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HB KXDSJ FULL 2712 DM1! i i t'l aa a ex si mm st fH .1 iU)V 3 mess hall? Call the X-Press Hi-Diddley-Dee-A-Campef s-Life's-for-Me Hotline and tell us. Find the TimesLine number for your area on Page 7D and punch in category code 7600. Camp Iivannago If just barely springtime, but are your thoughts already turning tn summer uaratinn? Summertime is snmntimps ramntimo Hn you like to pack up the old kit bag with camping gear and head for ONE for YES! I can't get enough of that fresh camp air. summer camp? Or do you prefer holing up at home, safe from PUSH 7 for N0! 1 rather be at home Slck an tent-size mosquitoes and the tasty bug juice served up in the camp homesick at camp. S3 1 Disney Channel Stephanie speeds through Camp Waziyatah's lake.

Water skiing is one of the many camp activities featured in Bug Juice. 4, ipj Ji I StPctr rsburo mc5 Real kids at a real camp having all sorts of minidramas: That's Juiica One taste and you may be hooked. P'nneU davis times staff writer ven if you didn't go to camp last summer, watching the TV show Bug Juke wiE make you feel as if you did. The name is weird, that's true, but if you like watching MTVs Real World or Road Rules youH probably enjoy turning on Bug Juice on the Disney Channel. In fact, you may get hooked alter just one episode.

Watching real-life camp crushes, crises and calamities can be addictive. Twenty-seven kids, ages 12 to 15, were filmed last year for 56 days while spending their summer at Maine's Camp Waziyatah. Every day, almost all day long, they had cameras focused on their every single move. What resulted was a documentary split into 18 separate 30-minute episodes. The first five shows have already aired.

What you'll see is a glimpse of real life without MTV gimmicks such as rock music (though the Bug Juice theme song is rather snappy), crazy camera angles and gritty home movie cinematography. MARCH 83, 1098 Funny guys Last week we wanted to (JMMMt. know if vou were runina to J. and B.J.. those mornina (V Everything and everyone is real There are no actors in Bug Juice.

"I don't think the cameras had any effect on us," 15-year-old Stephanie, one of the campers, said in a phone interview. "I don't think anyone reacted differently because the cameras were there." In one of the early episodes, Stephanie and another camper have a disagreement Stephanie ends up crying. If all caught on tape. "I guess the cameras are there to capture camp, and crying is a part of camp, whether it's crying because you're going home or crying because you're in a fight," she said. Stephanie lives in Michigan and is what you'd call a professional camper.

(Because the campers are not actors, the Disney Channel would not release their last names so mat the kids could retain their privacy.) She's been going to camp madcaps at FM. We can tell by your responses that plenty of you are fans of On TV Bug Juice, the adventures of real-life kids at a summer camp in Maine, airs at 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays on the 2 morning radio M.J.andB.J.Outofthe548 of you who called, 419 said you dig their crazy morning antics on WFLZ 93.3, while 129 don't think they are funny at all. Here's how your radio dials Disney Channel. each summer since she was 7.

Bug Juke was filmed are set: M.J. and B.J. rule. I listen to them every day. I think they are great.

MJ. and B.J. are the best DJs ever on the best radio station ever. I like MJ. and but they make fun of a lot of people and ifs not really nice.

They're the best. Every morning when I'm getting ready for school, I listen to them. They rule. I listen to them every morning. Ifs probably more enjoyable for kids 12 and older because ifs a little mature.

They may be funny during her third year at Camp Waziyatah, when she was 14. She's going back this summer. "We were followed a lot," Stephanie said about the film crew. "But, after the first couple of days, you really got used to it and barely noticed they were there. At first, it was kinda odd." The show's name, Bug Juice, is kind of odd, too.

It's the slang term for the red, super-sweet powdered drink concoction that campers drink morning, noon and night "I think the name is really characteristic of camp," Stephanie said. "You hear "bug juice' and you automatically think of camp; at least I do. I've been to three different camps and they've had bug juice at aD tliree." Stephanie said she really has liked the Bug Juice episodes she has seen but admitted: "Ifs kinda weird to be a character. All I am to (viewers) is someone on TV and that kinda freaks me out" In addition to showing camp activities like swimming, basketball and talent shows, Bug Juke incorporates one-on-one interviews with the kids and counselors. If in those interviews that viewers really start to connect with the campers.

Kids will want to watch Bug Juice, according to Stephanie, "because for us, ifs like watching the Real World. But we can't relate to (the Real World cast) because they are so much older. This is something people my age and younger can relate to." idiots, but they are still No. 1 on my radio. I love J.

and B.J., and I don't think I could live without them. They are kind of r-rl Ki it rnmotlmoc thaw are so stupid. Disney Getting in the team spirit, (from top to bottom) campers Cammie, Malik, Stephanie and Jon painted their faces for Camp Waziyatah's annual Olympic competition. I don't listen to them because I'm at school when they're on, but I've heard them and they are ft pretty funny. sftaste fla.fact36 to The Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Major League Baseball are just around the corner.

iielp an ailing stu and we want to get you in on the excitement! You I MJ.4-ah. 's immmmtin by chon nguyen You know, I often like to sit back and watch because I find it so amazing how people in the Tampa Bay area are so supportive of worthy causes. When there is a shortage of blood, people jump to give it When the tornadoes struck Central Florida, hundreds reached out. This time, it happened to be for a student with cystic fibrosis at Seven Springs Middle School in New Port Richey. She needs a double lung transplant Hundreds came out to a fund-raising event at the school recently in support of Lacey Pohlman, a brave seventh-grader.

Bay area celebrities participated in this wonderful cause, playing basketball against the teachers and staff from the school. Former Harlem Globetrotter Tommy "Cochise" Brown, boxing champ Frisco Arreola and Ryan "Hitman" Sopo really put on a great show, with aD the playm showing awesome skill. Winning wasn't the object of the game. It was helping Icey. and both teams did just that Now it's Lacey's turn to win, and she will do it I have faith in her.

(iood Luck, Lacey. We are aD on your team! have a chance to get your name and picture in the Times Sports section three ways: A) Write us a short letter (50 words or less) on what you like about baseball. You can even describe your favorite baseball player! is; Draw us a picture about baseball. C)Tell us about your favorite Little League experience (again, 50 words or less). Make sure to include your name, age, hometown, and school or Little League photo with each entry.

We'll choose some to run on a new weekly baseball page for kids that will debut in the SPORTS section on Opening Day, March 31. Send your entries to: Short Stops co Sports Department Times file photo The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League bloomed for just 12 years, from 1943 to 1954. The teams had unusual names, including the Fort Wayne Daisies, the Springfield Sallies and the Grand Rapids Chicks. In 1948, twins Eilaine and Haine Roth of Michigan City, above, played shortstop and second base for what team? CIION Chon Nguyen is a ninth-grader at River Ridge High School in New Port Richey, and a former member of the X-Team tr 1 I Find the answer in Newspaper in Education, 40 Lr- St. Petersburg Times P.O.

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