Just received a very generous sized check from T Dodge for the kids at camp. I'll be cashing it and turning it into a money order from Capt Dodge to Camp Rainbow Gold. It'll be used for supplies for framing those fish prints from the fish they've caught at camp. It will be somthing that is beautiful enough to hang in a living room. Hopefully it will give the kids and their parents warm memories of summer on a pond where they could be just like any other healthy child.
Thank you T Dodge for your generosity.
A few more of my favorite pics from this year.
Show them teeth ladies
Turn around and smile at the camera I say to the girl camper..."I can't, I'm watching my bobber". Geez so serious
I've had a few more offers on my email to send me checks. Normally I wouldn't turn down such kinds of offers, but it really would be better if you sent them to:
Meg Omel
Camp Rainbow Gold Manager
American Cancer Society, Great West Division,Inc
2676 Vista Avenue, Boise, Idaho 83705
t) 208.343.4609 f) 208.343.9922
meg.omel@cancer.org
Let Meg know your part of either Piscatorial Pursuits bulletin Board, or Steelheader.net, and that you want to make sure the kids have what they need to catch fish next year.
I'd like to see a blurb in one of the regional Fish magazines about the great support that been given by members to the kids at CRG. Anybody want to pass this along?
I'll repost in 6 months or so looking for any kids that don't know of camp that might want to come.
And one last idea for everybodies comsumption:
How about a network of boating anglers who would donate a day on the water to a sick child and thier parents? Like the fishing version of AngelFlight? Maybe call it AngelFish?
I had a patient last night in the ER who mentioned her boyfriends 13 y/o son is undergoing chemotherapy. She mentioned how much he liked to fish. She also mentioned he had never caught anything other then trout. I would love to see that kid on a boat hooked up with a 35 pound upriver bright. Anybody interested in being part of this?
Vince