This week started out with the Paul W. Smith Golf Classic tournament which went off beautifully. Everybody had a great time and the weather was perfect for such an event. Since everybody was at the event on Monday, everybody seems to be doing catch up for the rest of the week. Meetings were held, emails had to be read, and all had to get done fast because today in the office we are having a potluck. Our very own Laurel Whalen is leaving us this week. She has been offered a teaching job at Wayne State University this coming fall. Laurel will not be leaving all of us for good though, which we are very appreciative for that, she just will not be in the office as much as she has been. All of us at Think Detroit PAL would like to wish Laurel the best and congratulations.

Besides the Golf Classic, nothing huge has happened this week. There isn't any camps that are going on this week so that gives some of our officers some time get some other work done. It all has to get done because next week starts the set up for soccer camp. : ) Which will run the week of Aug. 30.

Thank you everyone, and good luck Laurel!!

Have a great day!
Mariel

Here a couple campers pose for a picture

We love smiling faces here at Think Detroit PAL

Here are the boys playing lacrosse after lunch

This week was the lacrosse camp for Think Detroit PAL. I was very excited to see so many kids sign up for this sport that has been recently new to the state of Michigan. Warrior lacrosse helped out the camp by donating not only boys lacrosse sticks, but the girls field hockey sticks also, to which the campers get to take home and use for years to come. They also donated enough lacrosse balls and the jerseys for every camper, and gave away equipment and t-shirts as prizes. It was really cool to see such a big company caring so much about the youth. To help teach the camp, a couple coaches from the surrounding area schools came along with a couple of their players. The coach from Brother Rice high school, the coach from U of D Jesuit, and players from Eastern Michigan, Grand Valley, Farris and Michigan State all came to help out. As well as a bunch of other players who play for their club teams. Like I said before, it was great to see so many people care for the kids. I know that some of the kids don't realize it yet, but sports are very important, and to have people there at those levels teaching them is such a great honor.

It was my first experience seeing a camp being put on, to where I didn't have to coach it, and it was a great experience. There is so much preparation that goes into these camps. Every day each kid received lunch, to which had to be picked up and put out for the kids to receive, tables needed to be washed, water jugs had to be filled, water bottles had to be given out, registration was still going on, and at the end of the day, EVERYTHING needed to be cleaned up and prepared to do it all over again the next day. I have a lot of respect for the people running the camps and the directors. Think Detroit PAL does a great job of having great people to work all of these. The last week in August is the soccer camp and I’m hoping to be part of the planning action for that.

Hope everyone has a great rest of the day and a great weekend.
Thanks
Mariel