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Camp DARE, the facility for troubled young males, has been around for half a century and through most of its existence, the facility has suffered financially.
That’s according to Stephen Glass, the board president of Wendigo Lake Expeditions, which currently runs the facility.
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Glass says over the decades Project DARE has had strong supporters, including Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP Norm Miller and his riding predecessor, Ernie Eves.
Glass says in the mid 1980s and late 1990s, Eves stepped in twice to oppose any closure of the facility or privatization effort unless the powers that be at the time could assure him DARE would still be able to carry on safely.