GENEROSITY TRANSFORMS KIDS CAMP.

Byline: William Dean Hinton Daily News Staff Writer

No more bumps, no more bruises, no more scrapes.

That's because the fields of Camp Max Straus, a 112-acre Glendale retreat for needy and disabled children, have been given a $90,000 landscape renovation just completed by volunteers Saturday.

In two months of work, the camp was given new volleyball and basketball courts, a new picnic area and horseshoe pits, and new poplars and oaks trees.

Best of all for the young kids' knees is the 4,300 square feet of tall fescue grass planted over the dirt and asphalt that covered the camp's playing area.

``It's just my imagination, but I used to look out the window and see a big warning sign,'' said the camp's director, Abby Leon. ``Now when I look out there, I see a big welcome sign.''

San Fernando's chapter of the California Landscape Contractors Association, the oldest and largest landscaping association in America, volunteered to do the work, with local sod farms and nurseries providing donations.

More than 150 volunteers completed the project by working weekends and past 11 p.m. some nights.

Saturday at the opening ceremony, they were given a standing ovation by more than 100 children sitting in new aluminum bleachers.

``We were certainly feeling pretty proud of ourselves at that point,'' said Doug Hanover, the project's manager, who owns a landscaping business in Sylmar.