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Volume 116, Issue 1
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From the Desk of the Commodore, continued
Auxiliary-Sea Scout Youth Development (AUXSCOUT) Program
While District 5NR is not a part of the Sea Scout pilot program now underway in D5SR and D9E, we have been preparing
for the day, which we now expect to come very soon, when we will be a part of the national roll-out. It was a pleasure to
attend the recent Sea Scouts Northeast Region Bridge of Honor and Ball on 23 March in Swedesboro, NJ with Commodore
Sopko (D9E) on your behalf. About 250 scouts and family members attended the event. The scouts will be bringing a level
of courtesy, discipline and enthusiasm for the sea, boating and the Coast Guard that will transform our organization. What
an impressive group of kids! Members interested in serving on a D5NR Sea Scout liaison committee, please send an email
expressing your interest to Joe Giannattasio, DCOS. For your convenience, here is the SOP: http://wow.uscgaux.info/
Uploads_wowII/054/AUXSCOUT_AUX_SOP_002A_SIGNED.pdf
Sea Scouts Northeast Region Bridge of Honor and Ball
Recruiting Billboards
Catalyst Outdoor (www.CatalystOutdoor.com) has made a generous unsolicited gift of free advertising to the US Coast
Guard Auxiliary District 5 Northern Region. This generous gift is due to their appreciation of the work our volunteers do
and their desire to assist us in our advertising efforts to recruit new volunteer members.
Catalyst is displaying recruiting ads on their digital monuments from mid-March until mid-April. The ads are displayed for 8
seconds, every 2 minutes. Conservatively, they expect each ad to be displayed over 400 times a day. It could be much more.
The ads are currently playing on Units on US 202 just south of West Chester in Westtown Township, Chester County, PA;
on Route 309 just south of the PA Turnpike in Springfield, Montgomery County, PA and on Route 1 just east of I-95 in
Middletown, Bucks County, PA.
US 202 just south of West Chester in Westtown Township, Chester County, PA
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