A surprise visit Monday night from Magilla Gorilla (with his friend Nathan Millette) Flag Raising at Lakeview Campsite Morning Chapel with "Pastor Mike" from Troop 200, Cleves, Ohio Clay Pigeon shoot on the Shotgun Range .22 caliber bolt action rifle Will and Greg, budding artists at the Handicraft Class Trailblazer Class for young scouts: the Flaming Arrow Patrol Young Brit gets NO respect from his comrads. (Parents please click on the "comments" link and give us your thoughts.)
Dodgeball, Equipment Loading, and Other Things This week we had the long awaited dodgeball tournament. The troop was divided into four teams. Then we began the hurling of gator-skin balls across the room. Once this great thing was over with, we fell in. However, some Scouts were disrespectful, talking and being disruptive. So because of this we had to stand with our signs up for six minutes in total. After we were able to relieve our arms, there were some announcements and rank advancement. Then we put all of our personal gear for Peterloon in the trailer. And once the trailer doors were shut, everyone left.
The Historian as a gamer 000 At the most recent Troop 281 meeting, Boards of Review were held for those eligible for the next scout rank, but since only a few scouts were able to participate in a Board of Review, something had to be done for all the other scouts who were attending the meeting. Thus the reason the last meeting was a “Game Night” meeting, or in other words where there is no real objective other than to have fun, a goal which could be reached through several means. Set up at a few different spots were televisions hooked up to several different video game consoles (a Wii, an Xbox 360, a Gamecube, and another Xbox) where a few scouts could play together in any of the games brought for said consoles. For those who didn’t want to or were waiting to play the video games, there were other non-electronic games, too. Several scouts played basketball and others engaged in various card games. As the night went on, the scouts who had Boards of Review were pulled out periodically, l...
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