WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:63000 1 00:00:00.260 --> 00:00:03.640 So in 1952, my grandparents, uh, rabbi Jacob, 2 00:00:03.800 --> 00:00:08.280 J H the blessed memory and my grandmother, uh, may she live in be well, um, 3 00:00:09.410 --> 00:00:11.040 spent this summer in the Catskills, 4 00:00:11.660 --> 00:00:15.560 and they decided that after spending such a good sum time in the Catskills, 5 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:17.800 that they wanted to start a summer camp, this upcoming summer, 6 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:21.790 we're gonna be celebrating our 70th year on our camp here in beautiful 7 00:00:21.790 --> 00:00:24.750 Greenfield park. This past fall, 8 00:00:26.210 --> 00:00:27.230 the town waring, 9 00:00:27.230 --> 00:00:32.230 unfortunately passed news zoning laws that significantly prohibit us from doing 10 00:00:32.230 --> 00:00:35.950 what we do on a daily basis. And it's unfortunate. 11 00:00:36.450 --> 00:00:39.270 We believe that we had a very good relationship with the town, 12 00:00:39.730 --> 00:00:43.780 and we plan on being here for another 70 years, or if not more than that. 13 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:48.220 And we're hoping to have a good relationship with the town, not they passed a, 14 00:00:48.660 --> 00:00:51.620 a zoning bill for whatever reason they needed to rush through it. 15 00:00:52.440 --> 00:00:57.380 And we came to a place that many of the new 16 00:00:57.450 --> 00:01:00.820 laws, um, li trying to limit how many campers in a bunk, 17 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:03.410 how many kids in a facility, um, 18 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:08.610 certain setbacks and rules and guidelines and conditions is simply too 19 00:01:08.610 --> 00:01:10.890 difficult for us to, um, 20 00:01:12.160 --> 00:01:16.730 operate as a summer camp as we did up until now. I think there's 18, 21 00:01:17.310 --> 00:01:19.850 uh, camps in the town oil waring. Uh, 22 00:01:19.850 --> 00:01:21.570 many of these camps have a long history here. 23 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:26.400 These camps look for to a long future being here as well, not just, 24 00:01:26.900 --> 00:01:29.680 uh, limited to the few summers. 25 00:01:30.380 --> 00:01:34.360 And I think they're all hoping that there'll be a good outcome that both it's 26 00:01:34.360 --> 00:01:37.120 beneficial for the town, as well as beneficial for the camps. 27 00:01:37.340 --> 00:01:42.160 The camps are a fiber and part of the fiber and being of who the town will, 28 00:01:42.160 --> 00:01:44.390 war your is, and the town, 29 00:01:45.370 --> 00:01:47.990 the camps care about the town as much as it's their home, 30 00:01:48.290 --> 00:01:50.670 but I'm sure we look forward that, um, 31 00:01:50.880 --> 00:01:53.990 government in general is supposed to be a partnership, uh, 32 00:01:53.990 --> 00:01:58.150 with the people that live in the town, the businesses in, in this case, 33 00:01:58.170 --> 00:02:01.230 the camps, et cetera, that we should be a partnership to work together. That, 34 00:02:01.300 --> 00:02:04.980 that it benefits everybody versus are coming to a place that's, uh, 35 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:06.300 not good on any side.