New Opportunities for campers!

Given all the information in this newsletter, there are a few items so good we want to share them again and post some anew!

Children’s Art Workshop at Creative Arts Eliot Karen Stratton, the CAE committee chair, reminds us: The Creative Arts Eliot program team is excited to offer the first ever Children's Art Workshop to Elioteers of elementary school age (6-10 years). Kaylyn Olynyk, experienced Eliot camper and children's art teacher, is offering a morning workshop in printmaking. The children join the whole community for in-gathering each morning before heading off to their workshop, while their parents and caregivers take advantage of the broad selection of art workshops. After lunch, the usual Eliot activities are available for families, including swimming, boating, pickleball, games, singing on the porch and puzzles. 

If your family has not given Creative Arts a try yet, this is the year! It's a smaller group of campers, a shorter time period (Saturday to Wednesday), and a very relaxed vibe. We hope you’ll join us! 

Simplified Financial Assistance Form If you need a bit of financial aid to make attendance at an Eliot camp possible, apply for a grant! You can request funds for up to the full amount of the camp, with the majority of our grants being a portion of the total cost. The link to the simplified, confidential form is here: https://www.eliotinstitute.org/financial-assistance.

Note that applications need to be received by the Registrar six weeks before the start date of the camp you wish to attend.

Would you like to be an Eliot ambassador? One of the ways we can keep Eliot thriving and sending good into the world is by inviting folks to join us at camp. The Communications and Marketing Committee is developing a five-minute video describing the Eliot magic. We would like you to present this to your UU home congregation and share why Eliot is important to you. The video, handy handouts, and some tips for presentation will available through a Google Drive folder. Please reach out to Linda Hardison (bellaroost@gmail.com), chair of the Communications & Marketing Committee if you’d like to share the good news about Eliot by giving a presentation or helping our committee in other ways.

Did you scroll immediately to read the Eagle Eye’s report?? We don’t blame you—it’s the juicy news about our fellow Elioteers we love to learn! And—clever and thorough reader that you are—here is the answer to Jim Francis’ puzzle, as promised by our now-balding Eagle: The atomic numbers 14, 116, and 68 represent the chemical elements silicon (Si), livermorium (Lv), and erbium (Er), respectively. The symbols for these elements spell SiLvEr, which has the atomic number 47.