Hey Scouts! This weekend is merit badge weekend! Be at the Scout Hut at 6 P.M. this Friday and bring all your camping gear and $20 for the fee. Be sure to eat before you go and don’t forget those prereqs!
Also, for you adults out there, we need drivers and a trailer puller. Any volunteers?
Hey scouts!
First of all, congratulations to our newest Eagle Scout, Jonathan! Oh, he’s a jolly good fellow… Seriously though. Jon’s been in the troop longer than I have, and that’s a really long time! Thanks Jon for all your commitment and contributions to Troop 900.
Here’s some goings-on in the troop’s near future:
On the 31, this Saturday, we’ll be having a car wash at the Pep Boys on Crater Road from 1-5 PM. Tell your friends! With the enormous cloud of pollen that’s been recently plaguing the central Virginia area, I’m sure everyone is eager to get that yucky plant stuff off their windshields and leave pollen collection to the bees.
For any of you who showed up for a meeting tonight and for some reason couldn’t find anyone there, it’s because there wasn’t a meeting tonight! We have a Court of Honor tomorrow in the social hall. Wear your Class A best, and don’t forget your sash! Oh, and Friends of Scouting will be there too.
A Spring Break hiking trip is on the horizon, planned to take place between the Thursday and Saturday of break. It will be in the bee-yootiful Shenandoah National Park. Let the Scoutmaster know if you want to come, or else the trip could be canceled!
For scouts 13 and older, a Wilderness First Aid class is being offered at Albright’s on 4/27-4/29. It will cost $60. Again, let the scoutmaster know if you’re interested.
Merit badge weekend is in less than 2 months, and it’s a great way for new scouts to get up to 8 shiny merit badges for their moms to put on their sash. KIDDING! All Boy Scouts do their own sewing, am I right?
That about sums it up. There’s a new calendar out, so the next post will be an update of that. Be sure to check it out!
The proud recipients. Hi Mom!
Two of our very own scouts received the Ad Alteri Dei Catholic Religious emblems this past Sunday. These two worked very long and hard for this award. Congratulations scouts!
Greetings All,
Apologies, your webmaster spent the last 2 months or so building robots and I didn’t have time for much else besides homework. However, now I’m back and ready to keep you all up-to-date on the goings-on in the troop! Here is the long, long list of upcoming events:
Nick Beaudet just had his Eagle Court of Honor today. Congratulations Nick!
This Tuesday, the 13, will be the day we hold troop elections. All leadership candidates should have talked with the Scoutmaster.
The 15th is the deadline for down payment for summer camp. This is your last chance to save $30 on summer camp!
WEBMASTER’S NOTE: There is also a really really awesome FIRST robotics competition at the VCU Siegel Center this Thursday through Saturday. The robots will be playing basketball! Yours truly will be there, until he has to leave for OA stuff.
On that note, OA Ordeal is this coming weekend at Brady Saunders.
The next camping trip will be the weekend of the 24th at Albrights. The focus will be on survival skills, so any scouts who need knots, lashings, or orienteering requirements checked off should be sure to attend.
Jonathan Brown will also be having his Eagle Court of Honor on the 24th.
The next court of honor will be on the 28 of March. Friends of Scouting will be there!
A hiking trip is being planned for Spring Break. Not much on that yet.
That about wraps it up.. Thanks for not tl;dr’ing on this very long return post. (That’s Internet Abbreviation for too long; didn’t read) I’ll be keeping the site current into the future, so check back every week or so for the updates.
I couldn’t attach the calendar to the site so here’s a google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj2OH1MF–95dHBwUE1MNllEWFF6dkZobFhqN0Y3MGc
The Scoutmaster has asked me to add the troop calender to the site; it should be in the gallery now. Also, here are the highlights of what’s happening soon:
All peanut orders should have been turned in today to Mr. Hagerich. Please contact him if you have any questions on that.
This Saturday, December 3rd, we will be participating in the Prince George Christmas Parade. Please arrive at the Scout Hut by 2pm in your Class A uniform with merit badge sash. We will head down to the starting point at about 2:15, and the parade starts at 3pm.
The following weekend, December 9th thru 11th, we will be having our camp-out at Sky Anchors Campground. At this campout we will be participating in the Disability Awareness Challenge, which is a great course put on by Mama and Papa Tertle. The cost is $15, plus whatever the patrols decide on for food. We will meet at the scout hut on Friday, 12/9 at 6pm and look at returning by noon on Sunday, 12/11. The website is here for more info: http://www.skyanchor.org/aboutus.htm
Next Tuesday, 12/6, will have our regular troop meeting at 7pm where the patrols will practice their first aid skills they have been learning the last few weeks. The following week we will have our Court of Honor on Wednesday, 12/14 starting at 6pm. We will then be on break for Christmas vacation until we meet on January 3rd, 2012.
Hi all,
Sorry for the hiatus, I had some trouble recovering the password for the site. Anyway, The site’s .tk has been discontinued to to few visits in the last 3 months. Fortunately, Mr. Fetty has set up troop900.net to redirect to this site, so we don’t need to worry about that anymore. Bags in and the fun camp-in are this weekend, so be sure to bring all your electronic (or board game, cards, etc.) goodies! Note: we always seem to have more consoles than tvs, so If you can bring a tv or a projector, please do. The adults have asked that we not bring any handhelds such as DS or PSP, so keep that in mind.
This website has a new, easy to remember address you can type in to your URL bar: troop900.tk! So I don’t wanna hear any more complaints that somebody can’t remember the URL, got it? Jk guys, I’m not that annoyed. If anyone has any questions about the website, the .tk, or technology in general, ask here or on the Facebook page!
This is a video made by 4 of our scouts working on their religious award
Hey Scouts,
For any of you that missed the memo, Nick Beaudet will be having a spaghetti dinner this saturday. Even better, this Sunday he’ll be working on his Eagle project building a shed at the Church of the Sacred Heart on 460. Hammers, nails, and other testosterone-inducing devices will be provided. Ask him, his parents, or the scoutmaster for more info. *Pssst* By the way, Mr. Buchanan will be serving up his World Famous chili for any scouts that attend Nick’s Eagle project. I know I wanna go.
Also, we will be having an event not this, but next weekend at the scout hut where we’ll be sleeping outside, then spending saturday going to Swaders and later… PETERSBURG NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD! Woohoo! Let’s go learn some history! Make sure you have the permission forms from Mrs. Fisher and have paid $20 before showing up.
