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Sherri and Marissa Katz, 10, of West
Bloomfield and Esther Tschirhart of
Oak Park enjoy a Shabbat service at
Butzel during the Single Mother/
Family Camp.

Derek and EthanWolfe, ages 8 and 4,
of Farmington Hills have fun on the
private beach at Mullet Lake during
the Single Parent/Child Family Camp.

Michael Singer of West Bloomfield with
his children, Annabel, 5, and Harry, 7,
decorated for fun at Mullet Lake for
the Single Parent/Child Family Camp.

Why single parents

and their children

love going camping.

ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM
AppleTree Editor

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alk about roughing it.
After a relaxing day with friends, along with plenty of yummy
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food (and no cleanup; that's part of the deal), Connie Herty
enjoyed spa night: a facial, a manicure and a soothing massage.
Her three children, meanwhile, were watching a movie and chowing down
on popcorn in a nearby room.
Where else could the Herty family have been but ... camp.
Maybe your idea of "camp" is a zillion girls all in one room, piles of dirty
laundry on the floor, tubes of half-squeezed toothpaste blanketing the bath-
room sinks and small, quickly moving and probably slimy creatures that may
or. may not be part of the lizard family (in short, something out of a Stephen
King novel). Think again.
Each year, the Single Jewish Parents Network hosts Single Parent Family
Camps on a private beach at the Grand Resort at Mullet Lake near
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Cheboygan and at the Butzel Conference Center in Ortonville. Connie

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