Boy wants to repeat camp experience

Friday, July 16, 2004 | 4:08 a.m.

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July 17 - 18, 2004

"I think I should go to camp because I learned a lot at camp last year," a boy writes. "And I had a lot of fun last year."

He applied to the Sun Summer Camp Fund to help pay for him to return. The fund provides camp scholarships for children whose families cannot afford to send them. The goal is to send every child who qualifies to summer camp.

The fund provided 100 scholarships its first year, in 1970. Last year it collected enough to send 1,000 children to camp.

"The teachers were very cool," the boy continues, "and I want to go and see all my old friends at camp.

"And I think I should go to camp because I would learn a lot of stuff about taking care of myself when I go camping. And I love how we have campfires to get together."

To donate to the Sun Camp Fund, use the coupon on this page. Some recent donors:

Dorothy Price Sawyer/Sally Price Howarth, R. L. Vick, Tropicana Resort and Casino, Marilyn Roth/Elaine Gillis, Timothy and Denise Cashman Trust, Southwest Gas Corp. Foundation, Joyce E. Meagher, Paradise Development Ltd., Frances Sarno, P. Ringwold, Daniel Schwartz/Perma-Bilt Homes and Peter A. Simon II.

Southwest Sign Art, Jerry & Margaret Matherly, David S Shafer, Charles R. Stewart, Rosemary Czarnecki, Joy Schott, Michael P. Ryan, Ted Wiens Tire & Auto/So.NV Supply Inc., Mrs. Pecola Stevenson, Sierra Health Services Inc., Martin-Harris Construction, V.R. & V.A. Pitts, Frank A. Schreck, Christine E. Chrystal (in memory of Ruthe Deskin), Ann W. Rappel, Maryde Marsolais/Barbara Dempsey, Don & Elaine Stevens, John & Lillian Saycich, Caroline & Victor Novak, Joey & Jan Macias (in memory of Mike O'Callaghan), Sarah E. Ralston (in memory of Mike O'Callaghan),

KLAS-TV Channel 8 (in memory of Mike O'Callaghan), Carpenters Local Union No. 1977, Shirley & Ben Druckerman, Rosemary Czarnecki, James & Dorothy Butte, Dr. Anthony Pollard, Adelheid Heidi Larson & Eric Larson, Shelley Berkley, Jeanne F. Block, Riviera Hotel Employees Foundation, Anne Reck, Rosemary Czarnecki, Joyce A. Riser, McCandless Family Trust, Beulah J. Johnson, Vincent J. Bifano, John S. Stetts, George & Barbara Harrington, Dorothy Ann Wagner (in memory of Ruthe Deskin), Koval Family Trust.