Registration Issue

Troop 540,

Mr. Kohrs and I went online at 12:00am this morning to make sure that you all got the merit badges that you requested. Unfortunately, even though The Greater New York Council advertised “Week 5” (August 7th – 12th) as “Eagle Week”, they were missing a lot of the Eagle merit badges that they normally offer during this week. The Eagle merit badges that were missing were: Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, Citizenship in the World, Communications and E-Prep.

Mr. Kohrs and I did the best job we could to select merit badges for you under those circumstances. After we were done, at 1:30am this morning, we sent a very stern email to The Greater NY Council filing our complaint. We are hoping that the registration program had a glitch and that those merit badges will be offered.

I will be sending our your merit badge schedules now. Please review them and let me know if there are any issues with the merit badges we selected.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Just know that I will be calling first thing Monday morning to see what they can do for us.

Thanks,

Jon Hess – Scoutmaster, Troop 540

Troop Meeting Tomorrow

Troop 540,

We will have our Green Bar Meeting starting at 7:00pm. Last week, Christian Hess was the only member to show up. If you’re not going to be able to make it, I expect that you at least email me in advance. Some of you did but most of you didn’t.

The leaders that are expected to show up for the green bar meeting are as follows:

• Sam Duarte
• Sean Mallon
• Kenny Hoyt
• David Nebrasky
• Justin Ramos
• Oren Wolff
• Aiden Mallon
• Liam Mallon
• Cristofor D’Amelia

The general meeting will start at 7:30pm. We will work on merit badges tomorrow and also patrols will compete against each other with scout skills activities.

Here are the merit badge sign-up lists:

Camping – Mr. Walker

• Christian Hess
• Justin Ramos

Citizenship in the Community – Mr. Ramos

• Brandon Linsalato

Citizenship in the Nation – Mr. Wolownik

• Kenny Hoyt
• Joshua Buckley
• Cody Hamilton
• Oren Wolff

Citizenship of the World – Mr. Struhar

• Brandon Linsalato

Communications – Mrs. Struhar

• Aidan Crown

Cooking – Mrs. Estrella

• John Struhar
• Andre Estrella
• Adi Wolff

Crime Prevention – Mr. Wasserman

• Liam Mallon
• Sean Mallon
• Aedan Mallon
• Cristofor D’Amelia

Personal Management – Mr. Campanella

• Brandon Linsalato

Plumbing – Mr. Nebrasky

• Alex Hess
• Micael Lacuna
• Jack Furmanek

Please show some respect to the troop by coming dressed in your class A shirts tomorrow night.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Jon Hess – Scoutmaster, Troop 540
845-480-4391

Merit Badge Sign-ups

Troop 540,

For those scouts that weren’t at the meeting the other night, we had merit badge sign-ups. If you were unable to make the meeting, please respond back to this email with which merit badge you would like to take for the fall. For the merit badge counselors, please fill out the registration forms and update your Youth Protection.

Here’s what I have so far for merit badge sign-ups:

Camping – Mr. Walker

• Christian Hess
• Justin Ramos

Citizenship in the Community – Mr. Ramos

• Brandon Linsalato

Citizenship in the Nation – Mr. Wolownik

• Kenny Hoyt
• Joshua Buckley

Citizenship in the World – Mr. Struhar

• Brandon Linsalato

Coin Collecting – Mr. Pakula

• OPEN

Communications – Mrs. Struhar

• Aidan Crown

Cooking – Mrs. Estrella

• John Stuhar
• Andre Estrella

Crime Prevention – Mr. Wasserman

• Liam Mallon
• Sean Mallon
• Aedan Mallon
• Cristofor D’Amelia

Environmental Science – Mr. Ellis

• OPEN

Family Life – Mrs. Shea

• OPEN

Gardening – Mr. Hall

• OPEN

First Aid – Mrs. Wolownik

• OPEN

Personal Fitness – Mr. Hess

• OPEN

Personal Management – Mr. Campanella

• Brandon Linsalato

Plumbing – Mr. Nebrasky

• Alex Hess
• Michael Lacuna
• Jack Furmanek

Sincerely,

Jon Hess – Scoutmaster, Troop 540
845-480-4391

Troop Meeting Tomorrow Night

Good Evening Troop 540.

We will have a troop meeting tomorrow night in the North Main cafeteria. The green bar meeting will start at 7:00pm. The general meeting will start at 7:30pm.

We will be signing up for merit badges tomorrow night. I strongly encourage those scouts that have NOT finished their last merit badge, to continue to work on those until you are done. If there is a merit bade where only one scout had signed up for it, I will leave it up to the counselor to see if they will have the class with only one scout or we may ask you to pick another badge where there are more scouts that have signed up for the merit badge.

