April 7, 2008
Troop 236
April, May and June 2008 Newsletter & Calendar
CONGRATULATIONS to these our new troop youth leaders!
The Troop’s next Court of Honor will be Sunday, May 4th, 7 to 8pm in the Fowler Room at the church.
The Troop’s next committee meeting will be Sunday, May 4th, 6 to 7pm before the Court of Honor.
Summer camp this year will be June 22 to 28th.
•We need to know whose going by April 18th. Please contact Mr. Leonard and let him know if you’re going!
•The cost will be approximately $200.
•Your 1st payment of $90 is due at the Court of Honor.
•Camp informational meeting will be Monday, May 12th at 7pm in the Fowler room.
Troop Car Wash
When: Saturday, May 10th, 10 am to 2pm
•Each Scout is asked to work 1 two-hour shift. Parent help would be greatly appreciated.
•Scouts attending the Communications merit badge can work the noon to 2pm. Please send a packed lunch and drink
Where: Marathon Gas Station (corner of Main Street and Route 61)
Bring: drying towels, buckets, sponges, soap
This car wash will be held rain or shine!
Sign up with the SPL for your shift!
Honor Guard
There are 8 Webelos II Cub Scouts crossing into Troop 236 on Friday, April 18th. We are in need of some Boy Scouts (in uniform) to attend Pack 236 Blue and Gold Banquet and help welcome them into the Troop by being apart of the honor guard. Please contact Mr. Leonard for details.
Canoeing at Mohican
•No date has been set but the Troop is going canoeing at Mohican this July. Have a suggestion on a date? Let one of the youth leaders know.
•You must be First Class to attend this event alone OR you may attend if a parent goes with you and participates in the canoeing also.
•See Mr. Leonard for details.
Merit badges
Eagle required{Unsure if you need these 2 classes? Contact Mrs. Uther or Mr. Leonard}
First Aid
•3 classes on April 14, 21 & 28, 7pm in the Fowler room are required
Citizenship in the Nation
•There are 3 Monday night classes required for completing this class – April 14, 21 & 28, 7 to 8pm in the Fowler room
Communications (This is an Eagle required merit badge)
•There are 2 Saturday classes required for completing this class - May 10 & May 24, 9am to noon in the Fowler room
•If you will be attending please register with Mrs. Faggionato (crazyscouter@aol.com or 419-588-3604)
Fishing and Fly Fishing
•Both will be offered at the District Fishing Day on Saturday, May 3. See details below.
Fire and Fire Safety
•Both will be offered on Saturday, April 26th, 8am to noon at the Norwalk Fire Station
•If you will be attending please register with Mrs. Faggionato.
•If you would like to attend but have no ride either to or from please let Mrs. Faggionato know when you pre-register and arrangements can be made.
SCOUTS: What merit badges do you want to see offered next year? Think about it. Your troop youth leadership will be asking you very soon. You can get a complete list of the merit badges and their requirements at usscouts.org
PARENTS: What merit badge do you think you could help the troop out with and offer? This is your son’s troop, your son’s trail to Eagle. Your son advances not only by Scout skills he learns at campouts and meetings but, by the merit badges that he completes. You can help! Go to usscouts.org; pull up the complete listing of merit badges, look the requirements over and then see if there’s anything you could offer. Talk to Mr. Leonard or Mr. and Mrs. Uther if you’re interested in helping with a merit badge or if you have any questions.
Firelands District Fishing Day at Camp Firelands
•When? Saturday, May 3rd, the event is from 9am to 5pm and you may come and go as you’d like
•Who can attend? Any scout and anyone they’d like to bring
•Registration is required! You must contact Mrs. Faggionato by Friday April 18th at 8pm she will register us as a troop for necessary classes, food and bait.
•A free lunch of hot dogs, chips, pop and chili is available or you can pack your own lunch.
•Afraid you won’t know anyone there? Mrs. Faggionato and Mr. & Mrs. Uther will be going. Come and join us for lunch at noon after the available classes before you start an afternoon of fishing.
•What’s available to do:
Fishing and Fly Fishing merit badge classes will be offered from 10am to noon. You must attend the class and then fish and complete those requirements. You must bring pole or fly rod-reel.
There will be another class offered also called Learn to Fish. ODNR will be offering this class from 10 to noon also. You will receive a free rod & reel that is yours to keep. You must be 17 years old to take this class.
