Boy Scout Troop 533

News Update — Kiwanis Cabin, Camperships, & Candy Bars

Matt — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:25:38 +0000

Kiwanis Cabin Campout

The Kiwanis Cabin camping trip will be this weekend: Friday, Feb. 10 – Sun. Feb. 12. We will be meeting at the church at 6:00p on Friday. The cost is $5 for seed money — if you have not already paid, be sure to get this to our treasurers, Gregg or Beth Cheeseman. We will be returning on Sunday, around 11a-12p. Directions to the cabin may be viewed here: http://www.hilltopkiwanis.com/kiwaniscabindirections.html

Campership Reminder

We will be attending summer camp at Chief Logan Reservation from July 8 – July 14, 2012. The cost for this year is $250. However, if you pay in full by May 1, you can receive an early bird discount of $230.

Camperships are available from the council to provide financial assistance for summer camp fees. If you are interested, you may access the form by clicking here. Please get the completed campership application to the leaders as soon as possible.. by the meeting on February 14th or the 21st at the latest.

Candy Bar Sale

The troop is once again holding a candy bar sale, to help the scouts raise money for summer camp. The bars come in bags of thirty, and are sold for $1 each. For each bag of thirty a scout sells, they will receive $15 in their scout account. If you are interested in selling candy bars, please see Gregg or Beth Cheesemen to get started.

Scout Accounts Updated

Matt — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:40:29 +0000

The scout accounts have been updated, as of January 19, 2012. Feel free to login and check your balance — direct any questions to Matt Demana.

If you are new to the troop (or old and have lost your username/password) you will be receiving information about how to access your account at next Tuesdays meeting.

Access scout accounts here.

Mailing List

Matt — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:36:30 +0000

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Pancake Breakfast, Summer Camp and Campership

Matt — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:10:43 +0000

Pancake Breakfast

Thank you to everybody who helped out with the pancake breakfast — including scouts, adult leaders, parents, and of course everyone who attended! It went off very well, and was quite a success.

For those scouts who participated, you can expect to see your scout account on the web site updated within the next two weeks. And once again, if you are a new scout who just joined this last year, you will be receiving a letter at a meeting in the next couple of weeks with your username and password to access your account online.

Summer Camp & Campership

We will be attending summer camp at Chief Logan Reservation from July 8 – July 14, 2012. The cost for this year is $250. However, if you pay in full by May 1, you can receive an early bird discount of $230.

Camperships are also available from the council to provide financial assistance for summer camp fees. As part of the form needs to be filled out by troop leaders, we ask that if interested you get us the complete form by the February 14 meeting at the latest. The form may be found at http://www.skcbsa.org/documents/2012CampershipApplication.pdf. If you have any questions about the summer camp fees, campership application, or are interested in the discounted early bird rate, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Download 2012 Campership Application

News Update — Upcoming Weekend, Scout Accounts, Dues, Email List

Matt — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:11:48 +0000

This Weekend

We’re quickly coming up on what’s going to be a very busy — and hopefully very fun — weekend. This Friday, January the 13th, is the sleepover at the Church. If you are attending, we will be meeting at the church at 8pm — be sure to have some dinner before you come. Be sure to bring a sleeping bag, pillow, sleeping pad for the floor (the concrete floor is very hard and not comfy), and some basic toiletries (toothbrush, toothpaste, etc.)

We will be leaving the next morning, Saturday, January 14th, at 8am for a day trip to Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Parents are welcome to join us for this excursion — just remember that we will be leaving from the church at 8am. Scouts will also need approximately $5 for breakfast at McDonalds on the way there. They will also need to have a bagged lunch for the museum, or bring additional money to buy lunch from the cafe in the museum. We will be back at the church and ready for the scouts to be picked up at around 6pm that Saturday. If you want to check out more information about the museum, here’s the web site: http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/index.asp.

Finally, on Sunday, January 15th, we will be performing a Pancake Breakfast fundraiser at the church. Scouts will need to be at the church at 7:30am, to help with the set-up, and we will begin serving after the church service (approximately 8:30am.) Be sure to be in your Class A uniform.

Scout Account Info

That should be all the details for this weekend — please let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns. If you sold popcorn this year, you can expect your scout account on the web site (http://www.scout533.com/scout-accounts-new/) to be updated with your share of the sales within the next couple of weeks — I’ll let you know when it’s all up-to-date. If you have just joined our troop this year, expect to receive more information about how the scout account works and a login/password to view your balance online within the next couple of weeks.

