(Spirit Lake)– Camp Foster YMCA has been awarded a grant through the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs and the Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund. Josh Carr, Executive Director of Camp Foster YMCA tells KUOO news they were awarded $28,000 to modernize some of their cabins and living quarters…
“We’re a 109-year-old summer camp and obviously over time things need to be updated, brought to the 21st century, not only to support the families and the campers that come here, but also to something for them to look forward to, a quality experience. So yeah, I’m ecstatic, I’m super happy that we got this grant to help update some of our cabins and living spaces.”
Carr says the project has been ongoing…
“We’re putting a little more extra emphasis into it now, kind of at a point, here now, just because you sometimes look at a project and say this is fine, this fine. It’s no different than your house. I can go another year without paint, but one of those days you need to paint.”
Carr says they’re offering a unique opportunity for the public to get involved…
“We are in the process of launching an adopt a cabin program in which a family, a supporter, can adopt a cabin and those adoptions basically provide camp with the financial means to update cabins as they go. And then you get naming rights and some opportunities to stay out at our cabins and things like that, so. It is an ongoing thing but we’re just now in the genesis portion of that campaign.”
More information is available by contacting Carr or by visiting their website, campfosterymca.com.
Carr also expressed his gratitude to everyone who made the grant from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs possible.
