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Helping save sensory camp

Local woman recognized with state citation of merit

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April Sutherland won a statewide award for her efforts to help save The Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation Summer Sensory Camp Program for special needs children. "It felt great to represent the team of moms who made this happen."

Raise $27,000 in just a few months.That’s a daunting task for anyone to undertake, but for a group of local moms, it was worth all the efforts.

In 2012, April Sutherland, a nurse in the Camas School District and mother to a special needs child, found out that the Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation summer sensory program would be shut down due to a $1.2 million budget reduction.

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