BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Flu symptoms forced one Lake Region summer camp to end one of its sessions early and forced a second to quarantine campers during the last week of June.
In an email to parents, leaders at Camp Crystal said they were cutting short a weeklong camp on Wednesday afternoon after an outbreak of flu-like symptoms.
“We have sent home numerous campers and staff within the past two days with COVID and non-COVID symptoms,” camp administrators said.
Camp Crystal Lake is owned and operated by the Alachua County School District. The facility is located between Crystal Lake and the Keystone Heights Airport.
The Camp said it would refund a portion of fees to parents representing the last two days of the session. However, processing the refunds could take up to two weeks.
A staff member at nearby Camp Montgomery said that a flu bug forced the facility to quarantine campers the same week.
