For our fourth year, we did a Christmas tree pickup in Chatham and Harwich and collected about 70 trees. We had seven crews doing the pickups. Many people expressed thanks and several made extra donations. The Christmas tree collection raised $1680 which we donated to the Chatham Children’s Fund and the Cape Cod Family Pantry.

Our troop contributed to the pumpkin people in the town park with a pumpkin scout dressed for a hike.

Thanks to TW Nickerson, our troop had a truck with trailer for a float in the parade. The cub scouts joined us in the parade. Our float had a tent plus a campfire made with a fan blowing colored streamers. The scouts riding on the float wore their backpacks.

Our troop participated in the Memorial Day service for the Town of Chatham. In addition to leading the Pledge of Allegiance, three scouts got to take turns reading the three paragraphs from the Gettysburg Address by Lincoln.

Along with many other volunteer groups, the scouts helped the Chatham Conservation Foundation with cleaning up trash. Our route was along Old Queen Anne Road from Sam Ryder Rd to the Goose Pond landing. We collected 3 garbage bags of trash.

For our service jobs at Camp Greenough, our troop helped setup chairs, tables and a whiteboard at the new Welcome Center. We also picked up sticks and fallen branches. And we cleared out a few lockers from the basement. Then camp gave us a hot lunch and dessert.

For our third year, we did a Christmas tree pickup in Chatham and Harwich and collected about 80 trees. We had six crews doing the pickups. Many people expressed thanks and several made extra donations. The Christmas tree collection raised $1908 which we donated to the Chatham Children’s Fund and the Family Pantry.

The troop did a color guard together with the Girl Scouts and helped lead the Pledge of Allegiance at the Chatham Veterans Day service which was held inside the Community Center.

By the entrances to Kate Gould park, our troop has been selling light sticks, glow sticks and spinning stars at the band concerts on Friday nights at 8pm this summer. These sales are a major fundraiser for our troop activities.

Our troop was asked by the town to carry the town banner and had the honor to carry the US Flag at the head of the parade together with the veterans.