Religious - Scout Sunday, Duty to God on February
9th
Thanks to several of our Scouts that were present at Scout
Sunday. Jim Rose started our Duty to God program again with the
Scouts. It is still not too late to begin if you could not attend the
first meeting. We were asked to help with the second service as well and
so our meeting was a little shorter than we expected. Jim met with those
Scouts who were interested and as of right now, most of the Scouts wanted to
meet at 6 pm before the meeting on Tuesday nights. This would give them
time to meet every other week for about three months. This will begin
some time within the next three or four weeks. There will be service projects
involved and logging their daily Bible reading. Thanks again to Jim Rose
for taking the lead on this program for the Scouts. I appreciate it!
Item that needs to be turned in this week 2/11:
1. Permission Form for Maple Fest
Campout Maple Fest - March 6-8, 2020 Permission Form is
due February 11th
We are helping with the Maple Fest at this campout.
Our station for the weekend will be the rope station. The Scouts will be
able to work in teams on this event. Only one team will have to be at the
rope station during the day. This will allow the other team (s) to go and
explore the Maple Fest. The teams will take turns showing Cub Scouts the
rope station.
Campout next weekend for Chief Logan Klondike Feb
We will have a great weekend camping at Chief Logan.
Plan for rain and cold weather.
You may want to prepare for these competition events:
Bow drill/First Aid
Flint and Steel
Most creative fire starting
Catapult snow balls/first aid
Light, med, real snow balls
Dessert competition
Service project
Sled race
Luau dinner provided
If you are wanting to work on any of the Cooking for
advancement or to being the Cooking Merit Badge, you will need to do the
following:
Find ads from this week's newspapers and bring to the
meeting.
Look at the Myplate.gov website and think about the items
that are on sale.
Mr. Betz will be leading the discussion of thee merit badge
tonight at the meeting for those interested in earning either the cooking
requirements for the merit badge or the cooking requirements advancement.
This will be done during the skills instruction time at the meeting tonight.
Here are the Cooking Merit Badge Requirements:
5. Camp cooking. Do the following:
(a) Using the MyPlate food guide or the current USDA nutrition model, plan five
meals for your patrol (or a similar size group of up to eight youth, including
you) for a camping trip. Your menus should include enough food for each person,
keeping in mind any special needs (such as food allergies) and how you keep
your foods safe and free from cross-contamination. These five meals must
include at least one breakfast, one lunch, one dinner, AND at least one snack
OR one dessert. List the equipment and utensils needed to prepare and serve
these meals.
(b) Create a shopping list for your meals showing the amount of food needed to
prepare and serve each meal, and the cost for each meal.
(c) Share and discuss your meal plan and shopping list with your counselor.
(d) In the outdoors, using your menu plans for this requirement, cook two of
the five meals you planned using either a lightweight stove or a low-impact
fire. Use a different cooking method from requirement 3 for each meal. You must
also cook a third meal using either a Dutch oven OR a foil pack OR kabobs.
Serve all of these meals to your patrol or a group of youth. **
(e) In the outdoors, prepare a dessert OR a snack and serve it to your patrol
or a group of youth.**
(f) After each meal, have those you served evaluate the meal on presentation
and taste, and then evaluate your own meal. Discuss what you learned with your
counselor, including any adjustments that could have improved or enhanced your
meals. Tell how planning and preparation help ensure successful outdoor
cooking.
(g) Explain to your counselor how you cleaned the equipment, utensils, and the
cooking site thoroughly after each meal. Explain how you properly disposed of
dishwater and of all garbage.
(h) Discuss how you followed the Outdoor Code and no-trace principles when
preparing your meals.
Here is the weather forecast for this weekend. We
might get a Polar Bear patch by camping outside in the cold weather:
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DAY
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DESCRIPTION
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HIGH / LOW
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PRECIP
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WIND
|
HUMIDITY
|
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FRI
FEB 14
|
Mostly Sunny
|
25°14°
|
0%
|
NW 7 mph
|
53%
|
|
SAT
FEB 15
|
Partly Cloudy
|
42°32°
|
0%
|
SSE 7 mph
|
45%
|
|
SUN
FEB 16
|
Cloudy
|
44°33°
|
20%
|
SW 7 mph
|
80%
|
2/25 Parent Meeting for the Mystery Campout over Memorial
Day Weekend:
We will have another parent meeting on Tuesday,
February 25th @ 7:15 PM. This will be the meeting we pass out the
permission forms for you to sign and turn back in at the meeting. You may also
ask questions that you may have for the trip. All items for this campout,
permission forms and deposits will be due one month later on March 31st.
February 14-16 Chief Logan Klondike at Chief Logan
February 25 Parent Meeting for Mystery Campout
February 29 SCUBA in Westerville with Captain Rick's SCUBA
March 1 Mulch Sales Begin with passing out flyers on Sunday
afternoon
March 6-8 Maple Fest at Camp Lazarus
April 3-5 Spring Camporee at Chief Logan
April 17-18 Mulch delivery
April 24-26 Tar Hollow Campout with Pack 136
May 22-25 Mystery Campout (Location is a SECRET!)
--
Phillip Freeman
Scoutmaster, Troop 136 in Grove City, OH
