Troop 48 Elections!
Troop please attend this week’s meeting for elections. Senior Patrol Leader as well as all patrol jobs are to be decided by votes Tuesday November 3rd.
PATROL MEETING CHECKLIST for Tuesday, November 3, 2020
TROOP 48 BSA
PATROL MEETING CHECKLIST for Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Return to Class A uniform
- All patrols should resume using traditional paper attendance sheet. Updated copies are in yellow patrol binder cabinet, then return to bottom slot. Add trips, churches, service hours, etc. for meetings missed. Counsel and sign off advancement.
2. Call patrol members not present.
- Please stay out of all day care areas; The only bathroom to be used is the boys off Room 107. Please remember social distancing and wearing your mask is a great way to stay healthy BUT is also mandatory for our Troop to use the church facilities. Please monitor numbers in rooms. We can have NO more than 25 in a room. Take action to make sure that everyone is working to follow these requirements. Please remember if you travel out of the Tri cities or are not feeling well or have been around anyone that is not feeling well; please do not attend the meeting: please do not hesitate to reach out to Julieann White with questions regarding our COVID policy questions
- Wolf is Service Patrol for November. Ensure garage is straighten up with stomping cans as needed.
- Panther has West Bank for November. Please ask Flaming Arrow for help. Mow last time for the year.
• Please pick up branches and trash, rake leaves and clip or dig up weeds, bad vines, and little privet bushes. Leave the periwinkle vines. DON’T MOW OR OTHERWISE HURT THE ENGLISH IVY!! Good Turn part of “West Bank:” Use rakes and spread mulch to fill in holes in Children’s Playground.
- Mr. Miller and Mr. Hasler be at tables in the entrance area to handle payments for upcoming trips and advancement.
Elections: Each patrol electing a representative for each position Patrol planning for patrol Trip for November; December Holiday party.
November 10 – court of honor and Eagle ceremony
- FLAMING ARROW CHPC youth center back room
- PANTHER CHPC Kid Connection
- PHOENIX CHPC Youth Center Front room
- WOLF CHPC coffee shop off the gymTop of FormBottom of Form
- FOX CHPC Chorus room
2021 Scouting for Food
Sequoyah Council Scouting for Food Update
Scouting for Food events will be held in February 2021 in conjunction with Scouting Anniversary Week and continuous campfire. Scouting Anniversary Week provides a great opportunity to tell the Scouting story to our community through the Scouting for Food service project. For many years, districts have held fantastic continuous campfire programs to bring public awareness to Scouting Anniversary week. Having the public drop food donations at continuous campfire sites will bring even more awareness to this program.
Food City will continue to be a strong partner in the effort to provide food to those in need in our community, but instead of providing the resource of bags for distribution they will provide some regional awareness around the event through mass media.
Unit Commitment
- Units are encouraged to partner with their chartered organizations and/or communities to share information about Scouting for Food.
- Units will collect Scouting for Food donations at their Chartered Organization churches on Scout Sunday. (option: Working with their Chartered Organizations, units will collect Scouting for Food donations at church on Scout Sunday.)
- Units, communities, or districts will organize continuous campfire programs the week/weekend of Scouting Anniversary.
Timeline
November 19th – Council Scouting for Food/Anniversary Week Organizational Meeting at 6:30 at the Scout Service Center (Anyone is welcome to attend this meeting)
December 10th – Dates, Times, and Locations for Continuous Campfires and or/Scouting Sunday Services submitted to the Service Center
January Roundtable – Marketing Kits Distributed to Units to be used with Chartered Organizations/Communities
January – A website goes live with collection point information(campfires, Scout Sundays, Food Cities)
January 31st – February 7th - Food City will have bins and/or bags of food for customers to purchase as well as other in-store marketing
- Information goes on the Newspaper/radio/TV/Social Media about Scouting for Food to the Community
February 5 – 7th – Continuous Campfires held in Districts/Communities where the community can drop off food throughout the weekend.
PATROL MEETING CHECKLIST for Tuesday, October 27, 2020
TROOP 48 BSA
PATROL MEETING CHECKLIST for Tuesday, October 27; 2020
- All patrols should resume using traditional paper attendance sheet. Updated copies are in yellow patrol binder cabinet, then return to bottom slot. Add trips, churches, service hours, etc. for meetings missed. Counsel and sign off advancement.
2. Call patrol members not present.
- Please stay out of all-day care areas; The only bathroom to be used is the boys off Room 107. Please remember social distancing and wearing your mask is a great way to stay healthy BUT is also mandatory for our Troop to use the church facilities. Please monitor numbers in rooms. We can have NO more than 25 in a room. Take action to make sure that everyone is working to follow these requirements. Please remember if you travel out of the Tri cities or are not feeling well or have been around anyone that is not feeling well; please do not attend the meeting: please do not hesitate to reach out to Julieann White with questions regarding our COVID policy questions
- Phoenix is Service Patrol for October. Ensure garaged is straighten up with stomping cans as needed. Flaming Arrow has West Bank for October
- Please pick up branches and trash, rake leaves and clip or dig up weeds, bad vines, and little privet bushes. Leave the periwinkle vines. DON’T MOW OR OTHERWISE HURT THE ENGLISH IVY!! Good Turn part of “West Bank:” Use rakes and spread mulch to fill in holes in Children’s Playground.
