Date Added: 15-10-2007

The Painted Turtle continues in the tradition of Paul Newman's family of Hole in the Wall Camps for seriously ill children.  Read the excerpt below.

Signal - Santa Clarita,CA,USA

Sunday October 7, 2007

By Jim Walker
Signal Features Editor

As the sun settles behind the hilltops on a warm fall afternoon, you pull off a winding country road - and find yourself in a pleasant wrinkle in time. A little Brigadoon of luxurious wood-faced buildings appears out of the wild. Brightly colored pennants on poles echo a medieval tournament, and a small country fair seems to have stopped here on its way to somewhere else.

It's the interface of multiple contrasts. Here wilderness meets comfort, country meets Hollywood and the fortunate reach out to the unfortunate. It's The Painted Turtle Camp in Lake Hughes - specifically, the camp's third annual fundraiser held Sept. 29, and entitled Shell We Camp.

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