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Welcome to MS Youth Camp 2009!

Friday, June 19

The final day of camp is always bittersweet. Every camper had so much to celebrate this week.

Purple group counselor Ty Gangelhoff had a special treat for his campers today. Ty sent his GPS with each camper on the zip line at the end of the ropes course to track their speed. Most ranged from 15 to 20 mph, though two campers who went together reached a speed of 24.5 mph. “Many of the campers have done this course many times before so I wanted to add a new element to it,” said Ty.

The big event of the evening was Youth Camp’s Got Talent, the all-camp talent show. Acts included piano performances, juggling, skits, hand jives and dance routines. A very special hip-hop dance routine performed by counselors and staff was especially well received by the campers. A slideshow of pictures throughout the week was shown after the talent show and resulted in lots of laughs and fond memories of new friends...like Thistle the porcupine!

Campers showed their theatrical skills at tonight’s campfire. Each group performed their “mythbuster” skits and educated everyone about common myths about MS, such as it is a fatal disease, it’s contagious, it’s hereditary and everyone’s symptoms are the same. In this picture the Blue group are being “evil MS bugs.”