Kent Island Elks Lodge 2576 donates $1,500 to Camp New Dawn

From left are Kent Island Elks Exalted Ruler Mike Kelly; Elks members and Estate Treasures (a volunteer-run operating unit of Compass Regional Hospice) volunteers Lorraine Sincavage, Louise Ephraim and Bonnie Walter; and Compass Regional Hospice Development Assistant Jordan Tucker.

The Kent Island Elks Lodge 2576 recently presented a $1,500 National Elks Foundation “150th Anniversary Grant” check to Compass Regional Hospice’s Camp New Dawn program, a grief retreat summer camp for children, teens and families that takes place at Camp Pecometh every August. The camp costs $30 per child and $75 per family, but no one is turned away based on an inability to pay.

The Elks donation will go toward funding camp opportunities for those who are suffering the loss of a loved one but could not otherwise afford to attend.

For more information about donating to Compass Regional Hospice, please contact Kenda Leager, development officer, Compass Regional Hospice, at 443-262-4106 or kleager@compassregionalhospice.org. For more information about attending Camp New Dawn, please contact Rhonda Knotts, camp director, at 443-262-4109 or rknotts@compassregionalhospice.org.

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Compass Regional Hospice is a fully licensed, independent, community-based nonprofit organization certified by Medicare and the state of Maryland and accredited by the Joint Commission. Since 1985, Compass Regional Hospice has been dedicated to supporting people of all ages through the challenge of living with a life-limiting illness and learning to live following the death of a loved one. Today, the organization is a regional provider of hospice care and grief support in Queen Anne’s, Kent and Caroline counties. “Care on your terms” is the promise that guides staff and volunteers as they care for patients in private residences, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and the residential hospice centers in Centreville and Chestertown. Grief support services are offered to children, adults and families of patients who died under hospice care, as well as members of the community who are grieving the loss of a loved one, through The Hope and Healing Center. For more information about Compass Regional Hospice, visit compassregionalhospice.org.