Dear All,

I hope everyone is having a fabulous week.  I wanted to remind everyone that next Tuesday, May 17th at 7:00 PM will be the last den meeting until August. If your scout’s den had homework in order to meet their badge requirements, you still have time before Tuesday.  We are also having a pizza party from the Old Hickory Council.  The council is giving us this party based on our excellent Friends of Scouting donations. Thank you all for donating to scouting. The pizza party will take place at the end of the den meetings in the family life center.

Please note the deadlines that are looming and don’t wait until the last minute.  Rank Advancement is a very busy night and the sign-up table will not be open the entire time so that the volunteers may also watch their scouts advance.

We will resume our den meetings this coming fall on Tuesday, August 30th at 7:00 PM at Mt Tabor UMC. Please mark your calendars.

The Council, along with our very own Shannon, is looking for parent volunteers for Day Camp.  Please see the on-line registration form, not only for your scout, but also to volunteer your time.  This is a great program in which I know many of our parents will want to be involved.

Pack Vegetable Bed– We still have several weeks of openings to look after the pack vegetable bed.  If you sign up for a week, it counts as your scout’s service for next year!  They have made it very easy.  All that is required is to run by the UMC community garden several times during the week you schedule.  Ensure the plants are watered.  (There is talk of adding an irrigation system, until then you just use the water bucket from the water collection barrel.)  Pull weeds and pick any ripe vegetables.  If the garden coordinator is there, you give him the vegetables, if not there is a container beside the water collection barrels to place the harvested vegetables in and the coordinator will take them to the food pantry.