Changes in Caving trip, Wilderness Surivial instead

A busy weekend if you attended the Order of the Arrow Fall Fellowship Weekend, and earlier for our Nunne-Hi Chapter meeting at Briarwood Presbyterian Scout Meeting Place.

Please encourage attendance tonight for a good turnout for our Troop elections. We will also do our Troop Scheduling for the Bluff Park Annual Art Show this weekend...we are asking that all active leaders and all Scouts come either for the afternoon or morning periods, or all day if you can to help out. Need help for our set up starting at 6:00 AM, then from 9:00 to Noon and particularly from Noon to 5:00 PM for closing....we will sign up for these tonight at the Hut.

Since attendance at the cave is going to be too low to keep the price down for those who want to go (70.00) we are going to instead sell doing "Wilderness Survival," a merit badge and basic survival techniques that weekend instead of going to TN. In the cave's place, if they ones who want to will, we will go to Oak Mountain State Park for the weekend (Fri-Sun) and earn the merit badge.....Dr. Frank Nelson will be the facilitator if Mr. Branin can get us a reservation..if not then to Tanner Hill, or DeSoto State Park...If we go to Oak Mountain, the cost will be 25.00 or so. inclusive of all. the farther out, the more of course for fuel, with DeSoto the more expensive depending on fuel...So we will see tonight when the reports are in and the hands go up.

We will be having guest speaker on Oct 6 and 13, and Dr. Nelson, do they want to go on the weekend for the merit badge will speak both days on Wilderness Survival.

Mr. Buddy Hawkins will be here tonight for a few to show/tell the boys how easy it is to sell popcorn....his son Charles set records when they were in 321 selling popcorn in the area. Remember, though we will be selling popcorn for the Troop at the Art Show and at the Tree lot, we promised the boys that all they sold individually from their homes, the profit cut normally going to the Troop (35%) will be theirs to keep for Scouting trips or whatever they choose to use it for as incentive to sell.Wreath sales are also now going on..we set the goal of six per family in the past, please try to do that again to assure our operating budget for 09 is where it should be. We will also make some funds at the Art Show as we normally do which contributes to our budget.

On Trees...remember the start selling the day after Thanksgiving, so watch for the announce and to be posted troop schedule. We are going to have to use some extra help on putting our tree signs up, in high population/traffic points in the community, then watching them, to prevent them from getting stolen the first week to attract new buyers other than our regular customers that will ask some time above and beyond the normal lot work...

Please encourage attendance tonight to take care of what we just talked to...

YiS

Dan s "Delivering the Promise"