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Nuts and Bolts

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Family Visiting Days Sharing Camper
If your child is staying for
more than one session, you Information with Us
are invited to visit on We have many ways that
changeover/visiting days, July you can share information
7 and 21. If you are not able about your child. There is
to visit, maybe another family an online camper
member or friend can. questionnaire, online health
history and we ask our
Please let us know your plans, campers to write a letter to
even if someone other than the counselors and mail it
yourself, or no one, will be with a photo to camp. This
visiting. We invite you to is good practice for the
arrive after 11:00 am on letters we want them to
Saturday and stay for a BBQ write to you from camp!
(at 12:15). After the BBQ, This will also help our
there will be activities going counselors learn about your
on for parents and children all camper so they can make
afternoon. your camper’s transition to
camp go well!
Should you decide to take
your child out of camp, please
remember to sign in and out. Respect:
Bring swimsuits and towels – Respect is important to us. Respect for each other, the natural world, the
the activities might include camp and, most importantly, ourselves. We ask everyone at GREENWOOD
getting wet. TRAILS to take care of themselves by practicing good hygiene, keeping their
sleeping area and bathroom neat and clean, by asking for help when they
Some families might wish to need it and by always traveling with at least one buddy and telling counselors
take their camper away where they are going. We ask everyone to show respect for others by
overnight. This is not listening when others are sharing, by offering help when we can and by
something we recommend, learning about and sharing our differences. We respect the natural world by
especially for first-time learning more about it, by not picking live plants, and by leaving creatures of
campers, because getting all kinds where we found them. And we respect camp by taking care of it, not
back into the camp mode writing on walls (graffiti) and letting staff know when things are accidentally
might prove difficult. We are broken or don’t work properly. Any camper who defaces or deliberately
happy to speak with you damages camp or personal property will be expected to pay for repair or
about your plans. Visiting replacement and may be subject to dismissal from camp.
Days end at 4:30pm.

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