Attention All Scouts & Parents:

This weekend was our last campout of the year.  We now need all of the Troop gear cleaned, assembled and turned in at this Wednesday's Troop meeting.  Please check your basements, garages, bedrooms, sheds and anywhere else our Troop gear may be hiding. 

Provide all completed blue cards or rank completion data before the end of the May 23 meeting for this Spring's Court of Honor.

Family Life Merit Badge Individual scouts meet at troop meetings to get sign off and review

BRING YOUR WORK BOOKS TO EVERY Troop Meeting every week to get signed off.

All Scouts working on the First Class Path (the first three ranks i.e. Tenderfoot, Second Class and First Class) need to bring their Boy Scout Handbook to every troop meeting in order to receive credit for advancement requirements they learned at that meeting. Signing off of completed requirements in the handbooks is done by the instructing older Scout at the end of teaching each advancement requirement.

If you hadn’t noticed, signups for the canoe trip will be closing out this Wednesday, and wont reopen. We have 54 people going from the troop and we are starting to strain the outfitter’s resources, they’re almost out of canoes. So if you want to go, now’s the time. Please sign up on the troop website quickly!

To be abundantly safe, there are three important requirements for going down the river.
1)    New Scouts (5th graders) must bring a parent/guardian with them who rides in their canoe.
2)    You must have three hours of previous experience in a canoe. A previous week of summer camp at Camp Yawgoog meets this requirement, as long as you canoed across the lake with the troop i.e. not rowed across.
3)    You must have passed the BSA swim test with the troop at Camp Yawgoog, or make arrangements with Mr. Rudolph immediately.
The test is not difficult if you’re a swimmer: 4 lengths of the GHS pool with no stops, including one length using the elementary backstroke or side stroke, then rest for a minute while floating or treading water. It’s not hard, no time limit. BTW, being on a swim team doesn’t count, still need to pass the BSA test.