Welcome to KBIA
The Kennebunk Beach Improvement Association will soon be back on the beach for our 102nd season of summer sun and fun. While you have to visit KBIA first-hand to truly experience its wonders and joy, this site will help you plan your family's perfect summer. We offer recreational adventures and enrichment activities to children of all ages at our picturesque waterfront property, which to the east overlooks a protected cove and, to the west, the rolling Atlantic Ocean.
Classes are open to KBIA members, and membership is open to the public. Members may enroll in as many or as few courses as they choose, as well as many fun family events, including twice-daily free-swim sessions for enrolled campers, Wednesday night campfire beach barbecue followed by movie nights, as well as family sailing and kayaking on weekends.
Whether your family has spent summers here for years, or you are checking
us out for the first time, we encourage everyone to experience summer here at KBIA —
the way summer should be!
NEW AT KBIA
We are pleased to announce new classes and offerings at KBIA:
• Lap swim for adults in our new pool!
• A new, larger tent for our Adventures program as well as KBIA community events. It will also offer changing facilities and new lockers to rent. Watch for more info this spring!
• New "Locals" membership level to encourage year-round residents to join KBIA, plus, for our Sponsor members, a new opportunity to invite house guests.
• Numerous upgrades in our waterfront program, thanks to our generous donors, including six new Opti boats, a new-to-us Whaler, four club 420s, among other smaller equipment additions to our growing program.
• With our friends at Heartwood College of Art, this summer we will present the first "Paint the Beach" art auction, for which local artists will paint scenes near and dear to our hearts. A portion of the proceeds will benefit KBIA programming.
We're very excited to see you at the beach!
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I have the conviction that a few weeks in a
well-organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal |
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| Charles Eliot Harvard University Former President |
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