Boy’s good behavior would be reinforced by camp

Friday, Aug. 12, 2005 | 3:49 a.m.

WEEKEND EDITION

August 13-14, 2005

An elementary school counselor asks that a student who has gotten his act together be able to go summer camp.

"In the beginning of the school year he was rude, angry and always in trouble," she wrote.

The counselor said that she and the boy's teacher worked with the student and now he is friendly. The boy has saved up some money for camp but needs help to pay for the experience.

"It is important for him to continue feeling like others really care about him, and he needs to succeed in other environments," the counselor writes.

You can help send someone to camp by giving to the Las Vegas Sun Camp Fund. All donations go directly toward sending a child to camp.

Help send disadvantaged children to camp by joining these latest contributors to the Sun Camp Fund:

Roger and Cheu Queen; Charlotte Hill; Roger Watson; William Wise/AWW Nevada; Annette Newton; Rhoton and Bill Hudson; John and Elizabeth Pollet; Annette DeAngelo; Betty Sungaila; Gene and Gerda Fisher; David Shafer; Annette Pipitone; Michael and Lynne Gerlicher; Shirley Emerson; Special Operations Associations of Nevada; Melvin L. Lamph; Charles and Abby Erreger; Webster Business Group; Jim and Judy Kropid; Ellen Jaicks and Michael Green; Patricia Deverell; Robert A. Gill; Carol Hofner-Bell and Robert Manning; Mary and Joseph Viscuglia; and Louis and Margaret Mezza.

Normand and Madalena Fournier; John J. McVeigh; Gaynor Family Trust; Tori D. Bullock; Seymour and Carlo Epstein; Robert and Doris Pogue; Dereatha Watkins; John M. Matteson; Pamel and Joseph Thomas; Evon Cade Jr.; Las Vegas Sun Library auction; Calvin Moore and Kaye McLeod; Gene Segerblom; Joseph and Loretta Donnolo; Sadie L. Jenista; W.S. and Helen Glassman; Lynn and Terry McCarthy; Robert Ellsworth; Joann and David Richard; and Kathleen D. Pratt.