Summer Camp

The Petersen Automotive Museum invites children to a fun-filled four-day camp! Children will explore the Museum's exhibitions and collections through fun activities and hands-on projects based on art & science. Summer Camp at the Pete! is a truly unique one-of-a-kind experience in that children will explore abundant examples of state-of-the art automobiles that manifest innovative thinking, artistic expression, and application of cutting-edge automotive technology. Children express their own ideas and dreams through arts & crafts workshops.

NORTHEAST GLENDALE - After conducting the first two years of the annual Tornadoes Baseball Camp, Joe Cotti decided to make some major changes to the event's structural layout. In the past, Cotti, Hoover High's baseball coach, shoe-horned facets from hitting to pitching to defense into a week-long session and would repeat the process for another five weeks. While it served its purpose, Cotti explored other ways to make the camp more attractive to current and future participants.

MONTROSE - Normally a pitcher and shortstop, Christopher Arzoumanian stood in center field tracking down fly balls at Montrose Park on Tuesday. He caught two fly balls in a row before racing to right-center field to make a tumbling catch. For his effort, Arzoumanian collected several grass stains on his gray jersey and applause from his teammates. It was a sign that Arzoumanian, 12, was getting comfortable learning a new position while taking part in the third annual Falcon Summer Baseball Camp.

The Glendale News-Press visited the YWCA summer camp at Fremont Park asked: What's your favorite thing to do at the camp? "I like going to the park. The whole camp gets together and we get to have fun." MINJOO HO, 8 "I like the field trips we take because they're so much fun and we go to exciting places. Last week we went to the El Capitan Theatre." MAYA MARTIROSSYAN, 9 "You get to go to field trips and stuff and you get to go to parks and play."

Eight-year-old Marianna Mkrtichian showed no fear Thursday during a final rehearsal before a crowd of about 30 youngsters and teachers at Glendale Unified's summer camp. She hopped and skipped around stage, all while a blue hula hoop swirled around her right ankle. It's not one of the core academic subjects per se, but talent week at the district's Early Education & Extended Learning Program helps students become more comfortable in the classroom and among their friends, organizers said.

LA CRESCENTA - Coming off a spring in which he guided the Crescenta Valley High boys' basketball team to the CIF Southern Section Division I-A semifinals, Falcons Coach Shawn Zargarian spent the past week of his summer molding some younger players into possibly becoming the next generation of high school players. Year after year, Zargarian's Falcons program draws on the talent of the surrounding community to field a Pacific League, and in the case of the past year, CIF title-contending team and for the seventh straight year, Coach Z's Basketball Camp did its part in making sure that bedrock remains strong at the youth level.

Boys' Soccer The summer program tryouts will take place at Clark Magnet High School, and will begin June 25 at 3:30 p.m. for all incoming freshmen. The program will run for five weeks and ends July 27. For more information, e-mail Coach Randy Lilavois at rlilavois@gusd.net. Girls' Softball Tryouts will be held on Monday, June 25 and Tuesday, June 26 from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Boys' Volleyball Tryouts for varsity and JV only will be held on June 22 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Crescenta Valley North Gym. For more information visit www.falconvolleyball.

Claudia Peschiutta MONTROSE -- While going off to summer camp may be scary for some kids, for others, it's nearly impossible. A group of L.A. County kids with moderate to severe asthma who might not otherwise be able to attend summer camp will get to take part in a specialized, weeklong program at Camp Marston this year, thanks, in part, to a $20,000 donation from Montrose Travel, officials said Friday. The donation will be used to help fund the "Barlow Respiratory Hospital Children's Asthma Camp," which will provide nearly 100 children, ages 8 through 12, with asthma-management education and other activities at a camp in San Diego County.

No good deed goes unpunished, right? That clearly was the case Thursday in Newport Beach as 15 professionals ended up behind bars, with $1,000 or more bail staring them in their jail-hardened faces. They had been caught by police, some were handcuffed, and all were read their Miranda rights. Fortunately for them, their jail was at the Tommy Bahama Cafe and Emporium, and their bail was going to the Muscular Dystrophy Assn. And their Miranda rights told them they could call as many friends as possible to help raise the bail.

