Volunteers Donations
	Join the cause! The Nor-Ton Red Jacket Club are always looking for new members to help us in our mission to aquire the land of Donald F. Miller Park. Your help would be greatly appreciated, and worth the effort. Just print this page out and fill in the blanks, and send the application off to the proper address given above. Thank you for your interest, and we look forward to working with you in the very near future! Click to view Membership Application.
	Dear Friend of Western New York Youth: The Nor-Ton Red Jacket Club has provided low-cost camping and outdoor recreational opportunities to Western New York area children and youth since it took over the former Girl Scout lease with New York State in 1986. We are an all-volunteer organization, with no paid staff. Our members raise all the costs of equipping, maintaining, and operating our facilities. We lease the 24.32 acres of Donald F. Miller Memorial Park from the New York State Canal Corporation. In September 2001 we began our campaign to raise $250,000 to purchase the land in order to assure its long-term future as a camp for youth and to preserve it in its natural state. We established a Land Acquisition Task Force in March 2001, composed of both club members and community leaders. See reverse side for a list of our task force members. We serve upwards of 5,000 area children each year in a variety of ways. In the last three years we have served hundreds of youth groups and other organizations, with groups coming from as far away as Rochester and Maryland to use our park facilities. The Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns uses our camp all summer for their summer day camp. Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Brownies, Girl Scouts, church and school groups, and social organizations from all over Western New York make use of the park. To date we have raised $40,000, including a $25,000 grant from the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation, a $5,000 grant from the 3M Foundation, a $1,000 grant from the Kopczynski Family Foundation, a $500 grant from Wal-Mart's Environmental Grants Program, and $500 from Unifrax Corporation. Nine businesses in the Cities of Tonawanda and North Tonawanda are collecting donations from their customers for our project and numerous small donations have come in from area charitable organizations, businesses, and individuals. We have a number of grant requests under consideration, and are planning fundraising events. We would sincerely appreciate your consideration of a leadership donation in any amount to demonstrate community support for our project to the larger funders we have approached. May we have your assistance? Sincerely, Scott P. Kiedrowski President