The Troop has just completed our 2025 summer resident camp at Camp T. Brady Saunders in Goochland.  Our 27 scouts earned 93 merit badges (complete) along with a few partial completions. Several scouts earned the mile swim award and the Troop was awarded all three major Troop awards, The Clean Sweep, The Spirit Log, and the Retreat Cup. This was a great showing with such a rough week, due to the weather. (Rain, hot, rain, hot and ending with rain). This should be one the scouts and adults should remember. Scouts were challenged to clean and dry all of their gear and help their parents with all of the laundry they brought home. We may ask if they met this challenge. 

Thanks goes out to the adults that spent their time at camp to make this possible .. Mr's Call, Rapp, Claiborne, Beasley, Hudson, Rost and Swingle. 

Note: Several of our scouts did not turn in "blue cards" for all of their merit badges. Please check and be sure they didn't get taken them home or stashed them in a "safe" place. Get them to one of the adult leaders so you can get proper credit for it.

What a great success we had at fish camp. Most, but not all, of the scouts who fished caught something. The entire Troop was able to have a fish fry off the catching of the day. We caught around 30 bluegill, 7 large mouth bass and one very large crappie. Fish cooked with hush puppies, french fries and some chicken filled everyone. All seemed happy with the event, including the gun club who were looking to thin out the some of the fish in the lake.

For some pictures from the weekend, check out our Facebook group later today.

  Here we go .... Off to Camp T. Brady Saunders.

We will be leaving Cool Spring Baptist around 1:00pm on Sunday, July 6th. (We will give you a definite departure time at this Tuesdays meeting) We will return Saturday, July 12th around 11am. If you have any difficulties with the departure or return times please talk to Mr.Call.

While at camp, we are hoping to post pictures of some of the daily activities. Some will be posted on this web site and some to Facebook. If you are not a member of our Facebook group, you can join at                                                                                              https://www.facebook.com/groups/117641468296503 .

Most of the Scouts and Adults that are going to Summer Camp at T. Brady Saunders this year received their T-Shirts and Water Bottles at last week's meeting.

The following need to pick up their shirts or water bottles this week in order to have them for Summer Camp:

The following T-Shirt orders are also available for pickup:

We have additional T-Shirts in the smaller sizes (S,M,L) if anyone else would like to purchase them for $15 each. If you would like to have extra shirts for Summer Camp, please send a message to Mick Rost at oldbear451@gmail.com in order to pick them up on Tuesday night.

 This week, Cool Spring Baptist is hosting its annual vacation Bible school. All rooms in the Church will be used for that purpose. The Troop will meet, our normal times, at the new pavilion. Bug spray may be a good idea. Maybe we can even have a fire in the fire pit!

  Scouts can now wear Class B uniforms to our meetings for the remainder of the summer. Class B is an appropriate tee shirt with shorts. We prefer a scout t-shirt and scout shorts. We have a nice selection of shorts and shirts in our scout closet if you want to look through them when we get back on July 1st. These uniform pieces are free for those that need them.

  On Friday we will be headed to the Cavalier Rifle and Pistol Club in Montpelier, VA for Fish Camp. We want to meet at 5:30p (please eat dinner before you come or bring a bag dinner) at the trailers behind the church. We should return Sunday at 12:15pm.

  Attending scouts are asked to bring $15 for food to give to the patrol grub master. This way the grub master has the money to go buy the food for his patrol. We are hoping we catch enough fish to do a fish fry on Saturday night. Other menu items have been arranged for those that don't want to eat fish.

More info will be out Tuesday.