SHI accepting applications for gumboot camp

JUNEAU — Sealaska Heritage Institute is now accepting applications for its Gumboot Camp that will run Aug. 1-5 at Harborview Elementary School.

The Shaawk’ or little gumboots session for four-year-olds will be from 9 a.m.-noon and the Shaaw or gumboot session for incoming kindergarteners will run from 1-4 p.m.

Gumboot Camp is part of Baby Raven Reads: A Culturally Responsive Kindergarten Readiness Program. For more information, contact project coordinator LaVina VanSickle at lavina.vansickle@sealaska.org or 586-9125.

To sign up go to http:/goo.gl/forms/eZr6XXOqgW29zT4a2

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