hello my name is marie thomas and i'm here today at mt mansfield community television to tell you about our community cares camp and the magic that happens every summer at camel's hump middle school when we open up the school and transform it into a wonderful caring place for children to come and thrive i'd also like to tell you about some advance that we're sponsoring this spring to help raise the money that we need to offer this free enrichment camp to local children i'd like to tell you about our mission our mission is to provide nutritious food in the summertime to children who need nutritional support this includes all of the children who are attending the chiton east supervisory union academic programs as well as the children who come to our enrichment day camp and our second mission is to provide a free enrichment day camp to children kindergarten through eighth grade to give them the opportunity to engage in creative activities outdoor activities music art cooking lessons gardening everything that makes life worth living these activities keep their brains active and growing it helps prevent the summer academic slide that can plagues so many children and help them fall behind their peers we also provide some practical job skills for children we have a job training program for teens aged fourteen and up this program is open to all teams for a minimum of a two week internship as a junior counselor or cullen ery in turn students get their first taste of working in the world we provide mentoring and feedback so they are ready to become good employees often they become our future counselors and our kitchen workers this will be our seventh year two thousand and fifteen we are very proud of the quality of the camp that we're able to offer and of our food service we use many farm fresh foods and provide opportunities for children to try new foods many of our children have come to camp for multiple years they love to see their counselors and they love to participate in beloved camp activities like camp fire the talent shows or have a rousing game of foursquare the camp thrives because of the support we receive from the community we receive donations of cash stocks and materials all of which we put to use i love to repurpose things so if you have art supplies sports equipment we can usually put it to good use and if we can't we can find somebody who will because of the generosity of the local public we don't have to spend a lot of money on materials we can just use things that have been donated and repurpose them i'd like to tell you about two upcoming events the first one is for all you gardeners out there present mt farms of huntington will donate a portion of your purchase over memorial day weekend that's may twenty three twenty four and twenty five pleasant mount farms is an organic greenhouse in huntington center and has a large selection of all kinds of plants so if you haven't been there you should really check it out it's a very very nice place please consider shopping there that weekend to support our community cares camp just tell them that you're there to support the camp or look for a coupon in your local library the second event is a community bowling night at spare time lanes and cole chester this will be on tuesday june second from six to nine pm so three hours of bowling push in each team will be able to share a large pizza there is a minimum donation of twenty five dollars per person of course we hope that teams would collect sponsors to raise more than that amount this would be a great time to get together with your friends and neighbors or your coworkers for just a nice social night out bowling is one of those wonderful sports that you don't have to be good at in order to have a good time so maybe you would like to challenge your friends or another business to compete with you raising money so if you call our number at four three four six zero zero six or e mail us at zero c c c at g m a v t dot net to register and request a sponsor form and we hope you do that right away because we only have a limited number of lanes this is not a tournaments this is a fun night but we will have prizes for the team who raises the most money so we hope to see you there at spare time slane on june second thank you all for listening i love to talk about our community cares camp and would be very happy to come and speak to your group your club or your church our community does care about its children and they can show it by donating to our camp we give them the tools to be successful in life having a safe and caring place to come to every summer is such an incredible gift for these children thank you so much for your support we gratefully accept donations at our address that's on the screen you can also donate at our facebook page or our website every donation helps us meet our goal of providing food and fun for local children thank you so much for your generosity