 Trooper Island was started in 1965 by some troopers on Island down on Dale Hollow Lake. I think the closest town to it is probably Albany. We take from each post we take about 32 kids a year down somewhere average of 700 800 kids a year statewide. We take kids that are 10 to 12 years old and we like to have kids that may not have a chance to go someplace during the summer if you want to say a little more underprevious than some of the other ones that don't have a chance to go out and do things like some other kids would. The first day they go in they register for whatever they want to take and they are actually having a little bit of training and canoeing, archery, our rifles swimming if they can't swim and they want to learn they can while they're there. We have different things going on. There's actually a small church service on Wednesday afternoon and we also have a like a question-answer session with troopers. We don't wear uniforms during the whole time we're there. We're dressed as kids would be but we will put our uniforms on Wednesday afternoon or Wednesday night and talk to them as troopers to let them know that we are a civilian life just like they would have and we're just troopers when we're in uniform and you know we're there for them any time. We will go with the hazard post also. We will leave Monday morning the 8th of July and return Friday afternoon the 12th. I'd like to have as soon as possible to get the numbers and stuff because we've got a lot of work to do on each application. I can take them up to just a few days before but I'd like to have them as early as possible.