Hello Troop 20!
The leaders of Troop 20 would like to wish all of our Scouts and their Families a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy, and Safe New Year!
REMINDER: There will not be a Troop Meeting this Thursday, 12/28. Our next Troop meeting will be Thursday, January 4, 2018.
MOVIE NIGHT: Our annual Troop Movie Night is this coming Friday, 12/29. If you have signed up to attend, please remember the following points.
1) Cost is $10 per Scout to cover food
2) Drop off is 5:30pm on Friday at the Sacred Heart Parish Hall.
3) Please plan to pickup your Scout no later than 8:00am on Saturday, 12/30. We need to vacate the hall for a church function coming in after us.
SKI TRIP: For everyone who has signed up to go on our annual ski trip, we need you to complete the following forms. These need to be returned at our next Troop Meeting on January 4th.
If you have any difficulty accessing these documents at the links provided below, please let us know.
1) All scouts need to complete the Liability Release Form and return it to one of the leaders at our next Troop Meeting.
2) If you will be renting equipment, please complete the Rental Shop Form.
That's all for now. We'll see everyone participating in Movie Night on the 29th and we'll see everyone else in the New Year!
Hello Troop 20!
We hope everyone who attended our offsite at SkyZone this past Thursday had a great time!
We have one more Troop meeting this month before the holiday break. This week we will be at the Sacred Heart Parish Hall. A few announcements to be aware of beforehand.
1) We will be having a holiday gift swap at the Troop meeting. Any Scouts wishing to participate should bring a wrapped gift, worth no more than $10.
2) To help celebrate the holiday's, we are asking all Scouts to please bring a snack to share with the Troop at this Thursday's Troop Meeting.
3) The communication merit badge class will still be held so all Scouts participating should plan to bring your course materials.
4) We are planning to have our annual Troop Movie Night on Friday, December 29th.
Dropoff: 5:30pm on Friday, 12/29.
Pickup: Saturday, no later than 8:00am. The church needs us out early as they will have something going on that Saturday.
Cost: $10 per scout to cover food.
Any scout planning to participate should signup at the following link:
You may have to request access from Eric to access the signup sheet.
We hope to see everyone at this week's Troop Meeting. Have a great week!
Hello Troop 20!
1) SKYZONE: We will be having an offsite activity this week in lie of our regular troop meeting. We will be at SkyZone, at the Kingston Mall. We will be getting pizza afterwards so scouts should have a light snack before coming. The plan is for the scouts t jump from 6:30 to 7:30 and then we'll be heading to the food court.
Drop-off: We will meet at SkyZone between 6:00-6:15pm.
Pickup: Please plan to pickup your scout in the food court of the Kingston mall at 8:30pm.
Cost: Each scout will need $20 cash to cover the cost of jumping and pizza afterwards at the food court.
IMPORTANT: Every scout MUST have their parent complete a waiver BEFORE Thursday. Please go to this link for the waiver: https://www.skyzone.com/kingston
***** You MUST use the waiver specifically for the Kingston SkyZone. *****
Click on the 'FILL OUT WAIVER' button and then select the 'MYSELF & CHILDREN' button.
2) Toys for Tots: Any scout who has not yet turned in a toy, and wants to do so, may bring it Thursday night to SkyZone. As a reminder, it should be a toy priced at no more than $10 and unwrapped.
Hello Troop 20!
We hope everyone has had a great week! Here are this week's announcements:
1) IMPORTANT UPDATE: We believe the Scouts have been discussing our next offsite date for December as 12/21. This date is incorrect. Our next offsite is actually next week, 12/14. This is noted in the Troop Calendar and Mrs. Swindle has re-confirmed this date with Sacred Heart. We will be checking to see if our anticipated offsite activity (SkyZone) is available for this date and will get an update on the blog as soon as possible, so stay tuned!
2) Toys for Tots: In last week's Troop Meeting, Mrs. Swindle mentioned that Mid Cape Home Centers were very generous to Troop 20 this year, donating all of the lumber we needed to build our Trebuchet. Mid Cape is currently collecting for the Marine Corps Reserves annual Toys for Tots program and we would like to show our appreciation by bringing them a donation of toys from Troop 20. We are asking that all Scouts, if you can, please try to bring in a new, unwrapped toy ($10 or less) by Thursday, 12/14. We would like to bring them, as a Troop, to Mid Cape Home Centers in Middleboro, either on Saturday, 12/16 or maybe Friday, 12/15. Details regarding the actual drop-off will follow.
3) Personal Management Merit Badge: Mrs. Swindle will be meeting with the Personal Management merit badge scouts this week. Scouts were given 'homework' and should bring back completed workbooks with backup. Scouts should know what work they were assigned. If anyone is unsure, please reach out to Mrs. Swindle.
4) Committee Meeting: We will be having our monthly committee meeting this Thursday, 12/7, at 6:00pm in the Parish Hall. We would like to remind all parents that you are both welcome and encouraged to attend both the committee meetings as well as the Troop meetings. Troop 20 runs on volunteers and while we have some key leaders who keep the wheels turning for our Scouts, we could really use some help from parents. I think every leader you talk to will tell you that they get tremendous enjoyment out of the scouting program by participating and helping our Scouts achieve great things. If you can spare some time, stop by the committee meeting and hear what we have going on. Something may peak your interest! Thanks!
5) Troop Dues: - The dues for this Scouting year are $100 per Scout. Dues were due this past Thursday, November 30th. If you have not yet paid your annual dues, please see Mrs. Swindle. Checks should be made payable to: Troop 20.
6) Ski Trip: Our annual ski trip is currently planned for January 19 - 21, 2018. If you are interested in attending, a non-refundable deposit of $20 per scout is due now. We will post additional details in the coming weeks as they become available.
NOTE: To date, we have received deposits from: Wayne, Arthur, Jared, Stephen, and Kevin. If you believe you are going on the trip and your name isn't in this list, you need to see Mrs. Swindle ASAP.
7) Senior Patrol Leaders Notes:
- Movie Night: If you would like to bring a console or electronic device to Movie Night, please see Mark Swindle at this week's Troop Meeting.
- Scribe's: A reminder that all scribe's should have a list of everyone in their patrols, with check boxes next to everyone's name, so that they can take attendance each week.
- Binders: Everyone should bring their Scout Binder this week, to review them with the Troop.
That's all for this week and we hope to see everyone at the Troop Meeting on Thursday. Have a great week!
