Seton Day Camp, which is run by the Greenwich Boy Scout Association in Greenwich, runs a day camp which is held during the summer months of the year. This camp is viewed by many as a safe environment for their children, which in fact it is not one at all. The camp was previously run by Diane Warzoha, who had been in charge of the day camp for many years. While it looked like a good job was being done by her, it really was not. Counselors who were employed there, often threw parties in buildings at the day camp, which included underage drinking and heavy drug use. Then they would sleep over and get up and help the kids the next day. Steven Warzoha who was first selectman, Peter Tesei's campaign manager took part quite often in these activities, and still did as of last summer. The camps current director Bob Gunsten, who oversaw the camp this previous summer has taken no action against any illegal activities that occur at the camp. This past summer counselors would smoke marijuana during lunch and then would go back to helping children after. Steven Warzoha continued to be a big part of this, in fact he is related to a former narcotics officer in the Greenwich Police Department, Michael Grabarz. This problem at the day camp has gone on for quite some time, with no administrators taking any action because the camp is brings in a large amount of the revenue for the Greenwich Boy Scout Council. The drug use is not the only issue that plagues this camp. Counselors often yell at children who are there, for no justified reason, and some even ridicule them as well. At the previous summer season a counselor threw a water balloon at a child's head then thought it was okay , and his fellow co-workers backed him up that it was. If your thinking of sending your child to Seton Day Camp, think again, or request to Mike Robertson, who is the Scout Executive for the Greenwich BSA that they all the counselors take drug tests, or even Peter Tesei, who employs Steven Warzoha who is a big part of the problem. These issues will continue to plague the day camp while it is unnoticed by parents who bring their children there. Word to the wise, bring your child somewhere else for camp.
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In the interest of disclosure, Grabarz is retired and hasn't been in the narcotics section for at least a decade.
Having once served on the Greenwich Council BSA, I find this difficult to believe. The Council should be allowed an opportunity to respond.
Correction to my comment yesterday, Grabarz, in his few months in the detective bureau, was never a "narcotics officer."
It's disheartening to read that some camps are being run in this fashion. It's even more shocking to see that the Boy Scout Association is running this camp. I hope that by going to various sites that offer parents the chance to post their reviews of a particular camp based on facts that he/she can present, this kind of behavior and antics may stop. Children do not deserve being supervised under such conditions.
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