May Court of Honor Deadline

Scouts - The deadline to achieve rank advancement and turn in blue cards for merit badges for the May Court of Honor is May 1st. 

The May Court of Honor is on 5/15/2012.  All scouts should plan on attending; please be in full uniform.  Parents - Please attend this celebration with us.  This is the time we honor our scouts for all the acheivements they have earned.  Parents will be asked to stand up with their scouts for rank advancement.

SURVIVORMAN Challenge Now Posted

The internationally recognized Troop 16 SURVIVORMAN Challenge is coming May 11-13, 2012. The sign-up and information pages have now been posted, and it is time to sign up.

This year, we are changing the challenges yet again. The Level 1 Challenge will be our First Year challenge, and will include Trail to First Class Challenges at each point on the map. The Level 2 Challenge will bring all of the gear back to the crash site, but it will be up to each patrol to determine what is important and what is not for their survival. They will also face a variety of survival challenges along the way, and will have to get rescued by the County Search and Rescue teams that will be on-site. We will also have Search and Rescue planes in the air, searching for the teams, as a training exercise. The Level 3 Challenge for our Staff Patrol Members and Junior Assistant Scoumasters, will imitate a car crash and survival/hike out situation with limited food and no shelter. Participation in this event is limited to the first 16 boys that sign up.

Parents and Scouters: We need you! To pull this campout off, we need at least 20 adults to sign up to help in base camp, at Command Posts, as judges out in the field, and as rovers. No experience needed. We will train you. Ideally, we will have 24+ adults on Saturday and Sunday.

Click here to find out more and to sign up.

Click here to read all about the history of the T16 SURVIVORMAN Challenge.

Parker Days Fundraiser Sign-up

The sign-up pages for Parker Days are now available online. Follow the Parker Days link to the information page, and then select the shift links and sign up!

Please remember, this is a MANDATORY fundraiser. Every scout is expected to work at least one 4 hour shift.

In total, we have 262 4-hour shifts available. So, we need over 3 shifts per scout. How do we get there? Parents and siblings over age 10 can work, too. No experience needed. Please just sign up and help us out for a shift or two. So come and make a family day of it. Help us for a few hours and then ride the rides on us.

Boys that work more than one shift are eligible for either 4 hours of community service hours (for high school or rank advancement) or a free unlimited ride pass for the Carnival, at their option.  Parents and siblings that work 2 or more shifts will also get a free ride pass, if they would like one.

Sign up now!

Pancake Supper and Scout Sunday

PUMC and Troop 16 need your help! We need boys to help sell Pancake Supper Tickets before and after the church services on February 5th, 12th, and 19th. Service hours will be given for all who work a shift.

In addition, PUMC needs our assistance with Ushering on Scout Sunday, February 12th.

Sign-ups are now online for both of these activities. If you signed up at the Court of Honor, you have already been added to the signups here.

Click here to find out more and sign up.

PANCAKE SUPPER IS COMING SOON!

The date of this year’s Pancake Supper fundraiser is Feb. 21.  All scouts need to participate by selling tickets and working the evening of the event!

This year the ticket prices and the structure of how many tickets need to be sold have both changed.  Tickets this year are a flat $5.00 per person.  Ticket sales requirements per family are: 1 scout=8 tickets, 2 scouts=12 tickets, 3 scouts=16 tickets, 4 scouts = 20 tickets.

Tickets will be sold at PUMC on Feb 5, Feb 12, & Feb 19.  Scouts can receive community service hours for helping with this.

We also need lots of adult help to make this fundraiser successful.

Tickets to be sold can be picked up and signup sheets for Sunday ticket sales and adult help will be available at the Winter Court of Honor on Jan. 31.  Be sure to come to the COH to pick up your tickets, signup to help, and learn more about this year’s event.  See you there!

Reminder for Race - Turn at First Entrance

Just a quick reminder for folks coming to this weekend’s Adventure Race (Scouts and Webelos) to turn at the first entrance to Peaceful Valley, also known as the North Entrance. 

