Grandparents Run Summer Camp As Recession Bites
With budgets tightened, parents cancel traditional camps and send kids to spend the summer with grandparents. Ashlyn Preston, 5, enjoys swimming and cooking at Camp Grandma in Georgia and Florida, while other families create makeshift camps with grandparents. The trend shifts costs to grandparents but strengthens family bonds, as downed camp enrollment and rising prices push families toward home based care.
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British conductor Edward Downes dies with wife in assisted death
Sir Edward Downes 85 and his wife Joan 74 ended their lives at a Zurich Dignitas clinic after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The couple, long associated with the BBC Philharmonic and Royal Opera House, died hand in hand with their children present, prompting renewed debate in Britain over assisted dying and legal safeguards.
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