Championing Camp
Sixteen local businesses joined hands with the Pythian Youth Foundation of California to send local youth to camp. Business-card ads placed in the May 17, 2009 edition of the Signal Tribune raised $5,700 to send local youth to the Pythian Youth Camp in the Sequoia National Forest, which is opening in early July.
Operated by the Pythian Youth Foundation of California, Inc., a public nonprofit corporation, the 19-acre camp, 7,000 feet in the Sequoia wilderness, was chartered by President Harry S. Truman in 1946 to provide outdoor therapy for troubled youth. For the past 62 years, the Foundation and partners such as those who purchased ads in May have sent nearly 300 children, between 9 and 11 years of age, to camp each summer.
Signal Hill businesses that supported the Youth Foundation made it possible to provide seven-day camping scholarships for 19 children from our community.
To help send children to camp, contact (562) 881-0165 or pythianyouthcamp@earthlink.net. Information may also be obtained and donation made through the organization’s website: www.pythianyouthfoundation.com.
Donations may also be sent to the Pythian Youth Foundation at 1800 Robertson Blvd., Suite 314, Los Angeles, CA 90035.
Thomas White
Executive Director
Pythian Youth Foundation of CA, Inc.
