Livingston, Montana February 2001 Volume 4 Issue 1
District Winter Camporee:
The Troop had a fun time during the District Winter
Camporee at Bear Canyon. We arrived Friday night and pitched
our tents at high base camp. We earned 30 frost points on Friday
night and 32 more on Saturday night. A few boys now have 147
frost points with only 33 to go to earn the Celsius award! Many
others have earned at least 100 frost points to earn the Fahrenheit
award. We hiked and played on sleds a bunch and ate well. There
was a slide show on Saturday night by an adult Eagle Scout that
climbed Everest twice from two different routes. Even though
he did not make it quite to the top, his pictures were amazing
and his message to the boys was to follow their dreams to see
what good can come of them.
Happy Scout Week:
Thanks to Josh, Tyler, Nicholas, Brian and Mrs. Nelson for putting
together our Scout Window on Saturday. Make sure that you visit
the display at Nancy's Hallmark during Scout Week, February 4
- 10. This week is the yearly celebration of Scouting across
our Nation and the anniversary of the beginning of the Boy Scouts
of America. There are at least three other Scout window displays
downtown so be sure to visit them while you are in the area.
Danny's Eagle Scout Court of Honor:
There was a wonderful gathering of people for Danny's Eagle Scout
Court of Honor on Sunday, February 4th. It was the first Eagle
Court of Honor that this Troop has had in many, many years. Danny's
mom put in a lot of hard work to come up with all the pieces
to the ceremony and it went very well. We have at least three
more Eagle Court of Honor ceremonies this spring with the possibility
for a few more later this year.
Troop Campout at Big Creek Cabin:
The Troop will be heading to Big Creek Cabin at 8:30 a.m. on
Saturday, February 10th. All Scouts need either snowshoes or
cross country skis. We will have time for advancement, building
snow shelters, earning frost points, hiking around and other
fun! We will have some Webelos visiting during Saturday to enjoy
the outdoors with us for a while. Saturday night we will have
a Scout Meeting since there are so few in February. We will also
have a Magic game session since this outing marks the two year
anniversary of the introduction of this game to many Scouts.
Traditions are very important! On Sunday, after cleaning the
cabin, we will be going to Chico Hot Springs at 2 p.m. and arrive
back at the Lincoln School at 4:30 p.m. All Scouts should decide
if they are going by Monday, February 5th and bring $10 to that
meeting ($7 for food and $3 for swimming).
Patrol Activity Day:
Saturday, February 24th is Patrol Activity Day. This is a new
feature that we hope to make an ongoing part of our program.
Each patrol will meet on a separate occasion from normal Troop
meetings and work together to build patrol spirit. We hope that
these meetings will occur about once every three months and perhaps
one patrol will earn the Baden Powell Award. The Cosmos will
be meeting at Mr. Andrews' house for a Monty Python movie and
sleeping out on the deck to earn more frost points. We will gather
at 6:00 p.m. and have pizza for dinner and pancakes for breakfast.
Scouts should be picked up between 9 and 10 a.m. on Sunday. The
Raptors will be meeting to make a new flag. The Vipers will be
going bowling. More information will be made available from the
Patrol Leaders of each patrol.
Merit
Badge. Mr. Andrews will demonstrate how to make a movie from
still photographs when he presents his 3000 mile bike trip movie
at the Scout Meeting on Monday, March 5th. Perhaps the Troop
will take in a movie as an activity in March. Scouts need to
videotape demonstrations of Scouting skills that can be used
to teach those skills to others or videotape and edit a Court
of Honor.