Troop Meeting Notes: January 8 and December 18
January 8:
It is great to be back at St. Michael’s and the renovations look great! One concern, a storage area for the troop, has been resolved and the troop has been allocated a closet under the stairs for storage.
Scoutmaster Grumpy is headed to Panama to demonstrate service in the Darian Jungle. Bob Latini will be Scoutmaster in the interim.
Announcements:
- Deadline for Winter Camporee is Today (1/8)! If you want to go to camporee Jan 19-21, sign up in Scoutbook, message Mr. Latini, and pay the registration fee.
- Meetings have resumed. We’ll be back at St. Michael’s for the foreseeable future on Monday’s at 7pm.
- Troop Lock-in Friday Night. RSVP and permission slip needed.
- Troop parent meeting in 2 weeks (Monday, Jan 22). A parent for each scout should be present at the START of the meeting.
- University of Scouting, Saturday Jan 13, 8am
- Adults — great training opportunities including what you need for Assistant Scoutmaster!
- Scouts — Den Leader Training
- $25, lunch included
- Next meeting, Monday Jan 15
- Matt Irvin shared that he received a donation of $150 for the scout’s help and their service
From December 18:
The troop met at Hinkle Creek for a White Elephant gift exchange. No rank advancement this week. Next meeting will be in 2018 and we’ll return to St. Michaels!
Announcements:
- Scoutmaster Grumpy: Next troop meeting: Jan 8th will be at St. Michaels!
- Chase Mutter: thanks people for coming out for Good Samaritan.
- Kelly Monnin: third meeting in January will have a quick parent meeting,
- Jeremy Hoffman: spring camporee dates. AJ, important handout for that (make sure you show your parents)
- Scoutmaster Grumpy: scout electronics lock-in is on January 12th.
- Tom Tarzwell: popcorn prizes, we are still waiting on some of the vouchers, hoping to give them out at Jan 15 meeting
- SPL AJ: introduced special guests representing the bowling group (greater Hamilton association of bowling Congress) – last spring they hosted the USBC bowling tournament – thanks for helping with tournament, donated $500 to the troop!