<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="rss.tpl.xsl" ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">
<channel>
<atom:link href="http://wvgazette.com/feeds/Camp.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="display:module" type="text/xsl" href="http://cm.my.yahoo.com/feedtemplates/npc/simpletemplate_center.xsl"/>
<title><![CDATA[The Charleston Gazette - Gazette Charities]]></title>
<description/>
<category domain="Media News Group">
<![CDATA[Topics]]>
</category>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com]]></link>
<image>
<url><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/feeds/logo.jpg]]></url>
<title><![CDATA[The Charleston Gazette - Gazette Charities]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com]]></link>
<width>144</width>
<height>31</height>
</image>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804240704_0]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[Camp fund kids count on donors help]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Recession. Housing crisis. Gas prices closing in on $4 a gallon.Its no wonder donations to the Gazettes Send-A-Child-To-Camp Fund are down, but what can we do? Hundreds of local children depend on these scholarships in order to attend summer camp. Without ...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804240704]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[karinfuller@cnpapers.com (Karin Fuller)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804240753_1]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[YWCA camp opens kids eyes to learning]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[James often stayed to himself at summer camp. When the other kids played together outside, he would climb a tree. Counselors at the YWCA Child Enrichment Center Summer Camp talked to the 9-year-old. They learned James came from a difficult home life. He wa...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804240753]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[alisonk@wvgazette.com (Alison Knezevich)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804230779_2]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[Camp Amadeus inspires young musicians]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When Darrell Murray first taught violin in Kanawha County public schools in 1994, only 125 string players came for lessons. &quot;I think three of them were in high school.&quot;The number of schools and students have shrunk in Kanawha County since then, b...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804230779]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[bobschwarz@wvgazette.com (Bob Schwarz)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804220683_3]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[Creative Capers camp blends science with art]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[If you attend the weeklong Creative Capers camp this summer, you might learn to decipher hieroglyphics or bake recipes from the Nile River. You might even learn to walk like an Egyptian.Each year organizers choose a theme for the camp, held at the Unitaria...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804220683]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[balow@wvgazette.com (Jim Balow)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804210608_4]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[Camp tries to head off drug risks]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Margo Friend wants to show young people they dont need drugs, alcohol or tobacco to have a good time.Friend, director of the Regional Teen Institute at Rippling Waters Campground, said middle-school children need that reminder from time to time.&quot;Our m...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804210608]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[davinwhite@wvgazette.com (Davin White)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804200345_5]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[Arts camp teaches creativity and confidence]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[        Sarah Sprouse has gone to Charleston Stage Companys Summer Arts Camp since she was 4.&quot;They took her a year early after she saw how much fun her older sister was having,&quot; said her mother, Blair Sprouse.Now Sarah, a 14-year-old home-schoole...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804200345]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[bobschwarz@wvgazette.com (Bob Schwarz)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804170788_6]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[Cedar Lakes camps change kids lives]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[After a week of fishing, swimming, campfire songs, dancing, and arts and crafts, you would think the children who attend West Virginias Muscular Dystrophy Association summer camp at Cedar Lakes would be tuckered out. But many of the kids ask whether they c...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804170788]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[ericeyre@wvgazette.com (Eric Eyre)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804170737_7]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[Camp fund donors give almost $8,842]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[        &quot;The first summer I went to camp, I was going through a bad time at home,&quot; wrote a former camper. &quot;My parents were getting divorced and my sister was pregnant, and then dad lost his job. I had low expectations of myself and of most e...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804170737]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[karinfuller@cnpapers.com (Karin Fuller)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804160801_8]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[Camp Happy Valley for older teens too]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A 167-acre tract of mountains, rolling hills, woodlands and open fields only a 40-minute drive from Charleston will soon begin its 41st year as a summer playground for hundreds of youths from the Kanawha Valley and surrounding counties.Tucked away in an un...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804160801]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[rsteelhammer@wvgazette.com (Rick Steelhammer)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804150658_9]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[Kids College offers something to sing about]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last year, at the start of Carnegie Kids College, one fifth-grader was convinced she wanted to move out of the musical theater class, the colleges administrator recalled.The administrator, Rebekah Foster, asked why, but the child could not give a reason.Fo...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804150658]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[susanwilliams@wvgazette.com (Susan Williams)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804140617_10]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[Natures a great teacher at Boy Scout camp]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last summer, Marshall Sharp spent his first full week camping at Dilleys Mill, the 2,000-acre Buckskin Scout Reservation in Pocahontas County.He cant wait to go back.&quot;I liked the freedom best,&quot; he said. &quot;When youre not working on merit badge...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804140617]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[sandyw@wvgazette.com (Sandy Wells)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804130431_11]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[African-American arts camp nurtures creativity]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[    Carolyn Thomas, a 9th- and 10th-grade English teacher in Huntington, began working with the African American Arts and Heritage Academy eight years ago, teaching creative writing.&quot;I like that it involves kids from a lot of rural areas,&quot; she sa...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804130431]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[sarahkwinn@wvgazette.com (Sarah K. Winn)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804100834_12]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[4-Hers learn value of leadership]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[        Jeff was a first-time camper at Clay County 4-H Camp, where campers are divided into &quot;tribes.&quot; Tom was &quot;chief&quot; of Jeffs tribe.But Jeff, like Tom, was one of the older teenage campers in camp - and Jeff wanted to lead the tribe, ...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804100834]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[tara@wvgazette.com (Tara Tuckwiller)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804090860_13]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[Web of Life teaches value of conservation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Meredith Bond remembers one particular girl from her three summers as a counselor at the Web of Life Ecology Centers environmental summer camps in Kermit.&quot;She just tried to push every limit that she could,&quot; Bond said of the camper. &quot;The next...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804090860]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[sarahkwinn@wvgazette.com (Sarah K. Winn)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804081496_14]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[Kids with diabetes gain independence at Camp Kno-Koma]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Katie Stricker happily sent her parents Carla and Vince Stricker on their way the first time she stayed at Camp Kno-Koma. Concerned for the wellbeing of their 7-year-old daughter who has type-1 diabetes, the Strickers spent the night at a nearby hotel.Sinc...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804081496]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[julier@wvgazette.com (Julie Robinson)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804070787_15]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[Kismet, Loaves/Fishes camps let kids enjoy being kids]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[These are the children who never get to go on vacation. No trip to the beach for them.But they look forward all year to their one week at Camp Kismet or the Loaves and Fishes Summer Camp, their counselors said.The found-ers of Camp Kismet wanted poor child...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804070787]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[susanwilliams@wvgazette.com (Susan Williams)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<guid><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804060069_16]]></guid>
<title><![CDATA[Camp Horseshoe changed me as a person]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[If every child in West Virginia had a camp experience, &quot;You would really enlighten the state,&quot; Camp Horseshoes director said.&quot;[Its] an experience that allows kids no matter what background or what age to ask themselves who I am, what am I do...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200804060069]]></link>
<author>
<![CDATA[veronican@wvgazette.com (Veronica Nett)]]>
</author>
<pubDate>
<![CDATA[Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400]]>
</pubDate>
</item>

</channel>
</rss>