2010 Annual Calendar

This year we'll be focusing on the 100th Aniversary Award for the Trapper Trails Council as well as the BSA Centenial Award. Here are some of the highlights:

Centennial Award Requirements - Troop 933 will complete the following requirements to earn the council award for the 100^th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. Our troop meetings and activities will focus on achieving these goals. Scouts will have to, as individuals, see that they participate and complete the requirements, in that the achievements will not be automatic. (Y-Youth, A-Adults)

Leadership: (1 Required, 2 Electives)

R – Be registered as a scout (Y/A)

E – Participate in a Troop Leadership Training Course provided by troop (Y/A)

E – Serve for 6 months in a leadership position (Y)

E – Complete all necessary online training courses (A)

Character: (1 Required, 2 Electives)

R – Write two specific goals and record your progress in a journal for 3 months (Y/A)

E – Wear uniform to at least 60% of activities for 6 months (Y/A)

E – Participate in the 2010 Jamborall (Y/A)

Service: (1 Required, 2 Electives)

R – Participate in Making a Difference service project (Y/A)

E – Provide 5 hours of service to your church, community, school or non-profit org. (Y/A)

E – Earn a Citizenship merit badge (Y)

E – Do a good turn daily for 3 months and record results (A)

Achievement: (1 Required, 1 Elective)

R – Fulfill the Centennial Patch req. for Leadership, Character, Service and Outdoors. (Y/A)

E – Earn a rank advancement (Y)

E – Complete 6 months of requirements for leaders key/training award (A)

Outdoors: (1 Required, 2 Electives)

R – Attend the 2010 100 Year Fall Camporee or another district, council event (Y/A)

E – Participate in at least 2 other outdoor activities (Y/A)

E – Repeat from memory the BSA Outdoor Code (Y/A)

Legacy:

R – Submit history of unit’s activities during 2010 to your district (A)

E – Fill out the 2010 Centennial Quality Unit Goal Sheet (A)

E – Plan and carry out a 100 year celebration event with your chartered organization (A)

Troop meetings - will focus on at least 6 required merit badges this year, following by 6 next year.

2010 - Citizenship in the Community, the Nation, the World, Family Life, Physical Fitness, Hiking, Cycling, Camping, First Aid

2011 - Swimming, Life Saving, Personal Management, Communication, Environmental Science, Emergency Preparedness.

Additionally, our troop meeting will focus on other optional merit badges such as gardening, space exploration, model building, painting, etc.

Klondike - February 19-20, 2010

Citizenship in the Community - 3 earned tonight

Well, glory be! We had three scouts earn and pass off their Citizenship in the Community merit badge tonight. Congratulations to Erik McEntyer, Ethan Willden and Derek Williams. They're one step closer to earning their 100th anniversary patch as well as closer to the rank of Eagle.

Citizenship in the Community

Well, over the last three months, we have been discussing the Citizenship in the Community merit badge. This is a required merit badge for the Eagle rank as well as a requirement for the 100th anniversary of the BSA. This coming Wednesday night I will be taking appointments from your son to have him present his knowledge and show he has completed the requirements. If you are interested in your son earning this merit badge, I would suggest you review the requirements and have him prepared to meet with me, his merit badge counselor. We will be moving on to other merit badges beginning next week and we would appreciate your desire to have your son earn this badge after the work we have put in as leaders. This will require you review and prepare your son for his visit with the 'merit badge counselor' this Wednesday. We offered scouts a blue merit badge card at church this Sunday, which they will need to complete prior to their meeting with me on Wednesday. If you have any questions concerning your son fulfilling the requirements, please let me know. For your information, your son, if he has been active in his priesthood calling has completed 8 hours of community service for a charitable organization by serving the members of the ward in Sacrament meetings and Fast Offering collections, as well as cleaning the building on a Saturday. Hopefully he was able to attend the court we attended in South Ogden and was able to discuss various things with the judge that day. Your son will just have to do exactly what the merit badge requirements are with the counselor this Wednesday. My phone number is 479-1725 and will be anticipating your son's phone call to complete these requirements.

http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Citizenship_in_the_Community

How to earn a merit badge: http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Merit_Badges

Thanks.

The Movie, all 133 minutes

Well, we watched the movie, Follow me boys, for our Citizenship in the community merit badges. Three requirements down and on we move toward earning this merit badge. Thanks to the parents for letting the scouts know the new location. Hopefully, we didn't keep them up late. This was a fun, wholesome movie and hopefully the scouts learned a little about service in the community. This particular movie was about a person who volunteered to be a scout master and the boys who were so enthusiastic about membership in the troop (club, team).

Winter Campout 2009 - Bott's Camp

Well, it's become a tradition to go camping the first of November at Bott's campground in South Fork. Eric Tuttle went up after lunch to reserve a campground. Thank goodness because the place filled up with other scout troops for the first time. There were 3 other troops camping with us this year. Dad's were invited and we had John B. and Chad W. which was nice. Eric Tuttle, assistant scout master brought his 4 year old son James and he was a really camper. Most of the scouts came ill prepared, some without coats and gloves, while others wore shorts - go figure at 30 degrees in the morning. Pray for them! Some of the meals were interesting too, Subway sandwiches for supper and breakfast. Talk about creative scout cooking skills. Oh well. Congratulations to Eric McEntire who was practicing his scouting skills, who wore a coat and cooked his meal; hamburger on the grill for supper and scrambled eggs for breakfast. We arrived around 6:00 p.m. and proceeded to set up camp, then eat. We played murder around the campfire and headed to bed by 10:00. The coat-less scouts were up at 5:30 a.m. starting a fire. Not sure if they had two sleeping bags and/or blankets for their sleeping bags. The scoutmaster had two scrambled egg omlets and hot chocolate. Many scouts were envious. After breakfast activities included horseshoes, checkers, BB Gun target practice, swinging from a rope hanging from a tree and hanging out. We packed up by 11:00 and were home by noon. The troop provided stoves, pots and pans, cleaning equipment, firewood and fire log (nice to have a couple to get things going).

Eagle Scout - Congratulations to Rhett Harris