Troop 22 Frozen Yogurt Fundraiser

Yogurt Time Cafe (Antelope, CA) has kindly offered to help our Scouts with their fundraising efforts, just mention "Boy Scout Troop 22"! The fundraiser is set to happen on Wednesday, May 17th from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM. All proceeds for this fundraiser will be used to help get Troop 22 new camping gear. Treat yourself to a delicious smoothie, frozen yogurt, fruit sorbet, or shaved ice. Who knew helping the community could be so tasty?

If you'd like more information, please follow this link:

Troop 22 Frozen Yogurt Fundraiser

UPDATED 6/10!! Start thinking about next year

August will bring us two additional meetings that are necessary to plan for 2011.  The first one will be August 7th.  This will be the PLC's annual planning meeting.  The PLC will come together to plan their outings and goals for 2011.

The second one will be August 14th.  This one will be to plan the finances for 2011.  We need to know how much we anticipate spending on things like badges, replacement gear, outings and how much fundraising we need to help the boys accomplish their goals and attend all the outings being planned.

Both of these meetings are scheduled to begin at 2pm and take as long as they take to complete.  I will let you know the location when I solidify it.

**UPDATED 6/10**
We are confirmed to meet for the finances meeting (Aug. 14th) at the North Highlands-Antelope Library beginning at 2pm.  This library is located on Antelope Road just west of Walerga Road.

The library was booked for the 7th so I am still looking for a meeting location.  I will try to get Mountain Mikes at Walerga and Elverta.

Our weekend

Two events on Saturday.  The first was a flag ceremony for the Relay for Life.  This is an annual fundraiser the the American Cancer Society.  This took place at San Juan High School on their football field.  Participants were to walk around the track portion for 24 hours to raise money.  This is apparently the largest fundraiser in the world.  Pretty neat to see all the tents set up for participants to use.  The flag ceremony went well.  We had 9 boys show up and that made me very happy.

Second was the day hike.  Seven of the boys at the ceremony joined us for the day hike.  I was a little disappointed that more didn't join us.  The surprising thing to me was that I figured the hike would be made up of mostly our young scouts, but only two of the seven were from the Vikings or Flaming Monkeys.  Those of us that did the hike had a good time.  We hiked from Camp Pollock into Old Sacramento.  This is roughly 4 1/2 miles.  Then we participated in a scavenger hunt that took us to all corners of Old Sac.  This scavenger hunt was designed by one the stores in Old Sac (trailmex.net - yes, that is the name of the store) and after completing it we were able to pick up a small gift item from their treasure chest.

After this the boys enjoyed one of the many candy stores down there and even purchased a couple of pieces.  After hiking back to Camp Pollock we put roughly 10 miles on our shoes.  Not a bad day.

I plan on doing this hike again in the near future so that everyone else can have the same opportunity.  Next up though is another day hike.  This one will be at Lake Berryessa.  Come join me and lets see what we're made of.

Popcorn sales

This weekend launched our efforts to sell popcorn in what is called a 'show and sell'. Think of when Girl Scouts show up in front of a store and sell cookies. The same thing, but as Boy Scouts we sell popcorn. This is the first time our troop has done the show and sell since I've been with the troop. We are selling all this weekend and also next weekend (August 14 thru 16) at the Wal-Mart on the corner of Antelope Road and Roseville Road.

So far it seems to be going very well for us. The nicest surprise has been the straight donations we have received. People wanting to help us out without purchasing the popcorn. That's obviously best for us as we get to keep all of that for our use. So, if you have any friends, and I know for a fact that some of you do, tell them to stop by and see us and buy some popcorn. Or not.

Fundraising

It has become painfully aware that we need to have fundraising projects (other than the annual popcorn sales) on a regular basis. We discussed this at last nights committee meeting at length. Deborah has brought some great ideas to the table for us to make use of. I ask that all of us keep our eyes and ears open to any other possibilities that we can use.

Caroling

We went Christmas caroling last night. Each year we visit a senior living home and serenade them with our bad singing. The funny thing about this evening is that every year the boys complain and say they don't want to go, and then they have a good time. The residents enjoy seeing the boys as well.

Last night the star of the show was the littlest member of one the families that joined us. She was crawling around and drawing all of the attention away from us!! Wait, maybe that's a good thing.

After wearing out our singing voices (or their ear drums, not sure which) we went out for pizza. Mountain Mikes in Antelope allowed us to have a fundraiser at their restaurant. Unfortunately, it didn't look like many others than ourselves came by to support us this time. It was our first time trying this type of fundraiser, so we'll see if we can't do a better job next time.

Dec. 8 meeting

Tonight was our last Court of Honor for 2008. We passed out the last few merit badges that the boys earned and awarded those boys that advanced to the next level in rank.

I was also the evening that the 2 boys that sold the most popcorn got their award of smearing me with a pie. D did a real good job. A lot was left on my face. G however, got a little cocky about his 'skills'. I was able to duck out of the way and watch the majority of what was on his plate slide to the floor. After a few seconds of chasing each other, I let him put the remainder in my face (after I got some in his hair, ha ha ha).

After that we ate cookies and laughed.

It was a good evening.

Christmas Wreath Fundraiser

We have started the annual fundraiser of selling Christmas wreaths. If you haven't received your flyer, you can visit the link below-right to see what is offered and print out an order form. The proceeds from this help out the purchase or replace gear, among other things.