Troop 352 Blog

March has a few dates that you all should be aware of….

• March 2nd, 6pm, is the PLC meeting for the month
• March 6th at Camp Powhatan, starting at 9am, the lodge will be having a Conclave workday. Lunch is provided but bring money for breakfast on the way up and dinner on the way back. Expect service time to be over about 8:30pm
• March 10th, 7pm, at Peter’s Creek Church of the Brethren, is the March Chapter meeting for OA…be there!!!
• March 26-28th- we will either go backpacking or do something else

This month marked the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. It is a great accomplishment for the largest youth organization in the nation and deserves to be applauded. The troop held a dinner on February 9th, the day after the technical 100th anniversary, February 8th, and it was a great success.

Troop 352 wishes you all a happy holiday season. Whether it be Hannukah or Christmas the troop hopes you have a safe and fun time with family and friends. We will not be meeting for the next two Tuesdays, the 22nd and 29th, but will right back in action on January 5th with a PLC meeting at 6 and a regular meeting at 7:30. We will be having troop elections on that day so please come ready to run something and run it well in a new position that you want to run for!!! Wednesday, January 6th, at 7pm will be the January Catawba Chapter meeting at Peter’s Creek Church of the Brethren…show up!!! On that Thursday we will have the first Venturing Crew 352 meeting!!! Please show up if you are at least 14 years old and invite a friend. We will vote for officers and plan our first activity. Enjoy your two weeks off  and have a great Christmahannakwanza, because we have a busy first week of 2010 coming up!!

On November 21st at 9am scouts will meet for our quarterly Adopt a Highway at the Lions Club on Alleghany Rd. It will take about one and a half hours to two hours and afterward scouts are asked and invited to come and get more service time working on Matt R’s Eagle Scout Project. The project will be at Glenvar High School next to the faculty parking lot which is the first one on the right as you come up to GHS. Lunch will be provided from Little Ceasars free of charge but scouts are asked to bring water and work gloves themselves. You may bring snacks for yourself if you would like as well. Siblings are also welcome to come and get service hours for college apps., scholarships, etc…

There will be an interest meeting this Wednesday, November 18th at 7:30pm. All scouts AND their parents who are intrested are asked to come. If you cannot make it but are still interested please inform Matt R. and let him know. The meeting will be to gage the interest in having a venturing crew 352 as well as to decide on the meeting frequency and also decide on key by-laws for the crew. We will need to get at least 5 adults to volunteer for a crew committee and a few to volunteer to be assistant crew advisors. Dave Foster is interested in being Crew Advisor but you may also volunteer for that and the crew committee will choose. A female advisor will also need to volunteer so that we can have a coed program. The meeting will take about an hour and PLEASE come.

Nick L made the rank of Eagle Scout this past Tuesday, October 20th 2009 after completing his board of review. Congratulations to him and look out for information on his court of honor soon.

If you want to upload pictures to the windows live site at www.troop352salemva.com/pictures then you will need to create your own, free of charge, account. You can then go to Carl’s profile once signed in and add photos to his albums or you can create your own albums and share them with the public so we can all see. Carl is working on creating a “space” with the site so that all the photos can be gathered there. This is still a work in progress but please check out the site and see if you can create an account so that you can see Carl’s photos as well as share your own.

The Catawba District Fall Camporee will be the weekend of October 16th at Camp Ottari and costs $10. If you would like to go please sign up and pay Donna. The Blackstone campout will be the weekend of November 7th and you may also sign up for that by paying Donna. Merit badges will be offered at Blackstone and see the Troop Announcements page for the link to get see the merit badges offered (some do have fees and some are all day while others are morning/afternoon). The Fall Camporee will involve blackpowder rifle shooting and other activities for scouts. Both events will count toward camping nights and will offer the scouts a chance to complete requirements.

We have a chapter meeting coming up the first Wednesday of October at Peter’s Creek Church of the Brethren. The meeting starts at 7pm. We also have an OA Fall Fellowship in October for the weekend of the 11th at Camp Powhatan…send in your function form (found at www.tutelo161.org, under forms tab) so that you can attend for $15 rather than $20. Gold card holders need not worry since the function is paid for. The Winter Banquet will be in December so stay tuned for that as well.