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We had an excellent meeting tonight working on meal planning for the upcoming Troop Challenge and participating in activitws that improved our patrol cooperativeness. Here are some announcements from the meeting:
- Scouts, If you have not signed up from troop challenge and you are planning on attending, please sign up by Wednwasay night or Thursday morning. Please do not forget to do this if you are attending. The Troop Challenge is November 13-15. The sign up information and more information is in WhatsApp.
- Our annual Scouting for Food volunteer opportunity is coming this weekend on November 7th and 8th. If you are available, look at details in WhatsApp to sign up for a shift and volunteer to get food donations. Scouts can receive service hours for this.
- We have some merit badge classes coming up soon. Citizenship in the Community and possibly Personal Fitness will be beginning in the near future, so stay tuned for information on that if you have not achieved thise badges and are interested.
- The theme of the month this.month is Animals!
The folks over at the Troop Challenge have us a blurb about this year's theme. The blurb is written as follows: " Troop Challenge 2026: Into the Wilderness
This year's Troop Challenge takes us back to the days of Daniel Boone, when outdoor survival depended on skill, resourcefulness, and quick thinking.
Imagine you're deep in the wilderness on a long hike or campout. What happens when someone gets injured? The weather turns against you? You're faced with an obstacle, missing equipment, or a situation you weren't expecting?
How well do you know your Scouting skills? Could you make use of what nature provides? Do you know how to keep yourself and others safe, improvise with limited supplies, or solve a problem when the obvious solution isn't available?
Think about the skills that have been part of Scouting for generations: outdoor survival, first aid, pioneering, campcraft, and the ability to adapt when things don't go as planned.
You'll be challenged to put those skills to use, but just as importantly, you'll need to communicate, lead, and work together as a patrol.
You won't know exactly what's waiting for you in the woods.
Brush up on your skills, expect the unexpected, and be prepared!"
Next weekend is a *Scouting for Food* weekend and we need volunteers to help out!
Scouting for Food is Saturday November 7th and Sunday November 8th at Stop & Shop. Saturday will be 10AM to 4PM and Sunday will be 11AM - 4PM.
The links below are for the sign-up genius for scouts and leaders to sign-up for their time slots like last year. The hour they work on scouting for food count as service hours.
Scouts can sign-up for one hour slots. We want to give every scout an opportunity to participate so please only sign-up your scout for one shift. If we need more volunteers we will open up later this week so scouts can work more than one shift if they want to.
We will need adult leaders at both Stop & Shop and the Community Center during most of these hours to cover two-deep leadership requirements. We will also need drivers. The Leader and Driver sign-up are under the Troop sign-up.
The scouts had an excellent Sunday Outdoor meeting learning and practicing our orienteering skill before the Troop Challenge, which is coming up soon. Here are some announcements from the meeting:
- There is NO meeting this Wednesday (10/28). Our next meeting will be next Wednesday (11/4)
- The information and sign up for the Troop Challenge has been put in WhatsApp. Make sure to look at this information and sign up for the Troop Challenge. We want to have a great turnout for this campout! Make sure to sign up as soon as possible when you can confirm, as we will be planning menus for the patrols at our next meeting.
- Attention all members of the PLC. The PLC meeting may be pushed to a later date due to conflicts on that day. Stay tuned for information on that.
Join us for a beautiful weather hike at nearby Valley Falls Park, 300 Valley Falls Rd, Vernon, CT tomorrow!
We'll meet at the pavilion near the parking lot at 10:00 AM.
Wear rugged hiking footwear, clothing layers for the weather, bring a day pack with a water bottle and bagged lunch. You may also want to bring the 10 hiking essentials listed in your Scout book.
We'll be done by 02:00 PM for pickup.
Adults and family members capable of hiking at least 4 miles are welcome to join us.
This is a great opportunity to work on hiking related rank advancements as well, so check in your book ahead of time so you'll know what you'd like to check off.
If you are not staying with your Scout the entire time, please bring, or text, or email me a permission slip.
We had an amazing meeting tonight working through survival situations and learning skills that we can apply to the upcoming Troop Challenge. Here are the announcements from tonight's meeting (make sure you read till the end to see important information about the troop challenge):
We are having a hiking trip this Saturday October 24th. The hike will start at 10AM. More information will be put in WhatsApp.
Sam would like to thank everyone who attended his eagle project work day last Saturday. The day was a success, and they were able to install the bat houses with the scouts' help.
We are having an orienteering themed outdoor meeting on Sunday October 25th from 3-4:15 PM at Lawrence Park.
The PLC Meeting will be on November 1st. PLC members make sure you attend.
Information on the Troop Challenge
- Our yearly town wide Troop Challenge takes place November 13, 14, 15, 2026 at June Norcross Webster Scout Reservation!
- Here's what to expect if you've never been! Scouts will spend the weekend camping and on Saturday be put into groups and spend the day competing against each other by completing Scout skills like knot tying, lashing, first aid, fire building, outdoor navigation....etc.
- Another troop is hosting this year, however, we still need AT LEAST 3 ADULTS to campout overnight with our scouts and AT LEAST 3 MORE to assist with monitoring challenge stations on Saturday 11/14.
Tentative Schedule
Friday, November 13
- 5:30pm, meet at Avery Street Church, then drive to Camp JNW. 3 ADULTS NEEDED TO CAMP OVERNIGHT WITH OUR SCOUTS
Saturday, November 14
- 8am-5pm: Troop Challenge activities
- 6 ADULTS NEEDED TO MONITOR CHALLENGE STATIONS. 3 ADULTS NEEDED TO CAMP OVERNIGHT WITH OUR SCOUTS
Sunday, November 15
- 10am: Challenge end & parents pick up
ALL SCOUT RESPONSES & ADULT CHAPERONE COMMITMENTS ARE NEEDED BY OCTOBER 30TH. There are certain qualifications that will need to be completed to camp overnight with the scouts so early responses are required.
