Outing Consent Form

Remember the signed consent form. We're following a new procedure which is to have the signed form placed inside the pocket of the class A shirt. Since a scout always needs to wear his Class A shirt either going or returning from an outing, it will be with him regardless of which car he is in.
What's New at Troop 494
Council Dinner Honor 2008 Eagles and other Award Recipients
All 2008 Eagles will be honored at the council dinner and such register to attend. There is no cost for 2008 Eagles. If you received your Eagle in a prior year and you did not attend the council dinner, please contact Mr. Toda to attend this year's dinner. The council dinner will be held Feb. 13 beginning at 6 PM at the Wyndham Hotel on First Street, San Jose. This is also a time to show your Eagle project to the community and you can do this by a slide show on your laptop, a display board or photo album. The council is also looking for donations to help subsidize the cost of the dinner for Eagle scouts.
The council dinner is also an awards dinner where we honor any scouts, scouters and volunteers. This includes any medals and awards for life-saving or heroic actions, Silver Beaver awards, and other council and regional honorees.
 
Housekeeping
Some reminders:
1) The scout handbooks is considered a part of a scout's uniform until he attains First Class. Scout, Tenderfoot and 2nd Class scouts need to bring their handbook to every meeting and outing. This will assist to make sure that any requirements that are completed can be immediately signed-off.
2) Complete uniforms are scout shirt, scout pants, scout socks, scout belt, and scout neckerchief. An incomplete uniform will mean that your patrol will earn less points for honor patrol.
 
Another new Eagle!!!

Congratulations to Michael as he becomes our 10th Eagle for 2008!! Michael has served as SPL and ASPL and is currently a JASM. His Eagle Service project was to construct and install a storage structure.

 
Upcoming Courts of Honor!

The troop court of honor will take place on Wednesday, January 28th at Quinlan.

Additionally, there are two Eagle Court of Honors scheduled. Scott will hold his Eagle COH on Sunday, January 11th at 5 PM at Beth David. Nikil will hold his Eagle COH on Saturday, January 17 at 10 AM at Quinlan Center. Pleas join us in celebrating achieving scouting's highest rank.
 
Upcoming Outing - Jan 17 Snow Caving at Hi-Sierra

This outing takes place over MLK holiday and there has been a slight schedule change. Since Nikil is returning from Boston for Eagle Court of Honor, we will be departing for Hi-Sierra after the ceremony at 1 PM. We will spend the night in the cabins and then begin snow cave construction on Sunday morning. Important things to bring will be fleece, non-cotton clothing, a good ground pad for your sleeping bag, snow boots, heavy socks, gloves or mittens, extra blanket and tools for building your snow caves. More will be discussed at upcoming troop meetings. Sleeping in a snow cave meets one of the requirements for camping merit badge. For more on this outing, see the Future Events page.

 
Venturing Crew Notes

The crew will be climbing at Planet Granite. Some of the crew will be attending the snow cave outing to assist. Plans are to hike at Mt. St. Helena which is the last Rim of the Bay Hike for many of the crew memebers.

 
Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Scouting
The troop will have observe the 100th Anniversary of scouting at the COH. In 3 years, the BSA will be celebrating it's 100th anniversary and there will be a series of new Quality unit patches to commerate the years leading to the celebration.