Monday, December, 14th is Troop 110’s “Winter Court of Honor.” We gather as an entire troop to recognize awards, rank advancements and Merit Badges the scouts have recently earned.  As usual other important information is also passed along to parents.

This COH is a dessert so every family brings a dessert to share and the whole troop is the service patrol.

What to Expect

• Order of the Arrow Tap Out – A solemn OA event to nominate new members
• All merit badge counselors need to fill out a new forms – Download HERE
• 2010 Registration Collection - $55.00 per scout ($25 NFC registration; $24 T110 dues; $6 adult leader’s registration)

The troop will camp Friday night only and return to COOS late-afternoon on Saturday.

Anticipated weather on Saturday afternoon may cause the obstacle course and repelling tower to close.  This will adversely affect a number of our goals for the weekend.

A number of scouts need nights of camping for advancement.  By staying just Friday night helps this cause.   On Saturday we can still get some other requirements completed before returning to COOS.

• Please keep selling poinsettias!
• You can only sell RED in any of the three pot sizes (single, triple and hanging).
• The sales deadline is Thursday, Dec. 10th.
• Email the quantity for each color and pot style to fundraising@bsa110.com on Dec. 10th.
• Delivery will take at the Court of Honor on Dec. 14th.
• Download revised order form HERE and print as many as you need.
• If you expect any orders over 50 plants please contact fundraising@bsa110.com ASAP to plan custom delivery.

Attention all Troop 110 Scouts!

It is time to start selling our holiday poinsettias. We have unique access to fantastic florist-grade flowers that past customers rave about year after year. Our color choices are incredible. The blooms on these plants will blow you away.

Tell your customers Troop 110 is keeping our prices the same as last year. This is a nice bonus in light of the tight economy.

REMEMBER to check with your church and school office ASAP. Churches, offices and businesses your families know will want these beautiful flowers to decorate their facilities… doctors offices, dentist offices, law offices, real estate offices, banks, etc…

Download your Order Form today CLICK HERE – Get out and sell these gorgeous flowers. Fill up one form then print another and do it again and again… Who knows, if you sell enough your summer camp will be FREE in 2010. Or, the troop can take a really cool trip somewhere. Or, get some nice new equipment.

Don’t miss out — Sign-Up TODAY!!!
The weekend of November 20-22, is our annual Think BIGGER Leadership Conference. We will camp at Fort Clinch State Park in Fernandina, FL. This is a great location for some serious fun, troop planning and team-building exercises.

Your adult leadership handles all the cooking just bring your dinner for Friday. Sign-up TODAY (unless you put your name on the list Nov. 9th)!

On the weekend of December 11-13, 2009, we are camping at Camp Blanding. This is an excellent opportunity to get in some great activities. The obstacle course and repelling tower are reserved for us. We are crossing our fingers that the laser firing range is open for us too. Camp Blanding requires the troop to supply names of campers four weeks prior to the trip.

Get your name on the list ASAP!!! ASAP means ASAP SOLDIERS!!! Don’t go AWOL on this adventure or you will find yourself peeling prodigious pounds of potatoes at the mess hall!!!

On this date in 1969 a message was sent 400 miles between two California university computers, laying the groundwork for the Internet and for BSA110.com to exist.

Then, in 1980 Tim Berners-Lee developed the concept of hypertext which became hypertext markup language (HTML) that makes today’s World Wide Web work. The Internet didn’t become a household word until the 90s when Berners-Lee, a British physicist invented the Web, the first Web browser and the first Web server. After those inventions, service providers like America Online (AOL) connected millions of people for the first time.

Scouts will have a good laugh seeing some of the early video games and computers the troop adults grew up with by watching a three-minute National Geographic video on the topic HERE

Mobile Access
If you tried to access BSA110.com on your mobile device last week and it did not work, please try it again. There is an updated plugin installed that reformats the site for most mobile devices (Android, BlackBerry, Blazer, Cellphone, iPhone, iPod, Nintendo Wii, Nokia, Opera Mini, Palm, PlayStation Portable, SonyEricsson, SymbianOS, WebOS, WindowsCE, WinWAP, etc.).

Custom Search
There is a new search tool installed on the “Troop Resources” page. This tool will search numerous BSA-related sites at once for any search term you enter. The sites included in the search are: BoysLife.org, BSA110.com, Echockotee.org, Elemukulek.org, Main.OA-BSA.org, MeritBadge.org/wiki, NorthFloridaCouncil, Scouting.org, ScoutingMagazine.org, ScoutStuff.org, Southern.OA-BSA.org, USScouts.org. If you know of others that should be included please email the Webmaster.

Try out both new features today!

The 2009 Fall Festival is this Saturday (Oct 24) from 8a-1p. All those working the event need to be at COOS at 7:30a and plan to stay until 2:30p.

Please contact Nathan R. or John M. To communicate whether or not you plan to attend.

Please visit BSA110.com on your mobile device and report your experience to the webmaster. Over the weekend a new plugin was installed that reformats the site for mobile, web-enabled devices. The current layout is a bit wonky but will improve with your input.

The workday scheduled for Sunday will not be necessary. The Saturday work crew knocked it out of the ballpark and completed the project. Thanks to all who helped.

Matt W. scheduled a workday after Chris R’s for Saturday, Oct. 17th, from 1:30pm to 4pm. Come to COOS if you can.

Chris R. has scheduled two workdays for his Eagle project. The project is to clear and landscape a parking lot for First Presbyterian Church in Green Cove Springs (map).

Please sign up below and click “submit” so Chris knows how many people are coming. All volunteers should bring gloves, water and wear work clothes. If you have a shovel bring it along.

The next time you see Mr. Smith give him a hearty Boy Scout handshake.

Mr. Smith recently received the 2009 John Wesley Powell Award from the U.S. Geological Survey. He received this award for helping to create the first national mapping, hazard reduction, and resource conservation program for wildfires. Mr. Smith was the Project Manager for this program called LANDFIRE which cost $41 million and took five years to complete.

See the full Jacksonville.com article HERE.

COOS is holding a Dinner & Silent Auction on Saturday, October 3rd from 6-10:30p. They desperately need help with servers and kitchen help. This qualifies for service hours towards any advancements you might need. Please sign-up below so they can count on your help and wear your Class-A uniform.