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Article: GETTING THE KIDS OUTSIDE
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- July 27, 2008
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PETERSTOWN, W.VA. -- The sheep were scared.
With 10 sweaty, panting humans racing toward them, who could
blame them?
The weekly sheep chase -- a time when children and camp
counselors dodge piles of woolly mammals' dung, fallen tree limbs
and one another in a sprint to capture just one fluffy farm animal
in their grazing field -- has become a tradition at the summer
programs Jo-El Wadsworth runs at Scottie's Place.
Staff at the 300-acre camp encourage that sort of frolicking.
Wadsworth opened the nonprofit eight years ago on the Virginia-
West Virginia border as a refuge for homeless children from
surrounding communities and urban areas such as Philadelphia,
Washington and Charlotte, N.C. ...