Ray Frechette

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 troops in Pine Tree Council.

Further we plan on stripping development rights from the land with deed restrictions and prevent any subdividing of the land so that this potential problem shall never occur again.

One cna either get angry or get busy and we are seeking to get busy and work with council in a proactive manner to bring about an excellent resolution for all involved.

Does anyone here wish to help us?

We are not asking for one red cent right now.

What would be very helpfull is to tkae about 20 minutes from your day and carry out the following tasks.

If you have a facebook account, please visit us at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=323022840617&ref=ts

Please consider joining the page and posting a 1 paragraph word of support. Consider reading some of the inspirational posts.

Second Please write a letter to our chief executive of Pine Tree Council ( arogers@bsamail.org )and urge him to try to work with the Scouters of Abnaki district to find a win win solution.

Please cc to ( bthomas@bsamail.org ), ( esd@roadrunner.com

) nad myself at ( refent01@yahoo.com )

If you are really motivated perhaps you could print out that email and mail it by snail mail to National HQ along with a letter to them asking them to contact PTC and urge them to consider working with us.

Mr. Tony Rogers

Scout Executive

Pine Tree Council, BSA

131 Johnson Rd.

Portland , Me. 04102

e-mail: arogers@bsamail.org

COPY TO: Bryan Thomas

Assistant Scout Executive

Pine Tree Council, BSA

131 Johnson Rd

Portland , Me. 04102

e-mail: bthomas@bsamail.org

COPY TO: National Council

Boy Scouts of America

Post Office Box 152079

Irving , TX 75015-2079

Dont forget to include a copy to me: Ed Desgrosseilliers

Abnaki District Committee Chair

c/o 121 Hatch Rd

Auburn , Maine 04210 -8961

e-mail: esd@roadrunner.com

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 significantly impairing to the cout movement in council in too many ways. I shudder to think of the damage that will be done to moral and membership.

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 troops in Pine Tree Council.

Further we plan on stripping development rights from the land with deed restrictions and prevent any subdividing of the land so that this potential problem shall never occur again.

One cna either get angry or get busy and we are seeking to get busy and work with council in a proactive manner to bring about an excellent resolution for all involved.

Does anyone here wish to help us?

We are not asking for one red cent right now.

What would be very helpfull is to tkae about 20 minutes from your day and carry out the following tasks.

If you have a facebook account, please visit us at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=323022840617&ref=ts

Please consider joining the page and posting a 1 paragraph word of support. Consider reading some of the inspirational posts.

Second Please write a letter to our chief executive of Pine Tree Council ( arogers@bsamail.org )and urge him to try to work with the Scouters of Abnaki district to find a win win solution.

Please cc to ( bthomas@bsamail.org ), ( esd@roadrunner.com

) nad myself at ( refent01@yahoo.com )

If you are really motivated perhaps you could print out that email and mail it by snail mail to National HQ along with a letter to them asking them to contact PTC and urge them to consider working with us.

Mr. Tony Rogers

Scout Executive

Pine Tree Council, BSA

131 Johnson Rd.

Portland , Me. 04102

e-mail: arogers@bsamail.org

COPY TO: Bryan Thomas

Assistant Scout Executive

Pine Tree Council, BSA

131 Johnson Rd

Portland , Me. 04102

e-mail: bthomas@bsamail.org

COPY TO: National Council

Boy Scouts of America

Post Office Box 152079

Irving , TX 75015-2079

Dont forget to include a copy to me: Ed Desgrosseilliers

Abnaki District Committee Chair

c/o 121 Hatch Rd

Auburn , Maine 04210 -8961

e-mail: esd@roadrunner.com

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 fundraising.

I am not coming here at this point to ask for any donations.

I ask if you could give me a little time.

Could you visit our facebook page and perhaps join it and give a 1 paragraph post.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=323022840617&ref=ts#/group.php?gid=323022840617&ref=ts

If you would be willing to do a little more that would be great too.

f you would wish to help our cause further please consider a brief email to our Council executives urging them to sell Camp Gustin to the Scouts and Scouters.

If we get agreement form them we will form a 501c3 non profit to raise funds and to hold this property for Boy and Girl Scout use as long as the United States may stand. Further we would open up the use of the property to any group who wishes to rent use of the property in an as available basis. The land would be deed restricted to strip all development rights from it, and stipulate that it can never be sold but may be donated to another non profit organization with stipulations it must be made available for the use of the Youth of Androscoggin county.

A brief letter to Mr Tony Rogers, Pine Tree Councils Chief executive with copies sent to Bryan Thomas also of Pine Tree Council and to BSA National Headquarters asking them to carefully consider selling to the scouters of Androscoggin county would be most appreciated. If you do so, would you please send a copy to Ed our district Chair who is spearheading the effort to buy Camp Gustin.

A copy to me would also be appreciated too at refent01@yahoo.com.

Mr. Tony Rogers

Scout Executive

Pine Tree Council, BSA

131 Johnson Rd.

Portland , Me. 04102

e-mail: arogers@bsamail.org

COPY TO: Bryan Thomas

Assistant Scout Executive

Pine Tree Council, BSA

131 Johnson Rd

Portland , Me. 04102

e-mail: bthomas@bsamail.org

COPY TO: National Council

Boy Scouts of America

Post Office Box 152079

Irving , TX 75015-2079

: Ed Desgrosseilliers

AbnakiDistrict Committee Chair

c/o 121 Hatch Rd

Auburn , Maine 04210 -8961

e-mail: esd@roadrunner.com