2021 Scouting for Food

October 27, 2020 Thomas Gould

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.

Appalachian Trail Backpack Postponed

October 9, 2020 Thomas Gould

Administration, Upcoming Events

Postponed

Trip Report: 2020 Backpacking Introduction

September 29, 2020 Thomas Gould

Administration, Trip Reports, Upcoming Events

Last Chance! Signup for the Shooting Fair

September 5, 2020 Mr Schaefer

Upcoming Events

Camp Davy Crockett, Firearms, Rifles, Shooting, Shooting Fair

Reserve your place at the Annual Troop 48 Shooting Fair to be held at Camp Davy Crockett September 12 -13.

The signup window will close Tuesday 9/8 @ 9pm.

If you have any troubles signing up, please contact Mr. Schaefer/423-302-0846 (call/text)

Review the trip announcement for the trip sheet, the night at the movies flier, and contact your patrol leadership with any questions.

*** Attention ***

There are only 10 mattresses per site. Be prepared and take a sleeping pad with you for those staying in cabins.

AT Backpack Details and Trip Sheet

August 21, 2020 Mr Schaefer

Upcoming Events

Appalachian Trail, AT Backpacking, Backpacking

The data is in! Check out the details in the attached trip sheet. Join us for this 13 mile trek and Sign Up Today!

Please take note, this is a moderately difficult trip.

Patrols! Plan Your October

August 20, 2020 Mr Schaefer

Flaming Arrow, Panther, Phoenix, Upcoming Events, Wolf

Camping, Patrols

Troop Leadership has laid down the gauntlet for you to create an awesome weekend just for your patrol in the month of October. Details are within the document, but the challenge is to organize your own camping adventure.

Where? You choose!

To do what? Whatever you like!

Earn camping nights, complete requirements, HAVE FUN!

October Patrol Outing Goals Download

2021 Outings Planning

August 17, 2020 Mr Schaefer

Upcoming Events

Trip Planning

by Scoutmaster Hasbrouck

Troop 48,

As you know, one of our goals is “TO KEEP THE OUTING IN SCOUTING !

Each year we prepare a calendar for the next year. For 2021, let’s say we will have a proposed calendar ready for the Patrol Leaders Council to review and approve before Thanksgiving. That gives us time to make revisions and have the calendar ready to distribute early in December. Mrs. White and Mr. Gould have agreed to oversee this process, knowing that the pandemic may upset our best efforts.

Attached is our listing of outings done in the past.. Please plan for your “team” to make sure each of your members has a chance to mark their choices on a copy and return it to me during the month of October. “TEAMS” are our four patrols, the Leadership Corps, and all of the adult leaders, represented by the monthly adult leaders meeting. Each person should vote for two “Super Activities” and ten other outings. It will be helpful if each “Team Leader” will see that each of their members puts their name on the trip list, marks their 12 choices, and that ballots are collected and put in a big envelope for me. You may give the envelopes to Mr. Hasler or Mr. Miller to leave for me in our CHPC “Office” in the Jones Bldg.

Thanks in advance for getting this important voting completed.

Charlie Hasbrouck

Additional comment by Mr. Hasler:

Please do not limit yourself just to the previous ideas list, but also submit new concepts which is how hiking to Channels Area National Preserve, Virgin Falls outing, climbing at Obed National Wild & Scenic River, Machu Picchu, Peru super trip were added in recent years. Maybe a 5-mile introductory kayaking trip with Adventure Mendota or visiting another BSA camp (Daniel Boone, Latimer Reservation, Buck Tom) could allow affordable but different experiences.