West Point Scouts and Parents,
Please attend our planning meeting – Monday in the church gym at 6:40pm on March 20.
This is before the Troop meeting and Mr. Garbacik is kindly compressing his Bruce Peninsula meeting to 40 mins, for us.

Troop parents,
We ask each family to help run the Troop in some way.
So please consider volunteering to help with running a Merit Badge!

We are looking for 2x cooking and 1x fishing – starting April 3.

Please help to teach one Merit Badge.  I only ask people to run one MB per year, so people don’t get burned out.

We will start the new MB session on April 3.  By April, we will be meeting at Waterford Bend.
(If you are currently busy, see below for MBs later in the year)

We were accepted to attend the West Point camporee!   Hoo-rah! 
Please pay your $40 deposit now: https://www.troop755.org/node/13730/signup/attending
If you would like to attend, we still have a few spaces!  Contact Mr. Chalom by Feb26 and he will add you to the list.
See below for more info on upcoming planning meeting and help needed.

Will be in the gym prior to the regular meeting at 6:00 pm

The next key step for this trip is:

 informational meeting at 6:15pm on Monday January 9 in the church gym.

The stations include a lot of team-building and leadership activities, such as ‘rescue a hostage in the woods’, leading your blindfolded patrol through a course, army-crawl to rescue a team-mate, problem-solving, paddling race, weapons familiarization, fire-building, etc.

We will have our own Troop755 Eagle Scout, John Smith, and Northville High School alumnus, Brandon Liu, there to join us.  I hope we will also get to meet some of the other cadets that we wrote to over the summer.

Logistics

West Point is in New York State and is a 10 hour drive.  So we will leave Thursday afternoon (and stay at a Scout camp overnight) or leave on Friday morning.  (We always used to leave Thursday afternoon when we went before).

If we need to, we can rent 15-passenger Ford Transit vans but renting is expensive.  If we can have enough parents with large SUVs, we should be able to save money.  Either way, we will need a number of parents to be drivers.