AA...bOY sCOUTS....5/18/15

Contribution to Boy Scouts of America

We received a very nice letter of appreciation from the Capital Area of Boy Scouts, thanking us for the contribution given from our club, Boy Scouts of America is moving through it's 105th year of service to ouir nation. They have provided these significant facts for our knowledge:

........367 outstanding Scouts earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the year 2014.

.......Eagles, non-Eagles and Scout units combined to provide more than 114,000 hours of community service at schools, public parks and lands, and houses of worship.

.....Scouts and volunteers have served on the front lines of the battle to rebuild the native habitat of Bastrop County's pine forest, devastated by wildfires, to date our Scouts have planted roughly a half million seedlings at our Griffit League Scout Ranch.

......Two of our Eagle Scouts were the only two youth to receive the state's top conservation honor, the Texas Environmental Excellence Award, completing projects benefitting the Georgetown Salamander and Texas Ash tree.

......Ground was broken for the new Applied Technology Center at Austin Independent School District's Anderson High
School campus. Thanks to an individual generous gift, this campus will be the site for our new STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) day camp debuting in summer 2015.