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Scouts BSA Troop 108, Fort Mill, SC
Just a reminder that the final payment for this year’s summer camp are due on Monday, May 4th. Parents can check with Mrs. Nicky to get their final balances and to see if any of the classes your scout signed up for carry any additional fees.
We will be having a service project going on at Fort Mill Elementary School this Saturday, April 25 from 8am to 12pm (if weather permits). This is a great way to give back to the community and collect service hours!
Most of what we’ll be doing will be cleaning planting beds, spreading a little mulch, raking leaves and preparing the school’s 8 raised gardens for the coming season’s plantings.
Please come with work gloves, if you have them.
This will be a great opportunity to help out the school district that has given us so much support! Look forward in seeing you all there!
The troop WILL be providing tents for the weekend as usual for our scouts. The previous post was a little misleading, so we wanted to clarify.
The scouts can also print the workbooks from the website meritbadge.org in place of official merit badge books.
Below is additional information for those scouts and scouters attending the Merit Badge Encampment at the Catawba Nuclear Station this coming weekend.
Troop 108 is again volunteering for the Earth Day celebration at the Anne Springs Close Greenway. Our troop provides free canoe rides for the public and has done so for many years. The scouts will help people put on life jackets, pick out a paddle and get in and out of the canoes.
We ask you to arrive no later than 9:00 am and plan to go home at 3:00 pm.
Please wear your uniform with your scout t-shirt underneath so you are prepared. Bring your water bottle and sun screen. A hat is recommended when the sun is out.
Arrive: 9:00 am, Saturday April 18, 2015
Dpart: 3:00 pm
Where: The ASC Greenway Dairy Barn @ 250 Dairy Barn Lane, Fort Mill, SC 29715
Questions? Call Mr. John Bisel at 803-322-8332.
Invite your family, free fun for the whole family. Click here is some information about this year’s celebration.
On April 13th there will not be a regular meeting.
We will be having our monthly PLC meeting and also ALL SCOUTS taking the Nuclear Science merit badge at the upcoming Merit Badge Encampment will need to be present to complete one of the more complicated prerequisites for that badge.
If you’re planning to attend the upcoming backpacking trip to Crowder’s Mountain, bring your pack – packed the way you would for the trip – to tonight’s meeting. We will have a “shakedown” where we look at how your pack is packed and what type of things you brought and make suggestions that will make life on the trial easier for you.
We will also cover trail safety at tonight’s meeting. While this may seem like a common sense type thing, we had a leader to fall many feet and get injured in recent years because of horseplay by scouts on a backpacking trip.
Below is a link to a PDF file showing the classes that scouts are signed up for at the upcoming Merit Badge Campout at the Catawba Nuclear Station. Take special note of the prerequisites listed for each merit badge so that your son can complete these and bring their work (or proof of their work) with them to the campout for credit for these prerequisite requirements.
Parents – if your son has signed up but has decided that he is not attending, we need to know about that as soon as possible so another scout can have that spot. We also need payments to be finalized no later than Monday, April 13th
The Boy Scouts of America confirmed rumors of changes to the size of merit badge emblems. For many years the emblems have been 1.5 inches across and they are now being increased to 2.25 inches across.
You can read the whole story of what lead to the change by clicking here.
This will make it easier for the aging troop and district committee members to see the merit badges on the sashes of scouts who are up for review and put the ongoing controversy regarding the “upside down” first aid merit badge to rest.
April Fools!