TROOP TRIBUNE
TROOP 464
 SEPTEMBER 1999

UPCOMING EVENTS

Sept 12        Rosie’s Fund Raiser

       14        Court of Honor

       24-26    McGrath Beach Trip

Oct  9          First Aid MB Training

       19        Ryan Buffum

       Eagle Court

       22-24    Lake Cachuma

UPCOMING MEETINGS

Sept 1          First Aid MB Prep

       8          First Aid MB Prep

       12        PLC Meeting

       15        Court of Honor

       22        Prep for McGrath

       29        First Aid MB Prep

Oct  6          First Aid MB Prep

       10        PLC Meeting

       13        Troop Meeting

       20        Troop Meeting

       27        Troop Meeting

BIRTHDAYS

Sept 4          Paul Marks

Oct  6          Brian Bieber

       12        Carol Fischer

       14        Richard Davidson

       14        Jared Q

       24        Kevin Boyle

DATES OF INTEREST

Sept 6          Labor Day

       11        Rosh Hashanah

       12        Grandparents’ Day

       20        Yom Kippur

       23        1^st Day of Autumn

Oct  11        Columbus Day

(Observed)

FUND-RAISER

   Please mark your calendars for the Rosie’s Fund Raiser on Sunday, September 12^th.  Fliers with additional information and coupons to distribute to your family and friends will be distributed at one of our up-coming meetings.  Please plan on participating, everyone who eats at Rosies’s Barbecue on Platt (Pavilion’s shopping center) and uses a coupon will have a portion of the proceeds donated to our Troop.  This is a fun and effective way to earn money for the Troop.

                   Paul Rose

                   Fundraising Chair

FIRST-AID MERIT BADGE

   The month of September is being set aside for the First Aid Merit Badge.  This is the perfect opportunity for all those who need this merit badge, sign up for it now.  We will be preparing you all month for an eight hour Saturday course.  Preparation will include all of the First Aid requirements for Tenderfoot, Second Class, and First Class, so let’s get it together and sign up now.  The Saturday Class will be on October 9^th at the American Legion Hall.

McGRATH BEACH CAMPOUT

   All those who wish to go on the McGrath State Beach campout must sign up to do so.  We need an accurate count of who is going to be there to better prepare.  So, see Brian Ballew for signups and money collections.

                   Brian B

                   Scribe  

IN-BOX

“Words of Wisdom”

 by Jacques Costeau

   The very survival of the human species depends upon the maintenance of an ocean clean and alive.  The ocean is our planet’s life belt.

                   Submitted by

                   Scott B

                   Patrol Leader

EDITOR’S NOTE

Working Together

   (Equipment - 20 wooden matches held together with a rubber band.  See that all the matches are even in the bundle so the package will stand on end.  Stand the matches on the floor in front of the Scouts.)

   Scouts, you’ll notice the matches in front of you stand easily when they’re all bound together with the rubber band. 

   But, look at what happens when I try to stand them after removing the band.

   Our Troop is like a bunch of matches.  As long as we work together as a team, bound together by the ties of Scouting, we will stand together as a strong Troop.  But if we remove those ideas of Scouting, and each man thinks only of himself, we’ll be like that bunch of matches when the rubber band was taken off.

   As we all live up to the ideals of the Scout Oath, Law, Motto, and Slogan, we will be wrapping ourselves with the band that will strengthen our Troop and make sure that it stands for the things that make Scouting great.

                   Yours in Scouting,

                   David C. Ballew, ASM