Posts

Showing posts from December, 2019

GTP Helps Keep Kids Safe at Local Summer Camp

Image
GTP tries to give back to the community in many ways, one of which is by donating equipment and expertise to local non-profits. Earlier this year, Setebaid Services, a group that runs sleep-away summer camps for youth with diabetes, approached Camp Swatara, a local summer camp, with a question: instead of waking campers twice a night to check blood sugar levels, could an existing network be expanded to cover 11 additional buildings quickly and affordably? GTP has long worked with Camp Swatara in a variety of capacities.  In this case, we helped build out their existing wireless network using several boxes of network equipment that GTP was no longer using.  Through GTP's donation of equipment, Nuvera Life Science Consulting and Setebaid Services were able to remotely monitor the glucose levels of their campers overnight, eliminating the need to wake most of them and catching potentially life-threatening hypoglycemia before what would have been scheduled nighttime checks.

Santa Bill

Image
For the past 13 years, Bill Fry was a staple icon in the Hershey area as he played Santa both in Hershey's Chocolate World and Hersheypark for GTP. He made 1000s of children smile and families from all over the country would come year in and year out to get their picture with Santa Bill. We always got people coming back asking for him specifically because he played the part so perfectly. He wasn't a Santa that would go around yelling "HO HO HO" to everyone, but the few times that I had the pleasure of hearing it were some really special moments with some incredible kids. Beyond bringing joy to the kids and families that came to visit, he made working during the holidays so much more fun. When it wasn't busy he would always tell stories about his time working with the railroad before he started working as Santa and always liked to talk about his family. Bill was also a huge fan of the Oakland Raiders even though he knew they were not a great football team. E