Rifle Shooting Event

On Nov 8th, the scouts went down to the Alliance Rifle Club. They were treated to a rare experience where they were able to shoot rifles not available at camp. The photos are on-line, click
HERE or navigate to the photo album above.

Pasta Dinner fundraiser at Sarah's Vineyard

• We will be selling tickets for this event for $12 for Adults and $8.00 for children 10 and younger.
• We will be selling 200 tickets.
• The date is 9/29/08.
• We will be meeting early for set-up.
  
• Doors will open at 5:30.
  
• Dinner served by the scouts from 6pm to 7pm.
  
• Clean-up to follow.
• We will need all the scouts help as well as parents.
• We will need adults to help the scouts at each of the parts of the evening, managing the setting up, preparing and managing food, managing the serving, managing the cleaning up.
  
• We are asking all the parents to try to obtain a raffle item. If you have a contact that can provide a gift certificate for the place where they work or something like that. We are not asking you to go out and buy something. Please advise Aaron what you can find.
• We will be having bread, salad, at least 2 sauces for bow-tie pasta, meatballs & sausage (possibly), iced tea, lemonade, coffee and dessert. Since we are in a Winery, wine will be for sale, but the scouts will not be apart of this, the winery will be taking care of this.
  
• We will have numbered tickets to sell starting next Wednesday.
  
• Please start selling now and collecting the money.

Five Mile Hike

Thanks to the eight scouts who showed up at Oak Trail this afternoon for the 5 mile hike that supports requirement #1b for Second Class Rank. We also covered requirements #1 and #6 for First Class Rank.

Summer Camp Wrap-Up

We had a great time at Camp Manatoc at summer camp this year. Here are some stats:

Attendance

• 2006 - 12 scouts
• 2007 - 17 scouts
• 2008 - 22 scouts - up 129% from last year and up 183% from 2 years ago.

Merit Badges Earned

• 46 merit badges earned - 2 MB average per scout.

Special Events Participation

• Triathelon - S. Frederick - 3rd Place and P. Dickinson
• Mile Swim - 7 scouts - E.Bissonette, P. Dickinson, S. Frederick, T. Hammond, W. Lawrence, A. Reed, N. Urbank
• Marathon - S. Frederick - 1st Place
• Archery Medal Shoot - A. Rohrer

Photo Gallery and the Advancement Records have been Updated.

Meeting Notes from Summer Camp Meeting

Here are the minutes to tonight's meeting:
Special Note in RED below regarding Medical Check In.
Summer Camp

• Saturday 06/14 - Meet at Chestnut Campsite (check out camp map on MooseTroop.com under Useful Stuff) at 10am for early set-up.
• May bring your own tent if you don't want to use the Camp's tents.
• On Sunday, arrive at camp at noon to finish setting up and be ready to leave campsite promptly at 1pm for check in. Everyone has to be ready at 1pm, no exceptions please.
• Must wear FULL SCOUT UNIFORM, including the scout shirt, neckerchief, scout socks, and the new shorts that the troop is selling for $7.00. If you missed the fitting tonight, we will have it again at Sunday's meeting.
• Along with your full uniform, you must be ready with your swim trunks to take the swimmers test.
• Don't forget to have a water bottle with you at check in and a snack since the process can take several hours.
• At check in, we get professional Troop Photo ($7.00 if you want a copy)
• Medical Check in - You need to bring all medicine, OTC and Prescription in the original bottle with the scout's name on it. All these medicines must be declared on the health form.
• Swim Test
• Dining Hall Seating Assignments

• If you are chaparoning at camp, please make sure you check in at the Administration building before entering camp to get your wristband.
• Wednesday night is Family Night. Be at camp at 5:30. Cathy Bissonette has the sign-up sheet for what you are brining for the Pot Luck Dinner. Make sure to get with her on Sunday's Meeting.
• You do not have to stop at the Admin Building on Wed night. I will have wrist bands back at camp waiting for you.
• VERY IMPORTANT - HAVE THE SCOUT WEAR A WATCH!!!!
• Plan on picking your scout up at 9am on Saturday. If possible, let's plan on leaving as a group. When a scout leaves early, it usually means that the other scouts have to stay behind longer to clean up with less help.
• Lastly, please go over the merit badge requirements that your scout is taking. Please surf over to moosetroop.com, click on the merit badge link and review what the requirements are. If there is paperwork or a report that has to be done, please do it before camp.

The last meeting before camp is this Sunday. We will be going over the CPR requirements needed for many of the badges at summer camp.

If you have any questions, please let me know ASAP,
Thanks Steve.

Irish Fest Coming Up 06/15

We need volunteers to work the clean-up of the Cuyahoga Falls Irish Fest on 06/13 - 06/15.

06/13 Friday Night - 6pm to 10 (4 to 6 people needed)
Friday Night - 10pm to 2AM (8 people needed)
06/14 Sat Afternoon - 2pm to 6pm (4 people needed)
Sat Night - 6pm to 10pm ( 4 to 6 people needed)
Sat Night - 10pm to 2am (8 people needed)
06/15 Sun Afternoon - 2pm to 8pm - (8 people needed)

For each shift worked, both Scout and Adult get credit for working. All the money earned will be used for your Scout Fund. This is a great fundraiser that brings in a lot of money for the scouts. Please advise Steve what shifts you can work. We especially need the 10pm - 2pm shift covered.

05/28 - Meeting Wrap Up

At tonight's meeting, we worked on Personal Fitness requirements, 5a,b,c,d and 9. If you missed this, please plan to make it up at a future meeting.

We also discussed what merit badges each scout wants to take. If you need information about what merit badges are offered or need to know the pre-requusites, click HERE:

Blossom Concert Schedule

05-31 Eric Clapton

06-03 James Taylor

06-12 Iron Maiden

06-15 Brooks and Dunn

06-17 Jack Johnson

06-21 Garrison Keillor

06-22 Tom Petty

07-02 Tim McGraw

07-17 John Mayer

07-25 Rascal Flatts

07-30 Dave Mathews

08-04 Radiohead

08-09 Rod Stewart

08-14 Poison

08-22 Jonas Brothers

08-26 Maroon 5

08-29 Brad Paisley

09-04 Journey

09-13 Toby Keith

Memorial Day Parade

Thanks to all the scouts for coming out on this beautiful Monday morning to celebrate freedom by honoring our fallen American soldiers. The photo album has been updated to include this parade.

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Sorry everyone, I accidentally deleted all the past blog entries. I can't believe it just happened. The whole blog will have to now be created from scratch.

If you were looking for something and now cannot find it, please email Steve.