Summer Camp Newsletter # 1-Troop 1-Gaylord

Summer camp is rapidly approaching. I am delighted that our numbers have come up where they are and that we have a good mix of newer and senior scouts going with us.

This will be the best summer camp ever. While you are thinking about what to do and bring, don’t forget your physical if it has not been done. You need to take a part B form which you can download from our site to your doctor and have him or her complete the physical. That form must be used. The exception is the scouts who are going or have been to Seabase or High Adventure which had a special form and those scouts can use the those physical forms at camp. Seabase forms from last year are also good thought this summer camp.

There is also an adult permission slip separate from parts A, B and C which lists parent’s permission by adult for transfer by car to and from Gaylord. This policy of identifying scouts’ adult drivers has been in place for a long time, it is just that now we must write it down. I will have the forms Wednesday and at the camp meeting.

Scouts should also take the time to give thought to the accomplishments they plan for camp. Newer scouts will participate in the Quest program which will get all of the training conducted for tenderfoot and most of the second class requirements accomplished. First class and above should be thinking about merit badges and especially the Eagle requirements. There is a form you can download which was posted yesterday and using it will make this process easier.

We plan to have a board of review Thursday or Friday of camp, assuming that Mrs. Wagar can upload my notes from our nightly reviews to be sure each scout is ready.

Wednesday night is the campfire and Order of the Arrow Tap out. This is a very big deal for several of our scouts this year—but they don’t yet know who they are yet. This year we will offer a camp meal to our parents between 5:30 and 6:45PM on Wednesday night at the campsite. Scouts will prepare several dishes and we will then go together down to the fire bowl. We will post signs so you know where you are going when you walk in.

Lastly, we do not permit the troop to take electronics to camp. This includes cell phones, IPODs, MPODS, laptops, ZiPoDS, and BarfPODS, MP3, 4 and 5 players and Lord knows what else. I will have a cell phone and will be able to download emails, so you can keep in touch.

More Wednesday.

Mr. Ken Arndt, Scoutmaster