Next Meeting: Tuesday, May 11th, 6:30 pm in Thornden Park (at Pavilion near Playground)
May 11th, Outdoor Meeting - home and personal safety and perhaps start lashings.
May 4th - Outdoor Meeting - First aid: bandages and carries (Meet at Pavilion in Thornden Park near Playground)
April 27th - Outdoor Meeting - Physical Fitness (Meet at Pavilion in Thornden Park near Playground)
April 20th - Outdoor Meeting - Compass Course at Thornden Park (Meet at Pool Parking lot).
April 13th - Zoom Meeting - Raptors and other birds to be seen at Derby Hill/Use of "Edge" teaching method (Explain, Demonstrate, Guide, Enable)
April 6th - Zoom Meeting - Continued focus on hiking and navigation(getting ready for an out door event)
March 30th - Zoom Meeting (Topic: Miscellaneous requirements for Scout Rank)
March 23rd - Zoom Meeting (Topic: Tenderfoot (5a-c) and 2nd Class (3a, c,d) Requirements related to Safe Hiking and Navigation.
Additional information on these requirements can be found in the Scout Handbook in Chapter 8 on Hiking (page 257) and in Chapter 11 on Navigation (page 327) as well as on this website's Navigation/Hiking Tab
March 16th - Zoom Meeting (Topic: Continued focus on First Aid, Emergency Services, and Home Safety)
February 23rd - Zoom Meeting (Topic: Role of First Responders with Brad Fisk)
Make progress by reviewing first aid skills and preparing some meals for your family. Suggested starting with 3 breakfasts that have eggs cooked using different methods and maybe pancakes cooked from scratch.
November 17th (Bull Hill Farm)
Program will beging a focus on cooking skills and be appropriate for all ranks from Cubs to Cooking Merit Badge.
November 10th (Bull Hill Farm)
Program focused on CPR using practice dummies and other teaching aides. We didn't cover use of AED equipment which we will do a a future meeting.
November 3rd: No Meeting
Observe democracy in action by watching the election results come in.
October 27th (Bull Hill Farm)
Working with propane and other gas stoves. Using on-line data sources for nature identification requirements, tracking fiscal fitness progress.
Choosing a camp site, pitching a tent, working with gas stoves. If you missed the meeting, set up a tent in your back yard and send Mr. Richmond a picture (gmrichsyr@aol.com).
October 6th (Bull Hill Farm)
More axe yard work (Learn to chop wood, turn a downed tree into many pieces of wood, make kindling with a hatchet, use a saw, and more. See Knife, Ax and Fire building Tab.
Sept 29th (Bull Hill Farm)
Knife, Ax, and Saw Safety (including sharpening); Yard Work (Chopping and Sawing); and Fire Building. See Knife, Ax and Fire building Tab.
For the near future, merit badge classes will be conducted by Chris DeVoe online via Zoom (a member of his household is at high risk of COVID so he can't meet with us in person yet). Initially, he will give priority to Citizenship in the Community, Personal Management and Communications merit badges (These represent the few remaining required Eagle merit badges that Robin and Luke need). Chris is also willing to consider other badges as more merit badge instructors become available. We will also be able to do more in October when we will be able to meet in the church again. Chris will distribute a zoom link for each session to interested scouts. The session may also be on another night so older Scouts can attend our regular troop and pack meetings.
Congratulations to Robin for starting work on his Eagle Project.