You’ll then make one right and one left, then wind around into Adventure Valley.  This is also the new Shooting Sports/Sporting Clays area.  Click Here for a Map of the way in.  Remember Peaceful Valley is about 10 miles south of Kiowa, near Elbert.

Parking will be tricky with all the folks who are coming, so try and keep down the number of vehicles you are bringing and know that we will probably park you in a fairly undeveloped field (don’t bring that sports car).  See you there.

Swimming Merit Badge

We are offering a group swimming merit badge beginning in December.  Please email Mrs. Denton at dentonpl@aol.com to confirm your interest in participating. Some of you have already started this merit badge. Please email Mrs. Denton  to let her know if you are interested in completing the requirements you still need, in a group class.  Please let her know ASAP if you are interested.  Class size is limited.  (Adults, Mrs. Denton needs your help.  The more adults that help, the larger the class she can offer.  She needs some in the water and some poolside and in classrooms.)

*Please note that this is not a swimming class.*  Do not sign up for this merit badge until you can swim.  You must be proficient in the front crawl, back crawl, sidestroke, breaststroke and elementary backstroke.  You will also have to do dives from the deck and tread water while removing your street clothes.  Please review the requirements at www.meritbadge.com.

We will have the dry portions of the badge on 11/29 and  12/6 beginning at 6:00 pm at PUMC. You probably will not need to come to both sessions, so email her which class you would like to attend.  But it would be wise to start on 11/29 if you can, in case you need  to attend both sessions to complete your requirements.  We will have the wet portions at PRC on 12/4 and 12/11 with a makeup/retest on 1/8/12; times to be announced soon, but plan on afternoons.

New Time for Adventure Race Feast!!!!!!!!!!!

After carefuel consideration, the start time for the feast at the Adventure Race Campout on November 19 has been CHANGED to 3:00 p.m. instead of 4:00 p.m.  This is being done to help encourage more Webelos families to stick around for the Luau Pig Roast and to help be sure we are done before nightfall.

Please spread the word  that this time has changed.  The Quest for the Holy Grail - Crown Jewels Adventure Race will still take place from 8:00am to 1:00pm, but  the time for the begining of the feast has been moved forward to 3:00 p.m.

UPCOMING BOY SCOUT MERIT BADGE COLLEGES

Oct 15th: Arapahoe District Merit Badge College Map: 9800 Foothills Canyon Blvd, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126, US

Oct 15th: 2011 Centennial District Merit Badge College 8600 E Dartmouth Ave, Denver, CO 80231, US

Nov 12th: Valley District Merit Badge College 2011 3645 W 112th Ave, Westminster, CO 80031, US

Nov 12th: Troop 53 Merit Badge University in Colorado Springs, offering 60 merit badges. 3rd Annual, Troop 53 Merit Badge University………. (Read notes below class list)

Nov 19th: 2011 Frontier District Merit Badge College

SIGN-UP REQUIRED for Smokin Brew BBQ Labor Day Weekend

HERE WE GO!  THE SMOKIN’ BREW BBQ FUNDRAISER is ours again this year.  Labor Day Weekend is less than 2 weeks away and so is another chance to show Parker what Troop 16 is made of! 

The Smokin Brew BBQ event starts for Troop 16 from 3pm on Friday, 9/2 to noon on Monday, 9/5. This provides scouts and scouters an opportunity to earn just under $8 per hour for their scout account!  We need all available scouts, parents, and siblings to step up and help out!  And feel free to sign-up for more than one shift if you want.

We’re working in shifts, as usual, and the time worked will translate into money earned going directly into the scout accounts or community service.   Please Click Here to Sign-up for a Shift.  You will need to be Logged On in order to sign-up.

We will meet at the Parker Station Parking Lot near the Dumpsters!

Thank you to Daniel Faust for his willingness to arrange and coordinate this event for our troop! 

We need an adult and two or more scouts that can pick up and deliver the barrels on Friday, and can return the barrels on Monday morning, as Mr. Faust will be out of town that weekend. So, if you can do this, please click here to email Mr. Abell and Mr. Faust.