{"id":136749,"date":"2026-07-28T21:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/136749\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:10:13","slug":"camp-hero-in-warsaw-continues-to-thrive-with-widespread-community-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/136749\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Hero in Warsaw continues to thrive with widespread community support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/camp-skybox.png\" data-caption=\"A list of sponsors greet those arriving to Camp Hero at the Kosciusko County Fairgrounds. News Now Warsaw photo by Dan Spalding.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/camp-skybox.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"camp skybox\"\/><\/a>A list of sponsors greet those arriving to Camp Hero at the Kosciusko County Fairgrounds. News Now Warsaw photo by Dan Spalding.<br \/>\nBy Dan Spalding<br \/>News Now Warsaw<\/p>\n<p>WARSAW \u2014 Three days of events kick off Tuesday morning at the Kosciusko County Fairgrounds as the Sheriff\u2019s Office hosts its eighth annual Camp Hero. <\/p>\n<p>The free camp requires pre-registration and more than 300 youths are expected to participate this week.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the events feature the work of law enforcement, firefighters and EMS, and set the stage for physical challenges such as a tug of of war contest and water games to educational sessions on crime scene investigations and the dangers of vaping.<\/p>\n<p>Kosciusko County Sheriff\u2019s Office Public Information Officer Doug Light said the activities are educational, challenging and fun. <\/p>\n<p>Camp Hero continues to grow in different ways and much of that has to do with community support. A banner at the entrance of the fairgrounds that salutes sponsors of the camp continues to grow, Light said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have more kids and more activities and you need more staff. We\u2019re blessed in this community to have people that are willing to provide us all that,\u201d Light said.<\/p>\n<p> The Sheriff\u2019s Office relies heavily on other departments and works to improve the programs each year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kind of combined with DNR, they\u2019re going to do some boat rides around Winona, but this year our divers are actually going to get the kids in the water and actually let them kind of experience scuba a little bit,\u201d Light said.<\/p>\n<p>The camp continues through Thursday and ends with a graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about betting involved next year, contact the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A list of sponsors greet those arriving to Camp Hero at the Kosciusko County Fairgrounds. News Now Warsaw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[66097,66098,27140,4235,182,66099,181,66100],"class_list":["post-136749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-camp-hero","tag-doug-light","tag-kosciusko-county-sheriffs-office","tag-law-enforcement","tag-poland","tag-public-information-officer","tag-warsaw","tag-youth-camp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116999659636731183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}