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i Goose Lake Swaps Rock Festivals for 'Camper Heaven 9 Part of the complex includes facilities for tennis and basketball JJctroUiftee Dress Recreation 5-F Sunday, April 22, 1973 to park your motor home, travel trailer, pickup camper or family tent. Prices vary according to proximity to the lake. All have electricity, water and sewage hookups. Some 500 camp sites are ready now. With the camp lease comes free use of the civic center, tennis courts, basketball courts, a small marina, a quarter-mile long sand beach, a nine-hole golf course, softball fields, a grand prix track and hill climb for dune buggies and trail bikes, and a restricted nature area.

Pool tables, card tables, ping pong, a miniature golf course, a penny arcade and mammoth swings capable of holding a full family of five at one time, also are available A FOOT swimming pool with most depths between two and four feet will be built this summer. At the beach are rentals of paddle boats and sailboats. Campers can bring their own craft and outboards for fishing, docking them at the marina. The entire area is fenced and under 24-hour guard with only one entrance. The nature area Is an isolated, wooded section of rolling oaks and maple ridges, inter-spersed with lowland swamp terrain.

Old roadways lace the area with a network of hiking trails. If this unique, full-facility recreation center sounds too good to be true, you can take a gander free. The weekends of April 28 and May 6 will be "Open House" at Greenwood Acres. All facilities will be open free of charge. Camping will be free on those Saturday nights, too.

BY TOM OPRE Prtu Outdoor Wrltor JACKSON Could you ever believe what has happened to Goose Lake? The once-notorious rock festival park has undergone a complete facelifting and now has become the country's first "camper's country club." It will open next weekend with Just about everything the outdoorsy family needs a place to camp while using their boat, dune buggy, trail bikes, golf course, swimming togs, sailboats and' hot air baloons. Well, maybe not the hot-air balloons. But all the rest is contained at Greenwood Acres (nee Goose Lake). THE SITE IS 1,000 ACRES of rolling southern Michigan countryside nestled among the Irish Hills, about an hour's drive west of Detroit. (Exit off 1-94 takes you there, south to Ann Arbor Road, west to Portage Road and south to Greenwood Acres.

Watch for the signs.) Some 200,000 people know the site well those 200,000 who attended a rock festival there in August 1970. Jackson County citizens were so disturbed by the goings on there that promoter Dick Songer was forced to close up shop. In the years since, Songer has concentrated on developing the present camping facility. Construction is virtually complete, and the park now is a full-service recreational center for campers. HERE'S HOW it works: For a year's rental fee ranging from $350 to $650, lots (40x75 feet to 80x100 feet are leased mMsm2 SkrflK PLYM0UTHq ANN' ARBOR JACKSON YPSILANTI GOOSE LAKE Greenwood Acres, (circled), villi 1-94 in foreground Summer Sports Camps Give Kids A Chance to Learn from the Pros What to Take, Gals, On 1st Camping Trip BY JULIE CANDLER Free Press Special Writer A woman may feel like a new bride will I burn the biscuits? ruin the streak? as she heads out on her first camping trip.

But if you've ever organized a picnic, you can cope with camping. Think of it not as yourself against the bugs, snakes, poison ivy and thunderbolts, but as one long picnic. It really is. You're merely picnicking three times a day. The picnics may be indoors if you're starting out at the top, with a recreational vehicle.

To make it easy, make your first camping adventure an overnight shakedown cruise. That's the best way to see what's wrong with your camp-keeping techniques. You'll be back home soon, so for one night you can rub two stones together if you forget the matches, or rig up something temporary if the tent poles are back home in your garage. THE SHAKEDOWN CRUISE also lets you discover any flaws in your new recreational vehicle or other equipment, and get them repaired before the big trip starts. Start by making a checklist of items you'll need.

You can find a basic checklist printed in most campground directories, along with other good how-to advice. If you have a recreational vehicle, scotch tape the list inside a cupboard door for, use in future trips. Otherwise, slip it inside your directory, Some of the basics for a checklist: a small broom (even a tent floor collects sand and dirt), a can opener (God forbid you should forget it), soap and towels, first aid kit and insect spray. Packing and organizing will be easier if you hold clothes, equipment and food to a minimum. Take more than you need and you grope through it all to find things.

You also risk overloading your car or recreational vehicle, adding to the gas bills and control problems. Whether you're loading the car, trailer or motor home, keep the bulk of the weight low and up front. Never put extra-heavy items on a rooftop carrier, and don't complicate steering by heaping in so much that your tailgate is dragging. Try to store heavy canned goods in lower cupboards of an RV kitchen. IN THE WARDROBE department, let each camper In your party pack his own clothes.

Use canvas bags. Bags are setter than suitcases for stuffing into odd spaces. Be certain everyone takes warm sweaters and jackets, even if you're headed for Death Valley. You don't need fancy clothes, just washable, no-iron items. Take only a few because you can recycle them at campground laundromats.

