Raritan Valley District

Welcome to the Raritan Valley District Website, serving the communities of: Bound Brook, Bradley Gardens, Branchburg, Bridgewater, Dunellen, Edison, Finderne, Flagtown, Franklin, Franklin Park, Green Brook, Griggstown, Highland Park, Hillsborough, Lamington, Manville, Martinsville, Metuchen, Middlesex, New Brunswick, Neshanic, Neshanic Station, North Branch, Piscataway, Plainfield, Pluckemin, Raritan, Somerset, Somerville, South Bound Brook, South Branch, and South Plainfield.

Raritan Valley Event Registrations and News:

Raritan Valley District October Roundtable

Wednesday, October 6th

Details to be posted soon

Did you know that when shopping on Amazon you can designate Patriots’ Path Council to receive a donation for your purchase? Go to https://smile.amazon.com and select Patriots’ Path Council Boy Scouts of America as your designated charity. Happy Shopping

Raritan Valley Recognition Awards Committee would like to Congratulate the 2020 Recipients!

District Award of Merit

Harry J. Buttito Jr Deb Hopkins Bruce Weigel

Mary Tomchuk Servant Leader Award: Mirian Drehmer

Ron Catlin Cub Scouter Award: Sorah Mandella

George Kosta “ Scouts BSA” Award: Bob Fales & Ray Koperwhats

John Schaub “ For the District” Award: Tony Mignella

John Denninger Award: John O’Mara

Cubmaster of the Year: Alex Brown

Scoutmaster of the Year: Gail Naughton

50 Year Service Pin: Mike O’Shea

75 Year Service Pin: Tony Sarao

Raritan Valley Hero Awards: Carol Cooke, Tom D’Aprile, Dawn Delnegro, Kellie DeSan, Eduardo Drehmer, Kate Flannary, Tom Harabin, Lou Hebert, Will Jacobs, Kristen Lakatos , David Lovell, Cathy Nee, Kelly Slye, Ernie Tistan, Chandra Shekhar Vyas

SAVE THE DATE: JUNE 4-6TH

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Raritan Valley Community Service

Below is information on various Community Service Projects as well as the way to report Service Hours. If you have any pictures of Service that your Unit or Scouts have done recently, please send them to me. You can check the PPC Website, Community Service page for more information.

YIS,

Linda Cummings , RV Community Service Chairperson

[email protected]

https://ppcbsa.org/committees/community-service/

Reporting Community Service for PPC

With the National system for reporting discontinued we are asking Units to report service hours on Scoutbook ( for your individual records and advancement) and also via the

PPC Website https://247scouting.com/forms/?OrgKey=BSA358&id=522

The website is very user friendly. You do not need a Unit ID # to enter hours.

This will be the only way PPC will be able to track our Eagle project hours and other service hours moving forward. This will also be how we determine the winners of the Community Service Patch for 2021.Remember, you can report hours from any project done during the year prior to Dec. 31, 2021.

Scouting for Food is the Boy Scouts of America’s nationwide service project to help stop hunger in our communities. It began as a Scout’s service project in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1985, and was adopted by the Boy Scout National Organization in 1988. Primarily our Council has held food drives in Late Oct/Early November but you are welcome to host a Scouting for Food Drive at any point during the year. This is an impactful service project that helps our communities. This year the council will not have any plastic bags for Scouting for Food.

Toys for Tots: This year we will continue to support U.S.M.C.’s Toys for Tots. We will be collecting Toys between November- December 11. Please contact me if you are interested in doing a Unit donation.

SERV Awards: Patriots’ Path Council has established its own service awards program called SERV, designed to recognize all participants in Council programs each year, for their hours of public service. Don’t forget to apply for the SERV for all their service hours during this pandemic. For more information go to:

https://ppcbsa.org/wp-content/uploads/SERV-Award-Tracking-Form-2019.pdf