Built 51 years ago, Holiday Camp, a camp located at Raisinville is going through a major remodeling. Ten years old swimming pool being replaced with twice the size of the old one, buildings remodeled, torn down and rebuilt, total cost of the modeling of this 3.5 acres property is around $700,000. The camp now is trying to raise a sum of money to cover the remodeling costs.

Served more than 1,600 students per year consisting of general education students and special education students, now the swimming pool, bath house, and most buildings at the camp is being fitted with better facilities to support those handicapped students and those with special need. Now the supervisors dont have to pickup the handicapped students and put them in the water physically. The Holiday Camp Association Board Director thinks that the kids would love the swimming pool. Not only being used by the camp attendees, the swimming pool and the bath house are open to students from neighboring schools all year. On June 18th, the swimming pool and the bath house are hoped to be ready for the first coming camp attendees. Other facility built for the handicapped students is a specially built pathway so those students could enjoy the beautiful scenery around the camp. These remodeling will give elementary students a lot of benefits as well as excitements.

Remodeled buildings besides the swimming pool and bath house are the building for meeting and the lodge where camp attendees receive their meals.

Being used as a place to develop leadership skills, learn to trust each other, building self-esteem, many schools has brought their elementary students here to receive these kinds of training and education. Thus Holiday Camp served many purposes from leadership training, special education, and outdoor activities for the normal students as well as handicapped students.

A cable tightrope that is strung low to the ground between trees was being worked by Holiday Camp Outdoor Adventure Coordinator. Walking along the cable course students are encouraged to build teamwork with their teammates. Gary Stauffer, the name of the coordinator, explained about how the students make it around helping each other and how they should solve the problem using team work as a group.

Over the recent years properties at the east and the west side of the camp are being bought by ISD, now the property purchased are twice the size of the camp.