Minutes from April Troop Committee meeting

We held our monthly troop committee meeting this week.  Here are the important items we discussed.

We will continue to use e-trail-to-eagle for tracking the advancement.  Christy will renew our subscription.

Garrett is planning to work the flag fund raiser with Jaxon.  Any boys who would like to join them are welcome to.  They will distribute flyers to the homes in the neighborhood across the street from the church on May 13 and then visit the neighborhood door to door on saturday May 16. (we discussed May 20 but that would be too close to memorial day).  The money from this fund raiser can be used to cover the cost of Gerber scout camp, the  50 mile backpacking trip at pictured rocks and any of the expenses for the monthly meetings.  Part of the money helps the troop with equipment costs.   

We have William, Jaxon, Chase, Gabe, Matt B. down for the 50 mile backpacking trip to Pictured Rocks.  We have sent in our request for our campsite reservations.  We may be able to add additional boys if others decide to go with us.

Commitments for Gerber Summer Camp are Due by May 1.  Money can follow by June 1 but we need numbers by May 1.

Joe is planning to start the personal fitness merit badge with us on May 6.  He is also looking for a 5K race for us to participate in later in the summer.   

Carl is getting us ready to build a table and four benches for the new dining hall at Gerber.  We will be working on them May 13.

We will work on the backpacking merit badge in June and complete the merit badge on the 50 mile trip.

We have a court of honor April 29.  

Report on tree planting service project

We had a good time and did a lot of hard work at Bro. Morse's Oldfield property Yesterday (april 18).

William, Jaxson, and Dylan spent the night and got an early start planting in the morning.  Gabe joined us shortly around 9 o'clock.

All of the 1000 pine and 350 oak trees were planted, matted, staked and tubed by 2:30 when we headed for home.

For breakfast we ate instant oatmeal as a warm up for backpacking breakfasts.  The unanimous opinion on the oatmeal is that we can make better oatmeal if we mix our own oats with sugar, instant milk, creamer and dried fruit.  

Flag Fundraiser

Since we have two fun summer activities coming up we also need to consider the cost of the events.  We will start our annual flag fund raiser next month.  Be sure to let me know if you plan to participate so we can plan accordingly.

Gerber Summer Camp

It is time to make summer plans.  

The troop is going to Gerber Summer Camp July 26- August 1.  They have an excellent program and it is a good chance for the boys to earn a few merit badges.

We need commitments before May 1.  Late registrations may be available but there will be a late fee.  If you make a commitment and then need to cancel, not all of the fee is refundable.  please check your calendars and let me know.

Backpacking trip Commitments

June 29-July 3 we will be backpacking at pictured rocks national lake shore. We will hike just over 50 miles.

We need to make reservations so please let me know by April 19 if you plan to hike with us.

Camping this weekend

The Troop is going up to the Morse property to help with the tree planting effort this weekend.  We will leave from the church at 6:00 p.m.  Please eat dinner before we leave.  We will get up to the property at about 7:30.

Plan for all weather conditions.  We will be planing trees rain/shine/snow.

We will arrive back at the church around 5:00 saturday.

Activities for April 8

This week we will be continuing to learn about backpacking and
orienteering.

We will be planning our scheduled camping trip for april 17-18.

We will also learn about backpacking food, cooking, and cleaning
cooking gear. We will see and use several types of backpacking
stoves and talk about advantages and disadvantages of each type of
stove. We will talk about ways to save weight without jeopardizing
health and safety.

There will be more fun and games as well.

Minutes from Meeting on 4/1/2009

Item 1)

we counted the food items collected in the scouting for food drive this year.  Our total is 253 items.  Thanks to everyone who donated and to the cub scouts and boy scouts who helped distribute bags, collect and count the items.   

Item 2)

We discussed our backpacking trip planned for June 29-July 3.  We plan to leave very early on June 29.  We will start at Grand Maria in the mid afternoon and hike 7.1 miles to the Ausable East camp ground.  Tuesday we will hike 14.6 miles to the Coves camp ground.  Wednesday we will remain at the coves camp ground and make a 12 mile round trip around beaver lake. Thursday we will hike 12.8 miles to reach the Cliffs camp ground.  Friday we will hike 6.4 miles from the Cliffs out to the Munsing falls visitor center.  We plan to take a shuttle bus back to our car and drive home that night arriving late.

Item 3)

We practiced orienteering skills around the church parking lot to find the package of cookies which we enjoyed for treats.

Next Week:  We will continue making plans and learning backpacking skills for our backpacking trek,  we will also plan our April 17-18 overnight trip to help Matt Morse plant trees.  We will also get information about summer camp July 27-Aug 1.

Assignments: we need firm commitments from boys for both the backpacking trek and the summer camp by the end of the month.

Our Next court of honor is scheduled for April 29.

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