When: Oct. 6th – 9th, 2023
Where: Camp Billy Gibbons, Richland Springs, TX

SIGN UP NOW REGISTRATION CLOSES: Sept 30th, 11:30pm

The national Council announced an update to the Youth Protection guidelines for “Adult Supervision” that will go into effect September 1, 2023.  In short, the “72-hour rule” is going away and any adult that is staying overnight in connection with a Scouting activity must be registered in a qualified unit position such as Committee Member (just a Merit Badge Counselor will not count).

The basic plan is that we will camp at Village Creek State Park in the group camping area on Friday night.  We will get up early and pack up quickly on Saturday morning and meet the outfitter for departure.  We will park the cars at an appropriate place and get started as

This is our annual Fall 3-day camping trip and it’s going to be awesome! We will be camping at Camp Billy Gibbons which is close to both Enchanted Rock and Inner Space Caverns. We will spend the day on Saturday in the caves at Inner Space Caverns doing a walk through and a Wild Cave Tour. We have not done this one so it will be a new experience for everyone. They provide the helmets, knee pads and elbow pads. If you would like to bring your own you can certainly do that as well. Please note we will be getting dirty and muddy so bring a change of clothes to change into for the ride back to camp. They do not have showers but a great hose to rinse of with. We have reserved the showers at the campsite so that will be available.

On Sunday we will be heading to Enchanted Rock to do some bouldering, caving, geocaching and hiking. This park is amazing with its massive pink granite dome and finding the only colony of fairy shrimp in the world! Hiking around the dome there is a ton of bouldering and exploring to do as well as an 8 mile round the dome hike.

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Congratulations to our latest Eagle Scout, Collin McSimov. Collin constructed a 120′ gravel path around the Collin Creek Presbyterian Church Nature Area.

When: Sept 15th -17th, 2023
Where: Village Creek State Park, , Lumberton, TX

SIGN UP NOW REGISTRATION CLOSES: Sept 3, 11:30pm

The national Council announced an update to the Youth Protection guidelines for “Adult Supervision” that will go into effect September 1, 2023.  In short, the “72-hour rule” is going away and any adult that is staying overnight in connection with a Scouting activity must be registered in a qualified unit position such as Committee Member (just a Merit Badge Counselor will not count).

This will be a great canoe trip.  We will be paddling on Village Creek and camping on a sandbar.  The Scouts will paddle about 10 miles in total between Saturday and Sunday.  This will fulfill requirement 9b4 for Camping Merit Badge.

The basic plan is that we will camp at Village Creek State Park in the group camping area on Friday night.  We will get up early and pack up quickly on Saturday morning and meet the outfitter for departure.  We will park the cars at an appropriate place and get started as soon as we have all the cars staged.  We will paddle to a sand bar where we will camp.  On Sunday morning, we will get up early, pack up, and canoe to the takeout point.  After gathering our gear and stowing canoes, we will head back to Plano.

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Scouts

This is a great opportunity to earn or complete Citizenship of the Community MB. Mr. Sean Sullivan has offered to teach MB class.

All Scouts are eligible! 

Contact Mr. Sullivan directly by 8/26 if interested. sean.j.sullivan.1@gmail.com

Have your Citizenship of the Community MB Book and Worksheets.

 Location:

CCPC

3901 North Star Road,

Richardson, TX 75082

Part 1:

Sunday August 27, 2023 at CCPC room 106/108.

1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Part 1

Part 2

City Council Meeting starting 7pm following day

Note: this will be aligned with parents/attendees

Part 3 complete on your own

Next Opportunity within Troop 1776 Jan 2024 @ Winter Camp

Congratulations to our latest Eagle Scout, Shawn M. Shawn constructed a Little Library for Seis Lagos.

Congratulations to our latest Eagle Scout, David D. David built a Little Library for the St. Paul Lutheran Church.

Congratulations to our latest Eagle Scout, Danny F. Danny constructed a boardwalk for LLELA.

I have been interning with the Holifield Science Learning Center to take care of their animals this summer. They have a large native meadow next to their facility which is crucial to native animals and plants however I have noticed some invasives establishing such as Johnson grass. I have talked with their curriculum manager, Mr. Taylor, about removal of these invasives and he agrees that the best method is to remove them by hand. Hand removal of these invasives would take many people so I would like to offer the opportunity for scouts to learn and gain volunteer or conservation hours through helping remove these plants.

I am planning a conservation project on July 25th to help remove these plants. I will provide water, food, and some tools, however scouts will need to bring long pants, mid-high boots (low cut not recommended) and a water wicking shirt. I plan to start at around 7:30am and finish by 11:30am, so we can avoid the summer heat. Scouts can earn up to 4 conservation or volunteer hours. I do have limited amounts of hand shovels so dependent on the amount of scouts I will need a few more.

Please consider this opportunity

Chad M.

We received a request from David Hays, Choir Director at CCPC, asking if we could arrange for 5-6 Scouts to participate in the Americana Concert at the church this Sunday.  The Scouts would carry the service branch flags & the American flag at the start of the concert.  The concert starts at 7 pm and ends at 8 pm.  The scouts would arrive at 6:30 pm to rehearse and leave after carrying out the flags at the concert conclusion at 8 pm.

More details to come.

When: Tuesday May 9th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Where: Scuba Adventures Plano
2301 N Central Expy # 140, Plano, TX 75075, USA

Once again, we will be holding our annual swim tests at Plano Scuba. Make sure you show up to get your swim test as these are required for many of our water activities and Summer Camp.

When: May 19th -21st, 2023
Where: Camp Tahuaya, Belton, TX

One of the best places to go tubing anywhere in the United States is the Guadalupe River in Canyon Lake, Texas.  A section of this river that is heavily tubed is called the Horseshoe.  The beauty of this section of river is that when you get done, you can just walk a few blocks and start over again.

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