The document provides information about upcoming projects and events at Fort Drum including: 1) The Exchange Mini-Mall HVAC project is scheduled to start on April 2nd and will require closing the retail sales floor for 30 days while work is completed, but the Northgate Express will operate 24 hours during this time. 2) A schedule of upcoming events in March including indoor paintball, a women's history event, a triathlon, St. Patrick's dinner, a spouses' silent auction, and Maple Days. 3) Details about the 2012-2013 Army Emergency Relief MG James Ursano Scholarship program for dependent children of soldiers including eligibility, award details, required documents, and deadlines.

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Task Force Tigershark
FRSA Flash
Special Notes of Interest
Drainage work outside Mt Belve-
24 hour Shoppette on Belvedere of 30 days during the construction dere entrance gate has been de-
period. layed from 19 Mar 2012 until the
The Exchange Mini-Mall HVAC pro-  Mini-mall will be limited to a 26th of March 2012, this work will
ject is scheduled to start on Mon- very small assortment of retail take three weeks to complete.
day, 02 April. The project is a base items (tobacco, and carbonated Closing of roughly 1000 feet of one
initiative to upgrade the HVAC in beverages). lane will take place on a daily bases
the existing Mini-Mall complex. during the median work. They will
One of the requirements for the  Popeye's will not be affected by pull the barrels and signs into the
work to be completed is to have the project and will be open median each night and reopen all
the retail sales floor closed for a 30 regular hours of operation. lanes.
-day period while the contractors
complete the ductwork in the main  Barber Shop, Laundry Road construction of the
retail sales floor. intersection of Military Rd and Mt
 Alternations and Laundromat Belvedere will start immediately
The Exchange understands closure will not be affected during this after and will last approximately
of the retail sales floor will affect period. two weeks.
the service to the community. In
order to minimize a disruption of Northgate Express will begin 24
service, the Northgate Express will hour operation starting on Mon-
open 24 hours during the time- day, 02 April until the Mini-mall
frame the Mini-mall is under reno- project is completed.
vation during the month of April.
Appropriate marketing initiatives
The proposal is the following:. to inform the community of these
 Beginning Monday, 02 April: changes will occur, and further
Mini-mall hours of operation changes will be update in this Flash
will be 0600 - 2000 hrs for a as well.
minimum

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March 2012
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Schedule of Events
 March 30 – Indoor Paintball – Youth Center  March 29 Women’s History Month
 March 23 – In Her Shoes: Living With Domestic 1100-1300 The Commons
Violence – Army Community Service
 March 29 Mountain Remembrance
 March 16 – Indoor Triathlon – Monti Physical 1630-1700 Main Post
Fitness Center Chapel
 March 17—St. Patrick’s Dinner, 1700, The Com-  March 30 Retirement Ceremony
mons 1600-1700 MPA
 March 21—Spouses’ Silent Auction, 1800 The  March 31 Maple Days
Commons 1000-1400 45IN Hill
 March 22— Volunteer of the Month Ceremony, Water Tower
1030-1130, The Commons
 March 24, 25— Maple Days ,1000-1400, 45IN
Hill (Water Tower)
 March 26— DIVISION DONSA
 March 26—CYSS Child Development Centers
Closed (ALL), All Day, All Location

3. Volunteers needed!!
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Location:
Pine Plains Complex

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The Spouses' Club Fort Drum is now accepting scholarship applica-
tions for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Eligible individuals are:
 Spouses and children of active duty, reserve, or retired active duty military (officer or
enlisted)
 -time accredited degree pro-gram during the upcoming 2012
-2013 academic year (fall & spring terms).

communities.
The application can be found at www.fdosc.com, under "Forms" and must be postmarked
by March 31, 2012.
Please direct any questions to Scholarship Chair Mary Gauvin at ftdrumscholarships@hotmail.com.

