Kemmerer Voices
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2010
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Upcoming Events
- 17th Annual Kemmerer Village Golf Classic
- Friday, September 10th, 2010 at the Oak Terrace Golf Course, 8:00 am
- Four-Person Scramble
- Early-Bird Registration: call (217) 226-4451 for more information and entry
- Prizes, cash, and trophies for the top 3 teams in each flight will be awarded!!
- Former Residents of Kemmerer Village Planning Reunion
- Saturday, August 14, 2010 has been selected as the date for the next Kemmerer Village Reunion. The reunion will be hosted on the Village campus. If you are a former resident or staff, we would like to invite you to save this date on your calendar. Pat Hill McLaughlin former resident is making an effort to contact as many people as possible. The first Kemmerer Village Reunion took place in 1986. Food and refreshments will be provided. If you would like more information please contact Pat McLaughlin at jacsmom1@yahoo.com or (217) 679-0804 after 6:00 p.m.
News and Events
The Therapeutic Recreation Department has began community outreach programs as a means to help our residents learn the skill of empathy, by doing events that help other people in need. The staff are working with the residents in planning a number of events for the spring and summer, such as: a pop tab collection for the Ronald McDonald House, a walk-a-thon, and volunteering for the Special Olympics.
Special Olympics was a Success!
On 6/12/10 Therapeutic Recreation Staff, Brandon Smith, and Child Care Counselor, Katie Kettlekamp, took Alexis, Ravyn and Jason to the Special Olympics in Bloomington/Normal Illinois to help volunteer. Thousands of athletes with intellectual disabilities around the state of Illinois attend this event every year. Hundreds of volunteers were there to assist with all of the different events throughout the day. Throughout the day our youth assisted in helping with soccer. When balls were kicked out of bounds volunteers had to chase them down and bring them back to the field of play for the athletes. Despite the hot and rainy weather this was a very successful event, and our teens enjoyed helping out. They all received volunteer shirts for their help. CCC, Katie Kettlekamp, took several pictures of the event and will have them developed soon. Pictures are soon to come. As many may know this project was part of our community outreach program. The community outreach program is only in the beginning, and we hope to do many more wonderful things with this program.
Kemmerer Prom
The Kemmerer Village Women's Auxiliary
The Kemmerer Village Women's Auxiliary helps to provide additional funding and support for specific needs of youth who are served by Kemmerer Village. The Women's Auxiliary serves as the "heart and hearth" of the Kemmerer Village mission; helping to provide such basic and practical things as bed sheets, bed comforters, shoes, graduation gifts, sponsoring our KV "Prom" and special off-campus outings to name just a few things. Without the support of the Auxiliary, most of our youth would not have had the opportunity to experience these type of things. The Kemmerer Village Women's Auxiliary has provided these types of services to generations of young people.
We encourage you to join the Women's Auxiliary by either attending our meetings, which are held on-campus the first Wednesday of every March, May, September and November; or by contacting us by phone or email (217-225-2132) or Alice.Christenberry@kv.christian.k12.il.us and Jessica.Webb@kv.christian.k12.il.us
Kemmerer Village Walks for the Cure
"Come on you can do it, remember this is for a good cause." Saturday, May 29, 2010, was a day at Kemmerer Village that will not be forgotten. The Therapeutic Recreation Department at Kemmerer Village held a Walk for the Cure event on campus. Beginning around 9am the youth began walking around the 175 meter track. The duration of the walk-a-thon was from 9am to 4pm. All cottages got a total of one hour during the day to get as many laps in as possible. Our youth walked two 30 minute increments during the day. Many were encouraging one another to not give up and to keep walking/jogging as many laps as possible. With 33 teens participating, 1130 laps were walked for a total of 123.5 miles walked for the day. A total of $919.75 was raised on this day. All proceeds went to benefit the St. John's Children's Hospital in Springfield Illinois. On Wednesday, June 02, 2010, Therapeutic Recreation Specialist Brandon Smith and Child Care Counselor Sarah Tharp took a few of the young ladies from Kemmerer Village to the Children's Hospital in Springfield to deliver the proceeds raised, as well as toys collected for the hospital, and get well cards made by all of the youth at Kemmerer Village for the hospital's 80 patients. St. John's staff, Mary Callaway, gave Kemmerer Village a tour of the hospital and expressed many thanks to our teens for their hard work and dedication to this cause. Our young men and women learned that by putting forth some effort that it is possible to make a difference in another's life.
A big thank you goes out to all of you who contributed to this cause and made this event a success and perhaps more importantly a learning experience in our kid's lives.
