At the Troop meeting on January 19 scouts will be working on completing the First Aid Merit Badge. Older scouts and parents are needed to assist with teaching CPR. If you are available to help, please see Asst. Scoutmaster Stephanie Lanken at the meeting. In addition to the First Aid merit badge, there are a number of first aid requirements for all rank advancements through 1st Class. Please review your books to see if you are missing any of these requirements. Scouts should bring their books to this (and every other!) meeting.

Thank you to everyone who volunteered to donate food to our Night Ministry food prep. The main activity for this Thursday’s meeting will be making soup and PBJ sandwiches.

Here is the list of what everyone volunteered to bring:

Andersen – 200 bags
Bork – 5 bags mixed veggies, 5 loaves bread
Connelly – 1 Peanut butter
Culloden – 5 cans stewed tomatoes
Lanken – 4 PB, 1 jelly
Lennon – 2 PB, 2 jelly
Gmitro – beef bouillon, 3 lbs ground beef.
Gryczan – 6 loaves
Jones – 2 loaves, 2 PB
Machina – 5 bags frozen veggies
Marcou – 3 lbs browned ground beef
McCoy – 5 loaves
Olszewski – 5 cans stewed tomatoes
Ozga – 1 loaf white bread, 1 wheat, 1 Peanut butter, 1 jelly
Quinn – 10 loaves
Ringbloom – 3 lbs browned ground beef
Salij – 1 PB

Please have your scout bring food to the meeting on Thursday. We will meet in the Social Hall. Contact Dawn Gmitro with questions.

Scouts will be working on the First Aid Merit Badge with Asst. Scoutmaster Dr. Stephanie Tennery-Lanken on November 17, December 1, and December 15. First Aid is an Eagle-required merit badge. There are a number of other first-aid related rank requirements that will be covered during these meetings.

This week the Troop meeting will be on Friday, November 4, at the Scout Cabin, NOT on Thursday. If you have a tent or other equipment out from White Pines, please wait until the following week, to return it; do not bring it to the Scout Cabin.

The semi-annual patrol re-organization will be done on November 17. Any scouts who are interested in having a leadership position as a patrol leader should talk to Mr. Payne.

Boards of Review will be held this Thursday, October 27. This will the scouts’ last opportunity to have a Board before the fall Court of Honor on November 10. Please ask your scout if he needs a Board of Review, and let Nancy know so we can schedule them for Thursday.

Last reminder: There is NO Troop Committee meeting tonight, and NO Troop Meeting on Thursday or Friday.

There will be NO TROOP MEETING this week. We had originally scheduled a Friday night meeting at the Scout Cabin, but because this is a long weekend and some families may be going out of town, we decided to cancel our meeting this week. No meeting either Thursday OR Friday.

We have a number of tents out being dried from last weekend’s bike outing and/or the Scout Cabin camp-out. Please return the tents on Thursday, as scouts will need them for the Camporall this weekend.

Scouts who want to work on the following requirements should meet Asst. Scoutmaster Bruce Robertson outside of RPC at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. Scouts should bring pictures of 10 native animals (Second Class 6) and/or 10 native plants (First Class 6).

Second Class 6 – Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of wild animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community

First Class 6 – Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of native plants found in your community.

According to our tracking system…
Scouts needing 2nd Class requirement 6 are:
Max B.
George C.
Robert D.
Aidan F.
Chris M.
Jack P.
Spencer W.

Scouts needing 1st Class requirement 6 are:
Dima A.
Trevor B.
Tim B.
Max B.
Robert D.
George C.
Joey C.
Andrew C.
Dan D.
Aidan F.
Will F.
Dylan G.
Jackson H.
Erik H.
Joey K.
Killian K.
Ryan K.
Billy K.
Derek J.
Jose L.
Ben L.
Jack L.
Michael L.
Chris M.
Francisco M.
Skye O.
Jack P.
Glen Q.
Erik R.
Charlie R.
David S.
Spencer W.
Sam Z.