“Colour Wars” come to Bryerswood Youth Camp

Campers get doused with multi-coloured dust as part of Bryerswood’s “colour wars” last Friday.

Camps have been running regularly during the summer at Bryerswood Youth Camp with the latest allowing campers to get very dirty.

The camp held last week at the campground was “Colour Wars” and it lived up to its name. 

The conclusion of that particular camp resembled a colour run, with campers and camp counsellors getting covered in multi-coloured chalk powder.

Camp directors Pam Zeman and Caitlin Gonneau said the weekly camps have been going well thus far at Bryerswood. Last week’s camp was almost at capacity both days.

“We’ve had close to 60 (children) every day,” said Gonneau.

That brought the total to about 500 campers for the summer thus far, she stated.

Many of the camps are already full, but there is limited space available for a few of the remaining weeks over the summer.

For more information or to check on availability, people can check the Bryerswood Youth Camp’s  website at www.bryerswood.com or e-mail camps@bryerswood.com.

Gonneau added they have ten camp counsellors this year, up from seven they were able to hire in 2024.

Zeman added word is spreading about the Bryerswood camps. While they had children that return regularly to the camps, there was some fresh faces as well.

“The majority of this group are new kids,” Zeman said last Friday afternoon. 

Zeman added the counsellors are working hard to present the camps.

“There’s so much hard work that goes into it,” she said.

“Colour Wars” come to Bryerswood Youth Camp

By Ron Giofu