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<title>Academic Tune-Up helps students, families</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -   &quot;Most of those who come to Academic Tune-Up in the summer have suffered through school,&quot; writes the Appalachian Reading Centers co-director Jennifer Carriger.  &quot;They often have diagnosed or undiagnosed learning disabili...]]></description>
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<title>Boy Scouts provide variety of camps</title>
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<title>THF Realty donates $10,000 to Camp Fund</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The willingness of corporations to be a good neighbor to those who live in their community is more important than ever in these trying times.   And if it werent for the neighborliness of THF Realty, approximately 120 local children...]]></description>
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<title>Counselors connect with kids at Loaves &amp; Fishes</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Camp Loaves &amp; Fishes offers campers all the traditional summer camp activities -- archery, nature walks, canoeing, crafts and campfires. But according to regional director Michael Vincent, theres more.  &quot;Id have to say our camp...]]></description>
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<title>African American arts camp continues to grow</title>
<description><![CDATA[     CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;When the African American Arts &amp; Heritage Academy first began,&quot; writes Norman Jordan, the camps founder, &quot;We operated out of a campground, but weve grown and evolved to such a degree that were now holding camp ...]]></description>
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<title>Ex-Carbide camper meets challenge</title>
<description><![CDATA[        Folded around a donation was a letter from Ann Cottrell Bess, who took up the challenge made to former Carbide Campers to help fund scholarships enabling local children to attend summer camp.  &quot;I was also a Carbide Camp Brat,&quot; wrote Bess,...]]></description>
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Thu, 07 May 2009 17:48:43 -0400
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<title>Ecology camp has zero-waste policy</title>
<description><![CDATA[            CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- While writing these Camp Fund stories, I usually focus on other peoples children, but its my daughters turn.   Last year, Celeste was so thoroughly caught up in the &quot;Go Green&quot; frenzy that I decided the Web of Life...]]></description>
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<title>High-energy Camp Happy Valley leaves kids grinning</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;Camp Happy Valley has always been a place where kids get to do things theyve never done before,&quot; wrote camp director Cresson Smith of Salvation Armys Camp Happy Valley.   &quot;Every year, well have children who start ca...]]></description>
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<title>Summer Arts Camp brings back fond memories</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- My time at Charleston Stage Companys Summer Arts Camp was the best two weeks of my life,&quot; wrote one former camper. &quot;For two weeks, I acted, painted, drew, sang, danced, and played music. The class musical jam session enab...]]></description>
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<title>Camp Kismet a Fayette tradition</title>
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Sun, 03 May 2009 16:59:34 -0400
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<title>Theres a lot of thanks going around for sending kids to summer camps</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Earlier this week, the Gazette ran a Readers Forum letter where the writer thanked the Gazette and me for our efforts to send kids to camp. The recognition was appreciated, and it made me pause to consider what fuels my determination t...]]></description>
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<title>Camp High-Tor brought teen out of his shell</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Moving to West Virginia from an urban area had one 14-year-old boy reeling from culture shock, and during Js first few days at the Tri-County YMCAs Camp High-Tor, he complained non-stop about the heat, bugs, animals, and plants. Sometimes J would get i...]]></description>
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<title>Campers helping campers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Carbide Camps were a special place for children lucky enough to have a parent employed by Union Carbide, a requirement to attend. As one of those lucky kids, I relished every minute spent on Blue Creek. Although Carbide Camps (Carlisle for girls, Camelot f...]]></description>
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Fri, 16 May 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Fund helps kids to many firsts</title>
<description><![CDATA[What better way to honor someone on their birthday than by making a child happy on their behalf. Such was the case for Meredith Pride, whose birthday gift - a donation made to the Camp Fund in her honor - will enable a needy local child to experience summe...]]></description>
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Fri, 02 May 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>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>
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<title>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>
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<title>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>
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Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>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>
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<title>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>
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<title>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>
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<title>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>
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<title>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>
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<title>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>
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<title>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>
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<title>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>
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<title>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>
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<title>Camp fund donors give more than $3,000</title>
<description><![CDATA[Late last summer, a package clearly addressed by a childs hand arrived at the Gazette. It was thick with thank you notes written by some of the children who attended summer camp, thanks to scholarships from the Send-A-Child-To-Camp Fund. &quot;I absolutely...]]></description>
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<title>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>
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