Softball Tourny, Tuesday Meeting, upcoming events

Good evening!

Softball Tournament Cleanup:

I just want to say thanks to those scouts and adults that helped with the cleanup.  Saturday morning and evening went without too much of an issue.  However, Sunday night was much longer than anticipated.  I am glad you stuck around for the end of the event.  I appreciate your time.  Here is the list of scouts that participated:

Saturday morning July 27th (1 hour):

Zach Brown  (1 hour)

Jonathan Carney  (1 hour)

Sam Carney  (1 hour)

Shane Fuller  (1 hour)

Alex Royce  (1 hour)

Will Wisenbarger  (1 hour)

Saturday evening July 27th (1.5 hours):

Zach Brown (1.5 hours)

Jonathan Carney (1.5 hours)

Sam Carney (1.5 hours)

Carter Freeman (1.5 hours)

Shane Fuller (1.5 hours)

Dominic Rose (1.5 hours)

Alex Royce (1.5 hours)

Will Wisenbarger (1.5 hours)

Sunday evening July 28th (3 hours):

Zach Brown (3 hours)

Jonathan Carney (2.75 hours - arrived at 6:15)

Sam Carney (2.75 hours - arrived at 6:15)

Carter Freeman (3 hours)

Shane Fuller (3 hours)

Alex Royce (3 hours)

Will Wisenbarger (2.25 hours - arrived at 6:45)

Based on my calculations, there were a total of 37.75 hours of work completed by the scouts.  Once we receive the $500 check for the work completed, each scout will receive $13.25 per hour work ($500 divided by 37.75 hours = $13.25 per hour)

Weekly meeting:

As I am preparing for a trip back to the World Jamboree this week, I want to thank Todd for filling in for me while I am away this week.  Here is the meeting plan that was created by the PLC.  Patrol Leaders, be ready to discuss the items you were assigned last week.  In case you do not remember, hint, look at the meeting plan!

Troop 136 Meeting Plan -7/30/19

Theme: shooting sports              

Time	Activity	Description	Run by
6:45 PM	Pre-Opening	Prepare room for meeting/activity - flags and opening practice	SPL/SM
6:55 PM 7:00 PM	Line Up for Opening Opening Ceremony	Flag ceremony by Blue blazes patrol  Meeting Agenda	SPL/SM/ASPL
7:05 PM 7:50 PM	Skills Instruction	Shooting sports sporter class- blackhawks precision class-blue blazes sports that involve shooting- dragons	SPL/ASPL
7:50 PM 8:00 PM	Patrol Meetings	Discuss the Torrent Falls	PL/APL
8:10 PM 8:15 PM	Game	Ultimate frisbee	SPL/ASPL
8:15 PM 8:20PM		Pick up trash, return chairs, clean rooms -	SPL/ASPL
8:20 PM 8:30 PM	Closing	Announcements Closing prayer by Chaplain’s Aide	SM Chaplain

Put-in-Bay Trip September 6-8

If you are interested in going on the Put-in-Bay trip on September 6-8, please let turn in the form this week.  This is the last week you can sign up for the trip!  Turn in the form to Cindy Freeman.  Once the form is turned in to Cindy, I will purchase any additional scout and adult tickets for the trip in September.

 Permission slip - Put-In-Bay Camporee September...

  

Torrent Falls Trip August 9-11

If you are interested in going on the Torrent Falls trip on August 9-11, please turn in the form by the beginning of next week.  Please give to Cindy Freeman this week while I am absent.  We need to finalize the trip next week during the troop meeting.  This is why I am asking that the permission form is submitted by the beginning of the meeting on August 6th.  Tuesday, August 6th at the beginning of the meeting is the latest you can sign up for the trip! 

 Permission slip - Torrent Falls Climbing August...

PLC Meeting on Sunday, August 4th @ 4:30 pm

I know it seems like we just met, but that was for the yearly planning meeting on July 20th.  We will be meeting again to review the month of August and plan the September meetings.  Be at the church between 4:30 and 6 pm.  Patrol Leaders, you must have at least one person from your patrol at the meeting.  If you are not able, check to see if the Assistant Patrol Leader can be at the meeting.  This is your time to plan your meetings.

Committee Meeting on  Sunday, August 4th @ 6:00 pm

Adults - please plan to come to the meeting on Sunday night beginning at 6 pm at the church. I think Todd would agree that you are more than welcome to attend to know more about the behind the scenes planning each month for the troop.  We have a fun time and you get to know more about things about the troop.  For example, you get to learn about a mystery trip that is in the works for next year.  You need to attend the meeting to learn more about all of the fun things the adults are planning next year!  See you at the meeting at 6 pm.

Scoutmaster Newsletter

When I come back from the National Jamboree this week, I will prepare and send out a Scoutmaster newsletter for the troop.  I hope to have it done later this week or at least by the Committee Meeting next Sunday.

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Phillip Freeman

Scoutmaster, Troop 136 in Grove City, OH 

Upcoming dates

Good evening!

