Hopefully, you remembered to Spring ahead and took an opportunity to help clear some snow.
At the meeting we are hosting a Kristi Johnson, Counselor for Reptile and Amphibian Study Merit Badge - (Thanks to Brandon K for setting this up)!
You might want to review Reptile and Amphibian Study MB pamphlet.
Here's a helpful worksheet.
FYI - there is a Reptile trade show today at the Double Tree Bloomington, at 494 & Hiway 100. 10:00 - 4:00. Ages 5-10 $3.00, age 11+ $8.00
RAD Zoo Rescheduled - Saturday, April 27
New Sign up coming soon.
Pancake Breakfast • Sunday, March 17 • MUMC 8-11:30
Please invite your friends, neighbors, nemesis, teachers, family, coaches, etc.
All you can eat.
Gluten Free & Dairy Free upon request.
Real maple syrup!
Funds go to support BSA Troop 1’s program budget.
March 17 is also Scout Sunday at MUMC!
Wear your uniform and be a guest at a service.
Church Services at 9 & 11
Reminder: food service starts at 8am and goes until 11:30.
• Early Shift 7:30-10:30 Includes Set-Up
• Late Shift 9:30-12:30 Includes Clean-up
We hope to see the entire troop help out and participate. We'd also like to see the troop families stay for pancakes. In general, we'd like as many attendees as possible also. Please share this Facebok event and flyer with your networks. Scouts got paper flyers on Monday, let me know if you want one.
SUMMER CAMP 2019 • July 27 - Aug 3
Tomahawk Scout Reservation • Chippewa Sub-Camp • Winnebago Site
ALL SCOUTS are highly encouraged to attend. This is the highlight of summer!
Tomahawk PROGRAM CATALOG
Arrow of Light & new Scouts are HIGHLY encouraged to attend!!! There is a special first-year program designed just for you called "Brownsea Island"!
Cost: $307/Scout; $130/Adult.
Financial Assitance "Camperships" are available to help offset expenses.
Sign Up for your Summer Camp Programs NOW!
Tomahawk PROGRAM CATALOG. ONLINE - Program Sign-up due March 26
Merit Badges & Troop Activities.
OLDER SCOUTS - Apostle Islands Sea Kayaking, Sign up Here:
The Sea Kayaking Program in the Apostle Islands is the top tier of Tomahawk High Adventure. This trip is 5 days long. Scouts spend 4 nights on 3 different islands. Sign up is open for only 12 participants. 9 spots remain.
Ripley Rendezvous • May 17-19
Camp Ripley • Little Falls, MN
View the Flyer Here -
THIS LOOKS AWESOME!!!
Cost: $50/ea.
Sign Up Here by March 26
BWCA High Adventure 2019 • August 11-17
Sign up by May 7
We currently have 1 permit reserved and can host a crew of 9, w/ at least two adults.
We could send two crews if we get more adults to committ.
Troop 1 will send one or two crews to the BWCA from Sunday, August 11 - Saturday, August 17.
If we get enough adults, we can have up to 18 people divided up into two crews (think-patrols) of no more than 9 each.
Plan: Drive up on Sunday, August 11 & stay the night at the outfitter in Ely. August 12- On the water. August 17- off water & drive home.
Estimated cost $225/Person
GEAR SPOTLIGHT
REI outlet is clearing out some great external frame backpacks. These would make a great first or second pack. The thing that is nicest about external frame packs for scouts as they're just getting into camping and gear is that your gear doesn't have to fit inside the pack. Internal frame packs are great, but it requires one to have a highly compressible sleeping bag and other space-efficient items, which themselves all cost a bit more.
At $59 the Red Rock Alps Mountaineering Backpack is a great deal. It's ideal for smaller scouts.
Of course, if you want to go check out good quality used packs, I highly encourage a stop at the Repair Lair on Lake Street. The current inventory has some nice packs.
Scout Accounts & Paying for Camps
Most often camping costs can be deducted from your scout account, which scouts fill up through fundraising (wreath and popcorn sales). If you're not sure of your scout account balance, reach out to the troop treasurer, Jen Newberg.
NSC provides Financial Assitance called "Camperships" to help offset camp expenses.
Carwash Coordinator
The committee is seeking an adult to coordinate a carwash fundraiser after it warms up this spring and maybe again in summer. If you're interested let committee chair, Peter Edstrom, know.
BSA Troop 1 Facebook Group
For those of you on Facebook, feel please join our closed group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/mnt3001/
Upcoming Schedule
Mar 11 - Troop Meeting
Mar 16 - Pack 1 Pinewood Derby (10-1)
Mar 17 - PANCAKE BREAKFAST (7:30--12:30, 2 shifts)
Mar 18 - Troop Meeting & Board of Reviews
Mar 25 - Court of Honor
March 26 - SIGN-UP DEADLINE: Ripley Rendezvous, Tomahawk Summer Camp,
Mar 30 - Mini-Harvest Service 7:30-9
Mar 30 - Scouting University - SIGN UP HERE
Subscribe to the Troop 1 Google Calendar
Scoutmaster's Minute
Over the last few years I've read and listened to Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage more than a few times. It's a great tale, told well. In early November 1804, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, the Corps of Discovery, began building on the site they named “Fort Mandan,” and continued for the next couple of weeks. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and their crew, were going up the river to explore and map the country recently purchased from France; record what plants, animals, and people they encountered; make peace and set up trading possibilities with the natives; and find what was thought to be an easy route to the Pacific Ocean.
Do you think just anyone would have gone along with Lewis and Clark? Probably not. It took someone of strength, of skill, of curiosity, and of bravery to sign on with the expedition. After all, the threats from wild rivers, hostile people, wild animals, disease, and the unknown were enough to keep most people from even thinking about it. That is, the Corps of Discovery members were brave, and that bravery allowed all but one of the members to return safely.
When most of us think about bravery, we think about being cool in the face of some immediate, life-threatening situation. However, most of us will rarely, if ever, be in such a situation. But, there is a different kind of bravery all of us will have to have to get through life—the bravery to do the right thing, even if it’s not the popular thing or if it might embarrass us; to keep going when things are tough, to do what we don’t want to do, but have to do.
This is the kind of bravery that means you will follow your heart, and not the pressure to go along with everyone else because you feel threatened or laughed at. The Corps of Discovery did what had to be done, the everyday sort of bravery, a lot more than they had to face immediate danger. That is why we admire them and celebrate their accomplishment today. So, obey the 10th point of the Scout Law. Be brave, and you will feel that you’ve done your duty, and lived true to your conscience.
