Serving: Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Elmsford, Greenburg, Hartsdale, Hasting, Hawthorne, Irvington, North White Plains, Pleasantville, Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, Thornwood, Valhalla, White Plains

Great Saw Mill River Cleanup
Pack 1 Hastings and Troop 2 Hastings join other scouting units in the Great Saw Mill River Cleanup (GoodTurn for America)

Scouts from Hastings' Pack 1 and Troop 2, along with siblings and families, participated in the Great Saw Mill River Clean-up 2010 organized by Groundworks Hudson Valley. Hastings joined other Westchester-Putnam BSA units from Dobbs Ferry, Ardsley, Yonkers, Mount Vernon and others at various sites along the river, along with several other organizations and individual volunteers.

District Picnic
The Mohican District honored a two dedicated scouters at the annual district picnic. Ed Vogel, an Assistant Scoutmaster in Troop 1 Hawthorne (pictured left), and Justin Steinhard, an Assistant Scoutmaster in Troop 2 Hastings (right) were both presented with a District Award of Merit, the highest award a district can present. Senior District Executive Jim Lupfer presented the award, along with District Chairman Gordon Elliot and District Commissioner Stephen Lieb.

Three Mohican District Scouters also received their Wood Badge beads at the annual picnic. Charles Fishman, an Assistant Scoutmaster in Troop 3 Ardsley, Richard Saunderson, an Assistant Scoutmaster in Troop 2 Hastings, and Ethel Shuart, Troop Committee member, Troop 24 Dobbs Ferry, were presented their beads by NEII-179 Course Director Helen McGuire. Wood Badge beads are presented on the completion of “working the ticket”, the practical application phase of the Wood Badge training.

Thanks to Troop 24 Dobbs Ferry for securing the Waterfront Park for the district event.

Conservation Resource Guide
Conservation is a basic part of the BSA mission. Scouting embraces Leave No Trace, requires conservation-related activities for rank advancement, and encourages conservation service projects to the community. The new Conservation Resource Guide identifies Westchester-Putnam agencies engaged in nature and conservation activities. Organized by District, the Guide is intended to enable ‘one-stop’ access for any Westchester-Putnam Scouts and Scouters seeking sites for troop conservation projects, nature-related advancements, or outdoor activities (including William Hornaday Award, Leave No Trace Award, Boy Scout Rank Advancement Nature Requirements, and Eagle Service Projects).

Training
If you are a Den Leader, Cubmaster, Scoutmaster, Committee Member, or an assistant at any level, if you have not been formally trained, then you are not doing your best for your son and his fellow Scouts. Here is your opportunity as a leader to show your boys that you care. Make a commitment to get trained, and if you are trained, encourage your other leaders to attend. Our Mohican District will offer Cub Leader Training each month from September to December.

Good Turn for America
In order to support our nation and our individual communities more, we have been called on to perform more community service and to begin recording the service, which we already perform. This is done via a website that collects the information; please check out the website www.goodturnforamerican.org for more information. To log onto the website you will need a password for your unit, which you can get from Jim Lupfer. For logging your unit's service projects the Council will recognize your unit with a certificate and streamer for your flag.

Roundtable
Where can you have fun and learn about Scouting at the same time? They are on the first Thursday of every month at the Scout Service Center in Hawthorne at 7:30 p.m. Roundtable will include increased fun and fellowship to accompany the great information!

Email Lists 
The Westchester-Putnam Council, BSA uses a web service located at Doubleknot.com, a company located in California. Our first step using this service is operating an email list server to improve communications with our units, districts and the council. We will use additional features offered by Doubleknot in the future. 

The purpose of a list server is to simplify sending email messages to groups of recipients and to allow people to add themselves to lists to obtain information regarding a specific type of topic.

You can control the email list(s) to which you are a member of. To do this, you will need to access your "profile" on Doubleknot which is password protected. If you were a member of an email list previously you may already have a profile: use the "Forgot User ID and Password" option on the Doubleknot screen.  Enter the email address that would be on file and your password will be sent to you.   If you believe you are new to our lists use the "To create a new profile " option.

Once logged onto Doubleknot, you will see all the public email lists and those of which you are a member. Note that if you deselect any bolded list you will not be able to rejoin the list without assistance from the council staff.

This list server is designed to keep all of our Scouting family more informed about the activities of the Westchester-Putnam Council as together we serve the youth of our two counties. This server replaces list servers used by some of the districts.

Please note that those subscribing to a List Server must be at least 13 years of age.  Those under 13 must have a parent or guardian subscribe for them. This is a requirement of Federal law.

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