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Next 14 days
 2/22 19:00 --Troop Meeting
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| PKB Time! |
Attention all parents in the troop! It is time to start thinking about the annual Pancake Breakfast! The first organizational/planning meeting was held on January 4th. During this meeting, we filled all open coordinator positions except one. The one still open is Publicity -- you would work with Leah Nordquist to publish information at local churches, in the newspaper, and on the Purgatory Creek sign. If this job would be a good match for you, please contact Jim Hegland.
What's next for PKB? We will be contacting local businesses to donate goods and money. If you work for a local business and would be willing to approach your employer about making a donation, please contact Tracy Dungan. Donating businesses are recognized with flyers on the tables, the thank you banner, and in a letter to the editor in the paper. Donations of all sizes are welcome.
The pancake breakfast is a great opportunity to work together with and get to know other parents in the troop. We hope you'll take this opportunity to come and find out how many hands really make this event not only possible, but managable. |
| Announcements from the last parent meeting |
We need people interested in NRA training, to make sure we can continue offering the shooting campout. Contact Jim Hegland if interested.
There are new requirements at each rank level. You do not have to purchase a new book - one troop meeting, the boys will add the new requirements into their books. You can also find them online. On the Mustang District website, go to Advancements, and then find 2010 Rank Advancement Requirements.
A new website on the horizon! Be sure to respond to the website survey, and let the website committee know what you think is important on a website. Lost your survey? Contact Grant Henry to get another email sent to you. We hope to have a new site up and running by April.
The next Philmont trip is booked - July 1-13, 2011. We will need 4 adults. Plan ahead for this adventure of a lifetime! |
| New Rules for Campouts |
| Calling all campers! New rules state that all adults who go on campouts need to be registered with the council as leaders. Pick up your leader registration form today, and avoid the rush in the spring! |
| New Health Forms |
BSA has a new health form that goes into effect January 1, 2010. The new form MUST be completed by April 1, 2010. The same forms are to be used for youth and adults.
There are two forms, the “Health History (No Doctor Signature Required)” form is to be used for any campout that is less than 72 hours in length. Please get these forms to me ASAP. January 4th would be great, you can bring it along with your Recharter check for $65.00.
The second form “Full Physical – Annual BSA Medical Form” is to be used for any campout lasting longer than 72 hours. For example, Summer Camp or the Bahamas trip. This form MUST be completed by April 1, 2010.
Here’s where to find the new forms:
Go to www.northernstarbsa.org Click on “resources” Click on “forms” Click on “H” Click on “Health form – frequently asked questions”. This will answer all your questions! Click on “Health form – health history (no doctors signature required)”. Print this out. Click on “Health form – Full physical – annual BSA medical form”. Print this out.
Note: please read the forms carefully so they are filled out correctly and completely. |
| Friends of Scouting 2010 |
| Once each year, our Troop 342 is asked to help support the administrative side of Scouting. Our Northern Star Council currently supports more than 100,000 boys from 25 counties, including Troop 342. The Council has over 23,000 volunteers that help make everything work, and also provides many camps, activities and programs across Minnesota and Western Wisconsin, including free training for all our adult leaders. It costs approximately $171 a year to support each scout in the Council, or 47 cents per day. At our Court of Honor on Monday, December 7th, we will be accepting donations to the Council Friends of Scouting campaign. Any gift is appreciated regardless of the amount. Our Troop is assigned a goal from the Council, and if we make this goal, our troop will receive free merit badges and rank advancement for the year. We also have a growth goal, and if that is also reached, the Troop will receive additional benefits. During the Court of Honor, you will receive a pledge brochure and form. We hope to collect these forms from all parents at the Court of Honor. If your employer matches gifts, you can also bring a matching gift form from your employer, and matching gifts will count toward our Troop’s goal. Thank you for considering a gift to our Friends of Scouting campaign. And thank you for your support of scouting and Troop 342. Doug Nemecek Friends of Scouting Coordinator |
| Scout Accounts |
| With the Sail School payments coming monthly, many scout accounts have gone into a negative balance. Please sign on to the member section of the website and check your balance. |
| New Volunteer Job Listing |
The troop is in need of someone to coordinate health forms. The BSA is coming out with new health forms, and we'll need to collect them from everyone. This job would have the most work in January/February, collecting all health forms for rechartering, making sure we have them all and they are filled out correctly. There would also be an involvement time before a High Adventure trip, making sure all participants had the right forms filled out.
If you would be willing to take on this job, contact Jim Hegland.
We are also still looking for a Swimming Merit Badge Counselor. If you have an interest in swimming, check out the merit badge requirements and see if you might qualify to be a counselor! |
| Eagle Projects on Website |
Members - be sure to sign on to get information about Eagle Project service dates. Currently, information is in the members only section because contact information is included.
Prospective Eagles - if you would like your eagle project information posted on the website, send your information (pared down to what, where, when, who) to Tracy at tracydungan@yahoo.com. |
| New Photos in the Photo Gallery |
The much anticipated Philmont albums have been loaded on to the website! There are three of them -- One album for each of the crews, and one just of the landscapes and such. Give yourself some time -- these albums are not small, and they are worth seeing. We've taken only the best pictures from 13 cameras. Almost 4,000 pictures were reviewed to chose these.
If you'd like your pictures added to the website, here's what you need to do:
1) Get them to Tracy Dungan. Full sized pictures are fine -- we'll set them to the standard size for the website. If you have just a few, emailing them is fine. If you have a lot, burn a disc and give them to Mrs. Dungan at a troop meeting or parent meeting.
2) Let me know what the pictures are. Don't label picture by picture -- just let me know the event. If you have pictures for several events, put them in folders and label each folder.
3) Limit yourself to about 50/60 photos max for any event. More than that, and I'll have to chose my favorites. Save me some work, and make sure that your favorites make it on the site, by picking just the best to give me.
That's all there is to it. Enjoy the pictures! |
| Merit Badge Cards |
For all Merit Badges, the Scout needs to start a blue card before beginning work on the badge. Blue cards are found in the back meeting room, in the scout supplies.
Take your card to the Scoutmaster so that he can make a note in his records that you are starting the merit badge and give approval to begin work.
Next, contact the Advancement Chair to get assigned to a merit badge counselor. The Advancement Chair has a list of all counselors, and makes sure that no one counselor gets overwhelmed with scouts.
The scout then contacts the merit badge counselor, does the work, and the counselor signs off with completion. Scout must keep track of the card and be responsible for getting it to the counselor for signatures.
Once the merit badge is completed, the counselor keeps one third. The Scout brings the rest to the Scoutmaster for entry and signature. The Scoutmaster then passes the card on to the Advancement Chair (Mr. Horsch), who will get the badge from the Scout shop. The Advancement Chair keeps one third of the card for the troop’s records, and the last third is returned to the Scout when the badge is awarded.
For summer camp, scouts should get their blue cards in advance of camp and fill them out, getting signatures from the Scoutmaster. The cards are brought to camp, where they are turned in. A few weeks after summer camp, the cards will be returned to the scouts with all requirements completed at camp filled in. |
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