TROOP 433 NEWS

FOR SCOUTS AND PARENTS

June 2004

 

Tomahawk

Tomahawk 2004 is Aug 7-14.  The cost will be $205 and includes a new class B tee shirt.  A $25 deposit is required by the June 7 Troop meeting.  All scouts and adults must have up to date health forms to attend Tomahawk.  Tomahawk Camper-ships are also available, contact Jim Greene by June 15 for camper-ship information.

 

Class-B Tee Shirts

Order your class B Tee Shirts with the attached order form.  (Class B’s are included with Tomahawk camping).

 

Eagle Projects

 Join Carl Betlach to work on his Eagle Project this summer.  Carl will be sending out information with dates and times.

 

Crossover Campout

Welcome Troop 433 new scouts.  On  April 12 10 boys and 2 adults crossed over to Troop 433.

Welcome to the Yellow Jacket Patrol:   Sam Benyon,  Karl Evenson,  Soren Hjort, Nicholas Hoffman, John Hunt, Jonathan Kuehn, Michael Lokowich, Mathew Norline, Clark Schulte, Kyle Yarusso

Adults Leaders:  John Yarusso, Lee Hunt

 

Food Drive

Thanks to all who help for the spring Scouting for Food drive on April 24 when 2,013 pounds of food was collected for area food shelves.

 

433 New Eagles

Congratulations to Andy Leibel and Tim Nipp, Troop 433 newest eagles.

 

Lions Pancake Breakfast

Thanks to Andrew Lindlof, Tony West and Mike Greene who donated ~2.5 hours of work at the Lions spring pancake breakfast.

 

Troop 433 Pancake Breakfast

Thanks to all who helped to make this years pancake breakfast a huge success.

 

Be a Camp Counselor

Northern Tier High Adventure camp in Ely is hiring camp counselors. For more information see www.ntier.org. There are also openings for counselors and counselors-in-training at Indianhead Council summer camps. Contact Jim Schwieger, 651-254-9138.

 

Scout Night With the Saints

Scout Night with the St. Paul Saints is June 23. The $15 fee includes admission, food, and more.  Willing to organize this outing? Call Jim Greene, 653-7558, to volunteer.

www.indianhead433.org

Check the Troop 433 website for the troop newsletter, troop committee minutes, fun photos from outings, and more. Thanks to Tom Stangl for creating and maintaining the site.  (Note:  that the contact list on the web site may be opened by entering a user name of "private" and leave the password blank.  It would be good if people would review the list and send updates to info@indianhead433.org.)

 

Silver Pathfinder - JLTC

Congratulations to Andrew Lindlof, Nick Lindeke and Brad Bartlet.

 

Summer Merit Badges

Keep working on your merit badges over the summer.  Contact your merit badge counselor for details of any summer meetings.

 

 

Calendar 

 

June

5          Hiking merit badge day outing, 9:45 at St. Jude, Hiking location to be announced.

7          Troop Meeting, 6:45-8 p.m. Klein Ministry Center.

14        Committee Meeting – Life Scout meeting in place of the PLC meeting. 

20-27   Silver Path Finder Course 1

23        Scout Night with the Saints

 

July

18        Hiking merit badge day outing, location be announced

18        Summer Camp Leadership Planning meeting. 7pm @  Wirthrow.

25-31   Silver Path Finder Course 3

 

August

1          Final Tomahawk Planning meeting, 6:30 at St Jude – All troop members and parents need to attend, final payment due. 

7–14    Tomahawk

30         PLC Meeting 6 p.m.  – Committee meeting, 7 p.m. Klein Ministry Center.

 

September

13                Troop Meeting, 6:45-8 p.m. Klein Ministry Center.

20        Troop Meeting, 6:45-8 p.m. Klein Ministry Center.

24-26   Brule River Camping – Details to coming

 

October

30                University of ScoutingSt Thomas University -  www.indianhead.org/uos