Mature girl deserves opportunity to be kid again

Friday, July 1, 2005 | 7:48 a.m.

WEEKEND EDITION

July2-3, 2005

A girl who acts as a mother to her six-year-old brother deserves to go to summer camp to get away from the stress at home, her school counselor writes.

"She gets him up for school, feeds him and makes sure he does his homework," the counselor wrote.

The girl's parents are going through a divorce, the counselor wrote, and that has put even more stress on the girl. The counselor wrote that the girl had to be hospitalized twice this year because she passed out in school.

Time at camp would help the girl "increase her self worth, give her time away from her troubled family and most of all let her relax and just be a kid again for a little while."

All donations given to the Las Vegas Sun Camp Fund help send children to camp who might not have the chance to attend otherwise. The fund has given camp scholarships to children since 1970.

Help send disadvantaged children to camp by joining these latest contributors to the Sun Camp Fund: Gregory Mendoza; Atkinson Family Trust; S.M. Knobling; Patricia Cellini; Thomas and Helen Meehan; Mary and Robert Dobiesz; Albert and Mary Barrett; Phil and Venice Zasloff; Steven and Juli Hunt; Maria Rabbio; Rosemary Czarnecki; R.A. and Carlene Schultz; Bernice A. Fischer; Gloria D. Jellissen; RT and KL Wilbur; Sherwin and Sharlene Beiser; E. Michael Evans; Stephen and Cynthia Sitar; Koval Family Trust; Margareta and David Brown; Knights of Columbus Council 10442, Ladies Auxiliary; Judy L. Trent Trust; James and Dawn Buchan; Mary Gersten/Gersten Family Trust; and Albert and Dorothy Worthing.