Wrentham’s Boy Scout Troop 131 will be collecting Christmas trees on Saturday January 10, and once again requesting a $10 donation. To have your tree picked up put a $10 donation in an envelope, seal the envelope and place it around the bottom of the tree with a rubber band. Make checks payable to "Troop 131" and place the tree on the curb near the street before 8 a.m. For safety reasons, they cannot accept trees with tinsel, flocked trees, trees with nails, artificial trees, wreaths with metal shape wires, or trees with any other metal attached. The $10 donation helps to offset the cost of operating the troop whose programs have assisted our youths in topping 4000-foot peaks, hit the road for 30 mile bike rides on “The Vineyard” and 50 mile hikes through the wilderness. The Boy Scouts provide countless hours of service to the community, and the Troop's Eagle program has provided landscaping for town property inlcuing Fiske Public library, the creation of the 9/11 memorial, built and marked a number of the town's hiking trails-and much more.
Along with the trees the scouts will pick up bikes for Bikes not Bombs on the January 10. Bikes not Bombs, a Boston-based non-profit which collects retired bikes and, primarily, supplies them to overseas missions which are developing micro-economies based on bikes (Ghana), relief workers for medical personnel (Uganda), an operation in Guatemala which then re-engineers the bikes to drive pumps and various machinery which assist their agrarian communities, as well as other operations in Sierra Leone, Nevis. St. Kitts, and San Salvador, as well as Boston-based classes in bicycle programs geared towards youth and women. Discover more about them at www.bikesnotbombs.org.
This is a great opportunity to clean up after Christmas by having the scouts pickup your tree and to pass along a retired bike.
