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Can anyone review or offer improvements to my letter requesting funds for my Eagle Scout Project? Isaac R******** * ******** ******** *******, New York ***** ***-***-**** Friday, March 13, 2009 Dear (insert name/business/organization here), My name is Isaac R******** and I am a Life Scout and the Senior Patrol Leader of Troop 4070 in *******, New York. I am asking for donations for my Eagle Scout Project. But first, let me tell you a little about my career in Scouting. On March, 2002, I joined Boy Scout Troop 4070, and it has forever changed my life. Last September marked the beginning of my twelfth year as being a member of the Boy Scouts of America (B.S.A.), five years as a Cub Scout and seven years as a Boy Scout. I was also a member of Venturing Crew 4079 (Venturing is a division of the Boy Scouts of America) for two years, one of which I served as President. In 2005 I was inducted into the Order of the Arrow, Scouting's National Honor Society. In 2006, I attended a week-long National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) conference, where I graduated. In 2007 I was asked to return to be on the NYLT staff, which required one-hundred and eighty plus hours of public-speaking and leadership training. And in June, 2008, I was promoted to be my unit’s Senior Patrol Leader, which is the highest office of authority that a youth member can hold. I currently hold the rank of Life Scout the second highest rank in the B.S.A., but I plan to change this. Early last January I began planning out my Eagle Scout Project and on Thursday, March 12th, it was approved to begin by my District Round Table Committee. After a lot of measuring, pricing, and writing, I am ready to begin. For my Eagle Scout Project I plan to give leadership in designing and building five bookcases for the library at Saint Agnes School. Each bookcase will be custom built to fit its location and the books it will be housing. The bookshelves will be built to match neighboring bookshelves, and finishes will be matched to adjacent bookcases or at the school’s preference. In addition, I will also enter two bookcases’ worth of unprocessed books into the library’s catalog system. My project will benefit Saint Agnes School because the bookcases will replace broken bookshelves, make uses of otherwise unusable space, replace temporary, makeshift bookcases, and house books that were recently acquired by the school that currently have no place to be stored. Cataloging the books will also save countless hours of time for the librarian. To accomplish, or event start, this great task, I need the help of (insert families/businesses/ originations) like you for funding. I must raise about $815. I humbly ask you for a donation, any donation to help me purchase supplies and materials. No donation is too small. I hope and plan to have all the money by April. However, the sooner I have the funds, the sooner I may begin, which will give me more time to complete the project (it’s due in early May). (For your donations I will formally invite you to my Eagle Scout Court of Honor which I would like to have in late July or August.) OR (For your donations, I will inscribe a plaque with a list of contributing businesses & originations of which you will be part of. This plaque will be placed on one of the bookcases.) If you have any questions, feel free to contact me either through mail or phone. Thank you so much for supporting me and this origination which has brought me years of adventure, discipline, leadership, friendship, direction, and experience. Sincerely Yours, Isaac ****** R********

Isle of Wight records mysterious death of stranded colonist; Post Mortem concludes "Died of Boredom!"? Chamber of Commerce officials on the Isle of Wight are looking into the shocking demise of a Colonist stranded on the island after an Irish Low Budget Flight glided into the local airport when lack of fuel kept the plane from reaching Heathrow. The deceased, Colin Slagg was on a flight from Newark Airport to London's Heathrow where it was said he was to take part in a conference about shelves that had been planned for over a year. Mr Slagg said to be an avid outdoorsman able to survive long periods in the woods living off the land, was said to have expired from a combination of "boredom and malnutrition" and was found dead, and with no signs of life, curled up in a fetal ball next to a dust bin on a remote lane where it appeared his last efforts were an attempt to scrounge for some food.. Locals remembered Mr Slagg as a hopeless bloke who stumbled into the local pub "The Arrse & Kettle" and basically made a 'bloody nuisance of himself' according to barkeep Hettie McTwat. "He looked right disheveled I'll say," said Hettie, "wing tip shoes untied, wearing madras shorts ,white socks and towing a big bloody suitcase on wheels behind em....I think it was that Tee shirt with that big US flag on it that put the folks off most though, that and the fact he sat at a table expectain' some fool was going to come an wait on em...Foreigners....either learn the bloody customs or stay the fook home I say!" Deeply upsetting innit?