moment because we're going to have a minor key reunion here from some old time minor key people who are graduating from high school this year and used to sing with the minor key a long long time ago which is a nonprofit organization that helps children learn to rock and roll so well we're going to fisher an alley up here and they didn't know they were doing this until tonight this this is called back in time flashback re doing this song the lyrics to this a kid who was at the time in fifth grade came up to me and said but his name is ian sturm he came up to me he said buddy i have this poem and i don't know if it would make a good song i don't really know let's just give it a try and he showed me the words and it was incredible and it is one of my favorite minor key songs ever written it's an original song and the words are by a fifth grader you can play  so i said linda will you do this with me and she said yes and i think we've become pretty good friends since then but we incorporated just jumped in with two feet without looking back not knowing the three doing but we had a lot of luck we had a lot of luck and we had a lot of community support right away different stepped up with both money and with people to serve on our board of directors we're very fortunate my excellent staff and our philosophy is to find the best people possible pay as much as you can try to stay out of their way and let them do their job so we found this russell to run the camp and she is just an extraordinary director and what she does every year for us i and this is what's really great it makes the camp a strong place and basically anybody who's ever been associated comes and works with the camp wants to do something for us they want to some we've had some spontaneous fundraisers we had one  student in turn last year from seaview who was so moved by the camp she went back to her school and raise seventy nine hundred dollars for us from seaview last year and that was just incredible and  things just keep getting better and this year we're so excited because we're going to have buddy bay come in as a musician in residence we're going to be buying a dozen ukuleles this was started last year by liz russell brought in four ukuleles and the kids just  like ducks to water they just absolutely had a great time learning how to play music and make music so we're buying a lot more ukuleles this year and but he's going to come in and help coach that we also have some other stay off to do that so we'll have a nice  bringing in an artist who's going to be our artist in residence and she's going to be doing some other large pieces so that even children who don't feel like they are artists can be part of our heart project we do a lot of different things at camp and it's really hard to describe what it is that we do but it's a magical place we come together as a community and everybody has a great time we do have a couple of campers here we have a lot of counselors here and during the break we're going to be taking a look at people with a name and ask them about and see him all at work and i hope that everybody can go up and check in and see everybody having their tracks learning from each other we want to invite everyone to come and visit us the camp are always ready for understand i had on one of the state inspectors came to inspect us and she said can i work here and she says maria i've known you for years and i've heard you talk about the camp but until i sorry i did not understand how special it is and how happy those children are when i go into the schools and in the school year the kids come to me and they break into a big smile and they say i'm coming to camp this year and i know you're from my camp and this is the way the children feel about it and some of the kids we've had now this will be their six year with us and what happened is some of the kids were getting all their meeting all those though so we started the camp for middle school kids for seventh and eighth graders and we found this wonderful person jennifer hand who just moved from michigan with all the skills that we needed and now she's in charge of that camp so we can have kids right up until eighth or ninth grade and then they can become junior kelso is just like and where is caitlin caitlin who's been a camper for six years and now she's going to be a junior counselor and someday maybe should be a counselor i hope so it's wonderful to watch the kids grow up and we'd like you to be part of it we'd like you to become an basters for the camp come and see and then tell other people about it because without a broad basis what this one's about i just want to tell you there's a lot of handouts so they are talking about the camp the different things that are happening this summer we're starting a new partnership with the richmond free library they're going to be offering a science program on fridays next open for eight to eleven years old for anybody who wants to come that's not there's no qualification there's no cost but you do need register and then there will be pizza lunches on fridays give them extra period so they can go home and they can show their appreciation to other people and it's just a real precious than what i am makes a difference because everybody thinks they're in this world and some sometimes kids don't understand their own special they can be that they have something to contribute no matter how small they are or you know what circumstances they are that they can be they can make a difference so we're going to be taking a short break a lot of our performers are coming in late but we're going to take about a ten or fifteen minutes break and we have some nice refreshments and we're putting up a slide show so you can see some of the things that are happening at camp and then we'll come back and have a great second half i like technology the people who are associated with camp look for the name other things this summer she's unable to do it so we found this wonderful person just you know who was one of marian's art students who's going to be running the art camp and we have our flyers ok or me hope that anybody who's listening or know somebody aged know in our board member we have mike doing who's our member of our board to tell anything about him here mark was here and she had to leave unfortunately but please find out more about him and we'll see you in a few minutes what is the quietest sport bowling because you can hear a pin drop two young talented people are campers at our camp and i love seeing their smiling faces at camp when we have it every day and they have been campers since the very beginning so that's pretty cool so they will be doing a dance mix of joe god bless texas and tennessee waltz yes give it up for a living fantastic release so page has another joke for you we promise this is the last one in so what do you call a deer with no eyes no idea bringing their talent and making this evening so enjoyable so a big thank you to all of our performer and of course none of this would have been possible with our tech coord really appreciate your help thank you so much for coming tonight thanks i want to get some of the i want to get all of the performers up here you're not ok we were wondering if maybe m guitar is the culprit because the other guitars were behaving and when we plugged mine in it's when we had issues so we need to get the other performers up here heard you all go and just because you're not up here this is a sing along which means you need to sing along to us you i was thinking wonderful middle school harmonizing we're waiting because i think we might have some more singers i don't think we're done i think i think we can do something else something that's not quite so sleepy that seemed a little sleepy to me i don't know that you guys going to be this quiet like the rest of the her diamond service and all around me your friends about our community cares camp and so they just thank you so much for coming out a