Just come out and enjoy the lake and fish! You can keep fish to catch and release for fun or you keep what you catch if they meet the guidelines that you’ll be given that day.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
Monday, September 24, 2007
Fall Camporee
THE GREAT FIRELANDS DISTRICT – HEART OF OHIO COUNCIL
2007 Fall Camporee
Wilderness 101
Location: Willard Conservation League, State Route 99, (North of Willard)
Date: October 19th – 21st 2007
Cost: $3.00 per scout (picked up by 236)
Agenda
Friday 10/19/2007
6:00 – 9:00pm – Registration
9:00pm - Cracker Barrel
(snacks & beverages provided) Scout masters: asst. SPL’S
11:00 pm. - Lights out
Saturday
10/20/2007
Units on their own for breakfast
8:00 am – Registration
8:45 am Flag Raising/prep orientation
9:00am – Stations – 8 stations (25 minutes per stations)
(5 minutes apart)
1:00pm – Lunch on your own.
2:30pm - Survival run
6:00pm – Dinner on your own.
Saturday continued.
7:30pm – Flag lowering
8:00pm – Camp Fire – all patrols participates in song or skit.
11:00pm – Lights out
Sunday Morning 10/21/2007
Breakfast on your own
8:00am – Basic Church service
9:00am – Excused from camp
8 Stations
1) Back Packs – How to pack them (Basic kinds)
2) Camp site inspection – good site/bad site (skit by scouts)
3) Pitching a tent/setting up a camp site
4) Navigation - compass/maps/GPS
5) Water purification/food prep
6) First aid – kits
7) Fire building
8) Wilderness survival – do’s & don’ts
2007 Fall Camporee
Wilderness 101
Location: Willard Conservation League, State Route 99, (North of Willard)
Date: October 19th – 21st 2007
Cost: $3.00 per scout (picked up by 236)
Agenda
Friday 10/19/2007
6:00 – 9:00pm – Registration
9:00pm - Cracker Barrel
(snacks & beverages provided) Scout masters: asst. SPL’S
11:00 pm. - Lights out
Saturday
10/20/2007
Units on their own for breakfast
8:00 am – Registration
8:45 am Flag Raising/prep orientation
9:00am – Stations – 8 stations (25 minutes per stations)
(5 minutes apart)
1:00pm – Lunch on your own.
2:30pm - Survival run
6:00pm – Dinner on your own.
Saturday continued.
7:30pm – Flag lowering
8:00pm – Camp Fire – all patrols participates in song or skit.
11:00pm – Lights out
Sunday Morning 10/21/2007
Breakfast on your own
8:00am – Basic Church service
9:00am – Excused from camp
8 Stations
1) Back Packs – How to pack them (Basic kinds)
2) Camp site inspection – good site/bad site (skit by scouts)
3) Pitching a tent/setting up a camp site
4) Navigation - compass/maps/GPS
5) Water purification/food prep
6) First aid – kits
7) Fire building
8) Wilderness survival – do’s & don’ts
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
20070909 Committee Meeting Minutes
Boy Scout Committee Minutes
September 9th, 2007
Present: Bill Coleman, Lynn Faggionato, Eric Kibler, Barry Laird, Kerry Laird, Brian Krieg, Christine Uther, Gary Uther, Kirsten Lux, Don Leonard, Deb Oehling
Meeting called to order at 7:00 PM.
Items Discussed
1) First meeting- new patrols.
Bill provided a list of the new patrols. Our first meeting will center on the patrols electing assistant patrol leaders and meal planning for the first camp-out.
2) Flag raising ceremony on 9/14.
The scouts for this event are:
Tyler Bewley
Nick Kibler
Pat Leonard
Rusty Cromwell
3) Popcorn fundraiser.
Sale starts on 9/29. Order sheets must turned in (even if blank) by 11/5.
Pick-up is on 12/1 and we will coordinate with the cub pack and distribute with them in the community center.
4) Trailer work day.
10/7 at 4 PM.
5) Fundraising ideas.
We discussed several fundraising ideas including selling shirts, spaghetti dinner, working the fall games at Burnhams, etc. This needs to remain an open agenda item going forward.
6) Open discussion.
We need to make the scouts aware that the brother hood of the o. a. is meeting at the fall camporee.
Action Items (at first meeting):
1) Don L. – camp-out sign up sheet for 9/17 meeting.
2) Don L. – mention den leader training on 10/13 and sign up interested scouts.
Next Meeting October 7th, 2007 @ 4:00 PM (this is out trailer work day at Krieg’s.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:45 PM.
