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Helping To Make The Magic Getting Things Ready At Camp Ta-Kum-Ta

photo by Photo Provided Many hands make light work is such a true statement! This past week over sixty VUHS seniors helped Camp Ta-Kum-Ta get a new face lift and repairs as it gears up for another season of creating moments and memories for children facing cancer.

photo by Photo Provided

photo by Photo Provided

photo by Photo Provided

Tuesday May 5, 2015

By Cookie Steponaitis

Since 1984, Camp Ta-Kum-Ta has been a place where  beautiful moments of life are created during one memorable week. In addition to swimming, athletics, ropes course, arts and crafts, Ta-Kum-Ta offers once in a life time opportunities such as hot air balloon rides, dances, and lake cruises. The camp exists for children in Vermont and Northern New York between the ages of 7-17 that are facing cancer. There is no cost to the families. Founded by Ted and Debby Kessler, the camp was modeled after a cancer camp in New York State where their son Todd had  memorable experiences that had helped heal his mind and body.
    Depending on volunteers for a great deal of their needs, Ta-Kum-Ta has a long standing friendship with the senior classes of Vergennes Union High School and on Wednesday, April 29th was the beneficiary of about sixty extra sets of hands. Traveling north as a senior class, the soon to be graduates raked, painted, created, lugged, moved, dug and helped in over twelve different areas of the camp providing a host of free labor and a lot of love. “We have been engaged in this community work for over a decade now, “ remarked senior class adviser Lee Shorey. “ The students from 2015 saw tangible products from the work and efforts of previous classes and left their own mark on a place that provides so much love and pleasure to children.”
    While each task was completed separately, collectively it brought together months of planning and bonded the seniors in yet another way that will last long beyond their June 12th graduation.   “We left a little of ourselves there,” commented on senior. “It really was one of the last things we will do together, but how special it was because we were helping others.’ So as camp season opens and the Class of 2015 crosses the gymnasium and exits off to future career paths, they will all be joined in deed and in memory by numerous community projects where the good of the many helped the good deeds of others reach more people. 

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