[philmont] Philmont Promotional Video?

Troop 290 from Ypsilanti Michigan will be going to Philmont 6/26/08.

We have a minimum contingent currently signed up from our troop to go. The reason I am positing tonite is... as many of you may already know, southeastern Michigan is not doing very well economically and Ypsilanti (20 miles west of Detroit) is no exception. Our troop has 20 registered scouts 10 of which will be eligible by the time June 2008 comes along. Of those, more than 1/2 of them come from families who's financial state likely may not allow their sons to attend with us.

However, I have had much intersted from those scouts and parents, and I have told them that money should not be the reason why you can't goto Philmont. We as a "crew" plan on doing additional fund raisers and such to help everyone offset the cost of our trip. So we want to work hard as families so their son(s) have the opportunity to go.

In that light, a few parents belong to local organizations (i.e. Optimist Intl, Moose Lodge, Eagles, VFW, etc...) who plan on asking for financial assistance for our their sons to go.

My question tonite is: Does anyone know of a "promotional video" for Philmont which I can get/download/buy? I plan on then showing it to the parents and their organizations. It is a great chance to not only promote Philmont, but also inform those who are not familiar with it, about the life-changing experience and great adventure Philmont is.

I called Betty at Philmont and she said that there is not currently a video avialable, but only brochures. So, can anyone help or offer suggestions?

YIS - Eric Maes
Scoutmaster - Troop 290
Philmont '02 & '08
scoutmaster@troop290.us

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Received on Sat Feb 24 19:42:22 2007