Troop Meeting this Thursday, Jan 10th, at Central Congregational Church - 7:00pm

Hello Troop 20!

This week's Troop meeting will be held at Central Congregational Church, 2 Webster Street, Middleborough, due to the Sacred Heart Parish Hall not being available.  Please enter through the side door.

Here are this week's announcements:

Merit Badges:

- Classes for the Citizenship merit badges will now be held every other week.  Please see the Troop Calendar for the class schedule.  Our next class will be held Thursday, Jan 17th.

- This Thursday, Mrs. Drass will begin teaching the Pets merit badge for anyone interested.  Requirements for the merit badge can be found on meritbadge.org at this link.  We will provide workbooks for Scouts.


Care Package for Mr. Devine:

- We are looking at putting together a care package to send to Mr. Devine, who is currently deployed overseas with the U.S. Army. If any Scouts would like to donate some items to send, we have a small list of things that Scouts could purchase and bring to the Troop meeting in the next couple of weeks. 

• Wet Wipes
• Clif Bars (Macadamia Nut)
• Unsalted Cashews
• Pre-cooked Bacon
• Beef Jerky

Please see one of the Scoutmasters if you have any donations.

Ski Trip:

- We were not able to get enough commitment or deposits to book the trip to Mt. Abram this year.  We seemed to have interest but not commitments, so we will be looking into the possibility of one or two day trips to closer ski resorts.  We will post more information if it looks like we can pull this together soon.


Upcoming Troop Events:

- Nantucket Island - We are tentatively planning a camping/bike trip to Nantucket Island for June 21-23.  The dates are tentative because we are still confirming that we can get ferry reservations.

For any Scouts that have never been to Nantucket with the Troop, this is a great trip that everyone always enjoys.  We head over on a Friday morning and we bring over the Scouts bikes and camping gear.  We spend two nights at BSA Camp Richard and bike around the island, checking out the sights.

We will have more information for everyone as we firm up dates.

- SPOILER ALERT - Many of our Scouts probably do not know that the Troop has several canoes that we have not used in some time.  So, once the warmer weather arrives, we are looking into the possibility of dusting off the Troop canoes and doing some canoe trips on the Nemasket River and maybe even a canoe camping trip to the Murdock Street campsite.  We will begin trying to firm up details in the coming months so stay tuned.