Storage and shed cleaning:

We will meet at the church on Saturday at 9 am to begin the storage and shed cleaning.  We need about 5-6 scouts and a few additional adults.  I know that Roland, Ron, John and myself will be there.  Plan to bring a water bottle.  It will be hot for those helping with the shed.  I think we can finish the shed in less than an hour, so we will move inside to get out of the heat.  Here is a link to sign up to help with the cleaning of the shed and storage area.

PLC Planning meeting:

Our PLC will meet on Saturday afternoon to plan our activities for the next 18 months.  Please have your son look at the link below and complete it for us to use at our meeting on Saturday.  It will be beneficial to us as we plan what the scouts want for the next 18 months.  Here is the link to sign up for activities that your scout wants to do over the next 18 months.  I have asked for an email address for you to receive your selections and your son can change his selections before Saturday.  You will also be able to see the charts and selections for everyone in the group.

Softball Tournament:

We have been asked to help with the cleanup at the softball fields again this year.  We will meet at the softball fields at on Saturday morning between 7 and 8 am, on Saturday night between 8 pm and 9 pm and again on Sunday between 6 pm and 7:30 pm.  Here is the link to sign up to help.  Your scout can earn money for his account depending on the number of scouts and the time they are able to help during these times.  I will need one adult with a truck to help with the collection of trash on Saturday and Sunday night.  If you are willing, please let me know.  

Franklin County Fair:

Jonathan Carney asked for me to pass along that he would like to have some scouts at the Franklin County Fair tomorrow.  I got the information last night after our meeting was over, but wanted to pass along the information to you in case you were already going there and wanted to help.  He said that you can meet him at Gate 5 at 9 am tomorrow morning in full scout uniform.  I know it is too late for many and information like this need to be shared with me sooner so that I could send it to the troop during the previous week.  I wish you luck with the event tomorrow Jonathan.  I did see Sam on TV tonight with the bunnies at the fair!

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Phillip Freeman

Scoutmaster, Troop 136 in Grove City, OH 

Scouts returning tomorrow!

Good evening!

We are getting showers and heading to bed really soon.  The scouts have been amazing this week, but they are ready to come home.  Many of them will be much more confident and independent during their time at summer camp.

“A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.” ― Robert Baden-Powell

The closing ceremony is at 10 am.  We will be on the road by 11 am at the latest. We are stopping at Tom's Ice Cream Bowl in Zanesville.  I think this stop will be about 45 minutes.  Each scout will be able to get some ice cream and eat it as a short break before we head on home.

I am predicting that we will arrive between 1:30 and 2 pm.  I will send out an e-mail when we are leaving Zanesville with an approximate time of arrival at the church.  It will take about an hour to get home from Zanesville.

Have a great night.  Good night!

--

Phillip Freeman

Scoutmaster, Troop 136 in Grove City, OH

Parent Night at MVSR

Hi!

We are having a blast here at MVSR.  We have avoided the rain until tonight, so we had our lake games in the dining hall.  It was fun, but a lot of people still got wet.  I have the videos and pictures to prove it!

If you are planning to come tomorrow for family night, please plan to arrive at 4:30.  I will meet you at the admin building and will bring you to camp.  The scouts normally arrive back around 5 pm.  We will have the flag lowering by our troop tomorrow night followed by dinner.  

We will be talking as a troop tomorrow night if we want to continue to tradition of going to another camp for two years or to come back to MVSR again.  There are lots of pros and cons for discussion about camp.  I look forward to the conversation.  See you tomorrow night at 4:30 pm!

Below is the address to camp.  It takes about 1.5 hours to get here.  Plan to leave at about 3 pm to get here by 4:30.

16972 Co Rd 271, Coshocton, OH 43812  

May Newsletter

Good afternoon!

1. Scoutmaster Newsletter - This newsletter is a little late in the month, but we have had a lot going on. I will start to produce these at the beginning of the month going forward along with the permission slips for our activity that month.

 Troop 136 Newsletter - May 2019

2. Greenlawn Cemetery - We have a great opportunity to help Greenlawn Cemetery on Saturday morning to find the gravestones of the veterans that may be missing their gravestones.

-Sign up tonight and pick up a map of the location.

-Meet at the Huntington Chapel at 9:30 am. See attached map or the map that you pick up tonight.

- They will supply pencils, notepads and maps to sections of the cemetery where we know Civil War Veterans are buried but likely have no headstones. 

-Your troop will be split into groups, depending on adult supervision available. We ask the scouts to try and locate and log for us any missing headstones with a note as to the section being searched and then write down the names of those without stones. 

-Scouts will return to Huntington Chapel at 11:00 am to return maps and notes and then for a short ceremony followed by lunch on us. 

Travel Warning: 

Avoid taking Frank Road east to Harmon Road, as the intersection at Harmon will be closed. I suggest coming north on 62 to W. Mound Street, then turn right or east on Mound. Follow Mound and it turns into Harmon and that will lead you to Greenlawn Avenue. Turn right and enter the cemetery. On the map below, enter the cemetery and follow the green road to section 56, which is also marked Chapel. We will be behind the chapel getting organized.

3. Flight 93 - We will be choosing between 3 different options for next weekend's adventure.

Option #1 - Travel directly to the campground on Friday afternoon. We would leave at 1 pm.

