Fun Filled Summer Camp at RL Stevens!!

Katie O'Looney, Supervising Teacher

For the past 4 weeks, both Wright Charter School and RL Stevens Elementary School students have been enjoying the sunshine and activities that our AmeriCorps members have been planning. Each day, the Boys and Girls Club and our students are provided a free nutritious lunch from the Redwood Empire Food Bank. After they eat lunch, they rotate through 4 different centers from 1:30-4:00pm. This year we had a HUGE jump in enrollment up to 100 students. The mentors are doing a wonderful job ending their year of service and the kids are enjoying each and every minute from the water games to the arts and crafts activities.

Summer Fun: Recreation Sensation

Lindsday Rizzo, CalSERVES Program Coordinator

This summer, CalSERVES and the Santa Rosa Recreation and Parks Department are partnering to bring the Recreation Sensation program to three school sites in Santa Rosa. Both CalSERVES and Rec and Park staff members have come together at each site to provide an amazing summer recreation program that provides kids ages 5-13 with a fun, and safe place to be this summer. 

CalSERVES mentors alongside Recreation and Parks staff members trained for a week in June to gear up for this summer's program. They bonded over team-building activities, songs and games to form a united Recreation Sensation staff.

Recreation Sensation is a free program for kids in the surrounding community. The program engages kids in activities and field trips from 9am to 4:30pm each day. Whether it's playing soccer, singing camp songs, getting fancy during salon day or letting loose on the slip-n-slide, the mentors and the kids are having a blast.

The Three Piggy Opera!

Yesenia Salas-Chavira, Supervising Teacher at Bellevue Elementary

You are all invited to join in the fun of our very own Opera!

The Three Piggy Opera
Presented by the CalSERVES AmeriCorps Program
and the Bellevue Elementary COOL Summer Program
Friday, June 26th, 7pm
Bellevue Elementary School

Do not miss this once in a life time event where you will enjoy singing and dancing by our talented youth! There will be lighting, costumes, make-up, props, scenery, and programs. It's almost as if you were going to a Broadway show, except (and this is the best part), it is FREE!

After all the hard work, the students want to see you there!

Program design and flier/poster team churning out colored fliers


Background and scenery team


Making brick- and straw-sellers carts