Mark Bixby was “a creative visionary” who wanted to teach kids to be all that they could be. That’s according to his aunt, Jean Bixby Smith, who made the remarks about her nephew Sunday, July 14, ...

Frank is discovering how to be a leader at 16 through the Press-Telegram’s Send-a-Kid-to-Camp program. He went to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach’s Teen Leadership Camp at Camp Oakes, in the San ...

The kids sounded off, singing in a loud chant: “We feel good. We feel fine. We feel good. All the time!” These were kids totally enjoying themselves last week at Camp Oakes, high in the San Bernardino ...

On Aug. 17, 1991, Danny O’Connor, 16, of Riverside, was in a car hit by a reckless driver. He suffered brain injury and partial paralysis, spending the next year in the hospital. Danny O’Connor of ...

Easter Seals weeklong summer camp at Camp Oakes near Big Bear City is facing funding suspension because of the California state budget crisis. This means $52,000 in state support the agency annually ...

While some families haven’t even had spring break yet, others are busy researching and locking in dates for summer camps so plans are in place for those long, idle days ahead. The word camp may be a ...

Christian Walton’s best camp memory is the dance – the one he concocted with a friend that has morphed from a campfire gag to a secret handshake. A few years ago Walton, 17, and the friend made up a ...

JaVonna Dear remembers the light of the moon as she’d drift to sleep each night at camp. “You could see this bright blue light that shined through our cabin,” the 12-year-old recalled. Though she was ...