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    The Ones That Got Away: Seventeen Years of Fishing with Kids Who Have Cancer
    The Ones That Got Away: Seventeen Years of Fishing with Kids Who Have Cancer
    The Ones That Got Away: Seventeen Years of Fishing with Kids Who Have Cancer
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    The Ones That Got Away: Seventeen Years of Fishing with Kids Who Have Cancer

    By Paulette Augustine

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    Everything associated with Camp Quality is such a positive experience. For six days, campers, companions, and staff members look cancer in the eye and tell the dreaded disease that it can be beaten. They know it may affect a person physically, but not spiritually and emotionally. And because of the weeks association with other kids and the support of people who care, each camp participant returns home with a renewed love of the life he or she has been blessed with and a determination to fight the disease.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJan 27, 2011
    ISBN9781452098029
    The Ones That Got Away: Seventeen Years of Fishing with Kids Who Have Cancer
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    Paulette Augustine

    I was raised on a farm in a large family. Graduated from Bronaugh High School in Bronaugh, MO. Born again Christian. Stay at Home Wife and Mother of special needs children for several years. Retired from Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Grandmother of 3 wonderful Grandchildren and one Great Granddaughter.

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      The Ones That Got Away - Paulette Augustine

      CONTENTS

      Forward

      Forward

      Camp Quality

      The Beginnings

      Joyce

      The Fishing Program

      Susie

      Harold The Train Man

      Bobbers From Heaven

      Drew’s Cotton Candy

      Ally W. Memorial Fishing Award

      Dee, The Glamour Lady

      Harry, The Englishman

      One Of My Boys, Jordan

      Jason

      The 30-Foot Banana Split

      Heelys

      The Harley Davidson Motorcycle Club

      The Warm Fuzzies

      Alex, The One Who Was A Challenge

      The Kansas City Corvette Association

      The New Jersey Camp Quality

      Field Trips

      Cardboard Boat Races

      Loren, The Teddy Bear

      The Great Talent Show, Live From Camp Quality

      John I., Champion Fisherman At Camp

      Beauty Shop Of Hope

      Katelynn, A Young Girl Of Courage

      Ozark Camp Quality

      The Big Dance

      Jesse And The 100 Items

      Camp Quality Themes

      Christy’s Story

      A Blessing In Disquise, Loren Edgar

      Joe Edison, Companion At Camp Quality-GKC.

      A Patrolman And His Dog

      The Central States Bass Club

      Marshmallow Guns

      Jacinda

      In Memory

      Danny, One Of My Boys

      Lucille, Older Generation Meets Newer Generation

      Lucille, Herself

      Jason S. This Is Not A Sad Place

      Family Weekend

      Albert Gray Eagle

      Zac, The Golf Cart Boy

      Christine

      Camp

      Unconditional Love

      The Experience Of A Camp Quality Nurse

      Signs From Above

      Thoughts By Kenny Branson (Joyce’s Husband)

      My Final Thoughts

      About The Author

      Acknowledgements

      Donors To Camp Quality

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      CHERISH YESTERDAY…DREAM TOMORROW…LIVE TODAY

      FORWARD

      It is with great pride that I honor my mother, Joyce Branson, who has written this book along with the help and stories of others. This collection of memories will touch the lives of so many people for years and years to come. Sit down and cuddle up with a loved one; remember the good times and what life is all about. Hold your dear ones close and don’t take life for granted. Every day there is something out there for us if we open our eyes, minds, and hearts to it.

      Camp Quality is an excellent program, not only for the campers, but for everyone involved. This book will attest to that. We hope that after you read about the Camp Quality family, you will be encouraged to help change the life of someone, no matter the age, just as these kids and adults have been changed. Take this opportunity to sit down with a cup of coffee or tea, snuggle up with a blanket, or enjoy this book at a coffee shop or library. No matter where you read it, you will laugh, and you will cry, so get out your box of tissues! You may even laugh until you cry!

      Cancer has touched the lives of so many people, but we don’t have to let it win. We will overcome and win through our memories and stories, like the ones shared in this book. Enjoy!

