Time To Rock Scouts
(Please note this is a copy of an email that I sent to everyone)
Hello Scouts-
It has been a while since I have sent out an email but I have lots of information. In case you did not know we have been meeting every Tuesday at the Scout office. I have also just found out that Good Shepard will be opening back up for services starting on April 25th. I will be contacting the church and informing them that we would like to start meeting there again.
Here are some scheduled events that are coming up for the Troop.
This coming Tuesday we will be doing our Highway clean up. We will meet at the church at 5PM and start our cleanup process by 5:30PM. We will need parents to help transport the scouts out to the cleanup area. Make sure that you bring gloves. Please note that we have not done a highway cleanup in a year because of meeting restrictions. If we do not get enough help this may take us two weeks. I hope to see all Scouts participate in this. We have missed seeing a lot of you.
I have completed the 2021 recharter for our Troop and turned it in. We have 15 Scouts in the troop and I would love to see you all help with the highway cleanup and come to the amps I will be mentioning below.
I have also contacted Chris Ebert. I am planning on our Discount Cards being ready to sell by the end of April. This will take some work. We have to contact all of our sponsors for the cards, type them up and prep them. Any parent interested in helping make some please contact me by responding to this email or calling me at the number that is in my signature. If you know anyone interested in being a sponsor please ask them and let us know. I will be contacting Two Brothers Power Sports to see if they will match Rod’s Ride on Power Sports deal and also contacting 360 Nutrition to see if they will match 180 Nutrition. All suggestions are welcome. Remember every card a Scout sells for $10, $8 of it goes into their account.
I have also signed us up for summer camp to include 10 of our Scouts. If More Scouts come that will be great. Let’s get this Troop active and the participation up for the rest of this year and beyond. Summer Camp this year will be July 11-17. I would love to see all of our Scouts there. I also encourage you to look up the summer camp info and let me know which merit badges your Scouts that are attending would like to participate in.
We have a camp coming up this coming April 9th-11th. This will be our 2021 Badge-A-Thon. We missed last years. We will not be doing this at Camp this year. Scouts David and Marcus Eber’s family are letting us have are camp at their property in Independence WI. We will be meeting at the church and departing from the church for our amp out at 5:30PM on April 9th. The Scouts will be working on the merit badges that they have chosen and we are planning on some extra fun activities also. The Scouts will return to the church around 12PM Sunday April 11th. To do this we need to know how many Scouts are coming (I hope to see every Scout there). Tuesday April 6th after highway cleanup we will be prepping the trailer to be taken on the trip. Thursday the 8th the Scouts will meet at Festival Foods in the village to purchase the food needed for the trip. This has all been planned by the Scouts that have been at the past couple of meetings so if there is a Scout coming on the trip that may want or need something special please let us know right away by responding to this email or calling me at the number in my signature.
Our next Court of Honor is scheduled for May 25th. We will be having our friends of Scouting presentation, Rank advancements, merit badges presentation, a leader or two wood badge beading and our silent auction to help Scouts who need it.
For those of you have not heard we have two new Eagle Scouts in Troop 22.
Dominick Valley on Feb. 9, 2021
Jonathan Baumler on Feb. 16, 2021
Please keep an eye out for information on their upcoming Eagle Court of Honors to help them celebrate this amazing journey that they have completed.
In summery we are back and ready to get these Scouts their ranks, merit badges, go camping, service projects and get more Scouts in the Troop their Eagle ranks.
Please let me know right away the following”
1. Is your Scout coming to our Badge-A-Thon?
2. Is your Scout going to Summer Camp this year?
3. Will your Scout be helping with the High way cleanup?
4. Any suggestions for our discount cards?
5. If you can help us contact the sponsors for our discount cards to confirm they will help us this year? Lets rock the rest of the year
Thank you for everything,
Jerry Valley
Scout Master Troop 22
608-386-8165