Court of Honor Apr 30 6:30pm@BPUMC

We had well attended meeting last night with a couple of issues:


After storing and packing all the recently used Troop gear we have come up short three sets of poles for our back packing tents.....please check with your son to make sure they weren't  taken home after the back packing trip and left on his pack.


Rather than pass out the Troop composite pictures last night,  we decided to hold them until the Court of Honor where there will be more room for their laying out, recognized, and picked up compared to the congestion in the Hut last night.


Congratulations to Mr. Greg Stocks for earning his CDL in order to drive the Troop Bus,  to Mr. Crabtree for completing his first weekend of the Wood Badge requirement for leaders, again to Mrs Russell, Mr. Horne, Mr. Dinella, Mr. Ponder, and Mr. Fox, for attending and  completing the OLS( Outdoor Leadership Training) recently at Camp Sequoyah.  Congratulations to Ben Chaney for recruiting (earning the BSA reucruiting patch)  his brother Liam into the Troop,  and not finally,  thanks and congratulations to Nick Bolding for planning to attend the up and coming National Youth Leadership Training given by the Council this coming Spring.


As is a growing tradition, we will need the names of the Scouts who will be able to place small  American flags on 1400 grave sites at the Montevallo National Veterans Cemetery.....if we have twenty or so we will take the bus, leaving the Hut at about 8:00 AM on Sunday May 26, in the Class A Plus uniform and return around 10:30 AM. All the Troops in the Shelby, Birmingham, Three River, and Vulcan Districts are being notified of the event....talk this over with the Scout and if he can attend, please reply so we can get an idea of our numbers....personal transportation for families living out that way works and joining us there will work also.


The Troop  will also be assisting,  as we do every year,  with the memorial service for Veterans at the Veterans Memorial  Park Exit on 459 (same exit as the Scout Service Center) at 3:00 PM on May 27th..the uniform will also be Class A Plus and the Troop normally carries the flags and read the dedication for the Men and Women who have served. We normally meet there with individual means of transportation.   If your family will be in town,  talk this over with the Scout and send a reply that he will be attending.


Please consider taking time for both of these events with the Troop. They are excellent vehicles to express his recognition of the living and deceased veterans who have served their country.  


We will normally meet a half hour early at the location  for the activities set up.


Troop Court of Honor:

The Troop's annual,   Spring Court of Honor is scheduled this coming Monday, April 30th,  at 6:30 PM in the Reid Crotty Fellow ship Hall of the the Bluff Park United Methodist Church. Uniform is Class A Plus, or the khaki shirt, Scout Shorts, Scout socks, Scout belt, Merit badge sash, and Troop Neckerchief.


This is a "three times a year"  "family affair" recognizing the Scout's advancement in rank, the awarding of merit badges, a guest speaker concerning the "Friends of Scouting" campaign, an on-going slide show in review of past Troop activites,  Scout and leader announcements,  personalized remarks about Troop, team,  and individual activities,  all accompanied  with a meal of more than you can eat.


The Venture patrol is the host patrol and will  arrive at 6:00 PM to assist with the set up..


The meal format remains family Pot-Luck dinner style:


Venture:  entre and salad or bread side dishes
Fox:        entre and vegetable side dish
Shark:     entre and a desert dish
Phoenix:  entre and  a desert dish
Eagles:    entre and salad or a bread side dish
Crocs:      entre and a vegetable dish
Scorpions: entre and  a salad, or  a bread, or a desert, or a vegetable dish


The Troop provides the condiments and iced lemonade and water


The Agenda is attached..please make a copy for your son as well and assure he brings it to the Court, especially if he is speaking.


Thanks for all your support, assistance, and for encouraging attendance..


YiS  Dan s                       "Delivering the Promise"