Gold Medallion Award:
If you have not heard already, Troop 130 is very proud to announce that we have been selected by the National Catholic Scouting Commitee to recieve the "Gold Medallion Award." This is a prestigious award that is given to troops that have an excellent program inclusive to meetings, campouts, advancement, summer camp, fun activities (swim nights, movie nights etc.), and most of all to promote and teach Catholic religous awards within the troop. As I said this is a National Award and there is only 15 awards (1 for each division) given out each year in the Country, so this is quite an honor for our Troop to be recognized.

Troop 130 would like to thank Bill Finger for his hard work and dedication of being our catholic religous awards instructor and giving all our scouts the opportunity to earn religous awards.

Troop 130 will be presented this award on April 9th in Geneva, NY at the National Diocese Scouting Award Banquet.

In addition to the Gold Medallion Award being awarded to the troop, Bill Finger will be awarded the St. George Award for all his dedication to the program over the past several years.

Lastly I would just like to mention that over this past year there have been two recipients of the Pope Pius XII Award in the whole Diocese of Rochester and they were awarded to two Boy Scouts in our troop, Chris Orlicki and Kevin Schmitt.

Keep up the good work.

[BSA Troop 130 Official Website]