Boy deserves camp experience for good behavior

Friday, July 9, 2004 | 4:41 a.m.

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July 10 - 11, 2004

A mother in Overton says since her son joined Boy Scouts his grades have gone from F's to A's, B's and C's, and she is no longer receiving calls from the dean's office about the boy's behavior.

"He is making wiser choices in friends as well," she writes to the Sun Summer Camp Fund in asking for a scholarship to send the boy to Scout summer camp. "I think he deserves to participate in this positive camping experience to build on the successes he is already achieving."

Unfortunately, because of her mother's recent diagnosis with pancreatic cancer, and the recent purchase of a house, the family does not have the money to send the boy to camp. As it is, the woman said, the children have to pay for their own fees for swim team.

The Sun Summer Camp Fund provides money for camp for children who otherwise would not be able to go because of family finances. The average cost per child is $300, and all donations go directly to pay that. The Las Vegas Sun covers all administrative costs.

To donate to the fund, use the coupon on this page. Some recent donors:

Standard Wholesale Supply Co., Maria Rabbio, Constantino and Linda Prezioso, Jon Wellinghoff and Karen Galatz (in memory of Mike O'Callaghan), George and Verna Shoen, Al and Valerie Allen, Frank Nielsen, Charles N. Mathewson Foundation, Philip Rosenberg, Arthur and Loretta Roehl, Aldeane Comito Ries, Robert and Betty Nesslage, Gary and Claudia Simpson and J. Michael Schaefer.

Donna H. Smith, Colette and Sidney Saltz Foundation, Kenneth and Mary Ann Sokol, Mary and Frank Ragusa, Gerald and Beverly Saperstein, Nancy L. Morris, Robert, Betty and Gary Rinehart, Robert and Doris Pogue.

Nancy Doherty-Murphy, Marilyn E. Surnow, James L. Duttlinger Sr., Rosemary Czarnecki, John and Dorothy Kelly, Ross P. Richards Trust, Jeanne E. Mullich, P.V. Noblitt, Edith F. Schmidt, Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation, Elizabeth Miller, Benevolent Patriotic Order of Does Drove #34, Thomas W. Smith and Larry L. Spitler.