Many of Carter’s dreams have come true, and, for the past two decades she has been making dreams come true for hundreds of other youngsters who are enjoying summer camp in the San Bernardino Mountains thanks to financial aid from Carter and customers at her True South restaurants.Ĭarter has been participating in the Press-Telegram’s Send-a-Kid-to-Camp program almost from the day it was started 20 years ago by Tom Hennessy, the late P-T columnist, and Jean Bixby Smith of the Long Beach Community Foundation. “As I looked up, I always felt any dream was possible,” she told me last week at the Johnny Rebs True South restaurant she owns in Long Beach. When Cheryl Carter was a little girl, she loved going to summer camp in the San Gorgonio Mountains, laying under the stars and feeling cradled by a vast universe.
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