Camp would help latch-key kid

Friday, June 17, 2005 | 4:11 a.m.

WEEKEND EDITION

June 18-19, 2005

A mother writes that she would love to send her son to summer camp even though she never had the experience. She thinks camp would help to keep him on the right track.

"It's hard going to work every day knowing your child is a latch-key kid," she wrote. "(I) hope he's hanging around the right kids."

She asked the Las Vegas Sun Camp Fund to help make "a great kid become a better kid."

For 25 years the fund has provided scholarships for children who want to go to camp. All donations sent to the fund go directly toward a child's camp experience. Last year the fund sent 700 children to camp.

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

Edward and Doris Kulakowski; Patrick and Nora Hughes; and Margaret Moudary.

Marilyn Roth and Elaine Gillis; Jansen Family Trust; Benevolent Patriotic Order of DOES; and CMSGT (Ret.) Robert and Elaine Boudreaux.

MaryAnn and Robert Dobiesz; Rosemon Ellison; Faye and Barry Bowles; Ben and Shirley Druckerman; Anthony D. Hunter; Betty H. Baron; Patricia Lehrter; Roland and Judith Lachance; Kathleen and Raymond Aspan; L.E. Barnes; Frank and Donna Kowalczyk; Katz Family Trust; Beaton Family Trust; Arthur Curtis and Elizabeth Francis; Eugene and Mary Buonantony; and Ottis and Margaret Cornett Trust.

Tony King; Lewis D. Harvey; Donald and Therese Goldfus; Rosemary Czarnecki; and William and Sheila Hill.

David and Joyce Baarstad; the Orleans; Mercedes H. Barris; Laura L. Brown; Donald and Dianna Greenhalgh; William R. Hassett; Annette DeAngelo; Dr. Bernard Greenblatt; H.J. Daseler; James Koury and Judith Tachau; Mary Carpenter and Gerret Polchinski; Gaudin Ford; Timothy and Denise Cashman; Sylvia and Bernard Gross; James and Dorothy Butte; Janice and Fred Allen "In memory of Ruthe Deskin"; Niki Devine Zindler; Rosemary Czarnecki; Allan and SuAnn Anderson; Vincent Bifano; David B. Friedland; P.K. Bowker; E.M. and Lupe Gunderson; Marjorie A. Guymon.

Gene Smyth and Dreyers Ice Cream of Las Vegas; Bonnie A. Cain; Beatrice R. Langley; Robert D. Faiss; Helen C. Cannon; Romola W. Burk; Mildred D. Dubois; Sandy Frunzi; Gerald and Selma Deitch; Vera L. Horning; Charles and Marlene Huebert; M. Gazallo; Charles L. Conti; and W.F. and Gretchen Cottrell.

Colleen A. Wilson-Pappa; Ercelle Johnson; Emery and Dolores Yatcko; Harry and Josephine Born; Mary Brichetto; and Otto Luithardt.