The Toe Jam Puppet Band visited Camp Kyle in Rehoboth for a Friday wrap-up  to the weekly day camp for kids with diabetes on July 20, 2007. The show followed a morning of education about cardiovascular health and smoking presented by Southcoast Hospital Outpatient Services Director and Diabetes Association board member Frances Fuller and Registered Dietitian Amanda Szot. Campers spend the week engaged in heart-healthy activities each day of the week, including baseball, soccer, and basketball. Camp is like most other camps except that campers can get their blood sugar and insulin levels monitored each day by camp nurses and campers make friends with other children who also have Type I diabetes. The Toe Jam Puppet Band make an appearance each year at the camp for a very active performance that the campers thoroughly enjoy. Click here for photos from last year's camp. For more information about the camp, contact the Diabetes Association, Inc at 508-672-5671.
 

(Top row, left) Frances Fuller and Amanda Szot display the exhibit board that Charlton Hospital staff use for their tobacco prevention presentations in the Fall River schools. (Top row, center) Eight-year-old Collin Bugara of Fall River joins the other campers as they head to the pavilion for the show. (Top row, right) Diabetes Association Program Director Bill Daponte introduces the band. (Middle and bottom rows) Vinny Lovegrove of the Toe Jam Puppet Band walks around with a bubble machine as kids try to swat at them before getting into many other musical antics and just plain fun that kids can't resist joining.