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Guide compiles summer camps

PARENTS seeking local activities for their children this summer have a new resource at their fingertips.

PARENTS seeking local activities for their children this summer have a new resource at their fingertips.

Kids Camps Canada has launched a free online directory that allows parents to access more than 200 available summer camp opportunities in North and West Vancouver.

The camps are organized by season, geographical region and activity. Kids Camps Canada also includes pictures, descriptions and contact information for each camp in the specified region.

Parents are encouraged to rate their experience using a standard star system and to submit relevant observations and anecdotes.

The site was developed by North Shore mom Magda Figueredo as a result of her own frustration in trying to find information to register her kids in activities.

"Even with the help of Google, every time I tried finding locally available options for my son, I ended up with results from Ontario, Nebraska or Timbuktu. The list of math camps alone was endless. Getting the particulars from each website was confusing and took forever. What I needed was something similar to Urban Spoon but for camps instead of restaurants," she said in a news release.

The service currently focuses on North and West Vancouver but Figueredo has plans to expand to other areas of Metro Vancouver in the near future. Visit kidscampscanada. com to start searching.