Meeting guest, Summer camp, and Change in date of the Court of Honor

Meeting:

At the meeting tonight, we will have a guest.  Our guest will be Ted Berry.  He will speak and allow the Scouts to ask questions.  Login in around 6:50 pm and be ready for the pledge and Scout Law at 7 pm.  Ted will be talking about what he does at the City Councilman with Grove City Ward #1.

A couple of items for summer camp:

(See the email for the form and the current list of orders)

We will follow up with just red t-shirt options for the new Scouts or any other Scouts and scouter along and hoodies for the troop in August.

Summer Camp Travel guidelines from the Troop Committee:

The committee has decided on the guidelines for traveling to summer camp this year.

Scouts may ride with other families to camp as long as both the scout, their family and the driver are comfortable. If a family is uncomfortable with their scout riding with another family, then the scout’s family may drive their own scout to camp. 

Change of Date for the Court of Honor:

Since we will be allowed to meet in groups of more than 10 people starting July 1, we will be moving our Court of Honor to July 14th.  This will be an outside event with masks and social distancing, but it will still be something that we can make feel like a normal Court of Honor.  Instead of the June 23rd Court of Honor, since we are only allowed to meet in small groups, we would like to dedicate this night to helping our new Scouts earn their Scout rank. Only the PLC members and the new Scouts along with some key adults will need to be there this night to help the new Scouts with their rank advancement. Our new Scouts will be able to come to the church anytime between 6:30 and 8:00 pm.   They will be asked to demonstrate some skills for their Scout Rank.  They will need to have two items done before they come to the meeting on June 23rd.  They would need to complete requirement #6 before the meeting.  

#6 - With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: AParent’s Guide and earn the Cyber Chip Award for your grade.

Here is the link for the Scouts to complete their Cyber Chip:  http://usscouts.org/advance/docs/ScoutsBSA-Cyber-Chip.pdf

The Scout could bring this printed document or their answers on a separate sheet of paper to get signed off for complete.  Using the link, they only need to complete page 1 and 2.  Do not complete the requirements on pages 3-5.  Those are for older Scouts.

The Scout would need to talk with their parent about the How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: AParent’s Guide.  There is not signature needed, just an acknowledgement that the family had a discussion with the Scout. 

Any Scout who earned a rank advancement will be delivered their rank so that if they wanted to sew it on before summer camp, they may do so.  We will get those ranks by the weekend and have them delivered over the weekend.  The Scout will still be recognized like normal at the Court of Honor, but we did not want to wait any longer in getting their ranks to them.

Phil

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Phillip Freeman

Scoutmaster, Troop 136 in Grove City, OH