Troop 1 Gaylord - Hessel Weekend Notes

We will post this Wednesday and hand it out at the troop meeting tonight at 7:00 at Bagley Township Hall for those of you going to Hessel with us this weekend. Don’t stay away tonight if you did not make the meeting last week—we want to see you-come on to the meeting.

We will depart from the Glen’s parking lot at 5:30PM on Friday. So far, the following adults are driving: Arndt, Wagar, Adams and Zelkowski. More adults are welcome as the scout spirit moves you—just let us know so we have enough adult food.

Remember that this weekend has the theme: Superheroes. So your costume should be in the planning stages. The SPL will finalize the game we will prepare tonight, so if you are going, be sure to be there at 7:00PM. This campout is a hoot—if you can make it at all, please come. If there is a problem, call me. On Saturday we test scouts at our site with the game we develop, and our scouts travel around to the other sites to go through the games provided by each unit. Yup, competition.

This campout also features a band on Saturday night—and also girls from the surrounding Canadian and American Scout Units. The Canadian girls in scouting are trained to dance by law and can also kill wild animals with their bare hands—so we should be busy and safe. Their scoutmasters may not have these skills.

We expect to head back from Hessel by 11:00AM Sunday and be in Gaylord by 12:30 PM

Things you should bring in addition to your sleeping bag and sleeping mat are:

Flashlight and or headlamp
Two changes of socks and at least one change of underwear
Change of pants, sweatshirt
Class A scout uniform shirt for the Flag ceremonies
Rain Jacket and Pants
Cap
Fall or winter jacket and sweatshirt
Toiletries
An extra pair of closed toed shoes (flip flops, sandals etc are not allowed)
Scout knife (folding knives only-swiss army knife or similar)
Scout Meds for the duration in a plastic bag with instructions
Note: Tonight I will check to be sure we have a current Part A and C on file for each scout—If I don’t I will ask you to complete one at departure. I believe that all scouts who went anywhere have a current set of forms.

There has been some discussion about the up front money for campouts—in this case $45 per scout, when the scout’s account is negative. If your account has a positive balance or has a zero balance, this does not apply to you. I will collect the checks tonight and at the latest Friday at departure if the promise to deliver the check Friday is made by a parent. If no check comes on Friday, and the scout comes to Glen’s, we may restrict further camping and lock in activities until the account is paid off. I am sorry we have to resort to this but our scouts hopefully will begin to take a bit more seriously the fund raising opportunities we offer to our scouts—grass cutting, popcorn sales, wreath sales coming up soon and we can see the scouts earning their way.

The interior of our scout trailer is now complete thanks to Mr. Cromell and it will be at the meeting tonight. We all owe Mr. Cromell a thank you for all of his work.

Adults along on this even include: Mr. Arndt (trained), Mr. Wagar (trained), Mr. Adams (trained), and Mr. Zelkowski (Enrolled adult).

Mr. Arndt’s cell: 989-619-0630