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Welcome to Boy Scout Troop 22 in Antelope, CA!

Troop 22 is chartered by the Air Force Sergeant's Association and meets at VFW Post 4647 in Antelope, CA.

We are an active group of Scouts that plans monthly outings, bicycle treks, community service events and more. While we'll occasionally update this page, you'll be better able to keep up with our adeventures by visiting us on Facebook. You're welcome to visit Troop 22 on Monday nights, 7PM at VFW Post 4647 or contact the Troop leadership via our Facebook page or email -

Troop 22 Facebook Page scouttroop22@gmail.com

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Fall Food Drive For VFW Post 4647 Antelope, CA

Heyo friends and family! Troop 22's chartering organization, VFW Post 4647 Antelope, CA is holding a food drive to support veterans and their families this Thanksgiving. 

Please consider stopping by the VFW Post to drop off non-perishables, or give them to a Troop 22 Boy Scout who will bring them to their regular meetings. 

Frozen Turkeys are being collected on November 18th-20th during their regular hours.

Canned and boxed goods are needed:

Stuffing
Potatoes
Cranberries
Green Beans
Corn
Yams 
Gravy, etc.

A donation box is located at the VFW front door. Let's show our support and round up some donations! Thanksgiving boxes go to local veterans in need.

A Note From VFW Post 4647:

We are looking for donations for our Thanksgiving food baskets for our wonderful Veterans and their families. Canned and boxed goods, money donations and of course Turkeys. Turkeys can be dropped off at the post from November 18th - 20th. There is a donation box near the front door for the canned and boxed goods. Please contact Meg Abbott for money donations at the post. Thank you for your help!!

Thanks for all you do to support Troop 22! 

Visit Troop 22!

Feel free to pay us a visit, we'd be happy to have you! Troop 22 can be found at VFW Post 4647 every Monday at 7:00 PM. We'll be updating this blog periodically, or you can "like" our Facebook page if you'd like to know what we're up to.

See you soon!

Further Adventures....

Wondering what we've been up to? Wanting to join us in our further adventures? Well Then, we cordially invite you to join us on Facebook! 

Boy Scout Troop 22

Twilight Camp redux

Twilight Camp was a success.  The Friday Webelos overnighter was also a huge success.  Ryan did a fantastic job and received quite a few compliments (we even received our very first comment to the blog concerning his handling of the campfire program).  There were around 40 Webelos scouts and their guardians that camped overnight.  We were able to have the BB gun range open on Saturday morning so these boys were able to have it all to themselves.  If you were there, thanks.

District Twilight Camp

I have been working(?) at Twilight Camp all week.  Working is really a stretch.  I've handled the MC chores and smiled alot as I tell various adults you can't park there, or park like that, or you need to wear this to prove you're supposed to be here.  Tonight is the Webelos overnighter and Ryan is in charge of the campfire.  He's been working on skits with the dens and also compiling a list of filler skits/songs so we have a good campfire program.  We'll be retiring a flag at the close of the program, so that will hopefully prove to be a special moment for the Webelos in attendance.

Court of Honor

What a turnout!!!  The room was filled to (almost) capacity!  We added a fourth row of tables for the anticipated crowd and it's a good thing we did.  For a simple, basic meal of hot dogs and picnic sides, that was a fabulous meal.  Maybe I was just in need of a chili dog.

Lots of rank advancement, a few merit badges and some special awards were handed out.  A couple of nice presentations were shown.  The first one was to help a scout finish up the Citizenship in the Community merit badge and the second was from the troop historian.  It covered our participation in the VFW Memorial Day Parade.  Good job to both of you!

Lots of talk concerning summer camp also.  We're under a month until we leave.  Hopefully you'll be able to attend.  Too much fun to miss.  Trust me on that one!

Memorial Day weekend and other stuff

Relatively busy weekend.  Everyone should know by now what is happening so I'm not going to to rehash it here.  I've heard from a couple of families that will not be able to attend to our events this weekend, but I expect to see everyone else.  So, I'll see you this weekend.

