Happy Thanksgiving to our Troop 75 Families!  I hope everyone has an enjoyable week with friends and family.

We have several events coming up that we need you to register and RSVP your attendance on the Troop website:

Court of Honor - The December Court of Honor is going to be a big one!  We will be celebrating 7 new Eagle Scouts, plus we have a lot of rank advancements and merit badges to celebrate.  This means we will have a lot of visitors and guests in attendance.  Please register your family's attendance (include number of guests), so we can plan for food and seating arrangements.  Thank you!

Cage Clean Out - The troop's quartermasters are looking forward to evaluating our troop's camping gear and upgrading equipment, where needed.  We would request assistance from any scouts who would like to participate and help us improve the troop's equipment.  We will be meeting on Saturday, December 6, 9am - 1pm.  

Clothes Less Traveled - Looking for service hours?  For those working on Citizenship in Community, this is a great opportunity to complete the first 2 hours of service with Clothes Less Traveled.  The ideal age for attendance is 13 years or older.  However, if you want to participate and you are younger than 13, please bring your parents.  This will be a great opportunity to provide service during the holidays.

Please be sure to register, even if you cannot attend.  This will help us in our planning.
Thank you

Polaris Winter Camp runs from December 27th thru December 31st.  This camp is located at Camp Thunder/Lawhorn Scouting Base in Molena, GA.  This is a great opportunity to earn merit badges in a fun setting.  

Registration is open for this event via our Troop Calendar. 

Merit badge registration opens on November 1st.  Please see the attached file for the merit badge classes being offered.  Send your requested classes to ShannonMRover@gmail.com.  

Cost: 

Scouts- $210

Adults- $75

Questions about this camp can be directed to ShannonMRover@gmail.com

The Troop 75 Open House is finally here!  I am very proud of how well the scouts have worked together to plan a fun evening for our visitors.  The Open House will be a fun and informative night for all the prospective scouts and their families.

We have asked all the scouts to invite their friends and neighbors.  All scouts who have invited a friend to attend the Open House will fulfill First Class Rank #10 requirement.  And for extra credit, if the individual joins Scouting America, then the scout who invited will earn the coveted 'Recruiter' patch.

Our Senior Patrol Leader has asked all scouts to show up at the Lodge at 6:05pm.  The plan will be for the scouts to set up chairs in the Lodge, prepare their activity stations and do any last- minute tweaks to their skits.

It should be a fun night.  I encourage parents and siblings to come and enjoy spending time with the scouts of Troop 75.

Finally, check out the QR code in the link below to the freshly minted Troop 75 Welcome Pack.  You are welcome to share this QR code with your friends so they can learn more about our Troop.

See you at the Open House!

We are now one full month into the new school year.  I hope everyone is adjusting well to the new routine.  I am thoroughly enjoying my new role as Scoutmaster.  While I am still very overwhelmed, I am very excited for the opportunity.  As I look around during our Scout meetings, I am truly amazed by the great group of boys and inspired by their leadership.  Every scout plays an important part in the troop.  I also appreciate the amount of support and time that many parents and scout leaders put in to help the troop thrive.

I would like to make sure you are aware of these upcoming activities:

Chicken Que: We are blessed as a troop to be able to meet at the Scout Lodge every week.  The Peachtree City United Methodist Church hosts a fundraiser every year and they use the funds to help pay for the maintenance of the scout lodge.  We need your help to sell tickets.  If we do not sell enough tickets, the Church could potentially increase our annual dues and ask the troop to help pay higher maintenance costs for the lodge.  As a troop, we would like to support the Church in its efforts and we have this opportunity to assist the Church sell tickets which will contribute to supporting the lodge.  We are asking each scout and their family to help us sell 5-6 tickets.  Each ticket costs $12.   The chicken dinners are delicious.  I would encourage you to sell to your neighbors and friends or simply buy the tickets and enjoy the meal with your family.  You also could buy the meal and donate it to first responders.  We will have tickets available to purchase on Tuesday night.  In addition, to help in this effort, this year the Church is having a booth sale on Sunday, September 7 and September 14 where we will set up a booth outside the Church on Sunday and the attendees of the church services will have the option to buy tickets.  This is a wonderful opportunity to sell.  Please register on the Troop website if you can participate.  And did you hear that there are prizes for the scout who sells the most?  My ask of you is to participate in some way, whether you come to the booth sales or buy a delicious meal for your family or even simply donate to our first responders, everything you do to assist will help benefit our troop and we really appreciate it!

COPE Campout:  This month’s campout will be a COPE campout on September 19-21.  COPE stands for Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience.  It is an outdoor program that is designed to challenge scouts both mentally and physically through creative interactive games and ropes courses.  It is a lot of fun and I encourage you to encourage your scout to participate.  The adult lead on the activity is Jay Welker (click on Troop Roster for contact details).  Please reach out to Jay or myself with any questions.  It will be fun!  Please be sure to register for the campout on the website as soon as possible so we can plan accordingly.

Troop 75 Open House: The troop will be hosting an Open House on October 7.  This event is an opportunity to invite friends as well as Cub Scout AOLs to attend and learn about the troop.  We typically do fun skits and demonstrate scouting skills and do a little cooking.  It is always a fun night.  All scouts working on First Class can fulfill requirement #10 by inviting a friend to attend.  A lot of time and effort will be put in to make sure the event is fun and informative! 

Northern Tier High Adventure:  Thank you to all who were able to attend last week’s Northern Tier discussions.  There was a lot of interest expressed by the scouts to participate.  High Adventure activities are open to scouts who are 14 years old or who are 13 and have completed 8^th grade.  We have successfully secured one crew who will be going on their trek during July 19-27.  We are still looking to recruit another crew, if possible.  Please let David Cauble or Brian Hunter know of you interest ASAP.