Troop News

The trip this weekend at Oak Mountain was one of our best for completing the wilderness survival merit Thanks to all the leaders who attended,  the subject was covered in more detail than ever...there were about 30 total in attendance......the weather held, though warm..and the meals were well prepared by the boys.

Congratulations to Mr. Stocks for picking up his CDL for driving the bus.

The Troop schedule mentioned in earlier memos still stands for coming  Troop activities.....

Thanks to Mr. Stocks, all of the Summer camp merit badge standings are posted on the Web site and on the side door of the Hut .  The Scout needs to complete any incompletes  as quickly as possible in order to finish off the badge.

Put Dr. Frank Nelson in yours and the family's prayers...He was not able to make the trip this weekend due to a stroke with one of his carotid arteries being partially blocked.. his sister states that he will need more surgery during the coming week with hopes of overcoming some right arm paralysis and some speech difficulty.  As we know, Frank is a solid building block in the Troop, active in the City of Hoover and two universities, and an Eagle Scout, whose contributions to the Troop's success is long and strong.

There will be a short quartermasters take down (this can  be handled by the PLC, so quartermasters need not attend)  for two tents starting at 7:00 PM, July 30th, followed the PLC and the Troop Committee meeting at 8:00 PM.

As earlier mentioned, S and S Hardy, and M Gunn will be traveling to the National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC) with about 100 other OA Members of the Coosa Lodge (Greater Alabama Council)  to compete in ceremony competition as  well as attend training.  This  National Confernece occurs every two years and is attended by over 7000 Order of the Arrow members throughout the country at the University of Michigan at Lancing. They will return next Saturday evening.  Two years ago it was attended by K Berry, J Ng, P Kidd, J Kunka.

Thanks for all you support and for encouraging attendance.

YiS Dan s

                                               "Delivering the Promise"