Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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This week the Lake Fire forced the evacuation of nearly 200 campers, most of them kids, from campgrounds in the San Bernardino National Forest.
That includes 120 kids in a theater arts group who were at Camp de Benneville Pines, a retreat and conference center in Barton Flats, 90 miles east of LA and 6,800 up in the mountains. The camp is run by the Unitarian-Universalist Association, and is open to all people.
Off-Ramp host John Rabe talked with Janet James, the camp's executive director, about the fire, the nature-centered philosophy of the camp, and camp dog Daisy Doodle.
(James and Daisy Doodle)
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