Please remember to ALWAYS bring your Scout Handbook to Troop Meetings, Campouts, etc!      

May 23 - PLC and Committee Meetings

May 30 - Troop Meeting
June 6 - Troop Meeting
June 13 - Troop Meeting

June 16-18 - Biking Campout

July 8-15 - Summer Camp


SUMMER CAMP LINKS:
- COLE CANOE BASE SUMMER CAMP HOME PAGE
- MERIT BADGE PREREQUISITES
- MERIT BADGE SCHEDULES
- ANNUAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RECORD (AHMR) - PARTS A, B & C

Camp Cards are discount cards.  We will be selling them until June 1.  

$5 Camp card includes discounts for BD's Mongolian BBQ, Dave and Buster's, and over $100 in local savings when you activate your membership.

Six grueling hours of intense (non-physical) training - with a payout of 18 hours of video games, movies, Benito's Pizza and caffeine & sugar-filled 'healthy' foods - highlighted by a late-night trip to the local 7-Eleven.

Was it worth it?  Well, this isn't the first year the Troop's youth leaders selected this activity for a middle-of-winter weekend event, and it probably won't be the last.  The training is an annual event, an essential first step in a Scout's leadership training.  Revisiting the training not only reinforces the lessons learned, but as Scouts step into new leadership roles in the Troop, they learn what's expected of them.

This year, 12 Scouts (and 4 adults) spent 24 hours "locked in" the Boys & Girls Club of Troy, MI (the "jail break" to the 7-Eleven being their only taste of freedom!)  Because of the persistent nighttime rain, Troop Leaders opted to drive them to the 7-Eleven - to stave off any possibility of sleep (and to avoid the alternative - wet Scouts that wanted a trip to 7-Eleven more than they wanted dry clothes!)  Upon returning from the 7-Eleven, the Scouts constructed a "fort" in the Teen Room to share a movie marathon experience.

Visits by several parents during the event were greatly appreciated and helped keep the four "24 hour" adults sane - more or less.

Reports of the Boys & Girls Club being condemned after the event cannot be confirmed at this time...

Last tuesday, we had a few guests from the Order of the Arrow, or OA, come in to help with the election of scouts into the OA. The three scouts that were elected in were Gavin, Nathan and Gabriel. Good luck to them and hope they stay on target (pun intended) and make it through initiation.

This of all of the camp outs is the best. This is the opinion of most people in the troop. The
lean-to Campout is a campout that is like no other from the sleeping situation to the stuff you do. First, you don't need to sleep in tents, though some still choose to, you either sleep out under the stars or, for the second night you sleep in a lean-to. Second, you BUILD your lean-to. Unlike setting up a tent, you have to gather the materials, then you make it from scratch. Third, you sleep with from three to eight different people instead of the casual two. I hope I've explained enough of the Campout for you to get at least a picture of what we do. But trust it is about five billion times as fun as it sounds! Hope to see you at the next one!