The registration just hasn't been there for the City of Estevan's summer sports camps.
Five of eight camps scheduled to run this summer have had to be cancelled because of a lack of participants. The cheerleading camp, which was held at the beginning of July, has been the only camp to take place so far this summer. A BMX camp and a golf camp are planned to take place.
"We won't be cancelling those ones. We have enough participants to run them both," said Andrea Stelnicki, summer program co-ordinator for the City. "All the other one's weren't so good. I don't know if it's because of people going out of town, or maybe the flood affected people financially, or maybe they're just not living here anymore. I don't know. Lots of different reasons I'm sure."
The BMX camp was up first, and was held Aug. 10 to 12 at the Estevan skatepark. The golf camp is being held Aug. 16 to 18 at Pleasantdale school.
"Amanda (Minchin) has been teaching camps (at Pleasantdale) all summer, and she said it's a really good spot."
Looking to the future, Stelnicki isn't sure why registration was so low this year, but insisted that the City will continue with the program.
"We will keep our sports camp program. We're going to try and introduce some different and new sports. Maybe people aren't liking the sports we're offering. We'd love suggestions on sports that they're interested in doing, and we'll try and incorporate them next year," she said. "Things are just different this year."
However, the Estevan playparks have remained as successful as ever. The parks hosted their movie night Aug. 4 at the Kinsmen Hillside playpark.
"it was super successful. We had over 100 people attend. It was really awesome."
The next big event for the Estevan playparks is the Under the Sea Carnival being held at Churchill playpark Aug. 26.
