July 1, 2025 Announcements

Thank you to all at home and on-site that helped make a successful camp week!!!!

Summer camp – 113 merit badges completed plus other specific activities like paddleboarding. The July 1st troop meeting will feature book checks for all.  Incomplete MB sheets will be distributed. Some are one or two individual discussion requirements, so could be finished quickly.  Troop 48 is looking for a Merit Badge Counselor to help finish Exploration MB with a virtual visit to a STEM research website.

The order is in for lightweight and traditional hoodies. Please come prepared to pay (unless paid in advance) and pick up your order. 

July 1, 2025 Announcements

Clean the troop office and garage from summer camp

Plan troop cook-off contest

Book check /update night!!! 

Note: Scouts are asked to please respect the church grounds and not be in the play yard if older than elementary age.  

Do not run in the church halls.

For safety, it is important that scouts do not leave the church building without adult supervision. 

Scouts should not be leaving the Troop meeting without Informing their patrol leadership or adult advisor for patrol.

Please do not go into the game room or youth group room without an adult

Please do not eat food or drink beverages out of any of the refrigerators unless we have specifically indicated we are providing food.

Please make sure your behavior is following the Scout Oath and Law!

July patrol duties

• Ceremonies: Flaming Arrow  • Food Box: Wolf  • Game Guides: Shark  • PLC (7/8) Host and Troop Meeting Set-up: Eagle  • Service: Phoenix (Clean up and leadership assistance)  • Can Recycling:  Panther  (check every week, even if no cans brought into the gym)  • Grounds: Fox   Both of these latter two duties should be done while there is still daylight and have an adult leader with them while outside 

Trip fees!! 

Please check with Mr. Browning regarding your scout account balance. It should be zero or positive before the next trip – or Board of Review.  

NASA Space Camp Pathfinder Program, Thursday, July 17 – Sunday, July 20

One Tranquility Base, Huntsville, AL, 35805, United States

3 day, 2 night adventure at the NASA Space Camp 

Possible Merit Badges (checking on details): Aviation, Wilderness Survival, Orienteering 

Recommended packing list found at www.rocketcenter.com/SpaceCamp/Pathfinder

Hasbrouck Memorial Hike, Saturday, July 12 

8:00 a.m., meet at CHPC parking lot.  Carpooling is important as parking at Carvers Gap fills quickly.  The group should be back in Kingsport between 4:00 and 4:30 p.m. Troop 48 will be joining members of the Hasbrouck family at the trailhead at 10:00am  

APPALACHIAN TRAIL HIKE – CARVERS GAP to GRASSY RIDGE BALD AND BACK, 5.0 MILES

Wear and pack gear appropriate for the weather, along with lunch and drinking water.

Mr. Hasbrouck’s will be spread discretely along the Appalachian Trail on Roan Mountain.

If scouts use a topo map to guide the group, then this hike completes the Second Class requirement.

2025 Kingsport Fun Fest, July 18-26

CRAZY 8, July 19 Barking Lot just before entrance to the stadium for 3k and 8k races

• Medals @ 3:30pm – Meet at the finish line
• Little 8’s @ 5:30pm – Meet at the finish line
• Barking lot @ 7:30pm – Outside the stadium. 

We will need five scouts for each station. Please sign up ASAP with Mr. Elizabeth Wilkins.  This event also needs additional adults to help Mr & Mrs Wilkins and Mr. Sprinkle!! 

If you want to sign up to run, you can join Mr. Brian Shone who is running!!!! 

Parents of those working on Scout or Star ranks.  

Your scouts have a requirement which must have your involvement.  “With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide and view the Personal Safety Awareness videos (with your parent or guardian’s permission).”  The first item is a pamphlet found in the front of the scout handbook (or here).  The second is on Scouting America. To communicate this completion, just sign and date the front cover of the pamphlet (or send a written message if it is missing).

Adult Leaders:  YPT is now SYT: Safeguarding Youth Training.  

Read here for details. While YPT focuses mostly on preventing abuse, SYT includes information on SAFE: supervision, assessment, fitness and skill, and equipment and environment.  The 90-minute course is now required when YPT becomes due.  (Good news is that the refresher might only be 15-minutes.)