Bryerswood Youth Camp asks for gravel donation, return of road sign

The Bryerswood Youth Camp Optimist Club would like to thank the community of Amherstburg for their support of the camp. We were recently humbled and honoured to receive the Community Service/Charitable Award at the Amherstburg Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards. Never in our dreams did we even think that we would be nominated for the award, let alone be chosen to receive this honour. Thank you to our nominator and to everyone who believes in Bryerswood Youth Camp.

Bryerswood Youth Camp is a not-for-profit camp and a registered charity. The group of volunteers who make up the Optimist Club put in excessive number of hours to create and provide outstanding programs for the children and to keep the camp looking great. We believe that every child deserves the chance to go to camp. 

To help keep the program and rental costs low, or to provide for facility maintenance or upgrades, we rely on fundraising, donations, sponsorships and grants.  

We currently have need for some Granular A gravel delivered to the camp so that we can complete some projects. Can someone help us with this need?

We would also like to tell everyone that one of our directional signs that was located near the corner of Texas Road and Howard Avenue was taken by someone late last week. 

This is a very disheartening and upsetting action. The signs are used to direct people where to turn off Howard Avenue, to find the camp. 

The signs were made possible by generous funding from the Amherstburg Community Foundation. These signs are only valuable to Bryerswood Youth Camp and mean nothing to anyone else. To whoever took the sign, your actions are very senseless and hurtful. The Club must now fundraise to purchase a replacement sign and have it installed. Please do the right thing and return our sign. 

We also believe that you need to do community service so that you understand what it truly means to give without receiving and how discouraging it is to have something like this happen.

—Cathy Robertson

Bryerswood Youth Camp Optimist Club 

Bryerswood Youth Camp asks for gravel donation