I have only heard from two families about the Scout Night at the River Cats.  Does anyone want to take advantage of this?  Let me know.

Weekly meeting notes

The Vikings and Flaming Monkeys worked on some Citizenship items last night.  I have a DVD that was created as an Eagle project a few years back and we watched this last night.  It covers flag etiquette and ceremonies.  Afterward the boys folded some flags that are ready to be retired.  We also started an Honor Guard and will rotate all the boys through it so they can learn proper methods for a flag ceremony.

The older boys held a PLC and made some decisions for the Troop while the younger boys were watching the DVD.  We have a new SPL in Trevor and his ASPL will be Brandon M.  Good luck to both of you.  We will seat these and other boys into their positions at the next Court of Honor in June.

10-19 Meeting

Productive evening. The boys began work on two Eagle required merit badges, all by themselves. They plan on finishing them up before Thanksgiving.

Been absent awhile

Haven't updated the blog recently, don't know why. So lets get us up to date.

Since I wrote last, the big event was summer camp. Other than that, we have had our normal weekly meetings. So lets talk about summer camp.

Six of our boys and five adults went with us to Camp Fleischmann in Chester. This is our seventh or eighth year of attending this camp and the boys still love it and want to come back. While there, each of the boys earned at least 4 merit badges each. Only a couple of partials were brought back, so that's a good thing.

Best of all was that each of them took and earned the Citizenship in the World badge. This is an Eagle required badge. And when I say 'earned', I mean it. The counselor for this badge tested each boy at the end of the session before signing off the blue card. A couple of Troop 22's adults were recruited to help with the teaching of this badge and I was asked to help out with the testing at the end of the session. There were 4 or 5 out of 52 that signed up for the class that he wouldn't sign off on. This is a good thing because those boys that he didn't sign off weren't ready for this badge. They were too young to understand what it meant.

We didn't earn any special awards while at camp, but we did get many compliments on the cleanliness of our campsite. We also got many comments of one of our camp gadgets that one of our boys put together. One of the pet peeves I and other adults have while at camp is having day packs left wherever they get put down. So Steven built a day pack hanging station. It is the second one he has built for us and I think it needs to become a Troop 22 camp site fixture from here on out. Job well done!!

This years summer camp was different than years past because we left a day early. We broke for camp on Saturday so we could get our site up and running and not have to worry about it on Sunday, the actual start of the session. It worked out great and we plan on doing this in future years.

During the week we had some guests visit us as well. Mr. David and his son Andrew stopped by as well as Mr. Fox and his daughter Katie. That was a nice surprise to have some visitors. Remember, just because you may not be able to join us for the week, it doesn't mean that you can't come up and join us for a day or two. You are always welcome! Just make sure you bring snacks!!!

I'll end this entry here. Others will follow concerning specific topics. So keep a look out for more frequent updates.

VFW Memorial Day Parade

A beautiful day! The weather was great, and the boys did an outstanding job on their float! We took part in the annual parade that works its way down Watt Ave in North Highlands. There were lots of scouting units out. Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts. It was great to see all of them. Our boys did a fantastic job of passing out fliers and Boys Life mini-mags to drum up membership for the Scouting program.

Our float was a thing to see. A flat bed trailer with an old style canvas tent. In front of that was a fire pit with a fake fire (nicely created by T by the way) and a 7-foot tall tripod. Attached to the tripod was our Fleur de lis insignia. Streamers and flags were hanging over the vehicle pulling the trailer as well as the trailer itself.

At the awards ceremony later in the day, Troop 22 took 2nd place for their float! I have the trophy and will present it at our next Court of Honor.

Cross/Flag placement

A few of our boys showed up to our annual tribute at East Lawn Memorial to those that made this Nation of ours a continuing possibility. Thank you to those that took part. And thank you to those that gave the ultimate sacrifice so I could write this.