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Partners for Otoe County and the Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Center for the Arts completed their fourth annual Summer Art Camp July 25-29, 2011. Fifty-one children, grades 1-7, participated under the leadership of Katy Bovick, with Kim Warner, Ronda Johnson, Amanda Davis, Tyler Riley and Caleb Riley assisting.
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Students made temporary art with flowers donated by Snapdragon and 1st Class Flowers, then photographed their art.
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First through 3rd grade students completed Picasso self-portraits with paint and oil pastels and collage landscapes. Students in grades 4-7 painted a portrait inspired by Friedensreich Hundertwasser and created a bowl out of recycled magazines. Both groups made land art
creations inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworthy and weaving on a loom as well as friendship bracelets. All of the projects used recycled items. On Friday, students critiqued art projects and invited family to join them for an artist display. Group projects can currently be seen at the Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Center for the Arts.
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Family members viewed the artists' work on display the last day of Summer Art Camp.
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The Nebraska Arts Council, a state agency, supported the Summer Art Camp through its Matching Grants Program funded by the Nebraska Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
More photos can be seen in the August 5th edition of the Nebraska City News-Press.
 | 4th - 7th Grade Summer Art Camp Participants
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Thumbs Up for Volunteers! Thanks to the wonderful volunteers who helped out with Summer Art Camp last week:- Kim Warner
- Ronda Johnson
- Amanda Davis
- Tyler Riley
- Caleb Riley
We're very grateful. We wouldn't have been able to include 51 children in such great activities without their help or the help of the folks at the KHN Center! |
 | Grant and Monica Welsh with Nancy and Tom Osborn receiving Local Champion Award from the TeamMates Mentoring Program July 26, 2011
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Next Take Back Event Scheduled
The next Medication Take Back Events have been scheduled for Saturday, 10-29-11 from 10:00 to 1:00 at the City Parking Lot in Nebraska City and the Otoe County Fair Parking Lot it Syracuse.
The P4OC Safe Rx group has also developed some Safe Meds resources, available for download on the p4oc website, at your Otoe County pharmacy or by calling 402-873-6343.
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Following in the footsteps of brands like Four Loko and Blast who use colorful, youth-oriented packaging and pop-culture icons to market their products to an underage, urban demographic, newcomer Gasolina Urban Blends has upped the ante with its "Party in a Pouch" line: Brightly colored, 200-ml aluminum pouches complete with little straws inside to suck up the vodka, tequila, and rum, plus some fruit juice.
These pouches look remarkably similar to Capri Sun. Yes, the same packaging you see at youth soccer games across the country has now been repurposed for easy-access, take-anywhere alcohol.
We can't help but wonder how the manufacturer, Pan American Properties, can say their product is not intended for consumption by minors without bursting into fits of laughter. Who else drinks sweet, brightly colored liquid from small aluminum pouches? Maybe the giggle fits continue when imagining parents grabbing the wrong pouch from the fridge when packing their kids' lunches. Not so funny when the kids actually drink the whole pouch of up to 11% alcohol by volume.
Gasolina is also directly targeting the urban Latino demographic with product names such as "Tu Madras" and "Mojito" along with its own brand name. The marketing on its Facebook and Twitter accounts is in both English and Spanish. And young people are already paying attention - the Gasolina Facebook page has 77,888 "likes" and features beach parties, bikini-clad young girls, and "belly button of the week" contests, along with events like last week's "all-you-can-drink Gasolina pouches" event called "Frequency Thursdays" at Zen Exotic Lounge in Orlando, advertised on Gasolina's Open Bar page on Facebook.
Just when we might think Blast had captured the lowest level of alcohol marketing, Gasolina takes dangerous and ill-advised to the very bottom.
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Partners for Otoe County (P4OC) Services
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Partners for Otoe County
917 Wildwood Lane, Suite H | Nebraska City, NE 68410
402-873-6343 | www.p4oc.org
Partners for Otoe County is a registered trade name of
People United for Families, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation
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