Thousands of Mississippi kids are eager to pack up and have fun at summer camps marking their return in 2021. After the COVID-19 pandemic shut down activities for young people at colleges from south of Memphis to the Gulf Coast, camps are bouncing back.
University officials, parents and grandparents are delighted. College leaders are ecstatic to once again attract young people to sports, music, cheerleader, ecology and robotics camps to showcase their institutions.
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