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Camp helps kids turn heartache into hope

By Debra Pressey
Sunday September 9, 2007

Holly Hart

Jessica Elliott, 12, right, holds a memory box made at Camp Healing Heart and sister Caitlin, 10, holds a photo of their grandmother at their home in Urbana. The sisters went to Camp Healing Heart last fall to help cope with the grief after their grandmother died.

For Caitlin and Jessica Elliott of Urbana, their grandma wasn't just somebody to go visit now and then. For most of their lives, she lived with their family.

She taught them how to cook and crochet.

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