Philmont scouts and leaders will be camping/hiking at Kettle Moraine in Wisconsin this weekend, leaving Friday, May 20 and returning by early afternoon on May 22. Please be at RPC at 6:45 p.m. on Friday, with all your Philmont gear. (Gear will be checked at the Thursday Troop meeting on May 19.) The cost for the outing is $30 per person (adults as well as scouts). Please contact Mr. Ringbloom with any questions.

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Attention all Central School 5th grade Boy Scouts! You are invited to to be part of the Honor Guard for a Memorial Day ceremony at Central School at 8:25 a.m. on Thursday, May 26. The 5th grade Boy Scouts will march the flag from the entrance of Central to the flag pole and present the flag to the 5th grade Girl Scouts, who will raise the flag. In order to participate in this you must attend a practice after school on Wednesday, May 25. The Girl Scouts have invited us to their ice cream social starting after school in front of the school. After eating we will practice the ceremony. You must also wear your Class A uniform (shirt tucked in, neckerchief and slide, hat if you can find it) on the day of the ceremony. On Thursday morning scouts participating should check in with their teachers, leave their backpacks in their rooms and report to the front of school when they are released by their teachers. If you are interested in participating, please contact Mrs. Gmitro. Scouts not in uniform will stand with their classes.

Our leaders are making every effort to help scouts complete missing requirements so that they can have Boards of Review (and advance in rank) by our last meeting of the year, May 26. It’s very important that your scout bring his book to the meeting. As always, they are required to be in uniform for a Board of Review.

Please review your scout’s book and be sure he is aware of what he needs to complete. Our meetings on May 19 and May 26 will be devoted to working on missing requirements. (Some missing requirements may not be able to be done at a meeting and have to be done on an outing or other activity. There will be ample opportunities at Camp Mach to work on requirements.)

Although we hope to reschedule the bike outing to next weekend (depending on the weather…), we will need leaders to do so (parents or registered leaders), and most specifically, we need one person who has a vehicle that can pull one of the trailers.

If we have the leaders, we’ll let you know as soon as possible.

Currently 46 degrees with showers in Channahon….

If your scout was planning to bicycle & camp at the I&M Canal this weekend, please let Nancy Hopkins know if he is available and interested in going next weekend (assuming the weather is better).

Due to the inclement weather, Ben C’s Eagle Project for Sunday will be postponed. The next step in the project is painting, and the forecast is not good. Anyone who volunteered to help on Sunday–Thanks! but we will not be working on Sunday. More information on future dates will follow.

Several tents have not been returned. We will need all available tents for our Bicycle outing this weekend. If you are not going to be at the Troop meeting on Thursday, please make arrangements to drop off your tent to Mr. Payne before Thursday evening.

This week, on May 12, our Hauser scouts have an Open House. Activities at the meeting will focus on Tenderfoot requirements and helping any scout fill in missing requirements for any rank. 5th grade scouts who have attended all meetings have had the opportunity to complete every Tenderfoot requirement; however, most scouts have a few requirements that they may have missed. It is our goal to have all scouts finished with the Tenderfoot rank by our last meeting on May 26. We still have a few 6th graders working on Tenderfoot as well.

Please, be sure your scout brings his book to the meetings so the leaders can sign off on requirements.

On May 19, we will hold Boards of Review for scouts who have completed requirements for a rank advancement. We will likely hold Boards on May 26 as well. Also on May 19, Dr. Lanken will work with scouts on missing first aid requirements for the 2nd Class rank. Scouts: please check your books to see if you need 2nd Class requirements 7a, 7b, & 7c:

a. Show what to do for ‘hurry’ cases of stopped breathing, serious bleeding, and ingested poisoning.
b. Prepare a personal first-aid kit to take with you on a hike.
c. Demonstrate first aid for the following:
– Object in the eye
– Bite of a suspected rabid animal
– Puncture wounds from a splinter, nail, and fishhook
– Serious burns (partial thickness, or second degree)
– Heat exhaustion
– Shock
– Heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation

May 26 will be another catch-up day for any missing requirements. Also on May 26, Mr. Robling will begin working with scouts who are interested in starting the Communications Merit Badge, which is an Eagle-required badge. That will give you the opportunity to work on the requirements over the summer. To start a merit badge you must have a blue card signed by a Scoutmaster. If you are interested, discuss it with a scoutmaster on May 12 or May 19. More information about merit badges is available on our website.

All scouts not going to the I&M Canal this weekend are asked to help with Ben’s Eagle Project on Saturday (May 14) or Sunday (May 15). We are going to remove old wood from 5 benches in Riverside. After the wood is removed, we will prepare the iron frames for painting, then use Rustoleum spray paint to paint them. The wood will be replaced with new wood and new hardware on Sunday, the following day. We will meet at the Riverside Post Office, on Burlington Street, for the first shift on Saturday. We will be at the water tower for the second shift. Please meet at the water tower for the Sunday shift.

The shifts are:
Saturday 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Saturday 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sunday 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Lunch will be served at 12:30 on Saturday. No lunch will be served on Sunday, but there will be snacks. Please eat lunch before you arrive, if you are signing up for the second shift on Saturday. Cold water will be available at all times.

The adult leaders in charge will be Paul Cox and Debra Cox.

Please bring your signed permission slip with you. We will have work gloves, dust masks, hand sanitizer and safety goggles.