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2012-2013 MG James Ursano Scholarship Program
for
Dependent Children of Active, Retired and Deceased Soldiers
GENERAL INFORMATION
Army Emergency Relief (AER) is a private non-profit organization with the primary mission of providing
financial assistance to Soldiers and their dependents in time of valid emergency need. The MG James
Ursano Scholarship Program was established in 1976 as a secondary mission to help Army families with
undergraduate college expenses for their dependent children.
SCHOLARSHIP DETAILS
The MG James Ursano Scholarship Program offers scholarships based on financial need as evi-
denced by information submitted on the FAFSA. The MG James Ursano Program also offers scholarship
funds for academic excellence and leadership/achievement.
The MG James Ursano Scholarship Program is not an entitlement and applications are not auto-
matically approved.
The MG James Ursano Scholarship Program will not be awarded to any student for more than four
academic years, for second undergraduate degrees, or for graduate degree programs.
The scholarship funds are mailed directly to the school and are split evenly between the fall and
spring semesters, terms or quarters. The funds may be used for tuition, fees, books, supplies, and school
room and board (either on or off campus).
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Student must be enrolled full time as an undergraduate student for the entire academic year at a
school accredited by the U.S. Department of Education. (Because financial need is already met, students
attending Service Academies are not eligible.)
Student must maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale
Student must be a dependent of a Soldier on federal active duty, of a retired Soldier, or of a de-
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ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF Scholarship Program cont.
To be a dependent, the student must:
Be under the age of 23 (Eligibility ends at the end of the semester/term in which the student reaches
their 23rd birthday. Example – turning 23 in December would mean the scholarship would be awarded for fall
term ONLY.)
Be registered in DEERS
Remain unmarried for the entire academic year.
Not be a member of the National Guard, Reserves, or other active duty military branch
DOCUMENTS AND DEADLINES
1. APPLICATION – APRIL 2, 2012
The 2012-2013 MG James Ursano Scholarship Application is available on our website,
WWW.AERHQ.ORG after December 1, 2011, and must be submitted online by April 2, 2012. If it is not
possible to submit the application online, a paper application may be requested using the contact
information at the end of this document.
2. TRANSCRIPTS – APRIL 2, 2012
Transcripts must include the student’s fall 2011 grades and cumulative GPA based on a 4.0 scale.
Unofficial transcripts are acceptable as long as they include the student’s name, school name, and
cumulative GPA based on a 4.0 scale.
3. 2012-2013 STUDENT AID REPORT (SAR) – MAY 1, 2012
The FAFSA requires an annual application and can be completed at www.fafsa.ed.gov after January 1,
2012, for the 2012-2013 Academic Year. The result from the 2012-2013 FAFSA Application is the
2012-2013 Student Aid Report (SAR) which can be downloaded from the FAFSA website and
submitted to AER. We require the COMPLETE SAR – please see our SAR instructions for more
information.
4. FEDERAL TITLE 10 ORDERS (if applicable) – APRIL 2, 2012
If Soldier is Title 10 Active Guard or Reserve, submit a copy of orders showing federal activation for the
entire academic year (August 2012 – May 2013).

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ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF Scholarship Program cont.
5. CASUALTY REPORT (if applicable) – APRIL 2, 2012
If Soldier died while on active duty, submit a copy of casualty report.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Email all documentation as PDF attachments to URSANO@AERHQ.ORG by the deadline dates.
Documents that are late, incomplete or illegible will not be accepted. If email is not possible, documents
may be mailed to:
Headquarters, Army Emergency Relief
MG James Ursano Scholarship Program
200 Stovall Street
Alexandria, VA 22332-0600
If mailed, enclose a self-addressed postcard to receive acknowledgement of receipt. Emailed docu-
ments will be acknowledged. Please do not email AND mail documents as receipt of duplicate
documents delays processing time.
TIME TABLE
December 2011 Application available at WWW.AERHQ.ORG
April 2, 2012 Application due
April 2, 2012 Transcripts due (received by email or postmarked by)
May 1, 2012 2012-2013 SAR due (received by email or postmarked by)
June 2012 Scholarship Award Letters and Agreements mailed to recipients
July 9, 2012 Scholarship Agreements due (received by email or postmarked by)
July 10 – 30, 2012 Scholarship funds mailed to schools
PLEASE NOTE:
AER assumes no responsibility for applications or supporting documents not received by this office or not received in a
timely manner. We do not assume responsibility for items mailed to this address with insufficient postage and subsequently
returned to the applicant by the postal service. All correspondence to the student will be sent to the address listed on the
application until a change is received in writing to the contrary. We do not assume any responsibility for letters from AER not
delivered to the applicant. All changes to information furnished to AER must be submitted in writing. DOCUMENTS RE-
CEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE DATE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

