City of Columbia. We offer six weeks of camps, two sessions, one for eight to eleven-year-old kids and another session for twelve to sixteen-year-old kids. So we have five-day class, five-day camp for your children. Day one is a lot of equipment familiarization with them, you know, teaching them how to hold their paddle, how to wear their life jacket, how to get in and out of their boat properly. And then we jump on the water with them, cruise the historic Columbia Canal. And then once we make it to downtown, we jump into the Congerey River and then cruise down to Granby Park. And then day two, we usually will load up in the bus, go down and check out Columbia's National Park, which is known as the Congerey National Park and cruise around on Cedar Creek. And then day three, we will go to Lake Murray and have a beach day. And then Thursday, we go to the Broad River and we start at Harveston State Forest and we cruise downriver back to Riverfront Park. And then on our fifth and final day, we graduate and we come to the Salute River and we launch upstream near Lake Murray and paddle all the way back down to Riverbank Zoo on the crystal clear waters of the Salute River. So Columbia is a river town, you know, there's lots of waterways all around the city. So our goal is to get your child out on almost every last one of them and teach them how to enjoy them properly and safely. Hi, my name is Kevin Lyles. I am the golf program supervisor here at the James Clyburn Golf Center. And this summer we're going to have a junior skills camp. We're going to teach kids from the years of eight to 16. We're going to teach them the fundamentals on putting, short game, full swing. We're going to have a great time. We'll be going from June 5th through June 8th from 9am to 11am. Please sign up and we'll see you here. With all of our fabulous summer camps we have to offer, all of our staff go through extensive training throughout the year. As well as the seasonal staff that we have for the summer, they are trained in First Aid and DSS training. So today we talked about kayaking and golf. However, those are not the only camps we have to offer. We have several camps available here at Columbia Parks and Recreation. So where would you find that information? Here in our lovely resource guide for the summer, which will feature all of our summer camps that we have to offer. And where can you find these guys you say? In any of our local parks and many of the other City of Columbia buildings. And they will feature all of our City of Columbia parks, camps, and some of our partners throughout the city that are offering camps as well. Thank you for joining us for Telling Our Story Summer Camp Edition. Until next time.