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camp had a government store that was supervised by the military.  The items within the store were things that had been collected over the past year from the big box stores, supermarkets, pharmacies, warehouses and abandoned homes and storage facilities.   In turn that money was put back into the camps by the government to build new waste treatment facilities. In some cases that meant digging new latrines and burying the old ones, certainly there were other stores that were in each camp where people could buy locally grown farm fresh fruit and vegetables. There was plenty of available land to grow on.   The military had set up a process where people could apply for small grants of land to grow vegetables and fruits on and by no means were they required to sell any of it.  Many of the ranches and farms in the area provided people with meat, which could be rather expensive given the time of the year.  There was some refrigeration, but mostly on Camp Parks and it was primarily used for certain medicines they had recovered and for meat and other items that a strong military needed. This wasn’t a secret and did cause some resentment between the camps and the military.
                  All of the camps had access to the youth schools – elementary, middle and high schools.  Schools were located on post to help keep children and staff secure.  There were a lot of bad people off post and to varying degrees in the camps that surrounded Camp Park and since working was a requirement at the camps the parents were gone during the day.  Most of them felt the best place for the children to go was on post.  There were after school activities such as soccer, baseball, softball, basketball and others.  They did as much as they could to keep the kids busy and engaged. There had been some discussion in a couple of the camps to start their own schools and or after school activities.  To be sure, there were some, such as tutoring services, where some of the youth practice fields were off post and within or near the camps, which was a necessity as most people didn’t have a car. 
                  Most people got around by walking, bicycling, horseback riding, scooters or motorcycles, but fuel was hard to come by, as the military was very stingy about its use. With the winter months coming, the military made heating oil and kerosene available through the government-run stores.  It was expensive right now to buy it, as wood was still the warmth source and there was plenty of it.  With the number of houses and buildings being torn down there was a surplus of wood that was free, but it burned fast and because much of the wood had been chemically treated, it could be toxic.  The military assured the civilians that more and more heating oil and kerosene was becoming available and there would be plenty of it.  They were working out the processes to make more of it and they were well on their way to being able to refine it, so there would be plenty of it and it would be cheap too.
                  Water came from various resources; catching rainwater in large trash cans that people had acquired from housing areas was the easiest by-and-large.  Some people realized the monetary potential in having large water farms where they collected water in anything that could catch it.  They then boiled it and placed it in plastic bottles.  After an outbreak of cholera due to bad water, an unscrupulous water farmer didn’t purify the water; he bottled it and sold it as was.  Over a hundred people died from it before the military figured out who the culprit was.  Out of this came a government agency that inspected each one of these water farms.  Later on it was expanded to the farms and ranches after various outbreaks of different diseases. To a certain extent it was the FDA, but they didn’t call it that.
                  Overall life wasn’t too bad in camps around Camp Parks they didn’t