Before packing your cooking gear, plan a few simple picnic menus. Make them as simple as you can get away with you don't need home cooking in camp. That way, you won't have to haul along too many pots, pans, and spatulas. Take plastic containers In place of breakable Jars for jobs such as storing Jeft-overs in the refrigerator or cooler. Also take a good supply of plastic wrap, paper towels and aluminum foil (great for wrapping potatoes and corn over an open fire or shaping an extra baking dish).

PACKING'S EASIER if you choose foods sold In plastic Instead of glass containers. Use plastic dishes and cups, too. They're ecologically better than paper plates, and kids even women's-liberated men can help wash and dry. You'll save on breakfast dishe if you take foil-lined individual boxes of cereal. Casseroles make great camping fare, easy to heat on an open fire.

In the bedding department, we like washable sleeping bags. Roll them up each morning, and there's no beds to makes or sheets to launder. Aileen Grey of the Potluckers' Camping Club lines her sleeping bag with an old, lightweight flannel blanket, snapped in place. Another word of advice from Aileen Grey, who teaches a course for women campers at the YWCA of Western Wayne County: "Let other campers know you are beginners. Don't be afraid to ask them for help, even if you have to knock on their trailer door.

Campers are always happy to help each other." The woman In the next campsite should emphathize with your problems. She was once a beginning camper herself. BY CHARLIE VINCENT Fro Prtu Sports Writer The aspiring young athlete in your family can have the benefit of coaching by some of sports' biggest names this summer for a price, of course. There are dozens of summer camps throughout lower Michigan, teaching hockey, baseball, football wrestling, basketball you name it, they teach it. For sheer numbers, hockey appears to be most popular with Red Wings Nick Libett, Al Karlander and Serge Lejeunesse holding camps around Detroit.

Then there's the Gordie Howe Hockey School in St. Clair Shores, the Ted Lindsey Hockey School in Port Huron, the Detroit Red Wing Oldtimers' Hockey School (at three different sites) and a host.of others. MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY gets into the act for the second straight summer with schools instructing baseball, basketball, hockey, swimming and diving, wrestling, gymnastics, track, football, golf, tennis and cross country. And MSU welcomes girls for the basketball, swimming-diving, track, gymnastics, golf and tennis classes. Detroit Piston captain Dave Bing will run a basketball camp at Detroit Country Day School and the nimble guard promises: "We'll try to make sure they really learn something.

It's not just av fun camp we don't just throw the ball up in the air." Bing's school is a day camp the youngsters (boys between nine and 19 years of age are eligible) won't spend the night there. During the day classes run from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. they will get instruction from Bing and his staff of instructors, which includes Michigan's Campy Russell, Vander-bilt's Billy Leggins and Terry Furlow and Bennie White from Michigan State. THE TWO ONE-WEEK SESSIONS at Country Day cost $75 each and include a noon meal Summer Sports Camps for Kids and light afternoon snack daily as well as the instructions.

Another basketball camp will be directed by Oakland University coach Gene Boldon at Oakland U. Guest lecturers there will include Marquette coach Al McGuire, Ohio State coach Fred Taylor and University of Detroit athletic director Bob Calihan. Boys between the ages of 10 and 18 are eligible for the Oakland school, which is a resident camp (boys will board there). Weekly cost, $110. Former Piston coach Donnis Butcher and veteran River Rouge High coach Lofton Greene have a camp scheduled for Traverse City, July 9-13 and July 16-20.

They have another one in the planning stages to be held at River Rouge. Prices for the hockey camps vary more than most other clinics from the $55 charged by Lajeunesse and Karlander to the $125 (including room and board) at Michigan State. Karlander's school, which will be held in the Plymouth Community Cultural Center, is typical of the hockey clinics. Boys between the ages of 6 and 16 are accepted and the classes stress skating and fundamental hockey. HOCKEY IS THE SECOND most expensive of Michigan's 11 schools.

Only cross country which runs two weeks compared to hockey's one, is more expensive. The Michigan State classes will be handled by the school's coaches and a staff of guest lecturers. The fee includes the use of MSU's swimming pools, handball courts, tennis courts and softball fields as well as instruction and room and board. Less expensive rates are available to commuting students. One of the few remaining football camps in the area is the Spartan Camp, run by Walter Bazylewicz at Oakland University, Aug.

5-10 and Aug. 12-17. Boys who enroll there get a Oakland University Clinic (Boys 10-18). July 17-23, July 24-30. Oakland University.

$110 per session. Contact Gene Bolden, Resident Director, Oakland U. NBA Players' Association Camp (Boys grades three through 11). Aug. 5-11, Aug.

12-18, Aug. 19-25. Albion College. $150 per session. Contact Gene Bolden at Oakland University.

Greene-Butcher Camp (Boys 9-18). July 9-13, July 16-20. Traverse City High. $45 per session. Contact Lofton Greene, River Rouge High.

