Boy Scouts of America Troop 1 in St. Charles, Illinois

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S.M.S. for 10 - 11

Posted by swolfgram on Oct 11 2020 - 9:27pm

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Good evening everyone

It's time to play the music, It's time to light the lights, It's time to read my message in the S.M.S tonight. There're things you probably didn't know, There're things I know you've never seen, so come on read this message and discover them with me. Please read on to the end, I promise it's not long, And now that's the end of this silly starter song.

If you're asking why I did the opening to the theme of The Muppet Show the easiest answer is... I wanted to...so

Let's get to it.

2nd Monday P.L.C. and Special meeting

This Monday we will be holding a Patrol Leaders Council (P.L.C) and Troop Meeting (T.M) at our new fall meeting location. Everyone is invited to attend both meetings no matter who you are. Please come and participate. The Campton Hills Community center is located at

5N082 Old Lafox Rd, St. Charles, IL 60175

As usual our P.L.C will begin at 6:00 and the T.M will begin almost right after that. This Monday we will be specifically talking about our upcoming bike hike in central Wisconsin. We need more people to sign up or give their regrets on this camp out. We need a minimum 3 scouts to sign up for the camp-out.

All information will be at the meeting Monday night.

A message from the C.C - J.P. ( if you didn't see it yet)

We'll be skipping this month's formal committee meeting as I'll be having knee replacement surgery on Monday 10/12. If anyone has any topics for discussion other than what we have planned for October, please let me know...

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S.M.S. for 10 - 4

Posted by swolfgram on Oct 4 2020 - 8:32pm

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Indoor meetings are upon us once again and with it comes our new meeting schedule, locations and dress code. From now until next May our dress code is once again class-A with a good pair of pants. Please refrain from wearing athletic pants or sweats while wearing the class-A shirt. Going forward we will be meeting at the Campton Hills Community Center located at

5N082 Old Lafox Rd, St. Charles, IL 60175. We will be putting together a few field meetings as well over the next few weeks to keep things fresh and everyone on their toes.

Monday meeting 10 - 5

This Monday we have a very special field meeting at the LeRoy Oaks nature center starting at 6p - 7:15p. This is an after hours tour of the nature center and something we have never done in the context of a meeting before. The nature center is the first main building you come across when entering the forest preserve. If you have never been there before follow the road into the forest preserve and follow the signs. The nature center will be on your left hand side. This will (hopefully) be the last early meeting for a while, excluding the P.L.C's.

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October Troop Scoop

Posted by swolfgram on Oct 1 2020 - 3:24pm

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October Troop Scoop

S.M.S. for 9 - 27

Posted by swolfgram on Sep 28 2020 - 10:19am

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Good evening everyone

It's almost the end of September and in this month alone we have done a whole heck of a lot of things. We have a lot more coming up as the weeks go on.

Stay tuned and don't get lazy. There is so much more just around the corner

Gratitude

I want to thank everyone that helped Brock out over these past few weeks getting his Eagle project completed. The weather was excellent. Which made the whole experience very easy. From conception to completion the project was roughly a month. In the 20 years that I have been helping on Eagle projects this was probably the fastest turnaround time that I can remember.

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Mid week activities update

Posted by swolfgram on Sep 23 2020 - 10:21pm

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Good evening everyone

I have two major updates for this weekend. Saturday will be the final day of Brock's eagle project. Sunday we have a day hike at Cantigny military park.

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S.M.S. for 9 - 20

Posted by swolfgram on Sep 20 2020 - 10:34pm

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Good Evening Everyone

This troop update is a little later than normal because I spent all day with Brock and his family working on his Eagle project. I want to thank everyone who had time to stop by at some point during Saturday evening and today. We got the building stripped, sanded and painted with only a few sections left to do. Brock will probably be having another work day in the near future so if you have the ability to help him out I strongly suggest you come out and do so. Service hours performed over at Camp Kane are eligible for use in rank advancements and merit badges.

Monday's meeting 9 - 7

This Monday we will be meeting at Good Templar Park at 6p rather than 7p. It will be a challenge but hopefully this change will allow us to hold a meeting while staying ahead of the dark. This meeting will pertain to what we will be doing next weekend and what date we pick for the Wisconsin bike trip.

The original idea for our end of the month trip was to go out to Galena for a camp out weekend which turned into a day trip. If there are not enough participants for that, we can pick a different outing. It is not the place that we go to that matters. It is only that our troop is able to go to some place and do something.

The gentleman that I spoke to at Fort Mccoy in Sparta Wisconsin said that most weekends in October were wide open for campers. The original date for the bike trip was supposed to be the 16th 17th and 18th of the month. If a majority of potential participants are going to be out of town that weekend but not the weekend prior or after we will switch around some dates so as many people as possible have the chance to participate.

Fall Wreath and Popcorn Sales.

As we all know it is now time for popcorn and a wreath sales for the troop. Because 2020 has been the strangest year in living memory we are going to be streamlining our fall sale season to something a little more compact. Unfortunately we will not be participating in the popcorn sales this season. Instead we will be focusing mainly on our Christmas wreath sale. Get the 411 at Monday's meeting.