The Sept. 12 story “Practice video takes flight at Camas” highlighted an $1,800 drone purchased by the Camas High School football team to, as one of the players stated, “give us a completely new perspective of practice.”
Buried in the middle of the Sept. 10 Life section was a news brief about a young man at Liberty Middle School, just down the street from Camas High School, who took it upon himself to start Liberty Community Closet, stocked with clothes, shoes, and personal hygiene products for peers who “needed help like when I needed help,” after his family fell on tough times. Perhaps an $1,800 drone isn’t what the football team, and more importantly the boosters who paid for it, needs for a “completely new perspective.”
Even in an affluent area like Camas, there are still hundreds of children who go to school every day with empty bellies and wearing the same clothes they wore the day before. I can only hope that whoever wrote the check for the drone would be as willing to write an $1,800 check to Liberty Community Closet.
Though this isn’t related to an ice bucket challenge, I’m calling out the coaching staff to use this as an opportunity to show their players a completely new perspective on what is really important in life and how to make an impact on their community.
