Camp Daniel Boone - This Sunday!

Summer camp at Camp Daniel Boone (CDB) starts Sunday!

• Permission Form
• Equipment List (What to Bring!)
  
• Health Form
• Merit Badges offered at CDB (Please look thru this, some merit badges have additional fees or prereqs!)
  

Here are the most important things to remember:

1. We will meet at the Cherokee Youth Center at 1pm on Sunday, June 21st. Please be on time!
2. All scouts attending will need a current health form that is filled out. No Exceptions. We will collect the forms before leaving. I still have forms for the scouts who attended last year, which are still good.
   
3. We will also collect signed permission forms prior to leaving. All scouts must have one.
   
4. Fees for the camp are $195. Please bring cash - we will need to collect the camp fees before leaving. All scouts must pay before we leave!
   
5. There are additional fees for some merit badges for materials, including Basketry, Leatherwork, Indian Lore, Woodcarving, Space Exploration, Pulp and Paper, Rifle and Shotgun - usually a maximum of $10-$15. Horsemanship and Animal Science are $40, and are held offsite during the evenings at Stockton Farms. Although these are pricey, Horsemanship and Animal Science are excellent programs. Please review the Merit Badge information with your scout prior to camp.
   
6. If your scout wants any spending money, please make sure they take some - there is a camp store and snack bar. $20-30 dollars is plenty. Please make sure your scout has some spending money, so the adult volunteers don't turn into the Troop 905 Loan Company ;-)
7. Scouts must have a uniform (they aren't allowed into the dining hall without it). Scouts must be in uniform when we drive to camp
   
8. Make sure your scout brings his Scout Book!
   
9. Please pick up your scout at the Cherokee Youth Center on Sat, June 27th at 2pm.
   

Court of Honor (with Pictures)

The Troop held our Court of Honor at the Cherokee Youth Center. Rank advancements and Merit badges were awarded.

You can view pictures here!

Note - click on a thumbnail to see the full sized picture, then move your cursor to the right or left side of picture and click to get to the prev/next pictures)

The following Rank Advancements were awarded:

Tenderfoot - Watson Harlan
Second Class - Sam Arneach and Dylan Thompson
First Class - Vance Tyson and Will Arneach

The scouts were awarded a wide variety of Merit Badges, including Archery, First Aid, Aviation and a whole bunch of others.

Court of Honor

Troop 905 will hold a Court of Honor this Thursday, June 18th @ 6pm at the Cherokee Youth Center. Troop members will be awarded rank advancements and merit badges that they have earned.

We'll be having a potluck dinner - Hugh Lambert will be providing a meat dish for dinner (lasagna or some other goodie!). Please bring either a vegetable disk or dessert.


We've got a lot of badges to award. Hope to see everyone there!

Music Merit Badge - Anyone interested?

Considering how many of our Scouts play in Band, the Music Merit Badge is a natural. Please contact me (Mark Tyson - mtyson@gmail.com) if your scout would be interested in earning the Music Merit Badge, and I'll sign up to be a counselor.



Here are the requirements:

1) Sing or play a simple song or hymn chosen by your counselor using good technique, phrasing, tone, rhythm, and dynamics.. Read all the signs and terms of the score.

2) Name the five general groups of musical instruments. Create an illustration that shows how tones are generated and how instruments produce sound.

3) Do TWO of the following:

a. Attend a live performance, or listen to three hours of recordings from any two of the following musical styles: blues, jazz, classical, country, bluegrass, ethnic, gospel, musical theater, opera. Describe the sound of the music and the instruments used. Identify the composers or songwriters, the performers, and the titles of the pieces you heard. If it was a live performance, describe the setting and the reaction of the audience. Discuss your thoughts about the music.

b. Interview your parents and grandparents about music. Find out what the most popular music was when they were your age. Find out what their favorite music is now, and listen to three of their favorite tunes with them. How do their favorites sound to you? Had you ever heard any of them? Play three of your favorite songs for them, and explain to them why you like these songs. Ask them what they think of your favorite music.

c. Serve for six months as a member of a school band, choir, or other local musical group; or perform as a soloist in public six times.

d. List five people who are important in the history of American music and explain to your counselor why they continue to be influential. Include at least one composer, one performer, one innovator, and one person born more than 100 years ago.

4) Do ONE of the following:

a. Teach three songs to a group of people. Lead them in singing the songs, using proper hand motions.

b. Compose and write the score for a piece of music of 12 measures or more.

c. Make a traditional instrument and learn to play it.

d. Catalog your own or your family's collection of 12 or more compact discs, tapes or records. Show how to handle and store them.

Swine Flu outbreak at CDB

Before everyone gets this second hand, there has been an outbreak of Swine Flu at Camp Daniel Boone this week. It appears that several scouts from a Florida troop were infected before they came up to CDB. The Heyward County health department has been very proactive, taking the temperature of everyone at camp and isolating anyone with a raised temperature. Most of the outbreak was limited to the single troop, with one exception. It appears that everyone is going to be ok, the effects were minor.

Here's a link to a news article about the outbreak

I'll post any additional information as I learn more

- Mark

Scouts to appear at Cherokee Tribal Council meeting

We are asking all Scouts to attend the Cherokee Tribal Council meeting on July 9th, making a short presentation. This is intended to raise awareness with the Tribal Council about scouting activities in Cherokee (Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts).



Also, attending a government meeting is one of the requirements for the Citizenship in the Community Merit Badge, which is one of the merit badges on the Eagle required list.

Please mark your calendars!

No Scout Meeting this Week!

Due to the Youth Center being closed, Troop 905 will not have it's regularly scheduled meeting this week, Thursday, June 4th.

Some ideas Hugh passed along

Robin and I have some wonderful ideas!!!!!

1- We’d like to get the scouts to go in front of the july Council and just introduce ourselves(and the scouts as well), tell them what we are all doing, and just to let them know they have scout troops here in CHEROKEE!!!

As long as it's not when a bunch of us will be in Idaho, that's excellent! We want the cub pack too!

>>>>>>>>2- We’d like for the boys and girls to get together and do something for the Fair this year – on childrens day (usually wed) we’d like the troops to perform, cherokee dances and maybe learn and sing a few cherokee songs (amazing grace….. etc…) they could work with Bo and see if he’d sing for them… we could get Chey and Ashley to be the dancer leaders – as both are in the drama this summer and are doing the same dances(all summer long)

I think this is excellent! A Boy Scout Indian dance team that has Indians! What a concept!!!! I think it's fine. It could also turn into a Ventrue patrol for the troop- a way to keep older boys active.

By the way, the new Council Executive, Council President and the Council Commissioner will be speaking this Thursday at the Cataloochee District Roundtable (held at First Baptist Church in Sylva, by the old post office at 7pm). Since the youth center is closed this week I didn't know if we'd have a meeting or not. If we do I'd like at least one adult from each unit to attend. If we have to cancel the meeting then I can attend.

Also, our District Exec Bill Lawrence is writing a grant proposal to the casino for us (well, mostly us I think) for jambo fees, camp fees, equipment, etc. Thank you Bill!