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Belfair
Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014 - Serving the
Camp in
question
PTA seeks $6,000 to
send students to camp
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natalie@masoncounty.com
Going to camp can be an in-
valuable and memorable expe-
rience for fiRh-grade students,
said Jackie Young, behavioral
interventionist at Belfair El-
ementary School.
"They have fun and they
don't realize they're learning,"
she said.
Belfair Elementary PTA
members raise about $12,000
each year to send fifth-graders
to a three-day camp each year
at Camp Seymour on Glen Cove
in Jefferson County. This year,
they're short $6,000.
Volunteers have scheduled
a fundraiser dinner, silent auc-
tion and dessert auction for 6
p.m. March 22 at the Theler
Community Center. The event
costs $10 per person and $15 for
a couple.
For the past five years,
Young, 37, and other parents
and PTA members have worked
to organize and raise money for
the camp. This year, PTA mem-
ber Stephanie Shumaker, 32,
whose son, Mason, is in the fifth
grade, has joined the effort.
Shumaker attended the fifth-
grade camp when she went to
Belfair Elementary School.
"I always looked forward to
going and I look forward to my
children going," she said. "It's
a 33-yar tradition. Our com-
munity doesn't have many tra-
ditions and this is one we want
to keep going. I want my 1-year-
old to go to camp."
Each year, the fifth-grade
class, and teachers, parents
and North Mason High School
student counselors, head to
Camp Seymour, which is owned
by YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap
counties.
While at camp, students take
classes on topics that include
sea life, birds, plants, animals
and agriculture. They also do
teambuilding exercises, skits,
and, in past years, have learned
about Sasquatch, Young said.
"It's a great experience, it's a
great memory, to be away from
your family and get to know
other kids," Young said. "You
make friendships that last."
Young said the North Mason
School District stopped paying
for the camp five years ago for
Sand Hill and Belfair elementa-
ries. Young stepped up to help
preserve the camp for Belfair
Elementary students.
See CAMP on page A-22
Freezing waterwheel
Herald photo by Gordon Weeks
The continuing flow of Dalby Creek keeps the historic galby waterwheel in Union from completely freezing
up during several days of deep freeze last week in Western Washington The waterwheel, near Alderbrook
Resort & Spa, was built in 1922.
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