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Ray Frechette

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  1. My Name is Ray Frechette, I am very much involved in the feffort to save Camp Gustin. While there is significant frustration with Council we are not threatenting council or seeking a confrontational situation withthem. Rather we are attemtpting to get council interested in working out a win win situation for them, the scouts in our district and the scouts in all opf council We are trying to convince Council to sell the camp to us. We would form a 501c3 non profit to raise funds and buy the camp and hold it in a land trust for the priority use of registered scouts and t
  2. If council agrees to sell thsi camp to us it could be the best thing that ever happened to this district. We plan on having troops take turns setting up outside large retail centers with groups of kids teaching basic scout skills and recruiting as well as Adult members of a formed 501c3 land trust soliciting donations. This could seriously impact recruitment in ways never dreamed of. And it would teach the kids incredibly important life lessons of sacrifice and budgeting to get what is truly valuable to them. If Pine Tree Council refuses to sell it could indeed be signific
  3. My Name is Ray Frechette, I am very much involved in the feffort to save Camp Gustin. While there is significant frustration with Council we are not threatenting council or seeking a confrontational situation withthem. Rather we are attemtpting to get council interested in working out a win win situation for them, the scouts in our district and the scouts in all opf council We are trying to convince Council to sell the camp to us. We would form a 501c3 non profit to raise funds and buy the camp and hold it in a land trust for the priority use of registered scouts and t
  4. It is a sad familiar story in Scouting I am finding. Council finds itself in financial trouble and the solution is to sell a camp. Camp Gustin is a 100 acre primitive wilderness camp in Sabattuss Maine with shore front access to a descent sized pond. Given to Pine Tree Council in 1948 without deed restrictions other than naming rights from the benefactor that any camp shall be named Gustin. A group of us desire to forma non profit land trust to raise money to buy camp gustin and preserve it for scout use. We will raise the money ourselves via direct donations and fundrais
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