Troop News

A good weekend for the Troop....

Forty Scouts and Leaders traveled to Buck's Pocket State Park for rappelling this weekend.  We had no problems with locating in  the primitive site and camped similarly to last year.  Thanks to Mr. Chris Turner for hauling the Troop Trailer and for Mr. Presley's maiden trip for  driving the Tank.

The 120 foot  rappelling sites were obstructed by blown down trees this year due to weather, so we doubled up where we normally start in the morning, giving the Scout and leaders an opportunity for multiple descents.....Normally, one or two of the older Scouts are given the opportunity to go Australian, but this year all of the Venture Scouts who wanted to, they  went twice Australian  if they wanted to in addition to the regular descent ..that included Mrs. Bennett and Mrs. Culwell who also did the Australian....

For the first time in memory, we had two dry food boxes taken from the campsite when we were away on activity....patrol sharing took care of the dinner meal with no other items that we noticed missing.  

Congratulations to Leaders Chris Arnold, Regina Young, Paul Young, and Jeff Estes for completing  the SMLT course at  Cantebury Methodist  this weekend also.  Congratulations again to Paul as he has now finished both parts A and B since he completed OLS earlier and earns the "trained" patch for completion of both.

  The course was, as usual,  well done with comments from the graduates that "if you are a leader and have not attended, you should to assure you have a handle on what the program for the Scouts is about."  An offering for SMLT (Scoutmaster Leader Training)  and the companion course OLS (Outdoor Leadership Training) will be available in the Spring and Fall of 2013. If you are an active leader with us and want the "trained" credential as a registered leader w/the Troop,  please plan on attending  the two companion courses.  SMLT and OLS graduates should be considering the Council Wood Badge courses also available during the year, adding more depth to your understanding and actively contributing to the Program. Schedules are found on the Council and District calendars at: 1BSA.org

THIS MONDAY, Sept 24:   All those Scouts and leaders who attended the trip this weekend should be at the Hut tomorrow (9/24) at 6:30 PM  to assist with  taking down and storing our gear..this is a requirement for patrol leaders, assistant patrol leaders, and Troop and patrol quartermasters.  It takes about forty minutes, uniform not required, with everyone helping out...

The Patrol Leader's Planning Conference (PLC)  will start at 7:00 PM ..uniform not required....patrol leaders, ast partrol leaders, and ast senior patrol leaders are required to attend to plan activities for September and October. If you son is one of these and cannot attend he need to assure someone sits in his place.

The Troop Committee meeting begins at 8:00 PM....if you haven't attended w/us recently or at all, or for a first time, please count on joining us.

At this time there are no Troop activities announced or planned for the weekend of 9/29/30/12.

At this time it looks like we have about 15 Order of the Arrow members attending the Fall Fellowship weekend at Camp Sequoyah during the weekend of October 5-7. Troop participation at the annual Bluff Park Art show is also scheduled for (October 6) the weekend with as many as possible assisting as we usually do.

Thanks for all your support and for encouraging attendance.

YiS Dan s                                  "Delivering the Promise"