Texas, Camp Mystic and flood
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Children in the Tanglewood neighborhood with connections to Camp Mystic and victims of the Central Texas floods are making necklaces and bracelets for relief efforts.
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FOX Weather on MSNTexas Camp Mystic families hold out hope for 5 missing girls, counselor after 27 swept away by floodingAs the search for five missing Camp Mystic campers and one counselor continues, the summer camp community in Texas and across the country is offering support for a place that has become special to thousands of girls over the years.
The company's chairman announced Friday that 8-year-old Renee Smajstrla died in the Kerr County floods. She was a camper at Camp Mystic. The camp has lost 27 campers and counselors in the flood. The jewelry company -- which was founded in Kerrville -- has pledged one million dollars in flood aid and relief efforts.
More than 700 people were at the camp when the July Fourth floods hit Kerr County in Central Texas. KERRVILLE, Texas — At the all-girls Camp Mystic, along the Guadalupe River, five campers are still not accounted for in the aftermath of historic and deadly floods that have upended life in the Texas Hill Country.
KERRVILLE, Texas — At the all-girls Camp Mystic, along the Guadalupe River, 11 campers and a counselor are still not accounted for in the aftermath of history and deadly floods.
Searches continue for those still missing, but memorials to the more than 100 people tragically lost in the Central Texas floods have already begun to appear. Around Dallas and across Texas, green ribbons commemorate the lives of the victims,
A Camp Mystic camper will be escorted home to Bellville today by law enforcement agencies. Virginia Hollis, 8, was "a pure, joyful soul," family friends say.