SC56: All Food Pantry service slots are now filled for next Sat Jan 13th.

Thanks everyone! Michelle Holmes

Here are the minutes from the Troop Committee meeting held on 12/19/17.

Tara Greco

Meeting_Minutes_12-19-2017

Dear Scout Families,

Here is an opportunity for one Scout to get 2 hours (of the 6 hours required) community service to St. James’s:

Helping Hands Food Pantry
364 Rindge Ave
Cambridge MA 02140
Saturday January 13, 2018
9:30-11:30 AM

Scouts already signed up for next Saturday include:
(9:30-11:30) Harrison, Henry, __?__
(11:00-1:00) Lixing, Gray, Hima

Please email me ASAP if you wish to fill this slot, thanks,
Michelle Holmes

In order to plan accurately for the Cooking Merit Badge (location, equipment, etc), I would like to confirm the following Scouts who have signed up. (IF CONFIRMED, NO NEED TO EMAIL ME BACK, ONLY EMAIL ME IF NOT CONFIRMED)

If additional Scouts would like to sign up for this opportunity, could you please email me by 5 pm Saturday January 6th? Details are listed below. Thank you!

Michelle Holmes

Scouts already signed up
1. Harrison (youth leader)
2. Mark
3. Hima
4. Dante
5. Bianca
6. Roberto
7. Imani
8. Nathaniel
9. Kevin

Details Follow:

(Eagle-required) COOKING MERIT BADGE INTENSIVE, & 4 HRS COMMUNITY SERVICE
Taught by SC 56 Eagle Scout graduate, Chef Tano Holmes,
Of William Street Catering, & New York City.
Sous-chef (Youth Leader) Harrison Taylor

Occurs during February school vacation:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday February 22, 23, 24, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm location TBA
Sunday February 25th, 11:30 – 1:00 PM at St. James’s
Cost: $65 (for food costs)

Scouting Friends, The Wilderness First Aid course, taught by the premier provider of such courses (SOLO), is coming up soon. We need to fill exactly 12 spots. I would like to give our youth the priority before I fill the slots with adults. I have room for approximately 3 more youth. Here are the youth currently signed up:

1. Dante (youth leader)
2. Gray
3. Roberto
4. Jeffrey.

PLEASE NOTIFY ME (MICHELLE HOLMES) BY EMAIL BY 5 PM SATURDAY JANUARY 6TH FOR ADDITIONAL YOUTH ATTENDEES

After that date, I will open the course up to interested adults.

Course details:

• Friday – Sunday Feb 2-4 (drive up Friday night; course all day Saturday and Sunday)
• Held at SOLO headquarters Conway NH; We will stay at my house 20 miles away
• Minimum age = 13 or attending Maine High Adventure this summer
• The course is exciting and hands on, but intensive & requires maturity and ability to hold attention all day long
• Fulfills all requirements for Eagle-required First Aid Merit badge and more
• Will get a certificate for WFA and CPR good for 2 years, useful for summer camp jobs etc.

Michelle Holmes

If anyone wants to work on the snow sports merit badge, either in conjunction with snowshoeing or cross-country skiing trips, let me know.

Also, if you are going downhill skiing, we can try to work that in as well.

A copy of the requirements is attached, along with a recent article from Scouting Magazine on cold weather first aid issues.

Colin Zick
Assistant Scoutmaster

Snow Sports MB Req

Survive This: Biting Cold

If you are interested in going on the February 9-11 cross-country ski trip up on NH, and staying at Joe Dodge Lodge, please let me or Sue (adult leaders) or Sam (youth leader) know. (You can find our contact info in the Leader or the Member Directory.)

Because we need to secure skis from the AMC, we’d like to have the attendees in place as soon as possible.

Thanks
Colin Zick

Our esteemed leader works for diversity not just in Scouting, but in musical performance:

J. Andrés Ballesteros, a Boston-area composer on the faculty of the Boston Arts Academy, who organized the letter, said he was “very pleased” with how the conversation went. “The BSO has been very receptive so far,” he said after the meeting.

In their letter, Ballesteros and his fellow signatories ask the BSO to make significant programming changes. Among their recommendations: The BSO should add at least five additional works by women or minorities to the 2017-18 season, and at least 20 percent of the 2018-19 season should comprise works by women or people of color.

The group also included a sizable list of female and minority composers for the BSO to consider going forward, and some canonical works the symphony might play a little less often. “As exciting as it might be to hear the BSO perform Beethoven’s Fifth, it would mark the 55th performance since 2000 and the 21st just this decade,” they wrote. “Would it not be more exciting to open up new, rarely-explored venues?”

www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/12/19/area-musicians-call-bso-diversify-programming/31w7OhQL7wE2ApSsC6UbIM/story.html

Packing List Post Here

We need firm numbers for the trip, as currently there is no additional space available at Carter Notch Hut for Saturday night, but there is some space at Joe Dodge Lodge for Friday and Saturday.

Trip details:

• Early Friday (1/5/18) departure (3:30 pm).
• Stay at Joe Dodge Lodge (heated).
• Early rising on Saturday, hike 4 miles gaining 2000ft of elevation.
• Stay Saturday night at Carter Notch Hut (unheated, temps near 0 degrees F, likely).
• Sunday morning cook breakfast and leave Carter Notch Hut for the hike back to cars 4 miles, 2000ft down.

The current list of participants is

• youth leader – Zoe McNerney
• adult leaders: Britt Rideout, David English, Liz McNerney,
• Bennett
• Elias
• Kavita
• Roberto
• Sam
• Harrison
• Enzo
• Dante P
• Kevin
• Henry

Additional Youth:

• Mark
• Nathaniel
• Hima
• Bianca

Additional Adult:

• Gary

I need confirmation TONIGHT that you are still planning on going.

Note that this is not the best trip to do as your first backpacking trip. Snowshoeing is strenuous work, and cold weather presents additional challenges.

Since we are over subscribed, we may be able to have a few youth and adults do a 1/2 way hike and return to Joe Dodge lodge.

Yours in Scouting,

Britt

Good evening folks,

Since next week will be Christmas, we’re having our monthly adult committee meeting tomorrow. We’re going to try something new and have our meeting at 7:10pm, after the opening of the youth meeting, in the small side room. Let me know if you have any agenda items.

In order to keep tomorrow’s meeting short in light of the potluck/holiday party,I’ll cut a few items and move things quickly. If you are a leader on any upcoming trip, please email me updates on your trip in advance if possible.

Thanks all and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

YIS/V,

Andrés
SC56 Committee Chair