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OA members – there is a Chapter Meeting this thursday at 7:00 at Christ’s Church off of Greenland Rd. and the Fall Fellowship on September 25 – 27.
NEW – now you can register on echockotee.org for events.
ATTENTION – The Camp Blanding camping trip has been postponed.
The questionable weather will keep campers off the climbing tower and off a good portion of the training facilities. With those events being the major portion of activities for the weekend the troop leadership decided to postpone the trip to a later date. Stay tuned for a future trip to Camp Blanding.
The week of 2009 summer camp saw an all-time weekly record of 381 visits to BSA110.com!
This stat shows the website is becoming a valuable information resource to everyone involved in our troop. BIG thanks everyone who feeds news and updates to the Webmaster so we can keep everyone up-to-date.
Camp Blanding Trip Be prepared to discuss and sign-up for the upcoming Camp Blanding camping trip. This is trip currently scheduled for Aug 21st – 23rd.
Sea Base During summer camp many boys indicated a strong interest in attending Sea Base – a unique Scouting program in the Florida Keys. Sea Base offers unparalleled aquatics programs: sailing, scuba diving, rustic camping on an undeveloped barrier island, fishing, etc.
Prepare to discuss the possibility of going to Sea Base by visiting www.bsaseabase.org prior to the August 10th meeting.
Remember there is no meeting Monday, August 3rd.
The summer campers began their journey home on the morning of Saturday, August 1st.
Estimated Time of Arrival Updates
Stay tuned here for any further updates.
Mr. Walsh reports that all is well at Raven Knob. The food is plentiful and properly prepared. The entire camp is well cared for and all facilities are nice. The boy’s are working dilligently on all their merit badges and things seem go be going as planned. There was a day of rain on Wednesday but it cleared up in the afternoon. All the tents were dry on the inside and everyone is in good spirits.
You can drop an email to your scout using the “click here” link below.
LINK REMOVED AFTER EVENT
Please Note: The emails are printed and distributed to the campers the next day. They are not intended for emergency communication and occasionally the system goes down.
Camp Raven Knob offers a way to send an email to your camper. Just click the link below to go to RavenKnob.com’s message center. The camp will print your email and hand it to your camper.
The summer campers made it safely to Raven Knob. They had a good trip and made very good time. Stay tuned to the website for updates.
In the next day or so we will let you know how you can send an email to your camper.
Effective August 1, 2009, the National Office will no longer accept Eagle applications prior to the 2009 printing.
The new Eagle Scout Application (512-728) can be found in BSA110.com’s Download section or at Scouting.org
Dear Scouting Community:
Suddenly and surprisingly, the United Way of Northeast Florida informed the North Florida Council, Boy Scouts of America that we will be receiving $147,000 less than last year to support the Council’s Positive Youth Development/Scouting Program & the Council’s ScoutReach program- serving at-risk-youth in subsidized housing communities in Jacksonville. The North Florida Council is committed to delivering the Scouting and ScoutReach Program; however, quality program delivery is threatened in light of this reduced funding from the United Way of Northeast Florida.
CLICK HERE to learn more and to help the Council make up the shortfall of funds from the United Way.
Also, please forward this email to everyone in your email address book! Any and all support is greatly needed and deeply appreciated!
Thanks for your continued interest and support of Scouting!
Jack L. Sears, Jr. Scout Executive/CEO
Saturday, July 11th; 11a-12p at the UNF Aquatics Center (map) Cost: $2.75 per person
All scouts and active adults should come regardless if they are attending summer camp or not. That way we can do the whole troop at one time and be covered on future camping trips which may involve water activities in the coming 12 months.
Mr. Crutchfield and Mr. Magee will be the lifeguards. Two volunteers are needed to help as look-outs.
In honor or Independence Day there is not a meeting on Monday, July 6, 2009.
Enjoy your long weekend!
Beau Wittmer keeps achieving stellar heights – In addition to earning Eagle, Beau is also school Valedictorian and got a perfect score on a National Latin Exam.
Excerpt from Episcopal High School’s Website… “Valedictorian Earns Perfect Score on National Latin Exam - Posted May 14, 2009 - Episcopal’s valedictorian, Beau Wittmer ’09, has achieved a perfect score on the 2009 National Latin Exam. Less than one percent of students who took the exam earned a perfect score … Beau has attended Episcopal for six years, and has plans to attend Yale University in the fall.”
From Troop 110 to Beau: Congrats from all of us! We know you can soar even higher… alis aquilae!
