Change in Meetings

The next two meeting will be on Tuesday Nights, April 6th and May 3rd. I have commentments the next two Monday nights. Everyone needs to be there Tuesday night to finalize plans for this weekends campout. Also anyone interested in running for SPL will be given an opportunity to give a talk, the elections will be one of the following 2 meetings. Don't forget we will have a special Court of Honor on May 6th which is on Friday Night at 7:30 PM, this will be held at the First Presbyterian Church at 222 North Main across from the Library.

The Dare Officer talked to our Scouts about Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs at our meeting on April 4th. 

We disposed of 18 flags during our ceremony after the Fund Raiser on Saturday. 

These guys really know what their doing. 

Sitting Down on the Job 

Saturday's Fund Raiser

I think most everyone has been contacted and assigned a 2 hour slot to sale flags in front of Wal-Mart. If you don't have a slot please contact me or just show up between 9 AM and 3 PM and help out. We WILL NOT be wearing our Class A uniform on Saturday, we will be in Class B's, if you do not have a class B we have some extra's that you may wear until we can order some new ones. Saturday night we will meet at the Scout Hut to dispose of the Flags we've collected, we will wear our Class A Saturday night. The Ceremony will start at 7 PM, if you want to participate in the ceremony you will need to be at the scout hut by 6 PM to help set up. The Public is invited to attend so we need to put on a good program, we may have a few or we may have a lot, I'm not sure what type of turnout to expect. After the ceremony all scouts are welcome to stay and we will have some type of refreshments or maybe a pizza party!!!!

Flags for $8 a piece shown here by Tyler and Michael. 

We support our troops. 

Here is a picture of the Flag and T-shirt we will be selling at Wal-Mart this Saturday. 

We took an underground boat ride. 

Castle Rock 

Undergound Snow???? 

We camped at S-F 

We went to an underground mine last weekend. 

2 campouts and a Service Project

We have an OA campout this weekend, I will know later this week when we are meeting to leave Friday. The following weekend we have the Troop Campout at S-F Scout Ranch I will need to know by Monday's meeting who is planning to attend. If you are available this weekend we have a service project to help the Cub Scout Pack with their activity day. Scouts are needed at 9 AM Saturday morning to help move equipment and set things up, and sunday to help with the activities. Everyone should be contacted later this week with more information on this.

Whats Going on with 272

Well if you missed it and not many did we had a great weekend at Baker Lodge, 16 scouts and 5 adults made the trip. It sure is nice to have a place to go camping in the winter and not freeze, even though the weather was exceptionally warm for February. Most of the weekend was spent having fun but we did take the afternoon to go on a hike and stop off at the Wapappello Dam spillway. Coming up we have OA Fun Weekend, it's the same weekend of the Kennett High School Play and a couple of our scouts (Brandon Hargrave and Tyler Gentry) will have to miss it while they practice their acting skills. I hope the rest of you OA scouts will take advantage of a great weekend getting together with the scouts from all over the district for fun and games. The weekend after that is our troop campout, we will be camping at S-F Ranch and if things go as planned will will go to the caves at Bonne Terre I will send out more information on this next week. Finally we will finish up February with a fund raiser we will be selling American Flags starting March 26th details will follow as this gets closer.

MBU Report

Merit Badge University at Cape went very well, I thought it was organized better than in the past couple of years. There were close to 500 scouts in attendence from the Greater Saint Louis Area Council which was a fantastic turnout. We had 18 scouts attend and we earned merit badges from Citizenship in the World and Nation to cinematography, electronics and even textiles. All in all it was a very benificial day for the scouts and a chance for the adults to do some site seeing (shopping) around Cape.

FYI

1. Saturday February 12th at 2 PM at the Academic Auditorium on the SEMO Campus in Cape Girardeau is the Eagle Court of Honor.
2. MBU is Saturday February 19th, we will leave at 7 AM from the scout hut. I am trying to arrange for an Exchange Student to talk to the ones taking Citz in the World merit badge to complete the prerequiste. If anyone can help out with this give me a call.
3. Continue to work on Family Life Merit Badge tracking your duties, we will start on requirement #2 at the next meeting and you will have 2 weeks to complete it.
4. If anyone is interested in attending the SEMO VS Murry State Basketball game on March 24th, we can still get tickets for $2 a piece, if enough are interested we will take a group.

Order of the Arrow News

OA will dance at the Blue and Gold banquet on Saturday Night, please meet at the Methodist Church by 6:00 PM. The Chili supper is also Saturday night at the Scout Hut, the Hut will be open at 5:30 and chili will be served from 7-9 PM. The cost is $5 and there will be a chapter meeting to follow.

What's Next

Klondike was a blast we had a little snow and a little rain but we stuck it out. Now what do we have coming up next, Monday's meeting was a little short on attendance but they sometimes are after a campout. If you were there then you know whats coming up, if not then here is a few important things to know.
1. We started working on Family Life Merit Badge, the first thing everyone needs to do is track 5 duties or chores for 90 days. I will e-mail the form to everyone and you will need to fill it out and bring it to every meeting so we can track your progress.
2. I need everyone to bring your handbook and wear you scout shirt to all the meetings. You wouldn't go to a ball game without your uniform and a ball would you, please treat our meetings the same way.
3. MBU is the 19th of February, I have recieved confirmation on which merit badge everyone is taking and will send information in an e-mail. It was to late to change and go to Poplar Bluff since I had already sent everything into Cape.
4. February Campout will be the weekend of the 26th at Baker Lodge.
5.There is also an opportunity to attend a SEMO vs Murry State Basketball game on February 24th. There is a section reserved for Scouts and the cost is $2 per ticket, if we have enough interest we will try and take a group.