Thank you to everyone who participated in the Bottle Drive this past Wednesday!  In spite of the stormy weather and thanks to the generosity of many in our community, our Troop collected enough cans and bottles to fill an entire bay of the Nesbit family's barn.  Four days later, we're still collecting cans and bottles from families who missed the event on Wednesday and we've received at least $115.00 in donations.  Due to the high volume of cans we collected (and are still collecting), it will be a little while before we know the final tally. Based on what we collected, however, we can safely say that we vastly exceeded our initial expectations. At some point we will likely need some help sorting the cans and bottles for delivery to the redemption center, so please stay tuned for an announcement about that.  A special thank you goes out to the Nesbit family for storing all of the bottles and cans in their barn. Great job, Troop 692!

Just as a reminder that we have a bottle drive coming up.  This is scheduled for Wednesday, July 8th at 5:00pm and we need as many Scouts and parent drivers as possible in order to pull this off.  Remember, we are doing this to earn money to buy new t-shirts for the Scouts.  If you haven't done so already, please sign up on the website. We hope to see you all there! We'll also need some empty boxes and bins to hold some of the cans and bottles we collect.  Please bring any spare boxes you might have to the pickup.

Just because the Scouting year is over, doesn't mean that the fun has to end!  We have a few GREAT things coming up and we hope that everyone can join us!  Check it out:   Wednesday, July 8th - To offset the loss of the Hot Dog Sale, we will be holding a community-wide bottle/can drive to support the Troop.  After announcing the drive to the public, we will break off into small groups to start canvasing neighborhoods and collecting bottles and cans that people leave on the curb. Please sign up on the website.  We will need adults to help out with the driving.  Saturday, July 11th - We will meet in the Williston Central School parking lot at 8:00am and then head up to the Missisquoi Valley Rail Trail for a day of biking.  Please sign up on the website. We are also putting together tentative plans to do a long weekend of a Troop 692 overnight camp.  Please stay tuned for announcements about that.  We also already have a canoe trip set up for September and an overnight hiking trip in the Adirondacks scheduled for early October.  You can find out more about those events on the website.

Troop 692,

The committee is planning the details for a bottle drive to happen soon.  It is our goal to make some money to offset not having the hot dog sales at the 4th of July parade.  More details will come.  Please save your cans and bottles for us.  Start asking your neighbors to save them for you also.  Julia is offering her barn as a collection point.  

I did a nice 3.5 mile hike for Philomint training.  Milton town forest has a nice workout hike for preparing for Philmont. I did my push ups too. Scouts, make sure you are in shape for Philmont or just summer.