Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Another new Life Scout
Ryan has attained this rank. Congrats!! We now have two scouts one step away from the rarified air of Eagle. Could we have both get there this year?
Upcoming events
These are also listed in our calendar to the lower right of these posts, but here they are in another form. I'm only going to mention those a couple weeks out:
Scout Expo, April 30 to May 2 - lots of talk about this one. Shouldn't come as a surprise now.
District Dinner, May 8 - Everyone is strongly encouraged to attend and celebrate the adult leadership in our District. Sign up online by May 1.
Yuba Gap camping, May 21 to 23 - Outing to the high sierra. Deadline to sign up is May 10.
Scout Expo, April 30 to May 2 - lots of talk about this one. Shouldn't come as a surprise now.
District Dinner, May 8 - Everyone is strongly encouraged to attend and celebrate the adult leadership in our District. Sign up online by May 1.
Yuba Gap camping, May 21 to 23 - Outing to the high sierra. Deadline to sign up is May 10.
Finally, an update
At Monday's meeting the two new patrols took a small hike to a shopping center to work as patrols. Successful outing I was told.
Our two older patrols had a fun evening after selecting youth leadership for the remaining outings and projects for this year.
Our next meeting is the deadline for turning in summer camp fees to receive the lower price.
Our two older patrols had a fun evening after selecting youth leadership for the remaining outings and projects for this year.
Our next meeting is the deadline for turning in summer camp fees to receive the lower price.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The sporadic nature continues
Some updates. We have a new Life Scout in Trevor. Congratulations!! We should have another similar announcement in a couple of weeks.
Our troop expanded greatly over the last month. We welcomed an entire new patrol of nine boys. They are the Vikings and we are very glad to have them. We will be growing further shortly as another den of seven boys will be joining us. We've gone from 12 to almost 30 in about a month. Lots to deal with.
We have added two weekend meetings in April. Check out the dates and put them on your calendar.
Our troop expanded greatly over the last month. We welcomed an entire new patrol of nine boys. They are the Vikings and we are very glad to have them. We will be growing further shortly as another den of seven boys will be joining us. We've gone from 12 to almost 30 in about a month. Lots to deal with.
We have added two weekend meetings in April. Check out the dates and put them on your calendar.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Updates and info
I have added a link in the "Useful Scout Links" section to view a promotional video for Camp Fleischmann. Pretty nice actually.
Remember those historic merit badges I mentioned a month or so ago? They're on hold for now. It seems that national couldn't determine the requirements in time. I mean, it's not like they knew this year was coming, right?
For those that may be wondering, we will be having our normally scheduled troop meetings during the weeks that school districts take off for spring break. Each school district seems to take off a different week so if you will be traveling and can't make it to a meeting, that happens sometimes. We understand.
PLC's have been held on the Sunday prior to our monthly committee meeting. This meeting has been moved and will now be held on the same Monday as the committee meeting (the first Monday of each month) from 5:30 to 6:30. The troop and committee meetings will then begin at their normal time of 7:00.
There are other changes to the structure to our troop that will be coming and those will be announced when appropriate.
Remember those historic merit badges I mentioned a month or so ago? They're on hold for now. It seems that national couldn't determine the requirements in time. I mean, it's not like they knew this year was coming, right?
For those that may be wondering, we will be having our normally scheduled troop meetings during the weeks that school districts take off for spring break. Each school district seems to take off a different week so if you will be traveling and can't make it to a meeting, that happens sometimes. We understand.
PLC's have been held on the Sunday prior to our monthly committee meeting. This meeting has been moved and will now be held on the same Monday as the committee meeting (the first Monday of each month) from 5:30 to 6:30. The troop and committee meetings will then begin at their normal time of 7:00.
There are other changes to the structure to our troop that will be coming and those will be announced when appropriate.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
How did/are you celebrating?
February 8th, 2010. Happy birthday to the Boy Scouts of America. It was incorporated on this day 100 years ago. Our Troop, as I am sure is the case with most Troops typically celebrate with Courts of Honor and don't do anything special to commemorate this date. Cub Scouts have always had their Blue & Gold banquet. So this year I thought it was appropriate to hold a Tan & Green pot luck. Our current boys all prepared a main course of either Chili or Spaghetti. A strange combo yes (at least to me), but that's what was decided on. We also greeted our newest scouts that crossed over the previous Saturday. Nine new scouts. Welcome to all of you.
All of the food was delicious. Thanks to all of the boys for their efforts in preparing their dishes and to the families for bring side dishes and desserts. Their was a home/hand made yellow cake with actual butter cream chocolate frosting that one of our families made. Man those store bought ... things ... just can't compare.
All of the food was delicious. Thanks to all of the boys for their efforts in preparing their dishes and to the families for bring side dishes and desserts. Their was a home/hand made yellow cake with actual butter cream chocolate frosting that one of our families made. Man those store bought ... things ... just can't compare.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Wanna earn some retired merit badges?
During this year of celebration, the BSA is offering Scouts a chance to earn up to four merit badges that have been "retired". Some for quite a few years. Here are the four that have been brought back:
The requirements for earning these badges haven't been posted yet, but I will get them as soon as they become available.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I think that would be pretty cool to have a merit badge on my sash that hasn't been available for years. Maybe all four?
If you would like to read a little more about them visit this site. You will probably need to do a copy/paste of the entire link into your web browser address bar :
http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org
The requirements for earning these badges haven't been posted yet, but I will get them as soon as they become available.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I think that would be pretty cool to have a merit badge on my sash that hasn't been available for years. Maybe all four?
If you would like to read a little more about them visit this site. You will probably need to do a copy/paste of the entire link into your web browser address bar :
http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org
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