Wrestling Michigan State Baseball (Boys 9-17). June 17-22, June 24-29. $100 per session. Basketball (Boys 11-17). June 17-22, June 24-29, $100 per session; (Girls 11-17) July 8-13, $75 per session.

Hockey (Boys 9-17). June 17-23, June 24-30. $135 per session. Swimming and Diving (Boys and girls 12-17). June 17-22, June 24-29.

$80 per session. Wrestling (Boys 9-17). June 17-22, June 24-29. $80 per session. Gymnastics (Boys and girls 9-17).

July 8-13, July 15-20. $70 per session. Track (Boys and girls 11-17). July 8-13, July 15-20. $80 per session.

Football (Boys 10-17). July 22-27, July 29-Aug. 3. $80 per session. Golf (Boys and girls 13-17).

July 29-Aug. 3. $100 per session. Tennis (Boys and girls 12-17). July 29-Aug.

3. $90 per session. Cross Country (Boys 11-17). August 12-24. $150 per session.

For information, write or call Gene" Kenney, Sports School Director, Jenison Field House, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. South Haven Wrestling Camp (Boys 11-18). June 10-16. $60 for resident campers, $25 for commuters. Contract Gary Steudle, Wrestling Coach, South Haven High School.

(Boys 8-16). (At three sites). Aug. 20-Sept. 1 at Allen Park Civic Arena, 15800 White, Allen Park; Aug.

6-Sept. 1 at Livonia Devon Aire Arena, 9510 Sunset, Livonia; Aug. 6-Sept. 1 at Southfield Civic Arena, 26000 Southfield. $65 per one week session.

Contacf respective arenas. Nick Libett Hockey School (Boys 6-18). Weekly sessions, Aug. 13-25, at Westland Arena, 326-2800. Serge Lejeunesse-Tony Elliott Hockey School (Boys 6-18).

(At four sites). Aug; 6-18 at Dearborn Ford Woods Arena, 14900 Ford, Dearborn; Aug. 20-Sept. 1 at Grosse Pointe Community Rink, 4831 Canyon, Detroit; Aug. 20-Aug.

25 at Garden City Civic Arena, 200 Log Cabin, Garden City; Aug. 20-Aug. 25 at Wyandotte Recreational Center, 3131 Second, Wyandotte. $55 per one week session. Contact respective arenas.

Michigan Tech Hockey School (Boys 6-18). One week sessions beginning June 24 through Aug. 18, Michigan Tech Ice Arena, Houghton. $70 per weekly sossion (clinic only), $120 per weekly session (clinic, room and board). North American Fundamental Hockey Schools (Boys 10 under; Boys 11-18).

Weekly classes from July 30 through Sept. 1. Avon Sports Arena, Rochester. $70 per weekly session. Write 10435 Elgin, Huntington Woods 48070.

Football Spartan Football Camp (Boys 8-18). Aug. 5-10 and Aug. 12-17 at Oakland University. $60 weekly.

Contact National Sports Educators, 2012 Thomas, Berkley, 48072. Hockey Campers: Fight Glare! special bonus there'll be a girls' cheerlead-ing camp being held there during the same two weeks. Bazylewicz's camp, in its's 10th year, costs $60 and that includes room and board. GARY STEUDEL'S WRESTLING camp outside South Haven has a $60 price tag, too, for boarders. But commuters can sign up for just $25.

Boys between 11 and 18 are eligible and Steudel instructs them with a. staff that includes high school and college wrestling coaches from around the state who tutor the students in the basic skills and maneuvers of high school wrestling. Al Karlander Hockey School (Boys 6-16). Aug. 6-10, Aug.

13-17. Plymouth Community Cultural Center. $55 per session. Call 455-6620 or 455-6623 Monday through Friday. Gordie Howe Hockey School (Boys and men accepted).

One-week sessions beginning July 29 through Aug. 25. Norshor'e Iceland, 33101 Harper, St. Clair per session. Contact Norshore (293-7400).

Ted Lindsay Hockey School (Boys 6-18). Aug. 20-Sept. 1. McMorran Arena, Pt.

Huron. $90 for two-week session. Contact McMorran Arena (1-985-6166). Detroit Red Wing Oldtimers' Hockey School The American Optometric Association has issued a set of guidelines for vacationing motorized campers during the summer months to avoid the usual rash of accidents during the hazardous months of June, July and August. "About 90 percent of driving decisions are based on what you see," the association saysi "So be sure you can see effectively ahead, to the sides and to the rear." A good Idea is to wear quality since people differ in their tolerance to bright light.

A warning: Although wearing sunglasses on brieht days will improve your ability to see at night, never wear sunglasses at night. And, take advantage of rest stops on the road, the association urges. Rest your eyes by enjoying the scenery at these roadside stopovers. Basketball Dave Bing Basketball Camp (Boys 9-19). June 25-29, July 2-7.

Detroit Country Day School. $75 per session. For information, write 19711 48235..