A welcome embrace

Twenty five campers from Bonner County returned home on Friday morning after week-long stay at Camp Gifford, a 100-acre Salvation Army at Deer Lake in Washington state. Melissa Cooper gets hugs from her son, Christian, and her daughter, Alice, after stepping off the bus at Sandpoint Church of the Nazarene in Ponderay. The camp is funded through Salvation Army’s signature red kettle campaign. (Photo by KEITH KINNAIRD)