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Last Update: 23 April 2025. Click your browser's refresh button to ensure you are looking at the most recent update to this page. It is updated several times most weeks. Click underlined text to follow the link to additional information.

Adults Sign Up for Canada Merit Badges and Coordinators

Adults sign up for the Merit Badges and Coordinators positions you would like to fill during our Summer Camp at Haliburton. The Scoutmaster would like all adults to signup again even if you had signed up the previously time (months ago). Please do this ASAP so he can take your preferences into account when making assignments.

Troop Meeting, Thursday, 24 April, 7:30-9:00 PM, Multipurpose Room

Join us on every Thursday evening for our Troop Meetings in the Multipurpose Room of St. Joseph School. Check these announcements for any updates.

French Creek SP - Valley Forge, 25-27 April 2025, Meet at the shed at 6:00 PM

Sign up Online and Pay at Troop Meetings

Updated 23 April 2025

Please register to participate using the Online Event Registration Form and pay the Treasurer at a Troop meeting.

Our next camping trip is to French Creek State Park near Valley Forge, in Douglassville, PA. We last camped here in March 2007! The weekend activities include a Historical Hike adventure and a Dutch Oven Competition.

Actions required by participants before the trip:

General Information 

Shelter  Food
Adult Menu Updated 20 April 2025
Transportation
Updated 23 April 2025

Car Wash – 7th June 2025

The annual car wash is quickly approaching.  We will start distributing the Car Wash donation packets to the scouts at the Troop meeting on Thursday, April 10th.  If you do not receive your packet, you have two options, either go to the Forms/Current Events page and print the forms, or contact Mr. Mann to arrange a pickup of your packet. Please get started right away on getting sponsors. Each scout is expected to raise at least $200.00 in pledges and/or corporate sponsorships. The first $100.00 in pledges goes 100% to the troop, this is new for 2025.   Every pledge over the first $100 goes to the scout’s family account, which can be used to pay for summer camp, monthly camping trips, and any supplies related to scouting.  For every $25 in donations that each scout turns in each week, they will get one ticket for that week’s prize drawings.

We are in need of donations for the weekly prize drawings. The prizes can be anything you think the boys will like, from a $5.00 gift card to Dunkin', to the unused Christmas gift that is sitting in your basement.  No prize is too small!

Please respond to Mr. Mann (Jeff@Mann-Home.com or 443-377-6699) to let him know if you are able to offer any prize donation. Please bring your prize donations to the weekly Troop meetings.

Thanks for helping motivate the boys on achieving their goal, and for helping to make this car wash a success!

Passports Required for Summer Camp at Haliburton Scout Reserve in Ontario, Canada

Everyone traveling into Canada and returning to the US should have a Passport Book valid at the time of entry.  Visit this US Department of State web site for information on obtaining a passport book. Don't get a Passport Card - it is not valid for international travel by air which may be necessary in the event of an emergency. Apply NOW, it takes time to obtain a passport and is much more expensive if you need it quickly.

A Birth Certificate is required to apply for your passport. Obtain a birth certificate NOW if you don't have one that meets these requirements. It must have the seal or stamp from the city, county, or state which issued it.

All Scouts and adult leaders will need to provide a copy of the identification (picture) page of your passport as backup.

Please send us your Summer Camp 2024 photos

Eric Reynolds is collecting pictures from Summer Camp 2024 (June Norcross Webster Scout Reservation).

Scouts and adults can send Eric ejreynolds518@gmail.com a link to their photos.

Summer Camp Information

Summer Camp Information will appear under the Information/Major Events page of this web site as it becomes available or changes. Generally this page will have an announcement about any new major information for about two weeks. The Major Events page is the repository for all the detailed information that can be shared publicly and that information will continue to grow as we get nearer to summer camp. Any private information will be sent in the troop emails. Currently the major Events page has information about passports, medicals, medications, and payments.

Northern Tier 2025

PAYMENT INFORMATION
Northern Tier 2025 - Final planning is underway for the 2025 Northern Tier trip for registered Scouts/Leaders. Current estimated costs for Scouts/Leaders attending Northern Tier is $3,000 per participant. Payment in full is requested by the end of April 2025.

Emails from BAC concerning Registration Expiring

Please disregard any emails you may receive from the Baltimore Area Council concerning scout or adult registrations expiring.
All scout and adult leaders registration fees that were due at the end of 2024 were paid by the troop in the middle of December.

The Baltimore Area Council is in the process of updating their electronic system.

Summer Camp 2024 Photographs Needed

Eric Reynolds is collecting pictures from Summer Camp 2024 (June Norcross Webster Scout Reservation).

Scouts and adults can send Eric ejreynolds518@gmail.com a link to their photos.

Additional Resources for Scouts, Parents, and Adults

Please visit the Resources page under the Information menu above for additional information about Troop 497 programs and activities.