Sheriff’s Office receives donation from Eastern Travel
NORWICH – The owner of Eastern Travel showed her appreciation to the Chenango County Sheriff’s Office last week, thanking the county law enforcement agency for its continued support of an annual bus trip which gives area a students a chance to visit our nation’s capital.
Cam Morris is the owner and operator of the Oneonta-based motorcoach company. Last week, she traveled to Norwich to present Chenango County Sheriff Ernest R. Cutting, Jr. with a $500 check. The money is intended to help offset the cost to the Sheriff’s Office of sending a deputy and patrol car to accompany the bus company’s annual Safety Patrol trip to Washington D.C.
“Thank you so much for all of your support,” Morris said, as she presented the check to Cutting.
According to Morris, a deputy from the Chenango County Sheriff’s Office has accompanied the trip since its inception some 65 years ago. Having a deputy present during the trip not only reassures parents of their children’s safety and security, she explained, but also helps portray law enforcement officers in a positive light.
Since 1997, Deputy Kent Smith has been designated as the Sheriff’s Office’s representative on the trip.
“It’s a real positive thing for the kids to see (Deputy Smith) interacting,” she said, “He’s essential.”
According to Morris, the annual excursion gives sixth grade students from across Chenango, Delaware and Otsego counties who served on their school’s safety patrol as fifth graders. It was started by the American Automobile Association (AAA). Eastern Travel, which had always provided transportation for the trip, took over the program in the 1990’s.
“We’ve been doing it ever since,” she said.
In its heyday, 14 motorcoaches were required to transport the program’s 600 participants, Morris said. But numbers have declined over the years as area schools have dropped the safety patrol. Now, only 12 districts from the three counties, including three from Chenango - Oxford, Unadilla Valley and Gilbertsville-Mt. Upton - participate. Between 350 to 400 students and chaperones make the trip each year in 7 to 8 buses, she reported.
The trip itself has also evolved over the years. It still takes place Mother’s Day weekend, but Gettysburg is no longer the trip’s second stop as was once the norm. Instead, students spend a day and a half in Philadelphia following their two and a half days in Washington.
According to Cutting, the Sheriff’s Office remains committed to supporting the program because of the way in which it broadens the horizons of its student participants.
“It gives kids the chance to see something outside the local environment ... to go to our nation’s capital and see what our government is all about,” he explained. “It’s quite a rewarding experience for them.”
Cam Morris is the owner and operator of the Oneonta-based motorcoach company. Last week, she traveled to Norwich to present Chenango County Sheriff Ernest R. Cutting, Jr. with a $500 check. The money is intended to help offset the cost to the Sheriff’s Office of sending a deputy and patrol car to accompany the bus company’s annual Safety Patrol trip to Washington D.C.
“Thank you so much for all of your support,” Morris said, as she presented the check to Cutting.
According to Morris, a deputy from the Chenango County Sheriff’s Office has accompanied the trip since its inception some 65 years ago. Having a deputy present during the trip not only reassures parents of their children’s safety and security, she explained, but also helps portray law enforcement officers in a positive light.
Since 1997, Deputy Kent Smith has been designated as the Sheriff’s Office’s representative on the trip.
“It’s a real positive thing for the kids to see (Deputy Smith) interacting,” she said, “He’s essential.”
According to Morris, the annual excursion gives sixth grade students from across Chenango, Delaware and Otsego counties who served on their school’s safety patrol as fifth graders. It was started by the American Automobile Association (AAA). Eastern Travel, which had always provided transportation for the trip, took over the program in the 1990’s.
“We’ve been doing it ever since,” she said.
In its heyday, 14 motorcoaches were required to transport the program’s 600 participants, Morris said. But numbers have declined over the years as area schools have dropped the safety patrol. Now, only 12 districts from the three counties, including three from Chenango - Oxford, Unadilla Valley and Gilbertsville-Mt. Upton - participate. Between 350 to 400 students and chaperones make the trip each year in 7 to 8 buses, she reported.
The trip itself has also evolved over the years. It still takes place Mother’s Day weekend, but Gettysburg is no longer the trip’s second stop as was once the norm. Instead, students spend a day and a half in Philadelphia following their two and a half days in Washington.
According to Cutting, the Sheriff’s Office remains committed to supporting the program because of the way in which it broadens the horizons of its student participants.
“It gives kids the chance to see something outside the local environment ... to go to our nation’s capital and see what our government is all about,” he explained. “It’s quite a rewarding experience for them.”
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