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Red Schoolhouse Maple
"Pure Maple Goodness"
Let’s go back in
and Saturday, March 31st from 1000-
When the first European settlers ar- 1400 each day. There will be free maple
rived, the Indians traded maple sugar syrup tastings, demonstrations, tours, a
time, to a slower with them and eventually taught the NEW nature trail to explore and free
pace, where the settlers the secrets of the maple sug- maple cotton candy.
simple things in life aring process.
brought great pleasure. Can you re-
member Sunday mornings where
piping hot pancakes were served with Fun Maple Facts
whipped butter and warm pure ma-
ple syrup? My family eagerly
awaited each pancake as it came off
the griddle. Did you know...
Pure Maple Syrup is one of life’s sim-
ple pleasures. Pure maple syrup is an 1. It takes 42 gallons of sap to produce
all natural product with no artificial one gallon of syrup?
ingredients to detract from that un- 2. The United States produced 1.8 mil-
mistakable maple flavor. Commer- lion gallons in 2008?
cially produced pancake syrups are 3. Maple sap runs in early spring when
loaded with unwanted ingredients nighttime temperatures are below
that have absolutely no nutritional freezing and daytime temps are above.
value. Who wants to serve their fam- 4. Pure Maple Syrup is an "all natural"
ily all of those preservatives anyway? product with no additional ingredi-
Start your own family tradition and ents.
create memories that will last a life-
time. Make your family pancakes
with pure maple syrup next Sunday, I Maple Weekends Oswego
bet they’ll be asking for more! County
History of Maple Syrup Several maple producers will host
tours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday
A
and Sunday, March 17 and 18, and the
n old Iroquois legend describes following weekend, March 24 and 25,
for the New York State Maple Produc-
the accidental discovery of the sugar- ers Weekends.
making process. A hunter returned to
his dwelling and found an enticing
sweetness in the air around the kettle
in which his mate was boiling meat.
The fluid in the kettle, he learned, was F ort Drum Mobilization and
sap and had been collected beneath a Deployment
broken maple limb.
Maple Days Event… Fun for all
To make their sugar, the Indians
would cut a slash in the maple tree
and collect the sap as it dripped out.
Logs were then hollowed out, and ages."
filled with the fresh sap. White-hot
field stones were then added to cause Come celebrate a popular North Coun-
the sap to boil. The Indians would try tradition with the Fort Drum Forest
process the sap through the syrup Management Program at this year’s .
stage to end with crystallized sugar, Join us at the Sugar Shack on 45th In-
which did not spoil when stored. fantry Drive on Saturday, March 24th

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M a r c h F a c t s & T r i v i a
Birthstone: Aquamarine Zodiac: Pisces and Aries Cross Month and Social
believed to have healing Workers Month
Famous Birthdays: Sin-
powers for the eyes and
clair Lewis, Ronald
throat overall wellbeing.
Reagan, Abraham Lincoln,
Flower: Jonquil (aka Daf- Charles Darwin,
fodil or Narcissus) symbol-
Thomas Edison, Gertrude
izing friendship and do-
Stein, Rosa Parks,
mestic happiness
National What Month? -
Fun Fact: March 21st is
Irish American Month,
the first day of Spring!
Music in our Schools
March was named after the Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!
Month, Women’s History
Roman God Mars
Month, Poetry Month, Red