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Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church Pumpkin Patch

External News, Service

Our Church host is providing a Pumpkin Patch from October 1 – 31, 2022, 11:00am – 7:00pm daily. There will be a special kick-off event on Oct. 2, a fall festival on Oct. 16, and a trunk or treat on Oct. 30. There will be a few movie nights as well, plus a lot more. The event planners need Troop 48 help. They need help unloading pumpkins when they arrive, staffing for events during afternoons, help removing pumpkins that go bad, etc. More information will be available soon.

Bike Rodeo Help 4/23/22

Administration, Service

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This coming Saturday the 23rd we are holding a Bike Rodeo for all the scouts and siblings that are interested. The event will be held in the parking lot of the Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church, note you will need to park in the front parking lot that faces the road. 

We will follow the schedule below.

11:30am – noon      

Check-in and Concessions

Your child’s bike will receive a safety inspection

Volunteers will be available to help with if minor repairs are needed

Pizza , drinks and other snacks will be available for purchase as a fundraiser

Noon – 12:30pm      

Safety and Maintenance Presentation

Key points of bike maintenance

Safety rules

Proper hand signals

12:30pm-1:50pm     

Event Rotations

Braking and Straight Line

Bag Toss and Winding Course

Slow Race and Coast for the Most

Slalom and Figure 8ight

1:50pm – 2pm          

Presentation of Certificates

If you have questions or want to volunteer please let us know.

Cub Scout IdeasCub Scout Pack 348 Leadership Committee

Julieann White 423-202-5668

Eagle project workday

Administration, Eagle Scout Project

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Here is all the relevant info for Grayson Hoffman’s Eagle Project.
Beneficiary: Camp Bays Mountain
Location: 1435 S’mores Trail Road, near the end of the road theres a sign and a gate on a gravel road, volunteers can park at the welcome center which is straight down said gravel road.
Dates: February 26th and all following Saturdays until the projects completion
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Extra details: Volunteers are encouraged to bring any work gloves and protective glasses, as well as any basic tools like hammers. He will be providing lunch and drinks.  Contact information: grayson.ch15@gmail.com

2021 November Flaming Arrow Service Project

Administration

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Flaming Arrow planed a service hour opportunity, working with firewood ministry they meet at 8:45
They planned dressed appropriately for the work and the weather; it was cold.
Wonderful job Ethan, Eli and David. They Loaded, delivered, and unloaded four truckloads of firewood supporting the Firewood Ministry of First Broad Street United Methodist Church. Weather was great and these boys worked up an appetite that was filled with monster burgers from Hardees.

Troop 48: Holiday Service Opportunities

Administration, External News

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Service opportunities Note : 

Our Angels’ information is below.  They are a set of siblings.
This is our 11 year working with Pack 348 to provide gifts for angels . Donations to be brought by December 6th 
Sunday, Dec S- Caroling 2pm & Brookdale Retirement Home Colonial Heights December​​ Monday, Dec 6 – Angle Tree Shopping​​ Tuesday, Dec 7 – Help at  Den Meetings / Holiday Care Packages Thursday, Dec 4 – Caroling 6pm ® Brockdale Retirement Home Kingsport Tuesday. Dec 14 – PACK Meeting / Arrow of Light Ceremony celebrating the crossover of our 2nd year Webelos to their adventures in the Boy Scouts.
The Johnson City Scout Shop is providing an opportunity for the Scouting community to help local Scout members who may be in need of uniforms and uniform items.
Click Here for the form: https://sequoyahcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Holiday-Giving-Tree-Leader-Letter-2021.pdf

This help will be done through The Holiday Giving Tree program started November 12 through December 17, 2021. The Holiday Giving Tree program works on a donation basis. A Holiday Giving tree (similar to an Angel tree) will be set up at the Scout Shop with Holiday Giving cards on it. 
December 18th wreaths across American: If you’d like to help honor our Heroes during the holidays, please arrive at the Gazebo at Mountain Home VA Cemetery at noon on December 18th.

We will not be doing project Christmas child shoe boxes this year but many locations are available locally- colonial heights baptist across the street from our meeting  Kingsport Community church near DB   Box collection is November 21 2021 information https://www.samaritanspurse.org/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/

​Julieann White

(423) 202-5668(Mobile)

Super Service

Administration, External News

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Troop 48 provided a community service for the 2021 Crazy 8 races. We prepared thousands medals for distribution midafternoon on Saturday July 17th for later that evening following the 8K race. There were parallel efforts going on as one group facilitate the Little 8 race and gave out medals following. There were several thousand participants in the 8k race, and our well-coordinated distribution received praise for their enthusiasm and efficiency. We also operated the Barking Lot to keep non-service dogs out of the football stadium.

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Merit Badge Counselors for Troop 48

Administration, Adult Leaders and Parents

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In order to qualify as a merit badge counselor, prospective volunteers must have the education and skills needed to provide instruction and to evaluate performance.  They must be at least 18 years old, able to set a positive example through both good character and rapport.

Officially, certifying merit badge counselor (abbreviated MBC in this post) is the responsibility of the Sequoyah Council with annual certification for Youth Protection Training and which merit badges.  A BSA Adult Leader Application with position code 42 is required for new merit badge counselors, which can be completed for free or added to a recent (in current calendar year) application for Assistant Scoutmaster role.  In addition, Form 34405 Merit Badge Counselor Information must be completed every calendar year (really wish Scouting BSA would align with two-year Youth Protection Training cycle).  The trio of forms electronically (including downloading a Youth Protection Training certificate) were created in about half hour.

While national BSA has online training for this role available in My.Scouting.org, it is not consistent on which courses are needed – and frankly are really dry to listen to, thus our preference is for Troop 48 MBCs (current and new) to review this presentation for The Merit Badge Program which is also available by national BSA.

If interested in being a Merit Badge Counselor for Troop 48, then please complete the information form for your top eight merit badges.  If you really want to be able to counsel more, then recommend printing the form to allow a second page, and then scan and send as a PDF. If you are counseling for district or council events, then provide the Adult Leader Application and Youth Protection Certificate to have the complete set of paperwork.

This information is to be routed through our troop’s Advancement Coordinator, Mr. Hasler.

7 April 2021 update. Currently we need Merit Badge Counselors for Canoeing, Chess, Crime Prevention,
Exploration, Fish and Wildlife Management, Genealogy, Insect Study, Inventing, Metalwork, Model Design, Motorboating, Moviemaking, Oceanography, Search and Rescue, Signs, Signals & Codes, Small Boat Sailing, Water Sports, and Wood Carving.

Hope Helps Volunteer Opportunity

Administration, Miscellaneous

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Letter to the Scouts to help with elderly food boxesDownload

3/29/2021
Hello,
I am reaching out to see if the scouts can help our organization to put together 100-150 food boxes for the elderly in Hawkins County.
They would come and we would set up for them to put together boxes out in the parking lot or on the porch so that it could be done outdoors, and it would be a mask required event. The boxes would be numbered (each recipient would receive 1 large box and one small box) which would be delivered later.
The age group or groups we would be looking for would be for children who can follow simple instructions such as “1 can of tomato soup and 1 can of chicken soup, 4 boxes of Jell-O.” We would like to take some pictures if possible, to share with our media pages.
We could do evenings or if more than one day is needed then it could be multiple evenings. Or even a weekend. The only days that we would have trouble with would be Tuesday and Thursday and the 1st Saturday of the month. We are under a time limit and it must be completed by the 24th of April. We are willing to work with your schedule on this. We just need to know the date or dates. I will be ordering the food this week for this and we should have it in by the 6th
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Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Connie Johnson
Executive Director HHTN