The scouts had an excellent meeting tonight, here are some of the highlights and some future reminders:
Hike @ Penwood Forest on 9/13/2025
We deeply encourage you to join us on a hike this Saturday (9/13/25) at Penwood State Forest.
Some information to consider:
We will be meeting at 9 AM SHARP at Avery Street Church, so be there or be a square
You will need to pack your own lunch for this hike, so don't forget that.
Side note: If you want your trail lunch on Saturday to count towards Cooking Merit Badge, please get the trail lunch menu to Mr. Olson ASAP
Also side note:If you need a jet boil for your lunch on the hike, please talk to my good buddy Nate
It's gonna be a blast so hope you can join us!
Speaking of Cooking Merit Badge: All scouts in Cooking Merit Badge should complete requirement #3 (planning 3 menus)
Parent Meeting 9/17/2025
It's time for a parents' favorite meeting: The Parent Meeting. It will be taking place next Wednesday (9/17) during the normal scout meeting. We urge parents of all scouts to come as the information is very important.
To address some upcoming events on our lovely troop calendar (which you should totally sync to yours)...
9/13 - Hike at Penwood State Forest (information is above)
9/26 - 9/28 : Campout!!!!! We are having a Campout the weekend of 9/26 - 9/28 revolved around the theme of cooking. IMPORTANT: Saturday the scouts will be spending the day using their cooking skills this month to cook a banquet for dinner, in which parents are heavily influenced to come to, as this will be a Troop Family banquet. Along with this banquet, we will also be having a Court of Honor the same Saturday, so stay along for that scouts and families.
Last, but certainly not least, I want to give a shout out to a new scout that we have acquired: His name is Vihaan and I urge everyone to give him a warm welcome to our troop community.
We had a very productive Troop meeting tonight. Our theme for September is "Cooking", and we had cooking activities during our meeting. We'll also be practicing cooking on our upcoming hike and campout/Court of Honor.
It turns out the Mount Washington Trip was a highlight of the summer. For the Boredom Busters, here is a video of a troop doing a Maine high adventure trip.
Nate and James told us a bit about their National Youth Leader Training (NYLT). Nate would like to see our Troop implement more SMART goals. Stay tuned for more details on that.
Starting next month, we'll be doing uniform inspections on the first meeting of the month.
We had two rank ups tonight with Ani making Star Rank and Bhadra making First Class Rank. Congratulations!
The Scouts decided that our October camping trip will be a short one, so we can also do a second fundraiser in October. More details about our two fundraisers in October will be coming out.
Since Timothy Edwards School had an open house on 9/10, we'll be moving the parent meeting to 9/17 so all Scouts can be represented at that meeting.
See you at the next meeting where Scouts will be working on finishing up (or starting) Family Life and Cooking Merit badges while the parents have a meeting.
Next Wednesday 9/3 is our first Troop meeting of the 2025-2026 Scouting year. It's the first meeting of the month, so wear your Class A uniforms.
We'll be meeting at the usual place and time in the basement of the Avery Street Church on Wednesday's from 07:00 PM sharp until 08:15. We're going be starting our meeting promptly at 07:00, so try to be a few minutes early.
The theme for the month is "Cooking". Expect to see games and instructions based on cooking.
On 09/10 we'll be having a Parent meeting at the same time as our Troop meeting. Please try to have at least one parent attend.
We have a hike, and a campout with a Court of Honor this month. Make sure you have used our websites "Calendar Sync" option to keep your phone or home computers calendar synchronized to our Troop calendar.
We have a Troop Family get together at the VMP pool in town this Saturday. This is not a drop off event. Bring your family and bathing suit. Feel free to come hang out, have a swim, and maybe even look at a few things in your Scout book.
Don't forget to:
Double check your Merit Badges from Summer Camp.
Signup for our August and September campouts and hiking.
Now that you’re back from Summer Camp and have all those clothes washed…
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There is a list of all the Scouts who attended First Class Path here.
We will be reviewing those rank requirements at future meetings to quickly sign them off in their Scoutbooks. They were taught, but still need to be reviewed before signing off in the online Scoutbook and their paper Scoutbook.
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There is a list of all the Merit Badges that were earned here.
Open or Download and open in Excel or equivalent, and Filter on your Name to see yours.
If you see it listed as “Merit Badge”, that should mean the badge was earned.
If you only see it listed with “Merit Badge Requirement”, then those are the partial requirements completed.
These have been uploaded to the online Scoutbook.
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You can also double check everything was uploaded online correctly in the online Scoutbookscoutbook.scouting.org under your name Advancements. Everything Marked Completed on July 11, 2025 are the ones imported from Summer Camp.
I’ll be double checking each Scout against the online Scoutbook over the next week and reaching out if I notice a discrepancy.
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If you need your Medical Form for anything else (like a second week at camp as a Thunderbird, NYLT, or CIT !), Please let me know as I have the forms.
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Here’s a picture of some Lost and Found that I have sitting on my trailer at my house at 186 Wood Pond Road. Feel free to drop by and pick them up as I may not be home:
...or I’ll bring to our next meeting(s).
If you have something else lost that I don’t have, you can access the J.N. Webster Scout Reservation LOST and FOUND Portal here.
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Stay tuned for a Merit Badge Completion day - We’ll post the date once we have it.
In keeping with the months "sports theme", there are two races you might be interested in. These are not Troop drop off events, but you may see some of us there.
On Saturday 7/26, we will also have a family get together at the Veterans Memorial Pool. Bring your family and bathing suit. Also not a Troop drop off event.
Also, don’t forget to sign up for August and September campouts and hike:
Reminder: We are having a “sports themed” campout August 15-17 in Connecticut. (Likely in Putnam at Mashamoquet State Park).
On Saturday September 13, we'll have a Troop hike to Penwood Forest.
We also are having a Troop family cookout and Fall Court of Honor at our campout in September. https://tinyurl.com/186camps . Scouts camp for the weekend and families join us for the cookout and Court of Honor.
Please make sure you review the contact info and signup!
