![]() It now takes about $550 on the average to send one youngster to an overnight camp for one week. Keep in mind that the costs are increasing. We invite you to make a contribution this year and make a child’s dream come true. Rodriguez asked readers to work with the Big Five youth organizations “to ensure that more kids can experience the joy of summer camp in the mountains and create memories that will last a lifetime.”įrank Newell, board chair of the Community Foundation, said he hopes that Press-Telegram readers and friends continue their generosity because there are so many kids waiting to go to camp. “Every donation, no matter how small, makes a difference and helps us get closer to our goal.” “We can’t do that without your continued support,” he said to readers. This is the 24th year that the Press-Telegram and Community Foundation are asking readers to donate money to send kids to summer camps operated by the “Big Five” youth organizations: YMCA of Greater Long Beach, Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach, Camp Fire Angeles, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. ![]() We hope this is a forecast of exceeding last year’s record of $125,000.” Marcelle Epley, president and CEO of the Long Beach Community Foundation, which has partnered with the Press-Telegram to put on the fund drive each year, said the LBCF was “thrilled to see readers starting the campaign so strong this year. “The Send-a-Kid-to-Camp is a wonderful program,” Parkhurst said, “and I will indeed contribute to it so another generation of children can find the peace and joy I did.” “I fell in love with camping outdoors at Big Pines in the San Gabriel Mountains when I was a seven-year-old Camp Fire girl,” Parkhurst wrote in a letter to the Press-Telegram, which she included along with her donation to the publication’s Send-a-Kid-to-Camp fund campaign.ĭonations from Parkhurst and more than 90 other donors have gotten the campaign off to a good start, with readers donating $24,418 in the first two weeks to help financially in-need kids enjoy the great outdoors at mountain camps this summer. Joyce Parkhurst may be 87, but she still remembers clearly her joy from camping in the mountains when she was a little girl.
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