This Saturday (December 26th) I will be trying to put together another service project over at Camp Kane.  Because almost everybody seems to be home for the holidays this may be a good chance to pick off a couple more service hours.  If you need service hours for a merit badge, a rank advancement or just want to get some dirt underneath your nails this may be our last best chance this year.  It will be the same as before where we start at 10a and end around 2p.   There is a sign up on the website if you're able to come.  I will need another adult to assist me with this.  If by Friday evening we can get at least 6 people signed up we are good to go.  

 

I am happy to start tonight's letter off with some good news.  Earlier this afternoon Jack Drake became troop one's latest Eagle scout.   CONGRATULATIONS JACK!!  After a lot of time, energy and effort the hard work paid off.   Only a small number of scouts ever get the chance to make it this far.  

Well it happened again, the weather man lied to me. I was originally going to call for a service project this past Saturday over at Camp Kane.  The weather report told me it was going to be snowing and rainy most of the day.  It turned out to be fairly pleasant.   Next weekend depending if anyone is home for the holidays (we probably will be)  it's supposed to be a fantastic weekend to get out and do stuff.  I will be trying to put together a Saturday morning and early afternoon service project with a possible Sunday project as a follow up. This could wrap up our year with at least a couple more service hours and something else to do with the group.

Mrs. Griswold sent me this opportunity that I think we should try to take part in. The two dates are January 2nd and January 9th.   This would be a perfect time to assist Cub Scouts and have a great start to the New Year. Here are the details. 

For Monday's meeting we will be going over our annual year in review.  What went right, what went wrong, if there's anything we can improve upon and everything in between.  There was plenty this year that didn't go as planned but when everything is said and done what  type of lemonade were we able to make out of this year's lemons.  We will also be going over a few requirements still in limbo and a contest I hope to be launching this week.

 

Tune in with your preferred mode of communication via our zoom channel. 

 

 

There's not a lot to talk about in this week's opener so I'll open with a question for everyone.   

 

How many Lowe's could Rob Lowe rob if Rob Lowe could rob Lowe's?

 

Think about it....

 

This coming February our Webmaster Al DeFelice will be stepping down from the Webmaster position.  I would like to ask anyone out there with any technical background if they would be willing to step up and become the new troop Webmaster.  The Webmaster keeps the TroopMaster site and our website clean and up to date.  You do NOT need to be a registered leader, just someone that is willing to help out.   

 

Tomorrow for our Monday night Patrol Leaders Council we will be talking about our 2021 calendar, getting the dates hopefully set, and going over some upcoming activities and events.  During our Committee Meeting we will be going over the recharter, the budget and what we hope to do in the coming year to come back from our "year in limbo".  The P.L.C will begin at 6p and the C.M will begin at 7p.  Below is the link to the Zoom channel.  I will send it out again tomorrow afternoon just in case you forget. 

 

 I would like to thank everyone who was able to come out to Camp Kane for today's service project.  I know it was short notice but any time we can squeeze in some service hours in December we need to try.  We were able to get a lot done in a short time.  There is most definitely still enough to for every scout to get their fill of hours.  If next weekend is not crummy like they are predicting it will be, we can attempt to do a part 2 and this time I hope to be in town the full way through.

 There are a few potential events coming in the next few weeks so I will keep everyone abreast of what is going on around town.

 

 

For Monday's meeting we will be going over ideas for the calendar year 2021. Even though with everything still being and partial lockdown and nobody knows truly what will happen within the next few months there is some good news on the horizon with a vaccine for those people who most need it.   We can only hope that by next spring we can start camping again.

 

This will be a regular meeting 7:00 p.m. on our zoom channel.  Listed below is the link and I will send it out again at 6p tomorrow evening.

 

Stevan Wolfgram is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

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This past week have been visiting my grandmother, spending some time with her for her 91st birthday.