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Reminder: Aaron Johnston’s Eagle Ceremony

Scouts are asked to arrive at 12:30 to help with set up and ceremony.  See invitation attached below. 

Aaron Johnston’s Eagle Ceremony

Please join the Johnston family and Troop 20/20 in celebrating the achievement of Aaron Johnston as he is awarded the rank of Eagle Scout.

Date: Saturday May 21st at 1:00 PM
Location: Strong Family Farm, 274 West Street in Vernon.
Casual Dress or Scouting attire.

RSVP to Stevencjohnston@hotmail.com or 860-454-4348.

Summer Camp Payments and Forms

Reminders:

Payment in full is due by May 5th.
Please see Gabi LaBrecque to make your payment. (Colton’s mom)

If you’d like to pay by credit card please email t2020ct@gmail.com with the amount of your balance owed and you will receive a payment request from PayPal to complete that payment.

Payments received after May 5th will have a $25 fee added to your balance due.

Medical Forms are due on or before our Court of Honor on June 12th. Please be sure to complete the ENTIRE packet. Forms are posted on our website Summer Camp page.

Please contact us with any questions.

Last Phone Book Update

And…. Just like that we are done.  All of the sheets and trackers were turned in earlier this week.

John Drost went above and beyond to ensure any extra books, pallets odds and ends have been removed from the warehouse both inside and out.

Thank you to everyone that helped with this tremendous effort.

Just in case you still have any books at your house or in your car, here are few ideas of what you can do with them.

Check out Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/truecaller/crafts-for-old-phonebooks/

And from around the web:

In the House

Emergency toilet paper (Note: may not be the best for your pipes or septic system.)

Stack them under the table cloth to elevate a nice centerpiece.

Fold pages at angle from top outside corner to mid at center to make a door stop

Bullet-proof your house! Build 6-foot book shelves along all exterior walls within your house and line them with phone books. They make the best bullet stops there is, and it makes you look like an intellectual .when people stop by. Another option to do build these “bookshelves” alongside the front and back doors. It’ll give you something to duck behind when you have unwanted company…with guns.

Stack them to create a make-shift booster seat.

Insulation

Washing windows

Hollow one or two out to make some hidey holes for valuables

Wrap Christmas decorations and other fragile items to protect them in storage or shipment.

Wrap compost in  it to carry to the bin, then just throw the whole thing in so you don’t have to worry about washing a dish or bucket out.

Uses for phone books in arts & crafts

Floor cover for little artists

Tear out the pages and use them for papier mâché

Coat pages in petroleum jelly. Roll them up and dip them in wax. Makes emergency candles that are also waterproof.

As a teenager I would use them as scrap books. Cover them with all kinds of art.

Save them and turn it into paper snow flakes. It’s what I do with my used non returnable textbooks

Pattern paper

Origami practice

Outdoors, Fires, and Animals (Pets)

Firestarters

Target practice

You can pack them in a box or wrap them up together for a safe backstop for dry fire practice with a gun.

Bullet penetration/expansion tests

Mix with ashes and lamp oil or kerosene to make fire logs

Tear out a few pages and stuff them into empty toilet paper tubes. Great firestarter.

Cage liners, especially shredded, for rabbits, birds, feral cats, etc. (better if mixed with hay)

Lay under tomatoes, under the straw for weed help

Tear them up and use them to smother weeds, putting mulch on top. Works better than the black plastic stuff, and the best part is that they degrade completely.

Use with this awesome tool to never run out of seed pots!

Shred for compost (except for the cover, which was probably treated with chemicals)

Worm bin

Jason

GPS Trackers

A follow up… these trackers will cost us $65 each if we do not turn them in.  Five trackers = $325.  Please double check so we do not get charged for them.  

One last call for GPS Trackers

Good Morning,

I will be dropping off the last of the routes tomorrow.  Please take another look around the house, car and even the kids clothes to look for any GPS trackers you may have.

We are 5 short at this point.

Thank you,

Jason

Summer Camp Medical Forms

Reminder that the medical form packet is available on our summer camp page http://www.t2020.org/summer-camp.html
On page 2 of the packet,  please do not forget to attach a copy of both sides your insurance card. 

Thank you from Gabi, your summer camp coordinator.

If you still have a GPS Tracker from Phone Books

Good Afternoon,

If you still have a GPS Tracker from Phone Books please let me know and either bring it to Thursday’s meeting or drop it off at my house.  I have just been informed that we are 9 units short and they are $65 a piece.

Thank you,

Jason

Nickerson Permission Slip due 4/28

Permission slips (and payment) for our Nickerson, Cape Cod campout are due at this week’s meeting on 4/28.  You can find the link for the permission slip on our calendar, http://t2020.org/calendar.html  just click on the event and ‘more details’ to find the link in the description.  You can also use the link here to go right to the form – http://goo.gl/forms/PQlR1vSQ3P

Important Reminders:
– To help us plan better for our campout, this form will be deactivated at 6:00PM on Thursday 4/28 so please submit your form before then.
– If you are unable to access or print – please contact me at t2020ct@gmail.com and I will help you!
– If I do not hear from you and your scout is attending this trip, you will be expected to print a copy of the slip attached in your confirmation email, to turn in on 4/28.  This saves lots of paper in place of handing out multiple copies of forms that get lost.

Let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Looking for Jacob Walden

Good Evening,  I am attempting to track down Jacob.  I believe he as two routes which I am looking for an update on.  If you could pass this message along and ask them to either email me (jason.lipman@gmail.com) or call me at 860.268.0545 it would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Jason