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BSA Troop 934
Attention: Troop popcorn is ready for pickup between now and 6:30pm today! Troop popcorn pickup will be located in the Mt. Tabor UMC Gym.
If you have a child with popcorn in the Pack 934 – please be aware that this popcorn has not been delivered at this time and we will be making an annoucement from their website when it’s ready this afternoon.
At the time of this announcement – we still need 42 available slots to be filled for Popcorn Delivery this coming Thursday. Consider spending a few hours of your day at Mt. Tabor UMC please – we have an entire truck load of popcorn to count and divide up into scout specific orders. I’ll be using my available community service and volunteer hours at work to take the time off to help! Even an hour will make all the difference!
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Please watch the Troop Website for when the popcorn will be available for pick up. This year we are getting the popcorn two hours later than we have gotten it in the past so the pick up time may be later than usual. I would expect it be ready no earlier than after lunch and pick up is available until 6:30 pm. The church will not allow it to be stored there overnight so send someone to get it or make arrangements to with another scout family.
Please have your scouts check at home for any Troop camping equipment that accidentally went home in their packs after the last trip. They need to please bring it all back to the next scout meeting.
The troop sold $37,810 in popcorn sales! Everyone worked really hard!
We showed our new (to us) bus named Claire to the boys and leaders a couple of weeks ago! Thank you to everyone who contributed to the purchase either by selling popcorn or making donations.
1. Patterson H.
2. Novan K.
3. Eli B.
Popcorn prizes will be awarded and our Grand Prize and Goal Reacher Drawings will happen at our annual banquet on December 6th.
Our next Court of Honor will also be at our annual banquet on December 6th with our troop Lock in right after the Banquet is cleaned up, please sign up.
We are also signing up for the Klondike Trip on January 17th-19th and the Ski Trip (New two nights) on February 21st – 23rd (ski or snowboard lesson included).. Winterplace is requiring a headcount be given to them by mid-December so the deadline to sign up for the ski trip is the COH. For more details, come to the scout meetings. The sign ups are underway in the Boy Scout Room as always.
Until midnight tonight, you can purchase your OA banquet ticket online at ravenknob.com for $12. At 12:01, they are $20. There will be an extremely limited number of tickets available at the door. Banquet is next Friday. If you have a Wahissa flap on your uniform, you should be there
One of our previous leaders, Dr Patty Balch, has found a great opportunity for scouts to earn service hours this Saturday, October 26. Information copied below. Please contact Dr Balch (information at bottom) if you are able to help. Thanks!
I would ask that they offer their help on Saturday morning beginning at 11:30 to help carry 4x 8 tables and folding chairs and set them up according to the Vendor Coordinator’s instructions. I anticipate this will take no more than 90 minutes depending on how many boys can help.
We will then need them to break down the tables and carry them back to loading area for pick up beginning at 6:15pm. Again, I estimate perhaps an hour.
They would need to come to the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter Biotech Lab at 575 North Patterson Avenue.
Any questions, please share my email and phone number. 336-403-4224.
Patty Balch zerktouini55@triad.rr.com
Tonight and tomorrow are your last realistic opportunities to sell popcorn. Please meet or exceed your personal goal of $400. I had a scout from another troop knock on my door today selling popcorn. He had a full sheet from my street and the one behind. Nobody from 934 has hit my neighborhood. We are better than this- Sell!!
This is the last weekend to sell Popcorn! Please turn in any forms that are not in the Trails End App this coming Monday, October 21st. We will be collecting the forms in a different room than the Boy Scout Room follow the signs when you enter the scout area Monday night. We open the turn in for Popcorn Forms at 6:30 pm.
Pick up is Friday, November 15th. Volunteers are desperately needed to help with the delivery day efforts. If you can spend even just an hour helping to sort the orders, we would appreciate it! Please email me and let me know if you are available.
We will accept popcorn money on Monday but all the popcorn money is not officially due until November 25th.
DO NOT BRING CASH: KEEP THE CASH AND WRITE A CHECK TO THE TROOP FOR THE AMOUNT. Please write your scout’s name on the memo line on checks written to the Troop.
The Grayson Highlands Backpacking Trip is full to the brim! The scouts and leaders will be meeting at Mt Tabor UMC on Friday, October 25th at 5:00 pm for departure.
Please have your scout bring in his backpacking gear to the meeting on Monday, if he did not do so last week. I want to make sure they have the correct and functional gear. Also, if there is an item on the packing list that your scout does not have please let us know. We have lots of extra gear between the adult leaders and the troop. You don’t have to go out an buy anything, we have outfitted several scouts from scratch on prior trips.
Please let me know if you have questions.
The scouts need to bring a bag dinner (fast food is fine) with them and wear their class A Uniform. Please see the backpacking packing list on the troop website – click here for the link.
Click here for the 10 day weather forecast for packing wisely!
Kim Towles will be at check in on Friday evening. Please remind your scout to check in with Kim Towles (Nathan’s Mom) upon arrival at the church. Also, you can turn in medications with Kim, however, we like for the boys to keep their inhalers and epi-pens with them. The Troop Trip Signup Sheets now have a column for the scouts to note that they have an inhaler or an epi-pen with them.
The plan is for the boys to stay at Stone Mountain State Park on Friday Night and drive to Grayson Highlands State Park on Saturday morning to begin hiking. They will spend Saturday night at the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area and hike back to the parking area for lunch on Sunday. They will return around 3:00 pm on Sunday to Mt Tabor UMC. Please remember to watch your phones for updates on the return time as circumstances change quickly when traveling in a large group. If you do not have a phone that can receive group text messages originating from an iPhone, please let Kim know at check-in.
If you don’t already know there is a burn ban in effect for Grayson county VA, where we will be hiking that includes campfires, but not stoves. In the surrounding Mount Rogers National Recreation Area the same is true. So we will be able to cook food for dinner on Saturday night using a camp stove. Also, I will divvying up the different treks in the next few days and will email out those when those assignments are completed.
The Ravens will be cooking as a patrol and the troop will be supplying the main course for breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Saturday. This will allow them to satisfy a rank advancement requirement. They should still bring snacks some extra food of their own particularly if your scout is a big or finicky eater.