Meeting: Monday August 18 Time: 6:30 PM Uniform: Class B

Meeting time: 630pm-8pm Meeting location: First Presbyterian Church Uniform: class B

Hello everyone, It’s that time again where leaders go recruiting Cub Scout aged kids in the elementary schools. We will again be allowed to help with car rider drop off, but only at Lafayette County schools this year. Attached you will find up a sign up genius if your scout would like to participate. They can get service hours for this as well. Thanks Benjamin Stepp Scoutmaster
www.signupgenius.com/go/4090C4AABAB2AA5F58-57820522-cubscout

Hey everyone, This email is for our troop Arrowmen and those who were voted into the OA and have not gone through their induction yet. This weekend is the final post camp induction for new members. Tonight August 6th is the last night to sign up. You can sign up with the link provided below. For those needing to go through make sure you select the ordeal member option. For those arrowmen that are already in our chapter chief said we will have a meeting at camp Seminole on Saturday, as well as ceremonies practice. Come help out or work on your brotherhood and move up in the organization. Thanks Benjamin Stepp Scoutmaster
www.natcheztracecouncil.org/content/130936/2025-OA-2nd-Post-Camp-Induction–August–OA-Post-Camp-Induction-

We are still meeting tomorrow. 6:30 -8 class a uniform Ben Stepp Scoutmaster.

Hey folks, I made a big boo-boo. Monday is open house for Lafayette county schools. This means 2/3rds of our senior leadership and over half of our patrol leaders will be out. I will talk things over with our leaders and figure out what we can do. Thank you for your understanding and patience. Benjamin Stepp Scoutmaster

Hey everyone, The merit badges from week 1 have been entered. Not all of the MBs they took at summer camp are completed and will need to complete before we can award them. This summer would be a great time to finish up those pesky lingering requirements. You and your scout can look at what is left to complete on the scoutbook. If you need to know how to find them let me or one of the other leaders know and we will be happy to help you out. Mom’s and Dad’s it is very okay to work on these requirements with your boys. The best way to get credit for these is to search for the MB packet online (I usually search (Name of MB) requirements BSA. Print that bad boy out and complete the missing requirements that are not checked off. Please do not check anything off in SB as they need to be looked over by one of our MB counselors for that specific requirement. If the boys need to complete metal work or something similar that can not be completed at home, we can see if we can work something out with the camp ranger to get them out there. You can work on any merit badge that has already been started. Any others the boys have to meet with a MB counselor before they can start them. Any swimming MB requirements has to be done with one of our leaders or a certified Lifeguard.
Thanks Benjamin Stepp Scoutmaster

Hello everyone and Happy Father’s Day to all the dads. For those new to the troop and for general knowledge, the summer camp merit badges will be put in to scoutbook after the camp staff complete marking off requirements and we are able to download the completed requirements reports. This usually is done a week or two after the last week of camp is done. I spoke to several of the area directors yesterday who informed me that many MBs that were originally set to be completed at camp were not completed due to us losing Sunday because of the bad storm. I will send out some guidance on completing those later. Thanks for allowing us to guide and mentor your boys Benjamin Stepp Scoutmaster.

Hello everyone, I hope this email finds you well and safe after the storms today. Unfortunately the storms did some real damage to camp. We had trees all over camp down blocking roads and trails, as well as at least two cabins have had trees fall on them. Also at least one of the power lines was snapped. Teams will be working diligently today and tomorrow to get camp back in order. This damage is postponing check-in to Monday morning. Our time to meet is 7:45am in the parking lot. Thank you for your understanding and patience with this. Benjamin Stepp Scoutmaster