CONWAY — Building furniture. Whipping up meals. Stitching up wounds. These are just some of the things middle-schoolers got to do at the weeklong Mount Washington Valley School Career Partnership Camps this summer.
Director Joe Riddensdale is in his 13th and final year as the director. And like a proud parent, he has watched the number of camps grow from four in 2011 to a record dozen this year.
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