TROOP MEETING MONDAY (12/13/21)
We will have a troop meeting Monday night. In-Person at MUMC. 18:30-20:00.
We will be getting a start on Personal Management and Family Life Merit Badges.
Grubmasters with leftover non-perishable food items can bring back anything for storage until our next Campout in February - if that makes sense.
Troop 1 will continue to require masks at meetings.
Board Game Camp Pictures - https://photos.app.goo.gl/QApvJANV2oQkG4W37
COVID-19 MITIGATION • TROOP 1 REQUIREMENTS
1 - All participants must have a negative Covid-19 test within 3 days of departure, and anybody experiencing any cold-like or Covid-19 symptoms will be asked to not participate. I recommend the airport - super fast saliva test and super fast (next day) results.
2- Any Scout sent home from school/sports due to direct exposure should follow the 7-day quarantine rule by MDH unless the direct exposure is within your household. Then follow the 10-14 day rules as outlined by MDH. Obviously, participating in troop events cannot happen within the quarantine period.
3- Troop 1 will continue to require masks indoors at meetings and inside vehicles and when in contact with scouts from outside our unit.
4- When indoors at a weekend cabin camp, Scouts will not be required to mask as long as only members of Troop 1 are present, as every participant has tested negative prior to the event.
5- Scouts will share tents when tenting outside. All scouts First Class and under must have a tent mate.
EVENT REGISTRATIONS
KLONDIKE DERBY - Jan 29 Stearns Scout Camp
ISLE ROYALE 2022 - Sign Up Before Dec 20
High Adventure 2023 - This is to gauge interest level, not a commitment.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Troop 1 WebsiteSubscribe to the Troop 1 Google Calendar
BSA Troop 1 Facebook Group
For those of you on Facebook, feel please join our closed group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/mnt3001/
Committee
Please consider joining the committee or volunteering to help out with a specific task or activity as your schedule permits. Sometimes we need people to fill big important volunteer jobs like Committee Chair, Treasurer, Advancement Chair, Camp Coordinator, or Health Officer. Sometimes we just need somebody to make a good contact list of scouts in google sheets, or to help coordinate the wreaths, or to help with another activity. Teamwork makes the dream work, and every adult has something to offer. If you're interested in how you can help out, please attend the committee meeting this week (zoom) or reach out to our committee chair, Quentin Randolph <bent_ear@comcast.net>. He'll also send you details for this week's meeting.
Also, you might just consider becoming a Merit Badge Counselor.
There are lots of Merit Badges and new ones being written all the time.
Scoutmaster Minute (Sharing Again)
I originally shared this back in May 2020.
I know all these cancellations, schedule disruptions, and Covid-19 mitigation efforts (like masks) are a drag but keep in mind a bit of perspective and history.
In 1935, the VERY FIRST National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America, which was planned to celebrate the young organization's 25th anniversary, was canceled due to an outbreak of a highly contagious virus, polio.
At the time it was canceled, entire troops were already en route to the nation's Capitol by train (a multi-day journey for many), and many had to turn around and head straight back home.
Now, I am happy to be corrected if I am being inaccurate, but looking through the historical records of this event I'm not able to locate any instances of people portending from this unfortunate event the "end of Scouting," nor was I able to find any leader from this era implying that the organization had gone soft or anything of that sort.
The Scouts and Scouters of 1935 took it in stride, made the sacrifices that were necessary cheerfully and with Scout Spirit, and two years later in 1937 gathered for the rescheduled Jamboree when it was safe to do so. That's how the Scouts in 1935 handled it.
For a bit more of a humbling perspective at this moment, imagine the things you would have overcome if you were born in 1900. When you are 11 your join the newly formed Boy Scouts of America, when you're 14, World War I starts and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.
When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.
When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts, and five million perish.
Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.
At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict.
As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A kid in 1985 didn’t think their 85-year-old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents (and now great or great, great grandparents) survived through everything listed above.
Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, help each other out, let’s follow our Scout Law and we will get through all of this.
When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.
When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts, and five million perish.
Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.
At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict.
As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A kid in 1985 didn’t think their 85-year-old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents (and now great or great, great grandparents) survived through everything listed above.
Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, help each other out, let’s follow our Scout Law and we will get through all of this.
In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted. As these last two years have proven, our future will be forever altered by COVID-19, just as futures were changed by all of the events listed above. But I also have to believe that eventually, we’ll get through this - and we’ll do it by following the Scout Law, supporting each other, and by being models and leaders of a world we want to live in.
Importantly, if you're unable to attend tonight's meeting or next week's PLC (online), I hope you and your family have a restful break and great holidays.
