Scout Camp

Good luck to Ian Brown and Jacob Bell this week. They were able to join up with Troop 132 for Scout Camp at Falling Rock. Hopefully they have a great time and return with a bunch of merit badges!

Orange Township Community Park Board Meeting

The troop was able to attend a community park board meeting last week at the Orange Township Hall. This was to fulfill requirement #3 on the Citizenship in the Community merit badge. The scouts seemed to enjoy the "public comments' section the most. We got to listen to some strong opinions on several different topics. We were able to identify a long term service opportunity as well. Our troop was asked to assist with the Horseshoe Garden. So hopefully we can make that happen.

Don Smith was able to make a few comments

Todd and Ben were soaking in every word...

Jared England took a chance to provide some suggestions for the Aquatic Center.

Outdoor Code & Scout Pictionary

At the scouting activity this week, the troop took time to review the Outdoor Code of the Boy Scouts of America. This is the code:

As an American I will do my best to

Be clean in my outdoor manners

• I will treat the outdoors as a heritage.
• I will take care of it for myself and others.
• I will keep my trash and garbage out of lakes, streams, fields, woods, and roadways.

Be careful with fire

• I will prevent wildfire.
• I will build my fires only where they are appropriate.
• When I have finished using a fire, I will make sure it is cold out.
• I will leave a clean fire ring, or remove all evidence of my fire.

Be considerate in the outdoors

• I will treat public and private property with respect.
• I will use low-impact methods of hiking and camping.

Be conservation minded

• I will learn how to practice good conservation of soil, waters, forests, minerals, grasslands, wildlife, and energy.
• I will urge others to do the same.

After we finished our discussion of the code, we moved on to a rip roaring game of Boy Scout pictionary. Some of the more popular terms included Sheet Bend, Dutch Oven, Blister, Hypothermia, Citizenship, Totin Chip, and Tenderfoot...

Service Project with the Wride Family

Several of the boys in the troop took the opportunity last week to do a little service in the neighborhood. The Wride family had a pretty good amount of dirt that needed to be moved from their driveway down into their backyard. It was good work for the boys and thanks to the Wride family for the service opportunity!