ENGLEWOOD (KDVR) — After deadly flooding swept through parts of Texas last week, a Colorado family is stepping up to help the camp that shaped their lives for generations.
Hillary Peters Conway and her daughter Alice Rose hosted a cookie stand Thursday afternoon in Englewood, raising money for Camp Mystic — a well-known girls’ summer camp in Texas that was damaged in the flooding and forced to evacuate hundreds of campers.
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“I just decided to give back because we feel so helpless,” Conway said. “We were just there on June 28 and flew home from camp. I feel super helpless that I can’t be there to clean up and help, so we decided to make cookies yesterday and give it back just because I want to be able to give back to everybody.”
Conway, a former Mystic camper and counselor, said the camp has been central to her family’s story…