This summer, Camp Starlight, one of America’s Finest Summer Camps, implemented a new community service program.  For this week’s guest blog, we thought we’d share this one from Camp Starlight regarding the success of the new program:

« This summer the upper camp girls participated in a new option period, community service.  The girls who had chosen community service were able to work with Allison Miller in creating a way to give back.  Following visiting day, the campers are allowed to have their candy for 48 hours.  Allison and the girls came up with an idea called Operation Canteen to collect the candy after the deadline.   After distributing fifty four Starlight tin boxes to the boy and girl HC’s the campers were told to gather their left over visiting day candy and place it in the boxes.   Once the committee collected all the boxes, Allison will send them to the troops fighting for us in the Middle East.  We are all very excited to know that we are going to give back to the people who really deserve it!

-Girls of the Operation Canteen Committee

The community service program is now working on an art project for fundraising for the residents of Joplin. »

*This blog was originally posted to the Camp Starlight website on July, 29, 2011.