School counselor recommends kids for camp

Friday, Sept. 3, 2004 | 5:45 a.m.

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September 4 - 7, 2004

A school counselor at Richard J. Rundle Elementary School wrote about several students who deserved a chance to go to camp but whose families could not afford to send them.

One boy, she said, has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and is small for his age.

"He is often teased because of it," she writes, but "he did well in group and responds well to the positive atmosphere."

A girl has juvenile diabetes and "wants to make friends and feel included in a camping group."

Another girl "has had many changes in her life this year within her family, an illness, a death and a divorce," but she still "always shows caring and concern for others even if they hurt her feelings.

The counselor asked for help to send each of the children to summer camp.

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.

Donations can be made using the coupon on this page. Some recent donors:

Karen Romero; Fran Fine (in memory of Carolyn O'Callaghan); James and Barbara Martin (in memory of Douglas James Martin); Rose Stargrant; Martin Billich; Bernard and Dorothy Kosanovich; Charlotte Hill (in memory of Ann Walker); Robert and Patricia Patterson; Del and Olga Vanderpool; Janet Gilman; Roy and Candra Figley; Anita and Auduro Gallegos; Sherwin and Sharlene Beiser; Stanley and Pearl Kushel; Karen E. Williams; Ann R. Smith; Kim and Keith Stewart/Stewart Environmental.