The next round of letters and updates will pertain to merit badges and fundraising opportunities. I am in contact with Three Fires council to find out if the flower sale is still going on or if it has been delayed/canceled. As soon as I learn more information I will get that out to all of you. Please remember to have the boys take a look at the emails, Facebook page and our website for all the information that I have been putting out.
Over the next weeks the two primary merit badges that I want everyone to seriously consider looking into and beginning are the First Aid merit badge and the Reading merit badge. The Reading merit badge is a straightforward badge that any scout from any year can get within a week or two. With everyone being home and unnecessary travel discouraged, reading a good book may be a great way to "escape" from this situation for a little while.
The First Aid badge is important during these times for self explanatory reasons. Learning more about what you should do in times of crisis and emergency are something that the Boy Scouts have been teaching their students for over a century. Listed below are requirements for the Reading and First Aid merit badges. The troop is developing a presentation / demonstration for the First Aid merit badge that is still in the prototype phase. After we are able to send it out to everyone working through a big Eagle required merit badge will be a little bit easier.
Last night I received this message from Brock pertaining to his Eagle project. If you can help out this weekend at all any little bet would help. These are log-able service hours for rank advancement and the citizenship in the community merit badge.
This Monday we will be having a special in person meeting. Nowadays as everyone knows it's very difficult to try to find something to do or a place to meet that we can actually do something. This Monday we will be taking a hike around downtown Saint Charles. At around 6:45 we will be meeting at Saint Mark's church to coordinate hikers.
I have two major updates for this weekend. Saturday will be the final day of Brock's eagle project. Sunday we have a day hike at Cantigny military park.
Because we were not able to get enough participants for a camp-out to the sparta bike trail we will be holding a bike hike on the Great Western Trail this Saturday morning. We will be meeting at the Campton Hills Community Center at 10a Saturday morning for a 10 mile bike hike.
This Saturday (December 26th) I will be trying to put together another service project over at Camp Kane. Because almost everybody seems to be home for the holidays this may be a good chance to pick off a couple more service hours. If you need service hours for a merit badge, a rank advancement or just want to get some dirt underneath your nails this may be our last best chance this year. It will be the same as before where we start at 10a and end around 2p. There is a sign up on the website if you're able to come. I will need another adult to assist me with this. If by Friday evening we can get at least 6 people signed up we are good to go.
I wanted to update everyone as to what was going on for this Saturday. I talked to the point person from pack 154 about their camp-out at Blackwell Forest Preserve. I've been informed that this is not a weekend camp-out but actually a Saturday/Sunday overnight. This means slight changes in what we were planning to do for the day. The updated timeline for pack 154 is to be at the forest preserve starting at noon on Saturday till 9a on Sunday when they will break camp.
Good morning or evening whenever you are reading this
I hope that everyone is safe and sound from our excitement last night. I, like everyone else, was hoping that the storm would just blow over and we would be ok. As it turns out it was a little more tense than everyone was comfortable with. Just in case we do have bad weather and the storm sirens happen to go off please consider the scout meeting automatically canceled. When it comes to severe weather, if the siren blows everything is shut down.
Makeup meeting
I am calling for a special meeting Wednesday evening to make up for the canceled plc. This will be just a regular meeting 7p - 815 over at Good Templar. (If it's raining we will be over at the church). We will be primarily going over requirements for swimming and lifesaving merit badges. I know it is the first day of school for a lot of you but I'm hoping that it will be a light day.
The Committee meeting will be postponed till September 13th
Merit badge weekend
As of right now we are all set for the swimming and lifesaving merit badge this weekend at the Norris center. If you do not have either of the badges please sign up. These badges are eagle required and you will definitely not regret doing it.
As most of you have probably heard by now the IL government has yet again shut down indoor meetings for groups of any size. For this reason for the foreseeable future we will be moving our Monday meetings to our zoom channel. Now that we have the zoom in our back pockets we can continue with Monday meetings with very little problems or delay. There are a few things I have in mind that were given to me by the boys last Monday for meeting ideas so we will be playing off of those ideas for the time being.
