By ELSIE DENTON
News intern
July 9, 2007
Swinging around on the monkey bars isn’t usually
considered preparation for a career, but it could be if you were going
into the circus business.
Getting kids excited about being in the circus was the
goal of the Kids Circus Camp held at May Street Elementary last week.
Kids ages 6 through 11 learned how to juggle, spin a
plate, do flips and even walk on a tightrope. Ross Morrison, 8, especially
enjoyed doing acrobatics.
“My favorite part is doing handstands, pyramids and
stuff like that.”
According to instructor Jo Montgomery, one of the
camp’s goals was to make sure everyone found an area where they could
excel.
“That is the nice thing about the circus — there are so
many different skill areas,” she said.
Montgomery and co-instructor Chuck Johnson are
directors at the Seattle School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts. They
were in Hood River for the week just to teach the circus camp, one of many
summer camps offered by Hood River County School District’s Community
Education program.
