Waterville Troop 108

I am very pleased to announce that Tim Hicks will be taking over as scoutmaster effective August 2009. After about a 4 year run I will be "retiring" from the scoutmaster role. The Troop Committee selected Mr. Hicks as the new scoutmaster, he is highly qualified to replace me and has my full support. Troop 108 has a great future ahead of it under his leadership!
I will continue to be active with the troop as an Assistant Scoutmaster, so I look forward to many new adventures with the troop.
- Bill Strohmeyer

I am very pleased and proud to announce that Alec Strohmeyer and Patrick Zenon are now Eagle Scouts. Alec and Pat completed their Eagle Boards of Review this evening, and are Troop 108’s newest Eagles.

Jon Olin's Eagle Court of Honor will be held on Sunday, June 14, 2:00 PM, at the Waterville Historical Society on White Street. Hope to see you there!

Boys interested in going to the National Jamboree (http://www.bsajamboree.org/)in 2010 should contact Mr. Tom Labayewski, Council Field Director, at either tom.labayewski@scouting.org or (315) 735 - 4437 as soon as possible.

The June campout will be a one night event at Hamilton College in Clinton. We will leave from the Waterville Fire House on Saturday, June 20th at 8:30am, and return on Sunday, June 21st at 10am.
We have the opportunity to experience the high and low ropes course at Hamilton College. Those scouts who have done a ropes course in the past know how much fun this will be, and the ones who haven't will soon learn!

We have set a departure time for the May campout - 2:45pm May 15th from the WCS High School. On the REFERENCE tab of this website you will find two helpful items:
1- a list of backpacking gear to bring (scroll down to equipment lists and click on light backpacking gear list)
2- the campout activity form with other details

This year’s May Campout is proving to be one of the cooler ones we’ve taken in a while. Camp Santanoni Preserve, in Newcomb, NY, is a beautiful 13,000 acre forest preserve and National Historic Landmark acquired by New York State in 1972. We will be driving the 2 ½ hours to Newcomb, then hiking or mountain biking 5 miles in to our site.

This is a backpacking style campout. Pack lightly, we will be hiking 5 miles each direction. If you plan on bringing your mountain bike, remember that YOU will be riding with your full backpack and you will go nowhere if you don’t have a helmet.

Mr. Mowrey has arranged for us to camp just outside of Leonardsville for our April Campout! Only a one nighter, this campout will be backpacking style. The troop will hike in with full packs a couple of miles to the intended site. Scouts will need to bring their own backpack appropriate (non-squishable) lunch and two quarts or Nalgene bottles of water.

This will be a fun campout, and a brief message for parents to give to the older scouts: there will be Christmas trees involved in the evening......they'll know what I'm talking about!

Troop 108 will be having their annual Bowl-A-Ree on Wednesday, April 22nd from 6pm-8:15pm at the Oriskany Falls Bowling Center. All money collected will be donated to the Waterville Area Food Pantry. Scouts should bring all collected money and $7.50 for bowling fees to the bowling center that night. Please note the collection form on the Reference Page above.

Our March campout will be Saturday, March 28-Sunday, March 29 at Colgate University. Colgate is letting us camp in their nature preserve, behind the campus. In addition, we will be spending several hours at their Rock Climbing Wall! Boys will need to make sure they have loose jeans or shorts and sneakers for the rock wall. Hiking boots will not work on the wall. The Activity form and the Wall Waiver can be found under 'Reference' above. Boys cannot climb the rock wall without the Wall Waiver signed by their parents.