Troop Gear Cleanout Update

Saturday Night Update: We had a very successful first day at the church but we STILL NEED HELP TOMORROW! Thanks to Beckham, Izaiah, and Alexander for helping in the morning and Caleb, Zack, Jacob, and Mr. Naber for helping all day – we got A LOT accomplished!

• We hit the jackpot with our patrol boxes and found a couple that look hardly used, if at all and placed the two best in the blue trailer for future use.
• We inventoried and found missing pieces out of all the other boxes, making them whole again.
• We fired up EVERY stove (more than a dozen) to ensure they work.
• We identified MANY items for donations.
• We pulled out almost everything from the shed and reorganized it.
• We threw away a carload or so of junk.
• We organized pots and pans, finding lids and placing them all together.
• Everyone took home stuff to be cleaned and returned.

But we AREN’T FINISHED! We still need help tomorrow, Sunday with the following:

• Setting up all the current tents to identify missing parts.
• Organizing the old tents and deciding what to do with them.
• Figuring out our tarp situation (we found a lot more!) so we know what we need to acquire, if any.
• Prepping the white trailer if we need to use it for summer camp this year.
• Setting up Big White if we can figure it out, to see what might be wrong with it.

So PLEASE, if you and/or your Scout is available, we would love to have you drop by tomorrow! I plan to arrive around 10am and will work until we are done. I expect it to be a shorter day, so hopefully we are done by early afternoon. Thanks so much for your continued support!

Many times over the past year or so, usually during/after a campout, the idea has been talked about in regards to getting our troop gear organized and in order. Well we have decided this upcoming weekend is the best time!

The tentative plan is for us to meet at the trailers behind Genesis starting at 9:00am on Saturday, June 12th and work on the trailer contents, the shed contents, and our inside storage contents to take a proper inventory, pilfer/consolidate patrol boxes as appropriate, and decide what equipment should stay, go, and/or be replaced. We will work all day (until 4ish?) and provide lunch. If we need to resume Sunday, we will do so, again planning to start at 9:00am.

It is not required that everyone shows up the whole weekend, however we’d love to get as much help as possible – so please keep us in mind when making your weekend plans and drop by when you can – even for just an hour or two. Remember that maintaining all of our equipment is the whole Troop’s responsibility so we’d love as much support as possible!

We’d also love adults to help out, including someone willing to take lunch orders! Thanks for your continued support of our Troop!

-Troop 640 ASMs and Scoutmaster