Troop Meeting • Monday, 6:30-8:00pm • Nokomis Beach
Health Forms DUE Monday (3 copies). Please attach a photocopy of your Ins. Card. If you have questions reach out to Melissa Barber.
Troop 1 Class B Shirt
2019 Troop 1 T-Shirts
All Scouts & Scoutmaster Corps must get a Class B. This will be deducted from Scout Accounts.
Shirts are open to everyone else for an order at $10/shirt
New order shirts will be a wicking material
Orders Due July 16
Tomahawk Service Project - Benches for Winnebago
It looks like Chad Mayer was able to secure the wood from a Home Depot donation & the Collopy's will supply Screws and Bolts - we'll build them in camp. I'll bring the necessary tools. Thanks!!!!
GEAR SPOTLIGHT - Permethrin Bug Repellant
One required safety precaution is bug repellant. While mosquitos are the deadliest creature in the world, we don't have to deal with them as much more than a nussance in the US. However, ticks born illnesses can be deadly or life-altering, and they're increasingly common.
One way I prefer to mitigate the need to continuously apply bug repellant to my skin is to apply it to pre-treat my clothes before camp. Permethrin works mostly for mosquitoes and ticks, it doesn't have much effect on biting flies: deer flies or horse flies. It uses a synthetic chemical that acts like a natural extract from chrysanthemums and kills insects that come into contact with it. A 24oz bottle will treat 4 complete sets of clothing - basically, all one's clothes for camp (shirts, shorts/pants, socks), and lasts for weeks, and up to six washings - I suggest you wash separately from your other laundry.
This method offers "always-on" protection and one can go on multiple trips before re-treating your clothing. However, this does not eliminate the need for skin-applied products. That's still needed for the protection of the areas not covered by clothes. I'll leave the skin applied: Deet vs. Picardin vs. Lemon Eucalyptus Oil debate, for later - though I'll let you know my preference is Picardin, by far. REI has a decent comparison chart on repellants. FYI - Menards currently has the cheapest 24oz bottles of Permethrin I've ever found.
Tomahawk Details
Tomahawk Advisors & Drivers
We are taking a big crew (27 Scouts) to camp this summer and will need help getting them all there.
If you're planning to come to camp, or you're able to help drive; Tomahawk is about 2.5 hours away. If you've talked to me, but haven't filled this form - please fill out this form.
BWCA Crew
We held our first crew meeting tonight and divided up into two crews.
We started with some route planning.
Homework:
- Here is a personal packing list. See what you don't have and make a list
- Each crew has elected a First Aid Corpsman working to make a crew first aid kit.
- Everybody should research at least 2 meals they can share with the crew at our next meeting. Remember no cans or bottles are allowed into the BWCA.
Next Crew Meeting is Sunday, July 21, 6:30, MUMC
Upcoming Schedule
Google Calendar or in ical format
BSA Troop 1 Facebook Group
For those of you on Facebook, feel please join our closed group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/mnt3001/
Scoutmaster's Minute - Does that really help?
One afternoon while working around his yard, a man spotted a cocoon. Looking closely, he noticed that something was struggling to get through a very small hole in the cocoon.He sat and watched for several minutes before he was certain that what he was seeing was a butterfly attempting to get through the hole in the cocoon. As he watched, the insect inside the cocoon pushed and twisted but could not squeeze its way through the hole since the hole was smaller than the body of the emerging butterfly.
Intending to help the butterfly emerge, the man took his pocketknife and very carefully cut the hole larger so the butterfly could pass through the opening. The butterfly emerged easily with no effort at all. However, the butterfly had a body that was far too big to permit its undeveloped wings to lift it.
The man waited with hope that the butterfly would continue to transform but this never happened. The butterfly needed to struggle to squeeze its body through the small opening. In the struggle, the wings would gain strength and the body would become smaller. Without this struggle, the butterfly never developed into a beautiful insect that could fly from flower to flower. In fact, it died quickly, never able to develop.
The attempt to remove difficulties from the emerging insect left it unable to develop and grow in its next stage of life.
Sometimes you, like the butterfly, will find yourself struggling to make it through a difficult assignment or decision. What will happen if someone older steps in and does it for you? What will happen if you let someone else carry your load? If you work hard, you can emerge a stronger and better person prepared for an even brighter future.
In Troop 1 our ethos is: watch one, do one, teach one.
Take on the responsibility for learning scout skills so you can use them, so you can teach them and pass on that great useful knowledge.