September 9th, 2007
Present: Bill Coleman, Lynn Faggionato, Eric Kibler, Barry Laird, Kerry Laird, Brian Krieg, Christine Uther, Gary Uther, Kirsten Lux, Don Leonard, Deb Oehling
Meeting called to order at 7:00 PM.
Items Discussed
1) First meeting- new patrols.
Bill provided a list of the new patrols. Our first meeting will center on the patrols electing assistant patrol leaders and meal planning for the first camp-out.
2) Flag raising ceremony on 9/14.
The scouts for this event are:
Tyler Bewley
Nick Kibler
Pat Leonard
Rusty Cromwell
3) Popcorn fundraiser.
Sale starts on 9/29. Order sheets must turned in (even if blank) by 11/5.
Pick-up is on 12/1 and we will coordinate with the cub pack and distribute with them in the community center.
4) Trailer work day.
10/7 at 4 PM.
5) Fundraising ideas.
We discussed several fundraising ideas including selling shirts, spaghetti dinner, working the fall games at Burnhams, etc. This needs to remain an open agenda item going forward.
6) Open discussion.
We need to make the scouts aware that the brother hood of the o. a. is meeting at the fall camporee.
Action Items (at first meeting):
1) Don L. – camp-out sign up sheet for 9/17 meeting.
2) Don L. – mention den leader training on 10/13 and sign up interested scouts.
Next Meeting October 7th, 2007 @ 4:00 PM (this is out trailer work day at Krieg’s.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:45 PM.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
20070812 Committee Meeting Minutes
Boy Scout Committee Minutes
August 12th, 2007
Present: Bill Coleman, Lynn Faggionato, Eric Kibler, Barry Laird, Kerry Laird, Todd Laird, Kirsten Lux, Don Leonard, Deb Oehling
Meeting called to order at 7:00 PM.
Items Discussed:
1) Summer camp wrap-up.
Collecting money for pictures and the Wednesday family night meal was chaotic (as usual). To improve the process in the future we will sign-up for these items and collect money with the camp sign-up and payments. We can still accommodate last minute changes but will have 90% of these activities pre-arranged.
We have five incomplete merit badges from camp. Four are environmental sciences and only one item is left to complete. We will complete these in the troop. The fifth is a swimming merit badge and Deb O. volunteered to contact Josh Gilbert to see if an accommodation can be arranged.
Items 10 C) and D) are required- see:
http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php?title=Swimming
2) Lemon shake-up booth wrap-up.
We had terrible weather on Sunday and traffic was slower than normal on Saturday. The end result is that we raised roughly half as much as average.
This means that our troop will need to do other fund raisers this year.
The committee would like to thank Kirsten and Kerry for spearheading this event. Kerry has done the booth for a number of years and wants someone else to take on this task. We are looking for volunteers for next year’s booth.
3) Fall schedule.
See the fall schedule:
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=troop236%40gmail.com
Don L. needs to call Jim Woodard about scheduling a camp out on November 16-18.
4) Cordle Eagle Scout project.
We need an easement from the Methodist Church but there are zoning issues centered on a planned parking lot.
Deb O. will follow up with them at the next opportunity. In addition, we have potential Eagle Scout projects to help them with Church stewardship.
5) Trailer- Communication, Organization (equipment condition- tents), Inventory, Keys and Trailer Work Day
We discussed the fact that the trailer is Nick’s responsibility since he is the quartermaster and there needs to be good communication with the Krieg’s before moving the trailer.
Due to time constraints we will put further discussions of the trailer keys, trailer safety inspection, a trailer work day and inventory on the agenda for next meeting.
6) New members/ responsibilities.
We would like to contact several people about getting involved with the committee. We have a busy year and need a couple of new committee members to help keep the work levels reasonable.
7) Open discussion.
Lynn F. volunteered to be the popcorn kernel- thank you. Her one condition is that she has plenty of help on pick up day (Dec. 1 at 9:30 AM) and a place to sort and pass out the orders. We will share the community center with the Cub Scouts. This is a great idea. First , anytime we can have joint activities with the Cubs is good. In addition, many parents have Cub and Boy Scouts so it makes one stop shopping for them. If we can arrange a crew to help sort the popcorn, we can get our order on Friday.
Many other items we briefly discussed and will be included on future agendas.
Special Mention:
The whole committee would like to extend our thanks to Mike Amstutz for both his years of service and the tremendous job he has done for scouting in Berlin Heights. We can only say that he will be missed and give him our best wishes and prayers for his future endeavors.
