As I write
this, it’s the Monday morning after the big fourth of July weekend, and
all of us around the CAMP Rehoboth office are looking a little bleary eyed
at one another. It was a great weekend, but it has certainly become
impossible to keep up with all that is happening around town. Just ask
Love co-chair Bill Alldredge, who spent his Sunday evening running back
and forth between the Love Yum Yum Tea Dance and Teddy Bear Auction, and
the Love Sponsor Party at Scollay Petry and Mickey MacIntyre’s home on
Olive Avenue.
Love was certainly “in the air” all weekend
long, and the Love 2002 committee and all the volunteers who pitched in to
make it happen should be very proud of themselves. DJ David Knapp kept the
crowd happy at this year’s main event at the Rehoboth Convention Center,
and though the final totals have not yet been tabulated, it’s sure to
have raised a nice amount for the love beneficiaries CAMP Rehoboth, the
Women’s Project of CAMP Rehoboth, Sussex County AIDS Committee, and
Rehoboth Beach Main Street.
Also on the fourth of July weekend, Rehoboth’s new
women in business, producers of this summer’s Mermaid Splash event at
the Rehoboth Convention Center, presented a check for $10,000 to The Women’s
Project of CAMP Rehoboth. Those funds will certainly help The Women’s
Project continue to grow and develop programs needed by the community.
Recently, it was suggested to us that the name The
Women’s Project implies that women are somehow not involved in the rest
of the work of CAMP Rehoboth, which is, of course, not true at all. The
Women’s Project is a program of CAMP Rehoboth that addresses the
specific needs of women in our community. Its mission calls for it to “provide
education, health, and support services and a social environment which
assures that the needs of the women’s community are met.” CAMP
Rehoboth addresses men’s issues with our CAMPsafe program and The Gay
Men’s Health Project. Looking to the future, it’s easy to envision a
community center where all of these programs work together on issues of
health and well-being for men and women alike.
Now that the Fourth of July has come and gone, we
can turn our attention to the big events that make up the rest of our
summer. The biggest, of course, is our Labor Day extravaganza Sundance.
This year’s Sundance 2002 is called In The Celestial Circle of the
Sunburst Rainbow and Murray promises to make it more spectacular than
ever. His 2002 Sundance painting, titled, enCIRCLES (of love) will be
unveiled at the opening of his new Blue Moon show on Saturday, July 13. He
is signing the prints now, and they will be available in a few weeks. Last
year’s Sundance was successful because of the tremendous support of the
many Sponsors, Supporters and Hosts, and the more than 170 volunteers that
worked to make it happen. Sponsor letters went out last week and the host
letters will be in the mail by the time this issue hits the streets. If
you want to get involved, call or stop by the CAMP office.
Before Sundance, however, the all new and exciting
camp follies will take place at the Rehoboth Convention Center on
Saturday, July 27. The Follies will feature amateur troupes performing
campy skits and musical numbers and is sure to contain more than a few
surprises. I can only imagine it to be something like Mickey Rooney and
Judy Garland meet Ru Paul and The Lady Bunny somewhere over the rainbow.
On page 74 you can get of little preview of this year’s stars in the
making. Tickets are only $25 and can be purchased by calling the CAMP
Rehoboth office.
Obviously, life at “summer camp” is jam-packed
with things to do, places to go, and people to see. That’s what makes it
all so much fun.
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