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Sponsored by Killearn United
Methodist Church Gary VanLandingham, Scoutmaster [386-3484(h)/487-0578(w)] |
The Trooper
January 2001
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Happy
New Year! Looking back, we had a great
year in 2000. During the year, our
scouts went on 12 camping trips and 3 long cycling trips, earned 137 merit
badges, and achieved 48 rank advancements.
We are about to have four new eagle scouts – Alan Johnson, Chris Rivers,
Danny Pellegrino, and James VanLandingham, all of whom should receive final
Council approval this month. Great job,
guys! And thanks to all the adults who
helped make these good things happen by supporting the troop and your sons.
We
will go on a campout next weekend (January 13-15) over the MLK holiday. We will leave from the church Saturday at 8
AM to go to Pine Mountain in Georgia.
The park is right across from Calloway Gardens. We will camp Saturday and Sunday, do some
backpacking, and return on Monday (a school holiday). It will probably be pretty cold, so scouts need to bring warm
clothes (including gloves and hats) and sleeping bags that are rated for cold
weather (15 degrees). This is always a
fun trip, and we rarely have a chance to do cold-weather camping.
The
Christmas tree sale was a huge success!
We completely sold out of trees, including 130 additional trees that we
received from another site that wasn’t selling well. The final figures aren’t in yet, but it looks like we should net
around $15,000, which will fully cover the troop’s operations for the year,
allow us to put some money away in a rainy day fund, and enable us to continue
our scout summer camp scholarships.
Thanks to all the folks who put in time at the tree lot to make this
happen. Special thanks go to Alan Null
and Jim Griner for chairing the event.
Service Hours
As
you know, scouts must earn service hours for most rank advancements, and the
number of hours worked helps determine the amount of scholarship money they
earn each year. I now have a notebook
that service hours MUST be recorded in order to be counted for
scholarship points. This notebook will
be at meetings. This is the only way we
can keep track of service hours; otherwise we run into debates on what someone
did months ago. Scouts need to record
their hours from last year in the book ASAP.
I will add the hours earned from the Christmas tree lot.
Troop Schedule
January 8 – regular meeting
January 13-15 – camping, Pine Mountain
January 22 – regular meeting (we will do a
PLC on the camping trip)
January 29 – regular meeting
February 1 – Troop Committee meeting
February 5 – regular meeting
February 12 – regular meeting
February 16-18 camping, Olustee Battlefield Re-enactment
February 19 – PLC
February 26 – regular meeting