BSA WA Troop 151

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Bob’s latest annoucement: 

Now that I have totally messed up the calendar for 2010, and it’s only January. I have another change for the Campout for January. The weekend will be 16^th-17^th. Sorry for the confusion. I will need drivers we are going to Deception Pass State Park. If you can drive, please let me know.

The campout to Deception Pass has been rescheduled for the weekend of Jan 23-24 instead of 9-10 and the Troop meeting on Jan 18th has been cancelled for Martin Luther King day.

Bob sent out an e-mail talking about how our scouts running the tree lot year after year has touched one life and how she has, in return, touched ours.  I asked him to post it to our website as well to share and it is now available under our History page: http://www.troop151.net/history/

Thanks Bob!  Merry Christmas to All!

Pictures for the August summer trip down to California have now been posted to the web, so take a look.  Also, I discovered that Facebook pages can receive updates from blogs but Facebook groups cannot…guess which one we currently have?  So, I created a Facebook Page for Troop 151.  Please take a look, become a fan, and invite your family and friends to become fans, too!

Enjoy!

Title: High Rope COPE Course
Location: Camp Seymour
Link out: Click here
Description: This activity is quite expensive and must of it is being generously underwritten by an anonymous donor. The individual cost is only $15 per person to take this trip and that payment MUST be made by October 5th if you wish to attend.

See http://www.copecourse.com/ for more info.
Start Date: 2009-10-17
End Date: 2009-10-18

Title: Help at Pack 301 Cub Scout Carnival
Location: St. Matthew’s Gymnasium
Link out: Click here
Description: Please be on time and in uniform to help run the carnival events for the Pack so that the Pack parents can have a meeting for new parents.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-9-20
End Time: 20:30

Welcome back from your long road trip, guys & parents!  I enjoyed seeing the pictures from Mary that she posted on the Troop Facebook page!  I hope more of you will post pictures as well as captions and comments about the pictures so we who didn’t get to go can find out more.

Mike Wilton got married to his long time girlfriend (11 years) Krista on Sunday August 2nd. Mike also graduated from University of British Columbia on July 31st and will be teaching grade school next year. Mike will be back at Camp Parsons next year with the Troop. Mike wanted to send his congraulations to everyone for the outstanding job they did at camp this year. He was very proud of the canoe race team’s 2nd palce with 3 paddles. Also, to Conor for winning the adult penathlon and carrying on other Troop traditions. Congraulations to Mike and Krista Wilton.

Troop 320 from Pennsylvania wanted me to pass along their thanks to all the Scouts and Parents from troop 151. They had a great time.  They enjoyed the tour of Seattle on Saturday. They loved Camp Parsons and agreed it was the best Scout Camp they had attended. Their leadership group met with Brad Allen of the Chief Seattle Council and praised Troop 151 and their Scoutmaster (that would be me) for helping them with their trip palns and for showing them a great time. Brad Allen came to our campsite and thanked me and our Troop for hosting and showing Troop 320 a great week. Thanks to everyone for their help with this task.