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January 26, 2016

Andre Amiro joins Arowhon full-time year-round team!

We’re thrilled to announce that Andre Amiro is joining the Arowhon team full-time year round – just in time to get his 10-year jacket this coming summer! Andre started at Arowhon in 2007 as head of Climbing, he’s been a Program Director, was Director of our Outdoor Centre and for the past few summers Tripping […]

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September 24, 2015

Memories of Family Camp

This summer we were blessed with many alumni coming though camp to visit their old summer home. We also hosted over 40 families at our Labour Day family weekend, most of them alumni bringing their families back to show them the place that affected them so much. It blew us away to see how much […]

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June 26, 2015

Day One!!!!

We had a GREAT first day at camp today. It was warm and sunny, the campers did their swim test, they toured to every activity in camp and saw cool skits by instructors and had some fun finding out about every activity. At dinner tonight the drama staff did an extravaganza song-and-dance skit (+20 actors […]

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February 2, 2015

A plea for vaccinating children, from The New York Times

The Vaccine Lunacy Disneyland, Measles and Madness JAN. 31, 2015 Photo CreditBen Wiseman  Frank Bruni A FEW years back, an acerbic friend of mine who was a recent transplant to Los Angeles told me that she itched to write a satirical novel with the following narrative: A group of wealthy, educated people in Santa Monica […]

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December 11, 2014

Perfectionism, an ill of the 21st century

I was talking to a distraught mom the other day, about her daughter who never feels good enough about herself. Funny (or maybe not so funny) thing is that the mom doesn’t feel good enough either. And she uses her daughter’s insecurities as a weapon to beat herself up. As in: The mom blames herself […]

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November 26, 2014

Arowhon in Action!

The first ever Arowhon in Action event this past weekend brought out 150 Arowhon campers and parents to pack bags of clothes and food for the homeless, decorate them in true Arowhon Arts & Crafts style, and have a lot of fun while we did it – not to mention candy floss, caramel popcorn and […]

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July 28, 2014

HoCho in Jo’s

At lunch today we announced that all juniors and inters who had signed up for windsurfing in the afternoon should go to Arts and Crafts instead because it was too cold. On my way out of the ML, a group of Inter Girls surrounded me BEGGING to go windsurfing because “it’s not thaaaat cold and […]

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August 2014 – Junior Boy Cabin Photos

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August 2014 – Inter Boy Cabin Photos

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August 2014 – Senior Boy Cabin Photos

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