Looking for a fun summertime event that your whole unit can enjoy?  Well look no further because this year your whole unit can sign up for an action packed evening with the York Revolution.  The scout nights are always a fun time and include activities such as a pre-game parade, a movie on the big screen after the game, and of course sleeping on the baseball field!  

This year the Revolution will host two scout nights and they will be held on June 22 and August 17.  There are a few different packages that units can choose from and they are:

• Star Package (game ticket only) $6.00 per person
• Life Package (game ticket and food voucher) $11.00 per person
• Eagle Package (game ticket, food voucher, and sleepover) $16.00 per person

The York Revolution will also donate 25% of all of the packages that your unit purchases back to the unit!

If your unit is interested in attending one of the scout nights this year please take a look at the registration flyer.  Please register for the June 22 game by June 18 and please note that this game is against a York Revolution rival the Lancaster Barnstormers and will probably sell out quickly so why not sign up today!

Is your unit handing in unit advancement reports every time the unit buys awards?  If not please plan to do so in the future so we can keep every boys advancement record up to date.  Starting immediately the scout shops at both service centers will be requiring a unit advancement report to purchase unit awards.  Units can either hand in a paper advancement form or enroll into the internet advancement program.  The internet advancement is very simple to use and your unit can then print out all of your units advancement reports to hand in at the store.  To enroll your unit into the internet advancement program please click here.  Please remember that this is to make sure that every boys records are correct.  If you have any questions please contact District Executive John Blasius by email john.blasius@scouting.org or by phone (717) 827-4571.

The District would like to take this time to thank all of the units who participated in this years Spring Camporee.  We had over 300 people including staff and 22 units present this year! 

We would also like to congratulate all of the units who placed in the overall competition for the weekend and they were as follows:  1st place Cub Pack 107, 2nd place Cub Pack 107, 3rd place Cub Pack 84, 1st place Troop 107, 2nd place Troop 76, and 3rd place Troop 102.

The district would like to take this time to thank all of the units who participated in this years Shelter Drive.  We collected a few thousand items this year! All of the items collected this year were donated to 7 local shelters in the district.  If your unit participated in this years Shelter Drive and did not hand in your colletion report form yet please do so before Monday, May 1.  The collection form can be found here and please email that form to Sarah at the Mechanicsburg Office.  Sarahs email address is Sarah.Darr@scouting.org.

Spring has sprung and that can only mean one thing.  Spring recruitment season is here!  The spring is a great time to recruit new scouts.  The district is challenging each pack to recruit at least 5 new boys this spring which is essentially a new den for the pack.  To see how important the spring recruitment really is please watch this short video that describes the spring recruitment process.

The school nights have all been set and you can view them here.  If your unit would like peer to peer cards or yard signs for this years campaign please contact District Executive John Blasius by email at john.blasius@scouting.org.  So what are you waiting for lets go out a recruit a new den!

Is your unit looking for a fundraiser to help the scouts in your unit go to summer camp?  Look no further because the brand new Camp Cards Fundraiser will solve that problem.  That’s right we are rolling out a new fundraiser called the Camp Card program in which scouts can earn money to attend summer camp. 

This new fundraiser is a discount coupon card in which scouts can sell to their families and friends.  The card has punch out pieces that are good at participating locations such as McDonald’s, Subway, Heritage, Hills, Karn’s Grocery Stores, and even the National Scout Shops.

The card costs $5.00 and the scout gets to keep $2.50 of that $5.00 to help them go to summer camp.  That is 50% profit per card for the boy!  To find out more information and to sign your unit up for this exciting new fundraising opportunity please click here.  Be sure to sign up for the sale before April 23.

Beaver Day is quickly approaching and it is a great way to help our council camps get ready for the upcoming camping season.  This years Beaver Days will be held on Saturday, May 5 at Hidden Valley and on Saturday, June 9 at Camp Tuckahoe.  To sign up for one of these Beaver Days please fill out the registration form here and email it to Josh Nimmerichter (joshua.nimmerichter@scouting.org) or Scott Holbrook (scott.holbrook@scouting.org).

Looking for information about the upcoming years district and council events? - Yes then why not come to this years Program Launch.  Program Launch will be held on Wednesday, June 6 at Camp Tuckahoe from 5-8pm.  The theme this year is Paint by Number.

At this years event units will be able to  gather a lot of great information about upcoming council and district events. Every unit will also be able to  pick up the new Council Calendar.  The event will also feature a unit program planning seminar and calendar building session for your units calendar.  The new district name will also be released at Program Launch as well so this will surely be an event that you will not want to miss.

To sign up for Program Launch please send an email to Sarah Darr at sarah.darr@scouting.org or give her a call at 717-620-4516.  Please provide Sarah with your contact information, unit number, and how many people will be attending from your unit.  Each unit can register up to 4 people at no cost and after that the cost will be $2.50 a person to cover dinner that night.  See you there!

As part of the redistricting process the district would like to announce that our name will be changing.  To make the district renaming fair the district has decided to open up the renaming process to all adult and youth members of the district.  Please note that all of the other districts are also being renamed as well.

There are some guidelines for submitting a new district name.  One of the guidelines is that it must be a name with some type of historic reference to our district.  The current name Blue & Grey or Blue & Gray are also not choices in the naming contest.  Please submit your name suggestion to District Executive John Blasius (john.blasius@scouting.org) by Sunday April 22nd.  The list of suggestions will then be voted on and narrowed down to the top 3 choices by the district committee and commissioner staff on April 23.  The final name will then be voted on at the May roundtable.  The new name will then be released on Wednesday, June 6 at Program Launch so be sure to attend this event to find out what the districts new name will be.

Unit leaders please note that April’s roundtable will be held on Thursday, April 12 instead of Thursday, April 5.  The location of this months roundtable has also changed.  The roundtable this month will be held at the Nicarry Meeting House at the Brethren Home in Cross Keys.  This change will only be for this month and Mays Roundtable will go back to the normal schedule and location.