Welcome

The official website of Boy Scout Troop 365, Worthington Ohio 43085 — Scouting 365 Days a Year. Visit us most Monday nights, 7 pm, at the Worthington United Methodist Church, 600 North High Street. Outing questions? Call your Patrol Leader: Beanie Hallfrisch (Delta), Ian Cook (Black Dragon), James Madden (Viking), Iain Johnson (Shark), Sean Bolon (Eagle).

Important Information

  • Council Paddling Clinics for Spring, 2012 include 2 Canoeing Merit Badge clinics (one at Oyo), a one-day Kayak clinic, and a 2-day-2-night Canoe Camping clinic. Check out the flyer for more details; questions to Mr. Hock.

What’s on for May, 2012?
Many calendar changes, so please make sure you check below…

  • Troop Committee Meeting, May 15th.  At the Church, 7PM, all adults welcome.
  • Mandatory Service Project, May 19th.  Okay – NOW we’ll do our Service to the community.  What, you ask?  Clean up the river?  No.  Plant a Rain Garden? No.  Clear a half-acre of invasive plants, weeds and poison ivy at Hoover Prairie?  BINGO!  You heard correctly – Be there at 9AM; plan to stay until 2PM; hope we finish by 1PM.  Wear a long sleeve shirt and long pants; bring gloves; bring water bottles (filled with water, duh!); bring a sack lunch.  The Troop will bring the First Aid kit, extra water, soap, and the calamine lotion!  We’ll have directions at the meetings.  Remember – This is MANDATORY for a lot of reasons, including advancement!
  • Annual Patrol Cook-off and Gear Inspection, May 21st.  Regular Meeting at the Church– WAIT!  Not-so-regular meeting – It’s our Annual Patrol Cook-off and Gear Inspection!  The judges are hungry, so the dishes better be good!  And see if Black Dragon can find that good spatula that’s missing from their patrol box!  It’s also Troop Officer Elections that night– and the Last Time to Turn in Advancements for the June Court of Honor.  Whew~! That’s a lot of stuff for one night.  Adults– please come early to help set up.  Scouts– please come early to get started!
  • Memorial Day Parade, May 28th.  No Troop Meeting – We’ll be marching in the Memorial Day Parade!  Uniforms and smiles mandatory; rain gear optional.
  • PLC Cookout, May 29th.  PLC meeting and Cookout at Wilson Hill Park at 6PM.

Buckeye District News

Forms you need?

  • NEW 2011 version of the BSA Annual Health & Medical Form, required for your son or you as an adult. For most uses, you PRINT only the 1st 2 pages. For a physical exam, you PRINT only the 1st 3 pages, the 3rd signed by your health care professional. Open it on the web, fill it out, then print to complete at your medical exam, and sign. Give a copy to our Scoutmaster. Save a filled-in form for yourself. This is an ANNUAL REQUIREMENT, so many parents do this when their boys take a sports physical, while adults take it with for their annual examination.
  • Our Generic Permission Slip. Here is our generic permission slip for people to go on our treks. Remember people need a medical form, too. You’ll note the reminder about discipline, knives, and prohibition against smoking or controlled substance use in any of our activities.

BSA has published a new set of advancement guidelines for 2011; you can review the *.pdf version here. It also revises and clarifies Eagle project planning, and provides a revised service project workbook template, required for Eagle projects approved after January 1, 2012 — see section 9, or look on our Advancement pages under Eagle.

The Boy Scout handbook has the newest online elements for you — Scoutcraft, Woodcraft, Camp craft! Videos, maps, links.