Camp Cheerful, which was held in Strongsville this year, is sponsored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and is designed for campers with any of the 40 neuro-muscular diseases that fall under the term Muscular Dystrophy. Josh Davis is one of those campers. Carol Davis said the camp provides the opportunity for people with Muscular Dystrophy to come together in a place where they are the norm by which everything else is judged. You just kind of look past that. The last two years, Davis has taken old Chippewa High School friends along with him to camp.
Campers can take along friends because the camp needs so many volunteers.
This lets Davis combine two different sides of his life, providing a time and place where both sets of friends can meet each other. Laughlin, also a graduate of CHS, now lives in Parma, Davis said. Another friend from high school went last year. He wanted to go again but couldn't get off work. Going to camp with a friend means more than just getting to spend a week together at camp.