Here are a couple of service opportunities–one of which comes up every year and one of which comes up twice a year. Troop 119 and Troop 160 both support these events.
Friends of Cary Library Book Sale, Thursday May 18
The first is help moving books for the Friends of Cary Library Gently Used Book Sale. We have done this at least three times already and once we had to bail out the Girl Scouts. The Friends of Cary Library are very grateful for the help and mention you in the newspaper and in their newsletter. This morning I attended a Trustees meeting where the head of FOCL said that “We could not put on this book sale without the help of the Boy Scouts.” The financial assistance that FOCL gave the library last year was more than $7,000, most of which came from the two book sales so your labor is helping to keep Cary Library up to date.
Anybody that wants to help should meet this Thursday evening at 5:30 PM (yes, if you have to come later, you can). We will then use carts and the elevator to move about 7,000 books from the storage room to the sale area. FOCL always thinks it will take at least four hours and then we do it in about an hour.
As a reward, the Friends will serve pizza in the library. Yes, you get to eat in the library.
We should be through in plenty of time for us all to walk to our meetings. Adults are welcome, by the way. And if a Scout sees a book he particularly wants, the Friends will probably let him have it.
The more Scouts, the better, so try to make it. Thursday at 5:30 PM. Meet by the door to the Childrens Section near the parking lot lobby of Cary Library. See you there.
Memorial Day Parade, Monday May 29
We always march in this one. This year it will be on Monday, May 29th. As always, we will help lay wreaths. At least one Scout is needed at 8:45 AM to go on the bus to Westview Cemetery to lay wreaths there. Show up at the School Administration Building, also known as the White House, which is next to the Police Station on Mass. Ave.
The rest should show up no later than 9:30 AM at the School Administration Building. Wear Class A’s.
If it rains, we will gather for an indoor ceremony at the National Heritage Museum.
This is a very important event–something Boy Scouts have been helping with since the end of World War II–so try to find time for it.
