Kids write about their fun at camp

Friday, Sept. 3, 2004 | 4:46 a.m.

WEEKEND EDITION

September 4 - 7, 2004

Children who attend camp through the Sun Camp Fund sometimes later write to explain what they liked best.

Their comments remind us at the Camp Fund why we do this.

One child noted he liked it best, "when I went rock climbing all four days. I never made it to the top until the last day, and got a gold medal."

"We got to swim," one girl wrote, adding she also liked "the cuinslers (counselors) and stafs. Rock chliming, care, horses."

Another camper also had fond memories of her counselor, "Aloha." "She was very funny," the girl wrote. "She is the best conselor I ever had. I will be looking forward to coming back to (camp) again."

The Sun Camp Fund provides scholarships to send children to camp when their families cannot afford to. All donations go directly to the cost of camp; administrative expenses are paid by the Las Vegas Sun.

Recent donors: Patrick and Linda Kearns; Jerry and Dianna Jolly; Ernest Elms and Tina Elms Alper; Gerald and Donna Nemanic; and Nancy Ann Hessel.

Aabacus Industrial Park; Paul and Evelyn Roberts; Theodore and Patricia Hamilton; Gregory E. Mendoza; Robert E. Murdock; Charles and Christine Creigh; Anne C.H. Jamieson; Shaun and Debra Tulles; Jack Biegger; John Sandoval; Billie Lee Schofield; Roberta Gross; Robert A. Maheu; and Rosemary Czarnecki.

Ira and Nanette Spector; Robert Maheu; Harry and Josephine Born; Mary Soria; Craig and Cynthia Anderson; The Claudine Williams Foundation; Cdr. and Mrs. Robert Hagenbruch; Chester and Stephanie Wilson; The Buckingham Foundation; Harvey and Debra Yeaton; Russell Dorn, Jr.; Gaudin Ford; Michael Gerlicher; Robert and Elizabeth Nicholls; Otto A.C. Luithardt; Latonya Fair; Billie and Lester Drake; Mercedes Barris; Webster Business Group; Gayle R. Eames; David and Joyce Baarstad; and John and Lois Ayers.

Jerry and Nancy McNeish; Beaton Family Trust; Mary Dobiesz; Glasshawk, Inc.; John and Jeanette Matteson; John N. McCandless; Fred and Carolyn Smith; Maria Rosa Tirgrath; Henry Stodola; Winifred H. Hobron; and William P. Cox Jr.