{"id":80342,"date":"2017-05-02T07:23:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T11:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=80342"},"modified":"2017-05-01T20:00:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T00:00:51","slug":"utica-elks-sponsor-boy-scout-troop-111-court-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=80342","title":{"rendered":"Utica Elks sponsor Boy Scout Troop 111 Court of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pictured in front from left are Julian Ford, Aiden Sheaffer, Jacob Long and James Faggiano. In rear from left are Brett Hill, Jack Mineo, Dustyn Henry, Roman Grzesik, Nicholas Ford, Sean Bednarczyk, Aden Kistner and Riley Dam. Not pictured: Jonathan Roberts, Collin Williams, John Rauscher and Schuylet Riley-Jones.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Friday, April 21, Troop 111 of the Boy Scouts of America held its\u00a0annual Court of Honor Dinner at Utica Elks Lodge #33. In attendance were guests from the\u00a0Leatherstocking Council Boy Scouts of America, Scouts and Troop leaders of Troop 111, friends\u00a0and family of the Scouts and members of Utica Lodge #33, Benevolent and Protective Order of\u00a0Elks, the sponsoring organization of Troop 111.<\/p>\n

The program included presentations of promotions in rank and merit badges earned during\u00a02016 and a welcome was extended to the new Scouts who recently joined Troop 111.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Scouts and their Scout leaders had the promotions and merit badges as a well-organized\u00a0priority for the year and every scout achieved great success as a result. The leaders of the Troop were also recognized for their efforts in organizing the number of outdoor and\u00a0camping\u00a0activities that occurred during the warm and cold parts of the year.<\/p>\n

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Pictured from left are Roger Kraus, Past Exalted Ruler and Roman Grzesik.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An Eagle Scout Court of Honor ceremony was held to honor and celebrate Roman Grzesik\u00a0achieving the Rank of Eagle Scout. Eagle Scout is achieved by only a small percentage of Scouts,\u00a0yet Roman is the 69th Scout from Troop 111 to receive this honor. The two large plaques\u00a0hanging in our Lodge Room have the names of every Eagle Scout in the history of Troop 111;\u00a0Roman and his brother, Walter Jr. (2014), are the most recent winners of the Eagle Scout\u00a0award.<\/p>\n

Walter Jr. and Roman worked separately at a joint Eagle Scout Project of refurbishing\u00a0an old Presbyterian Church cemetery from the 1700-1800s in Sauquoit. Walt cleared the\u00a0area, re-erecting and cleaning headstones and built a wooden sign for the cemetery from trees cleared from the site. Roman continued what his brother had started by further clearing\u00a0the site, erecting a flagpole and lighting, and built a wooden fence with pieces hewn from the\u00a0felled trees on the site. Utica Lodge #33 is both proud and honored to be affiliated with Boy Scout Troop 111 and presented Eagle Scout Gzesik with a framed Certificate of Achievement\u00a0from Grand Lodge and a 3\u2019 x 5\u2019 American flag properly folded in a flag display case.<\/p>\n

Congratulations all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, April 21, Troop 111 of the Boy Scouts of America held its\u00a0annual Court of Honor Dinner at Utica Elks Lodge #33. In attendance were guests from the\u00a0Leatherstocking Council Boy Scouts of America, Scouts and Troop leaders of Troop 111, friends\u00a0and family of the Scouts and members of Utica Lodge #33, Benevolent and Protective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23813,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-kTQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Troop-111-Court-of-Honor-2017.jpg?fit=465%2C311&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80342","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=80342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}