Current news for Troop 893 for Girls
Scoutmaster Moment With apologies for the delayed note this week, I got my 2nd COVID shot Saturday and have been recuperating. I hope everyone enjoyed Spring Break and had an opportunity to relax some. Our family enjoyed some nice hikes and visited some new parks on the days with good weather. This has me looking forward [...]
Scoutmaster Moment Spring Break is here, this week is bracketed by Passover and Easter. Both are holidays that celebrate new beginnings and mark the arrival of Spring in our cultural calendars. Enjoy this week of downtime from school and other activities, enjoy time with your families and return refreshed for a new Leadership term with ILST [...]
Scoutmaster Moment This week was a busy week for the troop. New Scouts were welcomed and incorporated into the Troop as members of the New-Trons New Scout patrol and both of the established patrols welcomed Scouts transferring to our unit. Parents got quite the information dump on how both Troops operate followed by our first Order of the [...]
Scoutmaster Moment This past week was the one year anniversary of living in the shadow of a pandemic. I know of people who refer to then as “The Before Times”, when we could go out without masks, be in classes, hold regular Scout meetings indoors. It sounds like a something out of a Science Fiction novel, [...]
Scoutmaster Moment Perseverance carries us through efforts in life, this is true for in school, learning new skills for fun or by direction, in scouts, and now as we push through a pandemic. Vaccines are rolling out and I know more and more people who have had one or even both doses, FCPS has some students [...]
Scoutmaster Moment We had a great outing this weekend, braving cool temps and snow covered forest to hunt down some geocaches in Conway Robinson State Forest. Snow on the ground gave great opportunity to see evidence of forest animals. We saw lots of prints in the snow from deer, rabbit, raccoon, and even what appeared to [...]
Scoutmaster Moment Today is President’s Day, held on (or closest Monday to) George Washington’s birthday and now often celebrates Abraham Lincoln as well. Both presidents are known by all Americans, and beyond, as our first and sixteenth presidents. for founding our Presidency and restoring our Union. We see them as always successful in winning a Revolutionary [...]
Scoutmaster Moment This week was all about the hiking. Tuesday’s meeting was preparation info presented by Rascal Rabbits and Saturday was hike execution with a planned 5-mile hike around Burke Lake. We went a bit above and beyond, totaling 6 miles and working off a requirement for newer scouts while everyone had a good time on [...]
Scoutmaster Moment Today marks the first significant snow we have seen in two years. While it wasn’t quite as much as I’d hoped might fall, it made the world around us beautiful in shades of white and gray as the wet snow clung to the trees. How did you spend the day as it fell? In [...]
Scoutmaster Moment This Wednesday is 20 January, and will be our nation’s 59th Presidential Inauguration. The date and location have shifted over time, from President Washington's on April 30th in New York City, to “Constitutional Inauguration Day” on March 4 date set by the Constitution, later changed to January 20th. What hasn’t changed, is the revolutionary [...]
