When The Charlotte Observer, with help from the nonprofit Partners in Out-of-School Time, launched a fundraiser this spring to send low-income children to summer camp, no one knew whether the idea would fly in a troubled economy.
Thirteen-year-old Breondra Newman isn't exactly sure of the moment this week when bugs became entertainment – rather than something to shriek about – at Girl Scout camp here in the mountains of Rutherford County, 80 miles west of Charlotte.