{"id":57357,"date":"2014-08-10T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=57357"},"modified":"2014-08-09T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T14:53:09","slug":"boy-scouts-express-gratitude-for-sporting-clays-tournament-supporters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=57357","title":{"rendered":"Boy Scouts Express Gratitude for Sporting Clays Tournament Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/letterstotheeditor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-764\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/letterstotheeditor.jpg\" alt=\"letterstotheeditor\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>(Utica, NY \u2013 Aug. 2014) Thank you to everyone who participated in the 11<sup>th<\/sup> Annual David M. Philipson Memorial Sporting Clays Tournament on Saturday, July 19.\u00a0 The event generated nearly $10,000 to support the Boy Scouts Shooting Program, which facilitates the proper education and respectful use of rifles, shotguns and archery equipment in age-appropriate manners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/clays3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-57360\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/clays3.jpg\" alt=\"clays3\" width=\"226\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/clays3.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/clays3-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/clays3-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>Annually, the tournament is held to help the Scouts expand the shooting sports program through matching grants from the Youth Shooting Sports Foundation, the National Shooting Sports Alliance and the National Rifle Association. This year, Boy Scouts participated in a clinic on shotgun safety the night before the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/clays2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-57362\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/clays2.jpg\" alt=\"clays2\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/clays2.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/clays2-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Council would like to thank everyone who participated and helped to make our annual tournament a success once again this year.\u00a0 In particular, we would like to thank the Boy Scouts and their Leaders who volunteered their time to\u00a0Saturday\u2019s event, the tournament committee, chaired by John Devlin, and the sponsors: \u201cHerb\u201d Philipson\u2019s, Morgan Stanley, Carbone Auto Group, Fiber Instrument Sales, New York Sash, CampMasters Popcorn, Rome Strip Steel, KutMaster, Daylight Donuts and Clinton Fish &amp; Game Club, who hosted the event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: (Utica, NY \u2013 Aug. 2014) Thank you to everyone who participated in the 11th Annual David M. Philipson Memorial Sporting Clays Tournament on Saturday, July 19.\u00a0 The event generated nearly $10,000 to support the Boy Scouts Shooting Program, which facilitates the proper education and respectful use of rifles, shotguns and archery equipment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}