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Camp Good Days Digging Out Instead of Comforting Sick and Dying Children, Families

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  Camp Good Days and Special Times in the Finger Lakes is having to cancel weeks of planned activities due to flooding.  

The Penn Yan camp normally spends late spring and summer helping children and families have a good time, as they're dealing with cancer diagnoses, other illness or loss.  But flooding forced debris into many of their cabins, covering much of the grounds.  Regional Director Claire McKenney says at least one cabin is a total loss.

SEEKING COMMUNITY HELP

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Mud and debris inside cabins

  The camp is now hosting up to 70 volunteers a day, cleaning out debris from buildings and starting to reconstruct others.  The are in need of material helpas well, seeking:

  • Donated building materials
  • Volunteer Time, especially form those with construction, carpentry skills
  • Monetary donations
  • Gift cards or food donations to help feed volunteers.
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Mud and rocks swept onto the camp grounds by creek flooding

  Anyone interested in helping can go to the website www.campgooddays.org or call 315-5956605

Chris Bolt, Ed.D. has proudly been covering the Central New York community and mentoring students for more than 30 years. His career in public media started as a student volunteer, then as a reporter/producer. He has been the news director for WAER since 1995. Dedicated to keeping local news coverage alive, Chris also has a passion for education, having trained, mentored and provided a platform for growth to more than a thousand students. Career highlights include having work appear on NPR, CBS, ABC and other news networks, winning numerous local and state journalism awards.