Here is a list of merit badges that are available to sign up for:

• Camping – Mr. Walker
• Citizenship in the Community – Mr. Ramos
• Citizenship in the Nation – Mr. Wolownik
• Citizenship in the World – Mr. Struhar
• Coin Collecting – Mr. Pakula
• Communications – Mrs. Struhar
• Cooking – Mrs. Estrella
• Crime Prevention – Mr. Wasserman
• Gardening – Mr. Hall
• First Aid – Mrs. Wolownik
• Personal Fitness – Mr. Hess
• Personal Management – Mr. Campanella
• Plumbing – Mr. Nebrasky

Please fill the merit badge counselor applications out and hand it in tomorrow. If you are unable to attend the meeting tomorrow night, it’s in PDF format. Please fill it out online and email me the form and I will print it out and hand it in for you.

Click here for a link to the Merit Badge Counselor’s Application

Merit Badge Counselors will also have to take Youth Protection Training. If you haven’t done so already. Here is the link to the myscouting website. You may need to register for the first time, if you haven’t done so before. Once you’re in the site, you need to go to: “My dashboard” and look for “Youth Protection”.

I’ll see you all tomorrow night. Thanks.

Sincerely,

Jon Hess – Scoutmaster, Troop 540
845-480-4391

Merit Badge Counselors

Good morning all.

I want to get a head start on merit badges this year. Here is a list of merit badge counselors from last year. Please let me know if you plan to continue being a merit badge counselor and if you want to keep the existing merit badge or switch to a different one. If any of the other parents want to volunteer to be a merit badge counselor, please respond back to this email.

Here is the list below:

• Camping – Mr. Walker
• Citizenship in the Community – Mr. Ramos
• Citizenship in the Nation – Mr. Wolownik
• Citizenship in the World – Mr. Struhar
• Coin Collecting – Mr. Pakula
• Communications – Open
• Cooking – Mrs. Estrella
• Crime Prevention – Mr. Wasserman
• Environmental Science – Mr. Donovan
• First Aid – Mr. Wolownik
• Personal Fitness – Mr. Hess
• Personal Management – Mr. Campanella
• Plumbing – Mr. Nebrasky

Sincerely,

Jon Hess – Scoutmaster, Troop 540
845-480-4391

Tomorrow’s Meeting

Troop 540,

We will meet at North Main tomorrow.  Green Bar starts at 7:00pm.  The general meeting starts at 7:30pm.

The scouts that went camping, need to bring in the tents tomorrow for inspection.

I will be collecting the medical forms tomorrow night for the Spring Camporee.  If you don’t hand in the forms completed, you will not be able to go to the Camporee next month.  Sorry, no excuses.  If you are unable to attend the meeting tomorrow, please have them dropped off to my house this week, no later than Friday.  Any forms handed in after this Friday, will not be accepted.  I will register the final numbers for the Camporee this Friday night.  My address is: 6 Crescent Place, Monroe, NY 10950. You can download the medical form here.

You can also download the tickets for the Applebee’s fundraiser this Saturday.  Please sell your tickets and give Mrs. Donahue the money for the sale of the tickets.

Merit badges can start officially.  Those that need to finish the remainder of your last merit badge, please do so.  If any scouts haven’t signed up for a merit badge, please let me know by tomorrow, so we can get you signed up for one.  We will have time during the meetings to work on merit badges.

Here’s the list of merit badges that the scouts have signed up for:

Citizenship in the Community with Mr. Ramos

• Justin Ramos
• Oren Wolff
• David Nebrasky
• Mike Lacuna

 

Citizenship in the Nation with Mr. Wolownik

• Aidan Crown
• Christian Hess

 

Cooking with Mrs. Estrella

• Dennis Wolownik
• Ty Kohrs
• John Struhar
• Andre Estrella

 

Crime Prevention with Mr. Wasserman

• Cristofor D’Amelio
• Sam Duarte

 

Personal Fitness with Mr. Hess

• Kenny Hoyt
• Brandon Linsalato

 

Plumbing with Mr. Nebrasky

• Jack Furmanek
• Alex Hess

 

I will see you all tomorrow night.

Sincerely,

Jon Hess – Scoutmaster, Troop 540
845-480-4391

Merit Badge Counselor Application

Good Evening Merit Badge Counselors

I just checked the registry for our updated merit badge counselors. They only have two of us listed: myself and Charlie. Please take the time to fill out the Merit Badge Application and hand them in tomorrow if you are going to be at the meeting.

REMEMBER, you need to be registered with counsel and have Youth Protection in order to be a merit badge counselor. The blue card will not count for the scout if you don’t have this in place. Please take the time to fill out the form and hand it in.

Here’s who needs to fill out the form for the following merit badges:

• Camping : Pete Walker
• Citizenship in the Community – Hiram Ramos
• Citizenship in the Nation – Dennis Wolownik
• Citizenship in the World – Matt Struhar
• Communications – Betty Nebiker
• Cooking – Kate Estrada
• Crime Prevention – Ira Wasserman
• Environmental Science – Jim Donovan
• First Aid – Karen Wolownik
• Personal Management – Paul Campanella
• Plumbing – Paul Nebrasky

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Jon Hess – Scoutmaster, Troop 540
845-480-4391