Dues

On another note, if anyone has not yet paid at least their $5 a month minimum dues, or has any questions about it, please contact our Treasurer, Beth Cheeseman.

Email list

If you are not currently receiving news updates and wish to be added to the list, please send your email to news-list@scout533.com.

Thanks to all for the Spaghetti Dinner

Matt — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:25:26 +0000

We’d like to thank Columbia Heights and everyone who came out and supported Troop 533 at our Spaghetti Dinner last Sunday. Hopefully everybody enjoyed themselves and some good food!

We’d also like to give a big hand to all the scouts who helped out — they did a superb job in serving everyone. Thank you also to the cooks, servers, and everyone else who helped make it a success.

Annual Tired of Turkey Spaghetti Dinner

Matt — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:58:38 +0000

Troop 533 will be holding their annual “Tired of Turkey? All You Can Eat Spaghetti” dinner on Sunday, November 27th from 11:30am – 2:30pm. Come enjoy at Columbia Heights United Methodist Church, 775 Galloway Rd, Galloway, OH 43119. Adults are $6, kids (6-12) $4, and those under 5 are free.

Tired of Turkey? All You Can Eat Spaghetti Dinner

Saturday, November 27th | 11:30am – 2:30pm

Columbia Heights United Methodist Church

775 Galloway Rd. Galloway, OH 43119

Adults $5 | Kids (6-12) $4 | Under 5 FREE

Scouts will need to be there a few hours beforehand, in order to assist in the preparations — and wearing their full Class A uniform.

Fall Update

Matt — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:54:07 +0000

Here’s a bit of an update of what we having going on and coming up in the troop. Beth would like to remind everyone that popcorn orders are due NO LATER than Tuesday, November 1. If you have any questions, please contact her. Also, if you have not paid at least your $5 minimum in dues for the month, be sure to get that to Beth as well.

The Haunted Hallway is coming up on Saturday, October 29 from 7pm-9pm. The scouts, of course, will be meeting earlier that day to get everything set up — the hallway itself will get underway at 7. Also, please be sure that each scouts bring a bag of candy with them.

The troop’s annual Tired of Turkey Spaghetti Dinner will be held on Sunday, November 27. More details, including the time everyone must be, will be forthcoming in next couple of weeks.

WBNS Pictures

Matt — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:10:30 +0000

Pictures from the WBNS tour have been posted in the photo gallery — http://www.scout533.com/photo-gallery/?album=5&cover=0&occur=1. A big thanks to Charlie for taking these!

Troop Update — Dues, Popcorn, Court of Honor, and Haunted Hallway

Matt — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:49:19 +0000

Hello all! Here’s an update on what’s been going on in the troop:

First of all, all the parents can expect to be getting a letter home about our newly instituted dues policy. While we understand the difficult economic times and regret having to begin collecting dues, as our troop grows so do our expenses. We are no longer able to cover charges such as our annual rechartering out-of-pocket, and this will help assure we can pay that and provide the best program possible. You can see the letter for more detailed information, but it will be $50 a year, and we ask that you pay a minimum of $5 a month. Attached to the letter you will find a form that we will need a parent’s signature on — these can be returned to Beth Cheeseman as soon as possible.

Beth has also volunteered to head up our popcorn sale this year, and asked me to share some information with her. She distributed the popcorn sales forms last Tuesday (see her if you didn’t get one) and you may begin selling immediately. The order forms are due back by Tuesday, November 1st, and you can expect to receive your popcorn around the week of December 6th. We strongly encourage you to have your child sell as much popcorn as possible — he will receive some of the profit directly into his individual scout account, which can be used for camp-out fees, the cost of summer camp, to help towards your yearly dues payments, and any other scouting related activity.

All our scouts who attended summer camp this year were very busy, and to that end we have a tentative court of honor scheduled for the evening of Saturday, October 1st, at the church. Our annual haunted hallway is also scheduled for Saturday, October 29th. We’ll get more information to you about these events as we get closer.

And for all those new scouts who crossed over last spring, be sure that you receive, fill out, and return a Boy Scout application so that we may transfer your registration from the Pack to the Troop. You can turn those into Matt Demana, or any other leader, who can make sure they make it to Matt. We meet on Tuesdays from 7pm-8pm.

Dues letter

Dues form (To be signed and returned by parent/guardian)