TROOP 1320 NEWSLETTER
September 2003
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
“All the News that
Fits, We’ll Print”
Check us out
online at www.troop1320.org
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤---Scoutmaster’s Notes---
Mr. Burke
TO KEEP MYSELF PHYSICALLY FIT
As
a Scout each week at our meetings we each repeat the Scout Oath, which contains
the promise to “keep myself physically fit”.
Given that in Scouting we often find ourselves hiking on steep and
uneven trails, climbing rocks, crawling through caves and, after paddling the
better part of a day, lugging a canoe and gear to a campsite, the only way in
which we can enjoy these adventures is to ensure that we keep ourselves
physically fit.
Scouts don’t need to be super athletes but they do need to be active by
regularly walking, running, biking or otherwise participating in an aerobic
activity. (Just in case you missed the point, walking, running, biking and
swimming etc. are aerobic activities). Hopefully, these activities are simply a
part of your everyday life just like watching television!
When you
think about it the promise to stay physically fit really relates to the Scout
Motto to “Be Prepared”. By staying in
shape Scouts are prepared for the challenging activities pursued by Troop 1320
and will find them to be enjoyable rather than an
ordeal to be endured.
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
Summer Camp at
Heritage
Danny C.
This year’s trip to
During the week, we enjoyed all of
our many merit badges. While the younger scouts were occupied with making their stools,
baskets, carvings, and rockets, the older scouts were occupied with…well…none
of that stuff. Dan C., Mike C.,
and Corey G. went fishing for people one afternoon. With a dollar bill attached to the end of a
fishing rod, they headed up to the Trading Post and caught some people chasing
the money.
The troop was broken up into three
patrols for eating. This gave the older
and younger scouts a chance to get to know each other better. These patrols also gave the scouts a chance
to improve their cooking and cleaning.
Eating at Heritage is a lot easier than cooking and eating on a normal
camping trip. During the week, we ate
everything from French toast and pancakes, to steak and hamburgers. One favorite chore was to clean up the milk
cartons by stomping on them. Although
Dan C. is the champion “Milk Carton Stomper”, Mike C. had the week’s best
one. Unfortunately, for him it happened
to be a full carton he stomped on. The
carton offered no resistance to Mike’s combat boot hitting the rock. The milk spray created on impact was record
setting.
Fishing, Frisbee, football, and Risk took up a lot of the
free time. The fishermen spent most of
their time out on the dock trying to catch some bass or catfish. There were 4 Risk sets brought to camp. That meant that while one group of people was
playing Original Risk, another group could be playing Castle Risk. At night, we made fires in the campsite’s
fire ring.
Aside from merit badges, the troop
also took part in several other camp wide activities. On Wednesday night we went to Vespers at the
amphitheater. On Thursday night we
attended the camp’s form of Olympics or something of that nature. We competed in games against the other troops
for points. The games included a canoe
race, a bug race, a tug-o-war, archery, and lanyard weaving. Friday was the Ironman Competition at
Heritage. If you are not familiar with
it, the “Ironmen” must swim one mile in the lake (at
Although
not popularly appreciated, Troop 1320 (and RD) attended the camp’s Polar Bear
Swim. The Polar Bear Swim is when we
“get the chance” to jump into the lake at
Friday afternoon, the younger scouts
went on a hike, led by Mr. Dunn, around the lake. This hike completed an advancement
requirement. They didn’t pick the best
time to do their hike though. It
happened to be one of the few times at camp that it rained. They came back soaked but still in good
spirits. Friday night we attended the
closing campfire and then went to sleep knowing that we would be going home the
next morning.
We woke up the next morning and
packed our gear up. Being the last group
of the summer, we also had to take down our cots, tents, floorboards, and
tarps. After our jobs were down, we took
our stuff to the cars and headed home.
We had a great time during our week at
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
Did You Know?
All of the following people were
involved in scouting.
Hank Aaron Bill Clinton
Walter Cronkite Harrison
Ford
Bill Gates Richard Gere
John F. Kennedy Jim
Morrison
Nolan Ryan Steven Spielberg
Paul McCartney Joe Theisman
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
Moraine State
Matt M.
On
Everyone brought their own lunch, and I had Mexican
food… delicious “Nacho Lunchables,” made by the well-known Mexican food
company, el Oscar Meyero. Dean and his
little brother, Jeremy, had the All American heart attack platter, cold Big
Macs, which they had bought the previous day.
After our hearty lunches, we went back out to see and race on the course
the bigger boats had raced on earlier.
It was hard to race the course because one leg of the triangle was
directly upwind, and almost everyone was caught in irons. Several boats actually capsized, which
allowed the capsizees to not only test their swimming skills, but also test
their ability to upright a “turtled” sailboat.
After we were finished racing, the winds shifted and we tried to get to
shore, but because the wind pushed us away, we had to tack or zigzag upwind.
Eventually, when my boat got close enough to shore, I
jumped into the water and pulled us into shore.
When we got everything down, we went and helped the other boats get to
shore. When everybody got in and put the
boats away, we all thanked the instructors and headed back home. We stopped at Sheetz for a 
delicious,
and possibly nutritious, dinner made from microwave animal products that were
not just fast food, but better food… fast.
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
New Scout’s First Experiences
Andrew L.
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to join Boy Scouts of
The
Scoutmaster Mr. Burke introduced me to most of the other scouts. Some of the
scouts I recognized out of memory from school and the others I just had to
meet. Everyone in the troop was very welcoming and I have already got to know
some of the scouts well.
Recently I went on my first trip. We
went sailing at
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
Any ideas for the newsletter? Any suggestions or comments?
Want to make an article for the newsletter? If you answered yes to any of these
questions, then contact Dan C. at the meeting.