Archive for September 2020

Attention Troop 701 Committee Members and any interested parents: We will meet for our monthly committee meeting this Tuesday at 7:15pm. We will send out the sign-in information through a TWH email tomorrow. Thanks for all you do for Troop 701!

Scouts who have been invited on the 2021 high adventure trek to Philmont Scout Ranch are reminded to submit their responses and down payment by this Tuesday, Sept. 15. Going to Philmont is literally a mountaintop high adventure experience which generates lifelong memories. A limited number of […]

Thank you to everyone who attended the Parent Meeting last Tuesday. I have attached our agenda from the meeting for your review. This version is the corrected file – thank you to those of you who let me know that last week’s file had missing pages. Fall […]

Now that we are few weeks into the Scouting year, we want to encourage all of our families to check and log your Scout’s temperature every day. As you know, Lake Erie Council requires a temperature log for two weeks before every camp. Our troop leaders are […]

Our first camp out of the year is Pirate Gold Rush Camp, scheduled for the weekend of September 18-20, at Firelands Scout Reservation in Wakeman, OH. Come join us for some teamwork and plundering fun! Don’t forget to bring a bandanna, and a lot of patrol spirit! […]

Please join us for a VIRTUAL parent meeting this Tuesday at 7:15pm. We will send the Zoom connection information soon, so please watch your email. Please feel free to join us whenever you are free after dropping off your Scout, and we will try to finish expeditiously […]

If you wish to receive daily reminders to check and log the temperatures of anyone going to camp (participants, drivers, and anyone else who might be in the car), please sign up on the Remind app. Reminders will start for this month on Friday, September 4, and […]

Like almost everything else, we are making changes to the 2020 Popcorn Sale, so that we can offer scouts the ability to raise funds for the Troop and for their own scout accounts, and still ensure that we are being safe and healthy. We will be doing […]

To earn the Troop 701 Community Service Award, a Scout or adult must volunteer for a minimum of four service projects totaling at least 12 hours during the Scouting year (Sept. 1 to Aug. 31). For the 2019-2020 year, the requirements have been relaxed to three projects […]

As we head into a new Scouting year, let’s pause to recognize our current nights of camping leaders: John D. – 168 Ryan N. – 160 Nathan T. – 154 Ryan A. – 150 Alex K. – 135 Joe W. – 119 Charles M. – 114 Ian […]