LEROY — LeRoy-Ostrander FFA is a great supporter of True Friends Camp Courage with their annual corn drive. This past school year the FFA Chapter collected $2000 which will help provide scholarships and program support for kids and adults with disabilities to attend camp. Thank you to all of the community members and farmers who helped support LeRoy-Ostrander FFA’s corn drive efforts.

The corn drive tradition began in 1953 after a large storm passed through the area, Freeborn FFA Advisor, Lee Asche, had the idea to gather the corn that fell to the ground and sell it to the elevator. They took the money raised from this effort, $90, and donated it to Camp Courage, which allowed one Freeborn resident with Polio to attend summer camp.

Since then, FFAs have combined in the corn drive has raised over $5.5 million for True Friends Camp Courage.

Today, over 60 chapters participate in the corn drive each year to help support campers while they have a blast tubing, fishing, horseback riding and even zip lining at camp! Just in time for summer camp, we built a brand new state-of-the-art ropes course at Camp Courage. This course is one-of-a-kind because it is completely wheelchair accessible. Camp\ers will have independent control of deciding when they would like to ascend and descend rather than relying on staff. This is one of many examples of True Friends carrying out our mission of providing life-changing experiences and adventures that enhance independence and self-esteem for children and adults with disabilities.

For more information about True Friends and Camp Courage please call 952-852-0101 or visit www.truefriends.org.