Day camps (and one overnight camp!) adjust offerings for a COVID-safe summer. Written By: John Sievers | ×
This year, the Rochester Art Center s Total Arts Day Camp will offer half its usual occupancy, and will enforce mask wearing, social distancing, and extra sanitizing to help decrease the continued risks of the pandemic. (Contributed photo)
From high ropes courses to horses, and from archery to art, area camps are gearing up to offer something for just about everyone this summer.
Amanda Peloquin, a music teacher and Rochester parent, fondly remembers attending camp and is excited for her children to have similar experiences.
My best friend was killed by her controlling husband
Hetti Barkworth-Nanton went on to set up a charity to support children and witnesses of domestic abuse, and became chair of Refuge
31 January 2021 • 6:00am
Hetti Barkworth-Nanton (right) with her friend Jo in 2010, six weeks before Jo was killed
Credit: Courtesy of Hetti Barkworth-Nanton
It was an ordinary Monday morning in 2010 when my life changed for ever. I came out of a meeting and saw a load of missed calls and messages from friends. It was the news I’d always feared: ‘Jo’s gone missing.’ Five days later, the body of my best friend and soulmate was found by police.
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The Duchess of Cornwall has wished an island initative well.
Prince Charles’s wife’s message was given at a lunch to launch a partnership between the Joanna Simpson Foundation with The Children’s Centre.Â
The lunch was attended by more than 130 guests including the Lieutenant Governor Sir Richard Gozney, Lady Gozney and Chief Minister Howard Quayle MHK.
Sir Richard read a special message from the Duchess of Cornwall.
This was followed by video messages from Emma Barton from Radio 5 Live and Hetti Barkworth-Nanton, a former trustee of the Joanna Simpson Foundation, now chairperson of Refuge UK.Â