SCOUTS -- bring your books to ALL meetings so you can get signed off
for merit badges and rank advancements.
ALL adult leaders need to complete the Youth Protection training to be
certified to be involved with the boys. You can do this online thru the
Viking Council site.
April | |||
| 4/02/05 | Adult Leader training | ||
| 4/07/05 | District Roundtable | ||
| 4/11/05 | Court of Honor | ||
| 4/16/05 | Parent Meeting | 7:30 AM | NHUMC |
| 4/16/05 | Merit Badge Madness | Community College EP | |
| 4/18/05 | Troop Meeting: Campout planning | ||
| 4/22/05 | Campout at Frontenac / Red Wing MN | ||
| 4/25/05 | TLC | ||
May | |||
| 5/02/05 | Troop Meeting: Merit Badge Follow-up | ||
| 5/06/05 | Campout/Pig Roast/OA Callout - Cleary Lake | ||
| 5/07/05 | Parent Meeting ? | 7:30 AM | NHUMC |
| 5/16/05 | Troop Meeting | ||
| 5/23/05 | Board of Review | ||
June | |||
| 6/02/05 | District Roundtable | ||
| 6/04/05 | Parent Meeting: Annual Schedule Meeting | ||
| 6/06/05 | Court of Honor Isaac Walton | ||
| 6/12/05 | Pine Tree Leadership Training Sterns Campground | ||
OA teams needed for Arrow of Light ceremonies. This ceremony is the one that "raises" Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts. We need to build our troop. If YOU are an OA member, talk to Jay about how YOU can be part of this. First one is 3/17/05 for Pack 473 St Stephens Church. We have requests to do ceremonies for Packs 472 and 469 as well.
The consolidation of Viking and Indianhead Councils is proceeding. No final plans as yet but the vote was positive to move forward on this. The one great benefit will be a combined Marketing Plan and Budget for the greater area.
4/28/05 will be the All Eagle Dinner and outstanding Eagles will be
honored. All Eagle Scouts are invited to attend.
We continue to work with new parents and new scouts to orient them to
Boy Scouts and the troop. Ross wants to see each new patrol have at
least two adult leaders. New parents might look over the Merit
Badges. The troop needs new adults to take over the roles of
approving badges. See Ross if you have questions.
April---------Frontenac near Red Wing 4/22/05. Hiking will be the theme of this campout and the boys will be in tents.
May------Campout and OA Callout at Cleary Lake site. Pig roast is the usual fare but we need more and better side dishes. PARENTS: each of you is required to bring ONE side dish and ONE Dessert. Camp coordinator needed to get the list going and send out reminders on side dishes.
June-----do we have any interest in Brule River High Adventure this year? See Ross if you would like to assist. There is some interest in a HA to the Boundary Waters this summer. See Gary if interested.
Tesomas Summer Camp----Kevin Norby is the troop coordinator. Dates
are July 24-30. As we are out of that council the cost is slightly
higher for each boy?.$205. We think Many Point will go up too but
the parents agreed to only ask each Scout to pay the same as a Many
Point week and the troop will pay the balance/difference.
Tesomas.com is the website and Kevin recommended Scouts take a look
at the things available - not as many of the advance "high adventure"
activities but many others that Many Point does not offer. Also, the
boys eat in a dining hall except for one night of camp cookouts!!
Class A's required wear to the dinners. Sounds like a great
time! Check it out and be ready to sign up. REMEMBER: camp credits
may be used to fund the trip!!!
Jamboree Summer 2005: Chris N., Andrew K., and John B.
Philmont: There will be NO Philmont available to our troop in 2006. If want to go in 2007, we will need to try in Sept/Oct to book it.
Boundary Waters: Several Dads are investigating going to the Scout Camp in out own Boundary Waters area in 2006 to replace Philmont. See Evan or Kevin Krueger, if interested in helping or going.
Scuba Open Water: Lou is arranging the open water certification
for the remaining 5 Scouts. May 21 weekend is the only dates now
available. Parents will need to be involved with this as only 5
Scouts are going. See Lou for details.
We also discussed again using some of money as a charitable contribution. We sent three boys to Many Point last summer and we think we should try to do that again. Jay will be looking into getting some names and troops for us.
Al Mann is going to contact the last finance committee and see what they had concluded as far as setting up policies and standards on how the Troop ought to spend its money. The parents agreed that the Committee ought to be resurrected.
Also, it was decided to create a Welcome Package for new Scout parents to familiarize them with the terms we use and the policies we follow, such as the two Courts of Honor where we have a potluck and each family brings food to share, or how we organize the wreath distributions or how we do campouts and so on. Al and Deb Christensen will prepare this.
Have you been over to the Troop Website lately??? The newsletters
are archived there and there is helpful information on the troop for
all. Book mark this site:
http://www.geocities.com/MN_Troop469/
Thanks to Jeff Nygren who maintains the site for us.