      Respectfully submitted,

      Elaine M. Branson, proud daughter of Joyce Branson

      FORWARD

      I write this on a Tuesday morning, the designated full day at the office for our little church. This is the time I spend preparing the main sections of the weekly newsletter our church sends out to over 225 families. It doesn’t matter that a majority of the receivers are not members; we just all love God and the idea that church is for and about God; so why not enjoy a one page quick read each week to that effect?

      It was on this busy day that the phone call came—or shall I say, another phone call came from our parishioner, Joyce. Cheryl, how would you feel about doing a ‘forward’ for my book? she asked.

      Let me explain about her book. Another day within this calendar year, Joyce called me and said, Cheryl, I just dreamed that God wanted me to write a book about Camp Quality.

      Okay, I said. Go for it! And she has done just that. She’s written a little book about a very big topic—children with cancer.

      For around seventeen years, our Joyce has given a week of her life to assisting children at Camp Quality of Greater Kansas City, Missouri. She’s the fishin’ lady. When it’s time for camp recreation, the children can select to go fishing, and believe me, Joyce knows fishing! She loves it, and by the time the children leave camp, many of them know the joy of watching the bobber bouncing along on the little lake waves until—ZAP! The bobber goes under the water surface, and the kids start pulling back on the rod and winding the reel in—a little at a time until—success! Bass, bluegill, perch—great catches for children needing to laugh and enjoy life, children who need success. Joyce and an entire crew see that that happens.

      All across the nation, there are these special non-profit camps filled with children and sometimes with their siblings who simply need to know joy in their lives. These are camps where the children will not be ostracized for the way they look or for their lack of capabilities in many physical areas. These are camps where brothers and sisters in life can come together for several days and where they are placed first above all other things.

      With fellowship and activities galore, hundreds of volunteers and children, and a week of hope, there’s absolutely nothing that can compare. If you doubt my word, find a Camp Quality cancer kid and ask him or her about camp. Just be ready for what you’ll hear and how your heart will respond.

      This book explains some of the happenings within the camp located in the Kansas City area. Do I feel God intended this book to happen? Most certainly, it is a God thing! For every obstacle that might have prevented this account from happening, there was a way around it. Resource after resource was set in front of Joyce to use. She took her message from God to heart on behalf of her incredible cancer kids.

      One of the comments Joyce made to me during all of this was, "Now Cheryl, when I’m on Oprah, we’ll know this was simply all meant to be."

      I might chuckle about that—but with the fishin’ lady saying it, I don’t doubt! God does work in rather crazy ways at times—and we love it. Praise Him in the Son’s name and enjoy the book as it captures your heart on behalf of the children.

      Reverend Cheryl E. Sanders

      Central Christian Church, Disciples of Christ

      Higginsville, Missouri

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      I WISH I COULD THANK ALL THE PEOPLE WHO SPONSOR OUR CAMP. I WOULD TELL THEM ALL THE THINGS CAMP DOES FOR ME.

      CAMP QUALITY

      It takes a while to drive the country roads east of Kansas City, to the magical place outdoors that between forty and sixty kids find irresistible each year. The Greater Kansas City Camp Quality is one of four camps in the state of Missouri and one of several in the country and around the world that offers children with life-threatening illnesses a respite for a week during the summer. A family with a child who is attending is notified of the meeting place, and after check in at that central rendezvous, the children and their companions are loaded on busses to begin the drive to the camp. Sometimes an entire family comes along to the main check-in stop. Some family members stay to wave the children on to their big adventure. For others, it is simply easier on the parent to make a quick goodbye there by the orange bus door, and with a wave, slide on the sunglasses and leave for home before the campers see the tears.

      For a few of the little ones, this is their first camp away from home. The children don’t always talk much for the first few miles on the way to the lake. They watch. Some look anxiously out the windows as the bus gets farther and farther away from the place they left their parents’ cars. The children come from surrounding towns in hopes of finding others who will not stare or point at them. It takes all of their energy to make the trip.

      Gravel crunches under the tires as a bus delivers the kids and companions who have met, many for the first time, at the pick-up point nearby. Now, everyone who enters the gate is greeted with smiles, and soon enough, campers feel secure with the people in charge. There, in the

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