If you’ve signed up for the University of Scouting and are travelling with the group, please be at the church by 05:45 so that we can leave by 06:00. We need to be in Gainesville as close to 07:30 as we can.
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Posted in Training
Alright Scouts.. The Village Church is holding their annual Souper Bowl of Caring the next two Sundays. They are collecting Soup: canned soup, boxed soup, soup mixes, noodles for soup etc, as well as cash donations for Second Harvest food bank.
There will be two containers to place your donations into: The GIANTS or the PATRIOTS.
So I figured let’s do a little competition between the Patrols. For the Patrol that brings in the most canned food items on 26th, gets to pick which container to place all the donations into. We will do it again on the 2nd. So you have two chances to win, but the ultimate winner will be the food bank.
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Posted in Service Projects
Dom’s Eagle-scout project is on the 21 of January at the Haven Horse Ranch. from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Lunch is provided
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Posted in Service Projects
The University of Scouting is coming to Gainesville on Saturday, January 28. The cost is $25 for adults, and $20 for youth. Money is due next meeting. It is from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM. There will be outdoor cooking and venture crew activities (also for non-venture crew) just to name a few.
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Posted in Announcements
Just a reminder that we have both Committee and Patrol Leader’s Council meetings tonight at 7pm at the church.
All PLC members should be in attendance!
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Posted in Meetings
We’re going to have a busy meeting tomorrow (1/11/2012)! We’ll have Webelos visiting from Pack 11, so let’s show them how 875 does things. Order of the Arrow representatives will also be there holding elections for the OA.
The Order of the Arrow membership requirements are:
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Posted in Meetings, Order of the Arrow
We will be collecting “New” stuffed animals, coloring books & crayons, games (for all ages) to take to Wolfson’s Children’s hospital. Please see the attachment for details.
If you want to participate, we are collecting these items on Thursday and Saturday.
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Posted in Announcements
We have at least one BoR scheduled for this Thursday 12/15, but with the busy holiday season we’re short on committee members to run it. If anyone can be at the Troop meeting to sit in for one or two boards, it would be greatly appreciated!
You must be a registered committee member. If you haven’t done one before, we’ll get you some info to help familiarize you.
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Posted in Board of Review
All BSA Uniforms are 20% off until midnight 12/13/2011! http://www.scoutstuff.org/
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Posted in Announcements
As you know the Troop is run by the Scouts, but we still need parent involvement in many different areas. With the New Year approaching we would like all parents to fill out the attached Parent Resource Survey, please manually enter your email address on the document. We would like the surveys to be returned to us on Saturday. Our goal is to have every parent doing something within the Troop. The below is a list of positions that we hope you will consider. We will go over these positions on Saturday. Many of them will only require 1-2 hours a year of your time. We hope we do not have to beg, but we are desperately in need of your help. You will not be at this alone, we’ll be there to help and many hands lighten the load for everyone.
Position and Brief description
1- Health & Safety Chairman (Maintain Scout and & Adult Medical Forms)
2- Adult Quartermaster (Assist Youth Quartermaster with maintaining Troop equipment)
3- Membership Coordinator (help maintain scout records, Assist with recruiting efforts)
4- Treasurer
5- CO- Treasurer
6- Events Coordinator (Help with events like COH, Holiday Party)
7- Recharter Coordinator (Once a year obligation)
8- Publicity Coordinator (Get Troop in the paper)
9- Photo- Scrap booker (Assists the Youth Troop Historian)
10- Summer Camp Coordinator (One a year- help book & organize Summer Camp)
11- Merit Badge Coordinator (Manage Blue Cards, Counselors and ensure Scout is following the correct process)
12- Merit Badge Counselors – We would like EVERY parent to pick one they will help the Troop with!
13- Co- Fundraising Chairs– Help plan and run fundraisers
14- Webmaster – Assist Youth Webmaster with keeping the Troop website up to date.
15- Transportation Coordinator – once a month- ensure we have adequate transportation to events
16- Board of Review participants
17- CO- Good Works Coordinator – Help plan and run volunteer work
18- Troop T-Shirt Coordinator – Order shirts as needed and maintain inventory
19- Drivers – All Parents!
20- Troop Pack Liaison – Work with the Packs around town to ensure that both new members and opportunities for our Scouts to serve as Den Chiefs
21- New Scout Coordinator – Work with Parents of New Scouts to get them acquainted to the Troop
22- Resource Survey Coordinator – Once a year send out and maintain Parent Survey
23- Family Night Coordinator – This is new, but we are looking to have 1 or 2 year of a family event- but need a coordinator
24- Permission Slip Coordinator – ensure permission slips are received for camp outs- will work with Patrol Leaders
25- Troop Open House Coordinator – Once a year plan an event with the local schools (this will be like a Round Up for Cub Scouts)
26- Troop Photographer – Help take pictures (Will work with Youth Troop Historian)
We are always open for suggestions with things that we may have missed. Please share your ideas, frustrations, experience or whatever!
Thank you all in advance. Looking forward to a GREAT Year!!
Troop Committee Chair
Trish Toth
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Posted in Adult Leadership, Court of Honor
