Good Evening All.
I just wanted to say welcome to the new scout year. Hopefully the boys will have a lot of fun this year, learning about scout skills and leadership.
I just wanted to give you the details of tonight’s meeting and also to cover some things that we didn’t get to.
First off, I wanted to congratulate the scouts who have been elected to their new leadership positions and also those with positions of responsibility. I will be holding Green Bar meetings every Tuesday night, from 7:00-7:30pm, in the North Main Cafeteria. Those who are invited to these meetings are the following: Scoutmaster, Past Scoutmasters, Asst. Scoutmasters, Junior Asst. Scoutmaster, Senior Patrol Leader, Asst.Senior Patrol Leader, The Instructor, The Troop Guide, Patrol Leaders, Asst. Patrol Leaders and the Scribe. We will be planning the scout calendar, including what we will be doing in the Troop meeting that night, as well in future meetings and other events. The positions that were elected tonight will last for six months and then we will have a new election at the end of that time period.
I also wanted to give you all the link to the Troops’ website: https://troop540monroe.wordpress.com/. This is run by our Webmaster, Mark Furmanek.
Paul Nebrasky is working on securing Camp Wabanake for the weekend of September 26th – 28th. Our back up site will be Camp Bullowa in Rockland. We will know the location by next week. I will need adult, youth protection trained volunteers to help with camping. I am only able to camp out from that Friday night, until Saturday morning. I will need at least one more adult with youth protection for Friday and at least two adult volunteers with youth protection training for Saturday into Sunday. I’ll need you to let me know by next week if you’re available, so that we can lock in the dates. Again, you will need to complete the online youth protection training and fill out the volunteer form next week. I also will need a volunteer with a hitch to transport the troop trailer to and from the campsite.
Thank you to the parent volunteers who have signed up to be merit badge counselors. Again, please fill out the merit badge counselor forms and hand them in next week to either myself or Jill Lamarch. You will need to fill out an adult registration form as well. We will have them available next week. Here’s the link to the website to register and do the youth protection training (see below). When this is completed, please print out the certification form and hand this into Jill Lamarch next week. When I have all of the volunteers trained and the forms completed, we will begin to have the scouts select what merit badges they would like to work on during the scout year with you. Any adult that is already a merit badge counselor or any adult that would like to become one, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I’m looking for a merit badge counselor for First Aid, if anyone’s interested.
Youth Protection Link: https://myscouting.scouting.org/_layouts/MyScouting/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f_layouts%2fAuthenticate.aspx%3fSource%3d%252f&Source=%2f
Maura Crown will soon be announcing when registration is due for the scouts. The amount will remain the same: $75.00.
We will have advancement night on September 23rd and the Court of Honor will be on September 30th. How many scouts are up for a rank advancement? If there is a large number of scouts, I will probably hold a scoutmaster conference next week as well. Be prepared to wear your FULL Class A uniform next week, if you’re up for rank advancement. If I don’t have a large number, then we’ll just keep it to the 23rd.
Lastly, there will be a 9/11 Memorial on Thursday, September 11th at the Millpond Pavilion, starting at 7:00pm. If you could make this, please come dressed in your Class A uniform.
Thank you all and have a good night.
Sincerely,
Jon Hess – Scoutmaster, Troop 540
845-480-4391
Troop 540 - Monroe, NY 