Boy Scout Troop 1001

The meeting plan for next Monday, the third of March, is to work on another Camporee skill that everyone definitely needs to know, which is firebuilding. Patrol leaders will be gathering firewood (small sticks) throughout the week to be prepared for Monday. Also, each patrol will be working on their menus.

The Pre-Camporee campout is March 7-9 at Collin County Community Park Myers Park near McKinney. Basically, the whole campout will be a slightly-altered Camporee. It will be like a big, long, round-robin with adults working with each site and each patrol needing to perform a specific task at each site. Points will be awarded, so it will be a competition between patrols to see who can do the best. Dead time will be spent doing "cope" courses for the patrols and maybe working on completing the Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge for those who started it.

Camporee is just around the corner on April 4-5. All patrols need to be working on sewing on patrol patches and making their yells, songs, and flags so that every patrol can get those few extra points at Camporee just by singing a song or yelling.