Pictured (l-r) Youth Director Walter free and Counselor Jennifer Coats along with two students.

Although recent temperatures have been quite warm (90s), the Council assumes that cooler weather will soon follow. Therefore, as the Council has been doing for a number of years, knights Walter Free, Ed Keearns, and John Bodensteiner along with John's wife, Carolyn, sorted and delivered 100 new coats to the following schools, so they will be ready to assist students in need: St John's, Fountain Lake, and Cutter-Morning Star in Hot Springs; Our Lady of Fatima in Benton; and Mountain Pine.  

Purchasing and delivering eight boxes of coats satisfies all four Columbian Award requirements for the Youth category.  Since Jessieville Schools did not need coats this year, Youth Director Walter Free reached out to the Cutter-Morning Star Elementary School in Hot Springs.  It happily accepted the offer.

Sales of Wisconsin cheese coordinated by Ed Miller will once again be the primary source of funds for this $1,760 project.