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Tim Hortons Camp
 Posted: 31st August 2004 04:26
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I just got back from Tim Horton's Camp recently, me being a lucky child who was invited into their program for several consecutive years. It got me to wondering just how broad the net of campers was. Did anyone on here go, have relatives who went, or still go to any Tim Horton's camp?
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Posted: 31st August 2004 11:53
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Who's Tim Horton, and what's the deal with his camps? I've never heard of this before.
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Posted: 31st August 2004 12:17
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Tim Horton was a hockey player and later he started a chain of coffee/donut shops across all of Canada. Now-a-days you can't go more than 2 blocks without seeing a Tim Hortons in most sizable Canadian cities. It's almost as much of an institution as hockey itself. A great deal of people refer to it as Timmys, go there everyday, etc... I'm not a coffee drinker myself but most people seem to really enjoy their coffee.
Every year, for one day, the Tim Hortons chain donates all the money from sales to sending kids to their many childrens camps around Canada. Tim Hortons Tim Horton - Hockey Player This post has been edited by Endless Knight on 31st August 2004 12:19 |
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Posted: 31st August 2004 16:13
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Thank you Endless Knight. I supose I should have clarified for the American CoNers out there, although now there are Tim Horton's stores opening in America, and there is a camp in Kentucky. Tim Horton was indeed a hockey player who died in a car crash I belive, and his parents opened a doughnut store in his memory. Among other benevolent things, Tim Hortons sends hundreds of kids from Canada and America to camps that are situatied everwhere from Alberta to Nova Scotia, and as I mentioned, one in Kentucky. Furthermore, Campers that impress their counselors are invited back to participate in a "Tracking Program" in which the kids come back to camp for several years, and learn invaluable life skills. I hate to sound like a brochure, but I can't stress enough how amazing this program is.
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Posted: 1st September 2004 12:42
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Sounds like a good thing they've got going up there in mooseland.
 I'll ask around and see if any of my fellow cubefarm slaves have ever been to one. -------------------- Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them. ~Pacifist Badge, 1978 |
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