Hello Troop 20!
We have a few announcements for the week:
1) Offsite - We will be offsite this week for our Troop Meeting at Round One bowling, located at the Silver City Galleria in Taunton. We will meet at Round One for 6:30pm. The cost is $15 cash per Scout which will cover two games of bowling and shoes. Please arrange to have dinner before arriving as we will not be eating as a group this time. Pickup will be 8:00pm at Round One.
2) Blue Cards - If anyone has a blue card for Mrs. Grady, you need to bring it Thursday night or make arrangements to get it to her before hand. If you have a blue card and will not be at bowling Thursday, please reach out to Mrs. Grady at grady37@verizon.net.
3) Red & Green - Our Red & Green dinner and Winter Court of Honor will be held next Thursday, February 15th.
Eric Grady has a signup sheet available. Please follow the link below to indicate how many people from your family will be attending and what you plan to bring for the potluck dinner.
Approximate time table is as follows:
6:00 to 6:30 - Scouts arrive to help setup
7:00 - Dinner
7:30 - Court of Honor
8:15 - Cake and Cleanup
As this is a court of honor, please remember to be in full class A uniform, including sash if you have one.
4) West Point Camporee, April 27 thru 29 - We have been accepted to attend this years camporee at West Point Military Academy!! This is a really fun event that we don't always get to participate in but we were accepted to attend this year and if you talk to the older scouts who have been before, they'll tell you what a great time this is. This year, we will be attending as "Lightfighter", which means we backpack everything in and out. Sleeping bag, tent, food,......everything. West Point provides portable latrines for the weekend. We need to know ASAP how many scouts plan to attend because we need to have headcount and money sent to West Point by Feb 14, which is only a week away.
The cost will be $25 per scout and adult which covers your registration, Camporee patch, and lightfighter patch. This is a non-refundable fee so if you back out at the last minute, you do not get a refund. But we can't imagine why anyone would back out!! Additional funds may be needed to cover expenses to get to West Point, spending money, etc. We will advise on that in the weeks to come but we need the $25 registration fee ASAP. Please bring this with you to bowling on Thursday or get in touch with one of the leaders to make arrangements to get the money to us. This is urgent if you wish to attend!!
For all scouts that will be attending, we will be starting some planning sessions to go over equipment you'll need, food for backpacking, and shake down hikes to make sure we're good to go. We hope everyone will participate in this very special event.
Look for more details in the coming days/weeks.
That's all for now....We hope to see a lot of scouts at bowling!!
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