Option #2 - Travel to the West Virginia State Penitentiary and visit the prison and travel to campground on Friday night. We would leave at 7:30 am.

Option #3 - Travel to Grand Vue Park. Spend the day on the ropes course and travel to the campground on Friday night. We would leave at 7:30 am.

Note - One item that I did not take into account was the school schedules for all of the students. I was using the SWCS school calendar and not any other school calendar. Please share with me if your son still has school on Friday, May 31 and would not be able to attend if we left early on Friday morning or in the early afternoon. I do not want for them to miss out on an opportunity if they are still in school.

Yours in Scouting,

Phil  

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Phillip Freeman

Scoutmaster, Troop 136 in Grove City, OH 

Email: smtroop136@gmail.com Cell Phone: (614) 563-3894 

Troop 136 Axiom: "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!"

Scout Motto: "Be Prepared"

Scout Law: “A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent."

Scout Oath: "On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight."

The Outdoor Code: "As an American, I will do my best to - Be clean in my outdoor manners, Be careful with fire, Be considerate in the outdoors, and Be conservation minded."

Dorchester Info, Troop Elections,and Muskingum Summer Camp

Good morning!  

1.  Tents and tarps

If you have a tent or tarp, please plan to be there at 6:45 if possible.  If you had a tent and/or tarp from the Tar Hollow and the previous campout at the Spring Camporee, please bring them ready to be turned in tonight.  Please be sure they are clean.  We will need them this weekend.  The weather will be nice tonight before the meeting if you need to clean out the tents and tarps before you bring them back to them back to the troop.  Please arrive about ten minutes early so that you can be checked back in with the tarp and tent.

2. Dorchester Participants

Here is the current list of scouts attending Dorchester this weekend:

 2019 Dorchester

In this list, I started the seating assignments. This will not be like most trips where you can just hop in a vehicle before we leave.  We will meet tonight for a few minutes to discuss the seating arrangements and other items.  Since we are crossing the border, you will be assigned to a vehicle for the trip there and back.  We can finish the tonight at the troop meeting along with the assigning of patrols for the weekend.

3.  Items needed for Dorchester

Below are the items that we will need for those going to Dorchester.  Here are the items that we will need:

      1. Passport or original birth certificate

      2. Permission form for the troop

 Permission Slip - Dorchester May 10-12, 2019

     3.  Dorchester Consent letter to travel to Canada - See attached letter

     4.  Canadian Health Form  - See attached

     5.  Scout Medical Form (Only Part A and part B completed for this trip, but some of you might need get a new one for summer camp so I attached A, B and C)

     6.  Medicine - Please bring any medicine along with dosage information with the scout.  Please include in the original prescription bottles and/or packaging

          since we are crossing the border.  They may want to look at the prescription medicine.

The only new item on this list is the consent letter.  The notary will not be at the meeting tonight, but said that if you stop by the HER building during the normal hours, she will sign the form for you.  I was directed to the website by a parent in the troop.  I recommend that you have both the permission slip and the consent letter notarized.  I met with Kirk last night and they had a similar release form they used for the previous trip in 2016.

4.  Muskingum Summer Camp

I cannot believe summer camp is almost here again.  Attached is the current list of participants.  I will be making a payment this week for those scouts and adults on the list.  Be sure to check with Mr. Baughman if you are not on the list so that you can pay for summer camp. If you confirm with Mr. Baughman that you are paid, I will pay the $260 for each scout to attend summer camp. I found out about the date last night when I met with Kirk.  I guess the camp is still sending him emails.

Adults - Last year we have had about 8-10 adults go to summer camp.  If you are willing to go for a few days, half of the week or even all of the week, please let me know so that I can add you to the list of participants.  In talking with Kirk last night, MVSR has been sending him the emails, but  I was not part of the distribution list for summer camp.  Kirk sent him the email that states that we have until Friday to make the payment for scouts going at the $260 rate.  If possible, please let me know the dates that you will be attending.

We will have our summer camp meeting on May 21st.

 2019 Summer Camp - Muskingum Valley

-- 

Phillip Freeman

Scoutmaster, Troop 136 in Grove City, OH 

Troop 136 Axiom: "How do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time!"

Scout Motto: "Be Prepared"

Scout Law: “A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent."

Scout Oath: "On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight."

The Outdoor Code: "As an American, I will do my best to - Be clean in my outdoor manners, Be careful with fire, Be considerate in the outdoors, and Be conservation minded."

Meeting tonight is at the church!

Good morning!

The meeting for tonight has changed.  We will meet at the church.  They are repaving the parking lot and we were asked to move the mulch to the concrete section of the parking lot.  We will start our meeting in our Field Uniform (Class A).  After the opening, we will have a chance to move the mulch to the new location for the paving.  Be prepared to take off your Field Uniform (Class A) or change into the Activity Uniform.  Once we move the mulch, we will play the games that Andrew has organized tonight.  

Sorry for the change, but we started to move the mulch when we came back from the camping trip and we did not have enough scouts that could carry the mulch to the new location.  The temperature outside tonight will be great for outdoor games.