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August 14, 2015
Young musicians sound off in Winston-Salem
The drumline goes through its paces in concert at the Washington Park Corps in Winston-Salem.
The Salvation Army
Academy of Music and Arts
Summer Conservatory in
partnership with the WinstonSalem, North Carolina,
Symphony presented a
midsummer concert at the
Washington Park Corps.
Admission was free and the
public was invited to an evening
of good music.
The summer conservatory is
an intensive seven-week music
day camp that helps students
in the program learn to play
a brass instrument (trumpet,
horn, baritone or tuba) and
a second instrument of their
choice depending on availability
(guitar, piano, drumline). The
conservatory also now offers
violin as a second instrument
through a partnership with the
Winston-Salem Symphony.
Students learn basic music
theory, sing in a choir and
take part in a Bible class. The
summer conservatory is open to
children in grades 4-12 who can
commit to attend all seven weeks
of the program. New students
need no prior brass or musical
experience.
Students have plenty of time
for recreation daily. Field trips
are taken once a week as part of
the curriculum. These include
visits to the mall, bowling,
movies and weekly trips to the
YWCA Gateway pool.
In addition, the most
advanced students had the
opportunity to take part in
several ministry trips to local
assisted living residences and
two Sunday ministry trips to
area Salvation Army corps.
The program began Monday,
June 15 and concluded with a
final concert and a graduation
ceremony held on July 31.
Camp Walter Johnson still finding
ways to grow bigger and better
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campers have air conditioning in
every building and spend more
time than ever inside.
Built in 1974 in a secluded area
in the central North Carolina
countryside and named for the
local man who donated the land,
CWJ sits on several hundred acres
of woods alongside High Rock
Lake.
Before construction of the
20,000-square-foot chapel and
classroom building was completed
in 2010, worship services were
held outside, whether under a
shelter or at the cross beside the
camp’s central lake. The facilities
host conservatory programs and
evening programs. When the
chapel was completed, the rest of
the camp facilities looked out of
place in comparison. The chapel
won CWJ the TYI contract and
once that was in place, work began
to make the rest of camp match the
level of a brand-new state-of-theart facility.
The interiors and exteriors of
most of CWJ’s other buildings,
including cabins, staff lodges, the
dining room and welcome and
conference centers, were brought
up to par. Many of these buildings
were gutted, with new bathrooms,
kitchens and flooring brought in
to replace the old. Changing the
color of the exterior buildings from
the trademark faded blue-gray to
a lighter brown has brightened the
area and serves as an outward sign
of the inward changes.
A new house was also
constructed on High Rock Lake for
divisional and territorial leaders,
a new low ropes course was built
in the woods for team-building
exercises, a fishing house was built
and a new deck was added to a
lakeside building. The projects
have taken nearly five years to
complete with more work still
to be done. Almost all of this
work was done in-house by the
10-member permanent staff team.
While the facilities have been
the focus of change, Shea and
Lisa don’t want the buildings to
overshadow the camp’s original
purpose – to give kids a chance
to enjoy outdoor activities in the
countryside.
Enjoying the outdoors is not an
easy task in the humid Carolina
heat, especially when the outdoors
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