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CARNATION, Wash. - Paul Newman left a legacy in Western Washington with a gift he left in rural King County.

The flags are at half staff in the Carnation countryside to honor the man who helped create a new spot for children with serious illnesses.

"Paul gave me some seed money to get started, without that there wouldn't be a Camp Korey," said Tim Rose.

Rose helped start Camp Korey last year on the 800-acre site farm in the Snoqualmie Valley. It had been a demonstration dairy for Carnation and was later owned by Nestle.

The site became the latest of the Hole-In-The-Wall Camps, which Newman created and has sponsored since 1988.

"He thought this was the Taj Mahal of camps," said Rose.

 "He saw all the suffering that children go through with serious illnesses. He started the first camp 20 years ago and just wanted these camps to be a place where kids could go and have fun and forget about their illnesses," said Rose.

The camps were named after the hideout from Newman's movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."

"He saw all the suffering that children go through with serious illnesses. He started the first camp 20 years ago and just wanted these camps to be a place where kids could go and have fun and forget about their illnesses," said Rose.

Newman helped open the doors at Camp Korey last year.

"If I'm going to leave a legacy. It's not going to be my films or anything I do politically. It's going to be these camps," Newman said at that time.

"The world lost a fantastic human being," Rose said Saturday.

Rose says the camp has already put smiles on the faces of dozens of children this year, and it will do the same next year, which is just how Newman would want it.

"We're going to continue to do this for his legacy, and to honor him, and bring as many kids to Camp Korey, and families and take care of as many families as we possibly can," said Rose.

Camp Korey is named after Rose's son, who died from bone cancer in 2004. The goal is to bring 1,000 kids to the camps next summer, all free of charge to children and their families.