- Mr. Miller and Mr. Hasler be at tables in the entrance area to handle payments for upcoming trips and advancement.
October 27 –Review Troop and patrol jobs; preparing for elections. Go over understanding the class A uniform. Review PLC – calendar planning – Patrol planning for patrol Trip for
November; December Holiday party.
November 3 – Elections and Return to Class A
Review Saturday October 24th Conservation Project, WPSP // Orienteering Advancement Opportunity
FLAMING ARROW CHPC youth center back room
PANTHER CHPC Kid Connection
PHOENIX CHPC Youth Center Front room
WOLF CHPC coffee shop off the gym
The Congressional Award
Scouts!!!
Earn Congressional Awards! Participants must be between the ages of 13.5 and 24 years old. Here’s how the program works:
Certificate Levels
- Register online and pay the small registration fee at https://www.congressionalaward.org/. This website has valuable, detailed information about the program and the requirements. The website also has a printable record keeping book.
- Find an advisor. This is someone who helps you establish how you will reach your goals and oversees the process. A good place to start in your search for an advisor is an adult leader in your patrol.
- Find validators for each of the four program areas-volunteer service, personal development, physical fitness, and expedition/exploration. Note that these categories align with what you are already doing in as a scout! You can not only advance in scouts, you can earn congressional awards at the same time!
- Complete the requirements for each award level. Requirements are cumulative except for the overnight expeditions/explorations. Be sure to have you record book signed off by your validators as you complete each program area.
- Once all the requirements are complete, have your advisor review and sign your record book for submission to earn your award!
Medal Levels
Questions?
Contact Tracy Padgett tspadgett@live.com or 423-306-0321 or Angela Ward 423-773-4577
Parents and Adult Leaders
Scouts between that ages of 13.5 and 24 have the opportunity to earn Congressional Awards, but we need your help. In order to earn these awards, our scouts will need adults willing to act as advisors and validators. An advisor helps a scout establish how they are going to reach their goals and oversees the scout’s progress toward those goals. Validators oversee individual program areas-volunteer service, personal fitness, physical fitness, and exploration/expedition. As you can see, these overlap with requirements of the scouting program, so scouts can earn recognition in both programs at the same time! If you would be willing to act as an advisor or validator, please contact Tracy Padgett at tspadgett@live.com or 423-306-0321 or Angela Ward at 423-773-4577. Without our help, our scouts will not be able to participate in this program. Our goal is to have 1-2 advisors for each patrol. For more detailed information about the program, please visit their website at https://www.congressionalaward.org/.
ADVISORS:
- Review the requirements and guidelines with the participant.
- Assist the participant in setting goals for each program area that are personally challenging, achievable, measurable, and fulfilling.
- Help the participant identify appropriate activities and qualified Validators for each goal.
- Maintain periodic contact with the participant while they work towards their goals.
- If the participant needs to revise goals, assist in helping set new goals and finding activities to achieve them.
- Upon completing the program requirements, ensure that the participant has completely and accurately filled out their Record Book and have obtained signatures from each of their Validators.
VALIDATORS:
- Review the requirements and guidelines with the participant.
- Discuss the specific requirement for the program area in which you will be working with the participant.
- Help the participant identify their starting level in a particular activity.
- Make certain the participant’s goal is personally challenging, achievable, measurable, and fulfilling.
- Once the participant has met the activity requirements, review the appropriate documentation and sign and date the Record Book page.
PATROL MEETING CHECKLIST for Tuesday, October 20, 2020
TROOP 48 BSA
PATROL MEETING CHECKLIST for Tuesday, October20, 2020
1. Take attendance. Add trips, churches, service hours, etc. for meetings missed. Counsel and sign off advancement.
2. Call patrol members not present.
3. Sign up for Oct 24 orienteering class
4. Discuss November 3 election
5 Phoenix is Service Patrol for October. Stomp cans as needed. Straighten up the garage.
6. Flaming Arrow Patrol has West Bank for October. Please pick up branches and trash, rake leaves and clip or dig up weeds, bad vines, and little privet bushes. Leave the periwinkle vines. Mow grass as needed.DON’T MOW OR OTHERWISE HURT THE ENGLISH IVY !! That ivy is there thanks to Eagle Projects by Gary McGraw, Jr (1983) & Dan Beverly (1986). Weed around shrubbery. [ West Bank was cleared in 2013 by Tanner Clark and his Eagle project team ].
Good Turn part of “West Bank:” Use rakes and spread mulch to fill in holes in Children’s Playground.
