3rd annual food drive

We collected last night from the community and delivered 371.5 lbs of food to the Caledonia food bank!  Congradulations to the scouts - this will help many many families!

Santa and a few scouts at lightup night

A great fundraiser!  Congratulations all!  We also had several inquiries into the scouting program.  Scouting in Caledonia is thriving!!

Meeting Dec 5

This week's meeting is entirely out doors (The church is not available).  This is a great oppourtunity for the first phase of our annual food drive!

Zombie apocalypse more info

Patrol responsibilities

• Each patrol will camp independently in the same general area.
• Each patrol will establish and post a duty roster.
• Each patrol will set their own menu, set their own budget and buy their own food.
• Suggest you plan with other patrols to share some things
• Suggest that some items could be purloined from home (like salt and pepper).
• Meeting time will NOT be available for shopping.
• All supplies not listed below need to be identified so the leaders can retrieve them and bring them to camp. 
• Each patrol will be assigned a leader that they feed Saturday night.
• Patrols need to come prepared with BOTH a skit and a song for campfire Saturday night.  They don’t need to be original, but not the standard fare please!
• Patrols have to opportunity to provide a short part of scouts own as part of badge work.

Patrols can expect the following

• Leaders will provide hot chocolate Friday night and Saturday night.
• Each patrol will have a naphtha 2-burner stove, naphtha lantern and a box of water.  Naphtha fuel will be managed by leaders.
• Leaders will manage meal cleanup water to reduce fuel and water waste. Patrols do their own cleanup, however.
• Many aspects of the camp are assigned a point value to contribute to determining the patrol named most capable of surviving a zombie apocalypse and have their patrol name forever emblazoned on the...

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Map of camp Manitou


Map to the camp

Zombie Apocalypse camp!   November 21, Camp Manitou, 7:00pm.  Camp fee is $10 - Note that this does not include food.  Each patrol is responsible for developing a menu during this week's meeting and arranging for procurement and transport to the camp.  We will be talking about this at this week's meeting.

Hand outs will be coming!

Yours in Scouting, Scouter Adam

Scouts, this Thursday brings us to our most popular Scout activity. Knots and lashings. Yes, I know, this is far too much excitement. See if you can figure out the 5 basic knots, and the techniques for lashing poles together prior to the meeting.

Ylvis - Trucker's Hitch [Official music video HD]

Kudos to the first troop to atempt the truckers hitch dance??!!???

The venturer Haunted House is moving from Wednesday Oct 29 to Thursday Oct 30.

Patrol leaders and Assistant Patrol leaders - there is a Court of Honour meeting after the regular meeting on October 9th.  Should last about 30 minutes