Events are starting to be finalized for the upcoming year and the months of September and October are filling up!
A full list of the events can be found on the Calendar. As details are finalized they will be added to the individual events. Permission slips will also be available in the event descriptions.
- At this meeting, Chip taught the scouts how to tie a tie, stressing the importance of dressing right for the appropriate situations.
- Several dates were finalized tonight and further details will be coming soon. To see a full list of all the events, look at the calendar.
- Troop 834 now has a way to send you announcements straight to your phone through text messages. To sign up for the service, see this page.
- The adults discussed the upcoming schedule for the year, including the September campout, September Court of Honor, October golf fundraiser, and 2016 summer camp. As soon as these dates are finalized, they will be announced on this website.
- Next week will be the last meeting for Class B uniforms. Class A uniforms will be required at all troop meetings starting September 3.
- Chip and the other organizers of the Our Lady of Grace Festival are very appreciative of all the time Troop 834 has put in to help make the festival such a huge success. They’d like to thank everybody who came and set up, worked evenings during the week, and took down the festival.
- Troop 834 is hoping to hold a fundraiser at Frosty Valley Golf Links near the end of October. Whether you golf or not, bring your friends and enjoy a round of 9 holes with the troop! In order for this to happen, we need to have at least 40 golfers. If you or anybody else you know is interested, let Chip know.
Thank you all that signed up to volunteer for the drink booth at the Our Lady of Grace Festival. Please make sure you show up a few minutes early to check in at the volunteer table. The first shift is from 6:30-8:00 pm and the second shift is from 8:00-close. Below is the final schedule.
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
| Shift 1 |
Hand Family & Domalik Family |
Hand Family & Trusiak Family |
Phifer Family & Isaac Lord |
Marwan Sadaka & Susan Clellan & Jack Ghelarducci |
Bischer and Mike Barmada |
Corchado Family & Fisher Family |
| Shift 2 |
Domalik Family |
Isaac Lord & Mazzotti Family |
Fisher Family & Jeff Ghelarducci |
Mazzotti Family & Jack Ghelarducci |
Lumadue Family & Bischer and Mike Barmada |
Bronder Family & Fisher Family |
- During this meeting, Troop 834 helped set up the OLG Festival by moving booths and setting up tables. At the end of the meeting, Matthew Mazzotti did a presentation on Bridgeville.
- There will not be a meeting next week due to the OLG Festival. We will resume August 20.
- There are still plenty of opportunities to help out at the Our Lady of Grace Festival. See this blog post for the full list.
- Troop 834 will be selling popcorn as a fundraiser. If you’d like to organize this, see Chip. Chip also has the order forms. Watch for an email later this week with more details.
The Our Lady of Grace Festival is only days away, and almost half of the shifts are still open! Troop 834 finds it imperative that we help our sponsoring organization, and this is the biggest time of year that we can do so. If you have not signed up for a shift already, please consider helping out. Email Jen Fisher at fisher163@comcast.net with the shift you plan to work before Friday, August 7. More information on the festival can be found here. The table below shows who we have so far. Help fill in the ?????
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
| Shift 1 |
Hand Family & Domalik Family |
Hand Family & Trusiak Family |
Fisher Family & ????? |
Marwan Sadaka & ????? |
Mazzotti Family & ????? |
Corchado Family & ????? |
| Shift 2 |
Domalik Family & ????? |
Isaac Lord & Mazzotti Family |
Fisher Family & Jeff Ghelarducci |
Isaac Lord & ????? |
????? & ????? |
Bronder Family & ????? |
- This meeting was focused on planning the upcoming year. Chip heard the scouts’ suggestions for summer camp, weekend camp outs, and day trips. Plenty of great ideas were brought up, but final decisions will be made after further discussion among the adults.
- If you haven’t already, make sure you sign up to work our booth at the OLG Festival. Set-up begins August 1.
Message from David Domalik – “Huge thanks to everybody who spent their day to come out and help build the ga-ga pit for my Eagle Project. I’d also like to thank Keystone Oaks School District, Coach Cliff’s Gaga Ball Pits, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, and my family for their help in funding the project. If you haven’t heard of the game ga-ga before, look it up online and check out the pit behind Aiken Elementary for yourself.”
The project had a great turn-out, with much of the troop showing up. The boards were drilled in no time and went together easily in the brackets. After adding a cut-out, wall covers, and rules sign, Troop 834 had a blast playing ga-ga in the newly built octagon.
Pictures of the project can be found on the page “Pictures“. If you need to know how many hours you spent working, contact david.0925@verizon.net. The Keystone Oaks School District is always looking for more scouts to do eagle projects, so feel free to approach them with your ideas.
A new page called “In the News” has been added to the website. It features all of the articles written about Troop 834 or its scouts. If it is missing anything, please let us know. The page can be found under “About Us”.