LA CRESCENTA - Coming off a spring in which he guided the Crescenta Valley High boys' basketball team to the CIF Southern Section Division I-A semifinals, Falcons Coach Shawn Zargarian spent the past week of his summer molding some younger players into possibly becoming the next generation of high school players. Year after year, Zargarian's Falcons program draws on the talent of the surrounding community to field a Pacific League, and in the case of the past year, CIF title-contending team and for the seventh straight year, Coach Z's Basketball Camp did its part in making sure that bedrock remains strong at the youth level.

NORTHEAST GLENDALE - After conducting the first two years of the annual Tornadoes Baseball Camp, Joe Cotti decided to make some major changes to the event's structural layout. In the past, Cotti, Hoover High's baseball coach, shoe-horned facets from hitting to pitching to defense into a week-long session and would repeat the process for another five weeks. While it served its purpose, Cotti explored other ways to make the camp more attractive to current and future participants.

MONTROSE - Normally a pitcher and shortstop, Christopher Arzoumanian stood in center field tracking down fly balls at Montrose Park on Tuesday. He caught two fly balls in a row before racing to right-center field to make a tumbling catch. For his effort, Arzoumanian collected several grass stains on his gray jersey and applause from his teammates. It was a sign that Arzoumanian, 12, was getting comfortable learning a new position while taking part in the third annual Falcon Summer Baseball Camp.

Burbank youth came out in force to spend part of their summer at ShowCamp. This past Friday night the kids showed off their talents with the play "Wonka!"

Two weeks ago Paula Jaramillo had only a vague idea what mapalé looked like. But on Thursday, the 10-year-old put on an energetic performance of the traditional Colombian dance for a dozen camp mates and a handful of parents. “I put it on my TV and I looked at the people [dancing] and I said, 'I am going to do that,'” said Paula as she flounced around the room in a ruffled skirt and dangly earrings. The act was the sort of culturally-inspired, self-motivated learning that characterizes the Spanish-language summer camp, which is taking place at Incarnation Community Center in Glendale.

GLENDALE - Jeff Calixto was usually delegated to the bench when he first started playing basketball. After spending the past two summers at Mark Herring's Hoopapalooza, Inc. Summer Basketball Camp, Calixto's taken a significant leap in his game. The Hoopapalooza, Inc. Summer Basketball Camp is an annual week-long event, which concluded its second year Friday, put on by Herring at the Pacific Community Center. It's designed for beginners and primarily brings in 10 to 14-year olds.

SOUTH GLENDALE — Carol Gregory's students at Glendale Unified's summer camp wanted to begin their solar experiments in the shade Tuesday. "That's not going to work, will it?" the teacher said. The students caught on quickly. Beginning with small fans, 9-year-old Cassandra Aleman experimented with solar cells in the shade and in direct sunlight. She connected another half-volt cell to the fan and noted the uptick in its rotations. "It's at full power," she said, standing in the sun. "It's shaking from the speed.

Eight-year-old Marianna Mkrtichian showed no fear Thursday during a final rehearsal before a crowd of about 30 youngsters and teachers at Glendale Unified's summer camp. She hopped and skipped around stage, all while a blue hula hoop swirled around her right ankle. It's not one of the core academic subjects per se, but talent week at the district's Early Education & Extended Learning Program helps students become more comfortable in the classroom and among their friends, organizers said.

Students enrolled in the Glendale YWCA's summer day camp begin each morning with a dip in the pool. Later, after some free time, they do arts and crafts or play math and reading games in the nonprofit's new computer lab. Others shoot some hoops or play soccer. Whatever the activity, the focus of the camp is to keep the children active all day long, said camp Director Delie Bishil. "A lot of people play soccer; I practice basketball," said Diego Ahmad, 8, of Glendale. "My mom usually likes me to go to camps.

LA CRESCENTA — Ten-year-old Alexia Ouzounian was applying the finishing touches to her homemade scarf Thursday, the last day of art camp. In between scrunching its corners and applying purple spray paint, the Fremont Elementary School student said her summer at the Summer Art Camp for Tweens and Teens was full of new techniques and projects she doesn't see during the rest of the year. "There's been a lot more this summer," she said. "All of [the projects] are fun, but I like the ones where you have to work with your hands."