A Healing Home

Burn Victims Spend Week At Local Camp

Posted: August 10, 2012

By PETE DeLEA

Tonas Kalil, Mid-Atlantic Burn Camp co-director, leads the campers in a song for grace before lunch on Thursday at Brethren Woods Camp and Retreat Center. (Photos by Nikki Fox / DN-R)
Amira Williams, who turns 9 today, pets a 3-month-old puppy held by the camp nurse, Kay Bleacher, of York, Pa.
Children dress up Mike Gangloff (center), a Harrisonburg Police Department D.A.R.E. officer, as a platypus during the Mid-Atlantic Burn Camp at Brethren Woods Camp and Retreat Center on Thursday.
Mike Hicks, with the Anne Arundel County, Md., Water Rescue team (left), shows camper Glen Polite, 16, of Fairfax, Va., how to use scuba gear.

For the last nine years, the Mid-Atlantic Burn Camp in Rockingham County has been Malik Jackson’s summer home away from home.

When Jackson was a toddler, he reached for a cup of hot water...



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