"absolutely amazing success"
Well, of course it was a success. Why would it not have been? I see nothing "amazing" here.
Which leads me to my question -- is there some vernacular usage of the word 'amazing' in Manitoba (or Canada, for that matter) that I'm not getting?
The program really should be longer -- four days is inadequate. Were they to organize these outings every month (or most months, considering how very moosey Manitoba can be), then four days would be sufficient. They should stop calling it a camp though.
This, by the way, would be one of the more important bits:
"It's hard to find this in our community, this kind of support," 20-year-old Scott Childs said.
It is unclear from its context in the story just what Mr Childs means by "this kind of support." Someone should probably get around to finding out... and then providing with all haste. There is no excuse whatsoever for our youth to have trouble finding support of any kind in the Gay community. It is not their task to locate it; it is the duty of the community to make it readily available.
I'm not too troubled by the omission though. The story also manages to cleverly omit the name of the organization that produced this fine program. It manages to be completely ignorant of the name of the similarly fine program in Alberta. It manages to tease about "plans to launch similar camps in Halifax and other cities across Canada" without ever dropping a single clue that the reporters have any idea who plans these camps and where.
Whatever. Somehow I already know the answers to most of those questions, and a simple e-mail would get me the answer to the last one (should curiosity start to burn), so a reporter's seemingly deliberate ignorance is of little import to me.
You can toss some Loonies at Camp Aurora (and other activities)
here. (You can read about donating
here, as well, though reading about donating is not at all the same thing as coughing up dollars.)