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County coordinator keeps a pledge to send 100 kids to camp.
It seemed a daunting task.
The plan: raise enough money to send 100 kids to summer camp.
The specifics: Salvation Army Solano County (Calif.) Coordinator Captain Jonathan Harvey and others would walk 10 miles on a treadmill.
“I didn’t think I could do it,” Harvey said. But he did. “I’m so exuberant that we were able to do this. What a team effort,” he said.
Harvey, along with eight other walkers, sweated off the pounds at the Kroc Center in Suisun City, Calif., to fulfill a pledge to walk the 10 miles in order to send 100 Solano County kids to Camp Del Oro in Nevada City, Calif.
Salvation Army Solano County Advisory Board members, several Kroc Center staff and Harvey raised more than $30,000, which was used for camp scholarships.
Harvey credited board member Dana Fennie for being the catalyst of the fundraiser.
“Three months ago he [Fennie] said he wanted to raise $2,000 for campers. He came up with the treadmill idea and others decided to do the same,” Harvey said. “It was a personal accomplishment for everyone involved. I’m so happy for the walkers, this community and the kids going to camp.”
