First–the first meeting will be on a Wednesday, not a Thursday because that very next Friday is a school holiday and the start of the Labor Day weekend. Then the next week we run into a Thursday holiday which makes a meeting impossible. The main point of the first meeting is election of a new SPL and reorganization of patrols. All Scouts should make a real effort to attend because the selection of an SPL is VERY important. So Wednesday, not Thursday, this one time only. Mark that date on your calendar: September 1st at 7:30 PM.

There were very few lost items reported at camp. One was a gray-and-blue backpack with a water bottle in it. If it shows up in a trunk, bring it to the first meeting. If you are missing other items, let me know about it.

I owe pictures to a small handful of people and arrows to a slightly larger handful. I will give them to you when I see you. There is a continuing misunderstanding of pictures and how they are paid for. We used to ask a Scout who went to camp for two weeks pay for one of the pictures. That is no longer the case. It is built into the price of camp.

There are some meds which parents did not pick up after camp including an epi pen. E-mail me offline so I can figure out how to get the meds back to you.

There are some partials on merit badges which can be cleaned up. We are making plans for a cleanup session like the one we had last year. The merit badges we will concentrate on will include Swimming, First Aid, Small Boat Sailing, and Pioneering. We will take a look at all of the partials, however, to see what a Scout needs to do to complete those merit badges. If we can provide some way to complete those partials, we will. I suspect it will be an Old Res Saturday as it was last time.

We will also be discussing camp among the Scouts at that first meeting so we can start the planning process for next year. If adults have any thoughts about camp, good or bad, please share them with me.

A note to adults: Go online and at the very least get that Youth Protection Training requirement out of the way. The rules are getting stricter and we want all our adults to have YPT.

-Hank