TROOP 48, BSA – PROGRAM CALENDAR, OCTOBER & NOVEMBER, 2020
OCTOBER 2020-
Planning:
- October 27: Cutoff for awards at November 10th COH
- COVID safety protocols
| Patrol | Meeting Location | |
| Flaming Arrow | Youth Area Room 107 door has been changed PLEASE use the holly path side door |  |
| Fox | Room 101 : Entrance TBD |  |
| Panther | Kids Connection Room 118 side front door by Jones building |  |
| Phoenix | Youth Center Room 103 up the steps by the gym side door going into locker room |  |
| Wolf | Coffee shop Room 113B off gym : side door |  |
- For extra information, look at T48.org.
- Questions?
Conservation Success
Troop 48 had 55 pounds of crushed aluminum cans paid at $0.35/pound for roughly $20And was paid another $20 for the old ladder and other scrap metal weighing around 95 pounds total.
Bennett, thanks for providing leadership for this service/conservation project.🥫
PATROL MEETING CHECKLIST for Tuesday, October 13, 2020
TROOP 48 BSA
PATROL MEETING CHECKLIST for Tuesday, October 13, 2020
- All patrols should resume using traditional paper attendance sheet. Updated copies are in yellow patrol binder cabinet, then return to bottom slot. Add trips, churches, service hours, etc. for meetings missed. Counsel and sign off advancement.
2. Call patrol members not present.
- Please stay out of all day care areas; The only bathroom to be used is the boys off Room 107. Please remember social distancing and wearing your mask is a great way to stay healthy BUT is also mandatory for our Troop to use the church facilities. Please monitor numbers in rooms. We can have NO more than 25 in a room. Take action to make sure that everyone is working to follow these requirements.
- Phoenix is Service Patrol for October. Ensure garaged is straighten up with stomping cans as needed. laming Arrow has West Bank for October
• Please pick up branches and trash, rake leaves and clip or dig up weeds, bad vines, and little privet bushes. Leave the periwinkle vines. DON’T MOW OR OTHERWISE HURT THE ENGLISH IVY!! Good Turn part of “West Bank:” Use rakes and spread mulch to fill in holes in Children’s Playground.
- Mr. Miller and Mr. Hasler be at tables in the entrance area to handle payments for upcoming trips and advancement.
October 13 – New Scout Coaching. Book checks with Patrol advisors, getting updates/pictures of pages to Mr. Hasler. Check patrol pages on website for suggested advancement items.
Patrol trip recap for Panther, Phoenix and Flaming Arrow.
Planning for Wolf.
Thanks for the support in making Hasbrouck’s project a surprise and a success!!
October 20 PLC – 6:00 calendar planning is postponed due to Fall break.
Plan/sign up for November advance backpacking trip
Saturday October 24th 9:00 – 11:00 am Conservation Project, WPSP
(signup @ T48.org) 11:00 – 1:00 pm Orienteering Advancement Opportunity
FLAMING ARROW CHPC youth center back room
PANTHER CHPC Kid Connection
PHOENIX CHPC Youth Center Front room
WOLF CHPC coffee shop off the gym
— HASBROUCK CELEBRATION — Thank You
TROOP 48 — HASBROUCK CELEBRATION
OCTOBER 6, 2020
We had a wonderful and delightful celebration right in our front yard on Rock Springs Road !! It even included a formal opening ceremony with flags and the Pledge of Allegiance. Clara and I were very pleased, grateful, impressed, and humbled to be honored in such a special way by our troop. You made it very clear that you valued my service to Scouting as an adult leader for 56 years, including Troop 48 Scoutmaster for 46 years.
You did a great and thorough search through your personal and Troop files to come up with copies of priceless photos that you presented to me. We will cherish the big, enhanced-photo portrait of me and Clara, the photos, your cards and letters of appreciation, the story boards and posters that our patrols made, the crafts and gift snacks, the songs and prayers during the celebration, the memories, and above all your physical presence !!!! Can you imagine our surprise to see 50 to 75 or more people standing quietly in our front yard waiting for me to appear?
The value of a celebration like this one is to emphasize the many benefits Scouting provides for the Scouts, the adult leaders, and their families. In addition to the values learned from the structure and ideals of Scouting, many benefits have accrued to me and my family through participation in the major BSA events: National and World Jamborees, Philmont Scout Ranch, Northern Tier Canoe Base, and Sea Base Florida. Special expeditions by Troop 48 included an exchange visit with a troop and their families from Workington, England, Machu Picchu in Peru, Cumberland Island, Georgia, and a 1997 overnight trip on the nuclear submarine Maryland.
Seeing this gathering of Troop 48 alumni and current members reminded me of many other favorite outings we shared that let me learn and practice special skills: canoeing and rafting, backpacking, skiing, climbing and rappelling, overnight caving, and shooting sports.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU !!!!
Charles Hasbrouck
