Dash Point Troop 398
Welcomes You!
5/23
SERVICE TO OUR FALLEN
Troop 398 has the opportunity to help prepare headstones at Mountain View Cemetery. Cleaning & placing American flags. 9am to 11am.
5/25
COLOR GUARD SERVICE
Troop 398 will participate with Troop 401 & Pack 64 in a color guard presentation at the Memorial Day ceremony at Mountain View Cemetery in Auburn at 10am. Echo Taps will be performed by Troop 398's Dallin Campbell & Brett Anton along with Troop 401's Issac Park. Click HERE for the Memorial Day Ceremony Program.
DECORATION DAY - 1868 - Maj. Gen. John A. Logan
General Orders No 11.
I. The 30th day of May 1868 is designate for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades, who died in defense, of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every City, Village, and hamlet, church yard in the land. In this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed, but Posts and comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.
Click HERE to read the entire order.
NEWS
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Auburn Reporter Newspaper May 22, 2015
Auburn's Mountain View Cemetery hosts a special Memorial Day ceremony at 10 a.m. Monday.
The public is invited to attend the ceremony in the flag plaza at the cemetery, 2020 Mountain View Drive.
The ceremony will include comments by Auburn Mayor Nancy Backus; the National Anthem sung by the Auburn Mountainview High School duet of Morgan Nyren and Taylor Liabraaten; a color guard presentation by Boy Scouts of America Troops 398, 401 and Pack 64; comments by Post Commander Frank Bannister VFW Post 1741 of Auburn; a rifle salute by the Inter-Tribal Warrior Society; and "Taps" by Dallin Campbell & Brett Anton.
The cemetery will display many American Flags on the grounds, and each veteran's gravesite is decorated with a small flag. The small American flags are donated by Auburn VFW Post 1741.
Link to article HERE.
Saturday, May 23rd the scouts spent the morning cleaning gravestones and placing American flags at the cemetery.
Photo courtesty of Dana Hinman, Public Affairs Manager, City of Auburn
TROOP 398
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FUNDRAISING
Community Partnership Program
What is it? The Community Partnership program was formed in 1988, and assists registered, non-profit organizations (Troop 398) in developing funds for community activities (scouting adventures, trips & equipment for the boys in our troop.)
Need a Realtor? Use Tom Deacon, longtime scouter and friend of the troop and he along with Coldwell Banker Bain will donate a portion of the commission from the sale of your house.
Contact Tom at 206.941.1383 or email him at tomdeacon@ccbain.com.
Let him know you heard about him from Troop 398. You won't be disappointed!
