Guest guest Posted June 28, 2010 Report Share Posted June 28, 2010 has attended Scout camps, but found them a tad boring. granny On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Rick Dill <rdill@...> wrote: > > > The BEST camp Jan went to was Timber Trails Girl Scout camp. It is run > by the Girl Scout council office in Hartford, CT. It did an amazing job > on being inclusive. One of Jan's tent mates was wheel chair bound, but > not developmentally disabled. There was never a shortage of people to > accompany and sometimes push the wheel chair down the dirt trails. That > girl did a lot of photography. > > The woman running the program made a special trip to the camp to watch > Jan go through the obstacle course because none of her disabled campers > had tried that camp program before. > > The WORST camp Jan went to was Camp LeMar, in the Poconos. It was for > the developmentally disabled only and run with an iron hand by Lee > Marone. Janet basically rebelled and half way through the summer ran > away from camp, causing a great panic, although she was perfectly at > home in the woods and simply followed game trails to a road where one of > the search teams picked her up. We spent the rest of the summer trying > to convince her that she was wrong, but she knew in her heart that she > had won. > > Good luck finding places for your kids this summer. > > Rick > > > -- Not for ourselves but for the whole world we were born Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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