ADVISORY/Salvation Army Sends Local Youth to Week-Long Summer Camp.

Assignment/News Editors

ADVISORY...for Wednesday (June 26)

The Salvation Army 

EVENT:      The Salvation Army of Greater Philadelphia will send more
            than 200 area youth to a week-long retreat at Camp Ladore.
            Parents and camp staff will be on-hand to register camp
            participants and prepare them for departure. The summer
            camp is partially funded by proceeds from the Salvation
            Army's Tenth Annual Hope Fore Kids Golf Classic, which
            took place earlier this month.

            As one of the largest of 57 camps operated by the
            Salvation Army nationwide, Camp Ladore provides boys and
            girls of various backgrounds and cultures, ages 7-12, with
            an opportunity to come together to learn about each other,
            about themselves, and about their world. The camp
            activities, combined with a spiritual component, provide
            inner city kids with a recreational, educational, and
            positive life experience.

            This year marks the Army's TENTH Annual Hope Fore Kids
            Campaign. The campaign provides support for year-round
            youth programs and services including day care, foster
            care, day camps and week-long summer camps, recreation
            programs, music programs, and after-school programs in
            the Greater Philadelphia area.

DATE/TIME:  Wednesday, June 26, 2002
            9:00 a.m.

PLACE:      Salvation Army Temple Corps Community Center
            1340 Brown Street
            Philadelphia, PA 19123

ON-SITE
INTERVIEWS: Capt. Edelweiss Diaz, Associate City Coordinator, The
            Salvation Army of Greater Philadelphia

ADDITIONAL
DETAILS:    The Salvation Army was founded 135 years ago as a
            religious and social services organization. Since that
            time, the organization has taken a holistic approach to
            working with people, addressing their physical, emotional,
            intellectual and spiritual needs without discrimination.
            The Salvation Army provides community supportive services,
            residential shelters, foster care, developmental
            disabilities programs, correctional services programs,
            disaster relief services, child development centers,
            after-school care and Corps Community Centers.