A four-day Camp Tawonga introductory session with 200 children enrolled has been canceled due to a surge in Covid cases in the region and low vaccination rates among the enrollees, most too young to get the shot, according to a July 29 email sent by camp director Becca Meyer and CEO Jamie Simon.
“We were so looking forward to welcoming your child to Tawonga and share in the disappointment this news may cause but we must prioritize the health and safety of [all of] our campers and staff,” the email stated.
“Taste of Camp” is a kind of mini-session for those entering second through 7th grades who are new to the sleep-away camp experience. It includes traditional activities such as living in a bunk, swimming, boating and archery.
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Beloved Camp Tawonga staffer from Berkeley drowns in river near Yosemite
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FILE PHOTO. The Covid 19 Pandemic closed most US National Parks during 2020. National Parks are slowly opening for the 2021 season. View of the Merced River in Yosemite National Park Wednesday May 12, 2021. Photo by Tom O Neill (Photo by Thomas O Nei
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STANISLAUS COUNTY, Calif. - A 20-year-old Berkeley man who worked as a staff member at a well-known Jewish summer camp died Thursday while swimming in a river near Yosemite National Park.
Camp Tawonga announced Friday that Berkeley High School graduate Eli Kane, 20, drowned at a river spot outside of Camp Tawonga’s property in Stanislaus National Forest during his day off.
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Berkeley native Eli Kane was on his day off from Camp Tawonga on Thursday when he and some other counselors headed to a river in the Stanislaus National Forest. It was a popular swimming hole for Tawonga staffers, off camp property.
Somehow the circumstances have not been determined he drowned. He was 20 years old.
He was the son of Scott and Nancy Kane and the brother of Jesse Kane, all of Berkeley. Both boys became bar mitzvah at Reform Congregation Beth El in Berkeley.
Eli was a 2019 graduate of Berkeley High School, where he played on the soccer team, and he was a student at the University of Michigan, according to several media sources. It was his first summer as a counselor at the Jewish overnight camp near Yosemite National Park.
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Some summer camps are going to great lengths to keep campers safe this summer. At Camp Tawonga near Yosemite, organizers say hundreds of campers have already been able to come together COVID-free after they took several precautions.
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Some summer camps are going to great lengths to keep campers safe this summer.
At Camp Tawonga near Yosemite, organizers say hundreds of campers have already been able to come together COVID-free after they took several precautions. Families quarantined before their kids came to camp. Everybody took a PCR test before coming. And then every bunk was a pod for the first 5 days. So those 12 kids ate meals together, slept in the same cabin, did all their activities with just their bunk. And then they did another round of PCR tests and when those were all negative, we were able to pod the whole camp, explained Jamie Simon, CEO of Camp Tawonga.
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