Every few years, the BSA updates its Annual Health and Medical Record after consulting with health care professionals, Scout executives, council and camp health officers and other experts to ensure it is up-to-date and helpful.

T. Brady Saunders is offering a virtual course specially designed for first-year campers called Pathfinders in June and July. This 4 day course is designed to cover some of the requirements that would normally be taught in their Trailblazers program as well as a few that are new. There are three different weeks to choose from.

Interested in learning how to pack your backpack for a troop or patrol backpacking trip? One of our Life Scouts, James B., recently earned the Camping Merit Badge. He created a video to demonstrate how he packs his backpack for requirement 7b. Follow this link to watch the video.

Since we will be using zoom for meetings and campouts for the next few months and not everyone is familiar with this software, I've made some instructions detailing how to join a meeting and how to use zoom once you join.

You've seen other Councils offer online merit badges, now it's our turn! Our own Cardinal District is offering the following merit badges in May. The cost for each merit badge is $5.00. Scouts need to get Scoutmaster or Assistant Scoutmaster approval prior to taking the merit badge. If you are interested, click the links for more information and to download the Program Guide.

It has been awhile since we've been able to meet with the continued concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Our Court of Honor, Merit Badge Weekend, and several other events have been canceled or postponed. So, with guidance from the National and District offices, we would like to try to do what we can to get together (virtually), work on some Scout activities, and generally try to work together to deal with these strange and difficult times. Below is a general discussion of our plans for the Troop.