Lack of finances shouldn’t keep kids from camp

Friday, July 22, 2005 | 4:43 a.m.

WEEKEND EDITION

July 23-24, 2005

A mother needs help to send her son to Boy Scout Camp and said sending him would be the "surprise of a lifetime."

She said her son really enjoys going to camp, but he did not ask to go because of finances.

"It broke my heart because he said he knew he couldn't go because it cost $260," she wrote in a letter to the Sun Summer Camp Fund.

The camp fund helps to send children to camp every summer who otherwise might not be able to afford it. All donations sent to the fund go directly toward camp scholarships.

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.