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Article: A special camp for special kids. (Camp Ronald McDonald near Lassen National Park, California) (includes related information)
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- American Forests
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- March 1, 1990
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Were he given the chance to rewrite the story of his early life, Bob Olson would surely omit three of the elements of that drama. Given a second go-round, he'd leave out polio, pneumonia, and rheumatic fever. But today, 35 years later, those childhood experiences have triggered a unique partnership that promises to bring hundreds of similarly ill kids a measure of happiness-in a National Forest. Olson, a Forest Service fire supervisor assigned to California's Lassen National Forest, recalls the story:
"Like a couch potato," he says, "I was sitting at home in Susanville early in 1987, watching this T.V. commercial showing Ronald McDonald houses where family members ...