Nonprofit teams up with Stoltze for summer camps

The Ravenwood Outdoor Center has been getting kids out in the woods for nearly a decade. Now, through a partnership with the F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber Co., the nonprofit organization is bringing their summer programs to the North Valley.

The summer programs — all day programs — are designed for kids from pre-school to age 14, director and co-founder Brett Holmquist said. The programs will be located on Stoltze land off Trumbull Canyon Road.

“We look forward to working with Ravenwood to ‘get the woods into our kids’ and helping reinforce the connections between healthy forests and healthy communities,” said Paul McKenzie, lands and resource manager for Stoltze.

The roster of camps includes a special week in early June for children with Type I diabetes, Holmquist said. Programs for other children run throughout the summer.

Ravenwood is a community-based non-profit organization in its ninth year.

“Stoltze was really great working with us,” Holmquist said.

To learn more about the Ravenwood summer camps, visit online at www.ravenwoodolc.org.