Comment from Luke
Time: March 26, 2008, 5:41 am

Hey Pam and Dave –

Good morning! I listen to KTIS every day during my morning and afternoon commute. KTIS is definitely a blessing to me.

Here’s my camp story: I was a Youth Camp counselor for 4 summers will during my college days back in the early ‘80s. When the kids would return home, we received complaints from Mothers regarding how dirty there boys were after a week at camp. Trying to get thirty 8 and 9 years to take a shower was not an easy task. So we came up with a fun way to get the kids cleaned before they left camp on Saturday morning. After supper on Friday nights we ran a garden hose from the boy’s restroom / shower facility to a nearby hill. We soaked the hill with water and made a huge mud slide! The boys would get there swim suits on and we’d let them slide down the hill and get filthy dirty. We then marched them into the large shower room, plugged the drains with paper towels, took each kids shampoo bottles and used them to suds up the pooled water in the shower room. Using a soft, water proof ball we played “shower soccer” while the showers were on. By the end of the game, every kid was clean. It was a blast!

Comment from bonnie
Time: March 26, 2008, 5:46 am

dave and pam,
I am the carpetball caller. I wanted to let you know that when my parents tried to pick me up at the bus drop off and I wasn’t there it caused such an outcry with all the other parents about child safty that the following year when I arrived at camp lebanon, the staffer checking names off on the bus list told me I was the reason for that list and for the better child safty measures. I heard about that for a few years after too. Although at the time it was not a funny thing missing the bus, it created a need for camp safety and it reminds me that sometimes god may create a bad situation for a good reason. I hope all the parents out there sending kids to camp remember how important safety is and make sure whatever camp they go to that the kids will be kept tracked of. thanks for all you do and god bless you all for making each of my days easier to get through!

Comment from Yoneh
Time: March 27, 2008, 7:37 pm

I like the camp info. However I’m looking for great references on cabins or locations where 3 families (approximately 12 people) can have a fun weekend getaway. Any ideas? BTW Dave where was the place you and our wife went to on your anniversary (I think that’s what it was – a couple months back)?