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                              Helping hands





                        Camden Jaycees: big hearts and big ideas

           W                                                                         told  them  that  I  didn’t  know  a
             When first asked to join the Camden Jaycees by a friend
                                                                                     whole  lot  about  (the  Jaycees.)
             who  was  already  a  member,  Josh  Wilson’s  thoughts
                                                                                     Plus, I didn’t want to give my day
             immediately  turned  to  the  Carolina  Cup  steeplechase
                                                                                     at the Cup working at the Cup.
             races.
             Why, he asked himself, would he give up his Cup day --                  “They  finally  talked  me  into  it
             which, as an accountant with the Camden firm of Cantey,                 and  I  started  to  realize  what
             Tiller, Pierce & Green, is one of the few Saturdays that                the  Jaycees  were  all  about,
             group takes off -- to get up early in the morning and sell              what  they  stood  for  and  what
             general admission tickets to the Camden spring classic.                 they  did.  I’ve  always  been  one
                                                                                     who  has  tried  to  give  back  to
             “I had several people who would always come to me and                   my  community  because  my
             say, ‘Josh, you need to join the Jaycees,’” Wilson says. “I  community has done so much for me.”


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