Welcome to Troop 61

The Knox Trail Council is putting on a fantastic expo to showcase all sorts of Emergency Preparedness Techniques. Many of these techniques can be applied to emergency situations you might encounter. Other techniques, demonstrations, and exhibits are just amazingly interesting and cool for scouts and parents alike.”Their demonstrations will include vehicle crash simulators, helicopters, burn trailers, evidence recovery units, SWAT teams, bomb sniffing dogs, robots, and much, much more!”

Please sign up at tonight’s troop meeting as slots for the Expo are going fast. This is an event for the whole family. Cost is $3 per person.

Marty Fitzgerald

THE DETAILS: From the Knox Trail Council website:

The Knox Trail Council Emergency Preparedness Expo should be a part of every unit’s fall calendar. Scouts and their families will embark on a day filled with valuable learning experiences. The Keefe Tech parking lot and athletic fields, 750 Winter Street, Framingham, Massachusetts, will come alive as a lifesaving forum on Saturday, September 16, 2006 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Cost is only $3 per participant.

The Emergency Preparedness Expo is designed to help Scouts in Knox Trail Council by raising awareness of emergency services available in the area, helping gain information about what to do in an emergency, and making resources available that can help save lives. At the Expo visitors will learn how to prepare for any emergency at home, at work or elsewhere, through hands-on courses, simulations and interaction with local emergency services. Many types of large rescue equipment will be on display.

At the Expo you will have a chance to learn tips from professionals in emergency services. Federal, State, County and Local police, fire and EMS agencies will be participating in this exciting event. Their demonstrations will include vehicle crash simulators, helicopters, burn trailers, evidence recovery units, SWAT teams, bomb sniffing dogs, robots, and much, much more!

Scouts will have the opportunity to complete requirements for a number of badges and awards by attending and interacting with the presenters. The day will be filled with unique opportunities for Scouts to gain expert knowledge that could help them save a life whether it is from a natural disaster, car accident or someone choking. This is a fun and exciting opportunity to educate Scouts on the importance of safety through interaction and by giving them the opportunity to ask questions.

Over 50 organizations, companies and individuals will be participating in the expo. They will be showing the latest emergency gear, holding exciting and informative demonstrations, and giving away tons of valuable information. There will be so much to see and do at this Expo it is sure to be fun for the whole family!

All Expo participants will receive a special commemorative Emergency Preparedness Expo patch as well as a limited-edition Knox Trail Council 10^th Anniversary shoulder patch.

Expo Information Packet

Dear Summer Campers,

It is time to sign up for summer camp merit badges. This year signup is available via on-line registration so the sooner you get your choices to Anne Fogarty or myself the better chance you have of getting in to the merit badge classes you want.

I have attached a copy of the Summer Camp Guide and you will find the Merit Badge offering and schedule on Page 8 and the prerequisites on Page 6.

There are many, many fun badges and you get to choose 2 or 4 badges. Note that soem badges like Metal Working, Life Saving, Climbing and Small Boat Sailing take two periods. Also look carefully at the pre-camp requirements for each badge. Some badges like Personal Fitness and Environmental Sciences require substantial pre-camp requirements. You can look up the merit badge requirements on-line at

http://www.meritbadge.com/mb/

It is nice to combine fun merit badges while also getting badges which help you towards Eagle Scout. First year scouts might consider both the Swimming and First Aid merit badges. Both are required for Eagle AND they fulfill many Second Class and First Class requirements. Another Eagle required merit badge is Emergency Preparedness and it appears that this is one you can complete at camp.

It going to be a fun week and whatever your choices are for Merit Badges you will learn something valuable, meet soem new Scout classmates, and have fun.

Please email any questions you might have or see me at the Scout meeting.

Again, the sooner you can get your selections in the better chance you will have of getting your choices.

Yours in Scouting

Joe Eyermann

(978) 443-5668

This is a reminder that there will be a meeting for the parents of those boys who are going to summer camp this Wednesday night during the regular Troop meeting. Please try to attend, especially if your son has not attend in the past.

Also, it is not too late to sign-up for camp. We currently have 14 boys going and we have room for more. Please let me, Anne Fogarty or Joe Eyermann know if your son would like to join us.

See you Weds night,
Hans

Information, checklists and forms for this year’s Maine whitewater rafting trip can be found at: http://troop61.info/2006Whitewater.pdf

The Nantucket Bike Trip is this weekend. There was a great deal of cooperation last week and most payments and permission slips were turned in. Some last minute planning is needed to make sure we get to the ferry on time: