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Camp Hope is back
Camp open to kids with cancer
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Camp Hope camper Bailey Thompson, 9, catches a fish with help from volunteer Alyssa Trevino, Wichita. - photo by COURTESY PHOTO
CAMP ALDRICH — Nine-year-old Bailey Thompson from Mulvane caught four little fish Tuesday morning before landing a “whopper,” with the help of a Camp Hope volunteer.“Bailey was so excited that she was jumping up and down as she was reeling it in,” said Barb Keltner, media coordinator for the annual camp for children with cancer. “Immediately after handing (the fish) off to the kind Kansas Wildlife and Parks guy, Bailey said, ‘Let’s do that again!'” Scores of children, adolescents and volunteers are visiting Barton County this week for Camp Hope, an annual event that brings young people from across the state to Barton Community College’s Camp Aldrich Conference Center. This camp experience is exclusively for children who have or have had cancer.The mission of Camp Hope is to provide a normal, active and safe camp experience where children can celebrate life with, through and beyond the diagnosis of cancer.