Also don't forget that the Fall Fellowship campout is fast approaching.  This year it will be held at D-A Scout Ranch on October 18-20.  This is a great opportunity to spend a weekend with your Brothers.  Please register at the link below. Remember to take your Health Form A&B.

You have an opportunity to earn the Woodworking MB, and help other scouts that are on the fence to join scouting and hopefully our troop.

The format will be stations, where each scout will attend one and get the needed requirements signed off.

 

Station 1: will cover requirements 1, 2 and 7

(a) Explain to your counselor the most likely hazards you may encounter while participating in woodwork activities, and what you should do to anticipate, help prevent, mitigate, and respond to these hazards. Explain what precautions you should take to safely use your tools.

A reminder from the new Popcorn Kernal to continue to sell, sell, sell!

We sell popcorn to raise money for things that we do not include normally in our camping and high adventure fees.  This includes, but not limited to:

Troop adults, we have several scouts looking for MB Counselors to sign off their partially-completed MBs.  
Thank you for everyone who helped with the last list!

Cranbrook has an excellent program of MB classes.  Here is their latest communication - {F} means you need to be First Class.

https://science.cranbrook.edu/explore/programs/scouts-cranbrook/boy-scouts

Parents, 

The active parent leaders have received a lot of feedback over the past year and have proposed a tweak to how we deliver our program. 

Going forward, we are reserving the regular meeting before a camp out to be a "Camp Planning" meeting.  All merit badge instruction will be suspended for that night. This has many advantages:

• Planning time: QMs and PLs will have time to plan menus and go through equipment needs without being hasty since they won't be missing part of their merit badge class.  We will have the trailer on-site to review our equipment. 
• Better menus.  I expect more thorough meal planning with more thought and preparation.  Heating up hot dogs and cereal for breakfast is not cooking.
• Boards of review:  Merit Badge counselors do boards of review instead of instruction so we're hoping we get through more boards, to help the Advancement table catch up
• Interaction with adult leaders: to ensure they have the instruction they need to execute the patrol method as it was intended, scouts will have time to work with each other and  have some time to think of and ask questions of the adults