Items for Next Agenda:
1) Trailer keys, trailer safety inspection, a trailer work day and inventory.
2) Scouts as assistant Den Leaders for Cub Scouting.
3) New Patrol Structure.
4) Klondike Planning.
5) Philmont Planning Committee.
Action Items:
1) Deb O. - swimming merit badge follow-up.
2) Don L. - Contact Jim W. about scheduling camp out.
3) Deb O. - Cordle Eagle project follow-up with Methodist Church.
Next Meeting September 9th, 2007 @ 7:00 PM
The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Don Leonard
August 12th, 2007
Present: Bill Coleman, Lynn Faggionato, Eric Kibler, Barry Laird, Kerry Laird, Todd Laird, Kirsten Lux, Don Leonard, Deb Oehling
Meeting called to order at 7:00 PM.
Items Discussed:
1) Summer camp wrap-up.
Collecting money for pictures and the Wednesday family night meal was chaotic (as usual). To improve the process in the future we will sign-up for these items and collect money with the camp sign-up and payments. We can still accommodate last minute changes but will have 90% of these activities pre-arranged.
We have five incomplete merit badges from camp. Four are environmental sciences and only one item is left to complete. We will complete these in the troop. The fifth is a swimming merit badge and Deb O. volunteered to contact Josh Gilbert to see if an accommodation can be arranged.
Items 10 C) and D) are required- see:
http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php?title=Swimming
2) Lemon shake-up booth wrap-up.
We had terrible weather on Sunday and traffic was slower than normal on Saturday. The end result is that we raised roughly half as much as average.
This means that our troop will need to do other fund raisers this year.
The committee would like to thank Kirsten and Kerry for spearheading this event. Kerry has done the booth for a number of years and wants someone else to take on this task. We are looking for volunteers for next year’s booth.
3) Fall schedule.
See the fall schedule:
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=troop236%40gmail.com
Don L. needs to call Jim Woodard about scheduling a camp out on November 16-18.
4) Cordle Eagle Scout project.
We need an easement from the Methodist Church but there are zoning issues centered on a planned parking lot.
Deb O. will follow up with them at the next opportunity. In addition, we have potential Eagle Scout projects to help them with Church stewardship.
5) Trailer- Communication, Organization (equipment condition- tents), Inventory, Keys and Trailer Work Day
We discussed the fact that the trailer is Nick’s responsibility since he is the quartermaster and there needs to be good communication with the Krieg’s before moving the trailer.
Due to time constraints we will put further discussions of the trailer keys, trailer safety inspection, a trailer work day and inventory on the agenda for next meeting.
6) New members/ responsibilities.
We would like to contact several people about getting involved with the committee. We have a busy year and need a couple of new committee members to help keep the work levels reasonable.
7) Open discussion.
Lynn F. volunteered to be the popcorn kernel- thank you. Her one condition is that she has plenty of help on pick up day (Dec. 1 at 9:30 AM) and a place to sort and pass out the orders. We will share the community center with the Cub Scouts. This is a great idea. First , anytime we can have joint activities with the Cubs is good. In addition, many parents have Cub and Boy Scouts so it makes one stop shopping for them. If we can arrange a crew to help sort the popcorn, we can get our order on Friday.
Many other items we briefly discussed and will be included on future agendas.
Special Mention:
The whole committee would like to extend our thanks to Mike Amstutz for both his years of service and the tremendous job he has done for scouting in Berlin Heights. We can only say that he will be missed and give him our best wishes and prayers for his future endeavors.
Items for Next Agenda:
1) Trailer keys, trailer safety inspection, a trailer work day and inventory.
2) Scouts as assistant Den Leaders for Cub Scouting.
3) New Patrol Structure.
4) Klondike Planning.
5) Philmont Planning Committee.
Action Items:
1) Deb O. - swimming merit badge follow-up.
2) Don L. - Contact Jim W. about scheduling camp out.
3) Deb O. - Cordle Eagle project follow-up with Methodist Church.
Next Meeting September 9th, 2007 @ 7:00 PM
The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Don Leonard
Monday, August 13, 2007
Scout Year Fall 2007
Our first meeting is on September 17, 2007.
The focus for this meeting is to establish new patrols and plan for our first camp out on September 28-30 at Camp Firelands.
Please click on the Troop Calendar link for more details.
The focus for this meeting is to establish new patrols and plan for our first camp out on September 28-30 at Camp Firelands.
Please click on the Troop Calendar link for more details.
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