Hello Scouts and Families,

We have successfully closed the Chapter of this Scouting year, congrats to all of you for all you have accomplished! 

All of our Scouts and family members are cordially invited to attend a very special Eagle Court of Honor at which we will recognize Matt Yandow and Jared Kartschoke for attaining the rank of Eagle.  Only 4% of Scouts worldwide attain this rank, so we are hoping to have as many Scouts, friends and family members in attendance as possible. The event will take place at 4:00pm under the big tent outside of Williston Central School on Sunday, June 6th.  Attendees should bring their own lawn chairs to sit and Scouts should come wearing full uniforms (Scout shirt; neckerchief; sash; and Scout/dress pants).  Please sign up on the website if you plan to attend.

On the morning of Saturday, May 1st, our Troop will once again be participating in Green Up Day.  We will be assigned a location and then be responsible for  cleaning up trash in that area.  In addition to helping our community and the environment, Scouts also earn valuable service hours by participating in this event. We are hoping that as many of our Scouts as possible will sign up and participate in this fun event!  Scouts can sign up by clicking on the Green Up Day link on the right hand side of the website.

The challenge was made to our Troop to raise $3,000.00 in support of homeless youth during Spectrum's virtual sleep out and not at all surprisingly, our families stepped up to the plate and knocked it out of the park! 22 Scouts and 7 adult leaders spent the night in their backyards to raise awareness for this important cause and as a Troop, we absolutely shattered our previous record by raising $5,030.00 in donations to support Spectrum Youth and Family Services! THANK YOU to all of the Scouts and parents you participated in this event and thank you to all of the adults, friends and family members who very generously made financial donations to support this cause! A special thank you goes out to Mr. Cotton for once again organizing this event on behalf of our Troop. Our Troop's effort truly embodies what Scouting is all about and is evidence of what a great community we have!

Just as a reminder, we have our virtual Spectrum Sleepout coming up on Friday, March 26th.  In addition to signing up on the website, Scouts are encouraged to join the team  and to start soliciting donations from sponsors.  Last year, our Troop raised over $2,500.00 for this worthy cause and our goal is to reach $3,000.00 this year.   We have a long way to go in order to reach that goal, but we can definitely pull it off! Scouts can both join the team and have sponsors make donations by using the following link:  http://give.spectrumvt.org/site/TR/Events/TeamRaiserWorkshop?team_id=2020&pg=team&fr_id=1120

3/7/21 - Troop, Another great fundraiser and most importantly a major donation to the food shelf.  We have not started returning cans yet, but we will soon. Below is an email response from Ginger Morton the head of the Williston Food Shelf after she received a picture of our donation.  All scouts attending get 2 hours of volunteer time for this event.