Here is an opportunity for service time and a chance to visit the Utica Zoo. If you are interested please notify Mrs. Lott and copy Scoutmaster Obernesser as well:

Mr. Obernesser,

I am on a committee that is planning what will be a huge event at the Utica Zoo on August 29th. The event is “Cultures & Creatures” and it is going to be a celebration of all the MANY different culture communities that live in the Mohawk Valley (European, African, Middle Eastern, Asian) and our local, beautiful zoo.

Many businesses large and small are involved as sponsors and volunteers. Right now they are lacking volunteers who will specifically help with the clean-up. The event runs from 11am-7pm and the Executive Director of the Zoo is expecting approximately 6,000 visitors for the event.

I am writing to see if your troop would be interested in volunteering to help with the clean up? The scouts could arrive around 5pm to enjoy the event, and clean up should begin around 6pm. The director feels it will probably take from 6-8:30pm. She will provide gloves and garbage bags for the volunteers to walk around the Zoo (in pairs would probably be good) to pick up garbage, etc.

Again, it’s happening on 8/29, and the clean-up crew would need to start at 6pm and will probably need to be there until about 8:30pm. There will be shuttles running from MVCC and the Parkway, but I am guessing that as volunteers the scouts could park up in the Zoo parking lot.

Please let me know what you think. It would be a great experience for the scouts and a nice way to earn some community service time!

Tiffany Lott
tiffanylott23@gmail.com

Please let Scoutmaster Obernesser know if you are interested in this event.

Dear Troop leaders:
Once again we are hosting an event at the Deerfield Fire Dept. Field Days that we would like to invite your boys to. On Thursday June 11th at 6PM will be our Annual Boy Scouts Waterball Tournament. We invite you to join us with a team of 4 or more to do a round-robin tournament with all the troops who show up.

We are set up on the track behind the Deerfield Fire House. We have a ball on a wire overhead. One team is on one end and another on the other end. Each have a hose and try to spray the ball to the end away from you so to win the round.

At 7pm, the Firefighters Waterball will then start. There will also be the Field Day rides and food available afterwards. Please bring a change of clothes and come have some fun!

• There will be a troop leaders meeting at 6PM at Myles School this Wednesday 5/26. We will discussing summer camp, a canal canoe trip in August and other business as necessary. As always parents are welcome to participate.
• Joanne Mozloom and Nate Flory will be conducting end of year board of reviews for each scout this week and next.
• We also need to finalize the merit badges on which each scout will be working at summer camp. This is due with your final payment this week. Please go to the council website to find MB at summer camp they are listed in the Leader’s Guide. Click for Leader’s Guide

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FROM– Steven K. McEwan, Scout Executive/CEO, Revolutionary Trails Council

I am happy to report that I have hired Robert Wiechecki, Jr. (RJ) as the new District Executive for the Adirondack Foothills District. RJ will be managing the daily operations of the ADK District, along with running the 2015 Day Camp. RJ comes to us from the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia, PA, where he served as both a Quality Unit Executive and a District Executive.

RJ grew up just outside of Philadelphia in Plymouth Meeting, PA. He received a dual Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religion from Lycoming College in Willamsport, PA. He started in Scouting as a Cub Scout, and later achieved Eagle Scout in 2008. In his spare time, RJ enjoys running, linguistics and is dedicated to simple living.

RJ will start working for the Revolutionary Trails Council on Monday, June 1st.

We will be meeting at Greenlawn Cemetery (next to Jay-K Lumber) at 5:30 PM to place flags on veterans’ graves. We will then be going to Parry Jr. High for a swim night from 6:30 to 8:30. Several of scouts have requested that we work on swimming merit badge. For those who are working on swimming merit badge, you need to have a pair of long pants and long sleeve button shirt. You will be using these to make survival floatation. The requirement calls for you to jump into water over your head and remove your shirt and pants. Then inflate them as an emergency floatation device.

Also a reminder that summer camp fees are due by next week.

Michelle Connelly has agree to coordinate this year’s family picnic.  It will be held on June 17 starting at 6PM at St. Thomas pavilion 150 Clinton Rd., (just down the road from Myles School).  The troop will provide the hot dogs, hamburgers, condiments and rolls.  Each family is asked to bring a dish to pass, desert or soft drinks.  Please let Michelle know your head count and what you plan to bring.

Some of you still owe payments for Summer Camp, and after June 1st the price goes up by $25. Please have a check made out to ‘Revolutionary Trails Council’ to Scoutmaster Obernesser by the May 27th Troop meeting. Also, if your son has not had a medical physical during the 12 months preceding summer camp, he must have a new one. The BSA Medical form and OTC medicine form are attached.

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