Boy Scouts of America

Troop 282

Blue Elk District • Heart of America Council, BSA

A Chartered Organization of Trinity Episcopal Church

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Welcome to the Boy Scout Troop 282 Website

Boy Scout Troop 282 meets every Monday night from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church located at 409 N. Liberty, Independence, MO.

Use the links to the left for troop information, troop photos, how to join, to view the Calendar
of Events, and much more!

Want to find out what's been going on, what's coming up, or other Scout information?
Displayed below are the 10 latest articles called Posts from Troop 282 members. You can find any prior Posts under Archives or the appropriate Category.

Thanks for visiting, and we hope to see you at our next Scout Meeting.

March 11th, 2011

The Survival Overnight

By Curren Gentry

This overnight was not like most in the past. This time we had to make a shelter out of tarps and hay to sleep in. It was also different because the leaders set up stations to help us with our Scouting skills, kind of like the Klondike Derby. The stations where First aid, Beebe guns, Shelter building, and Lashings. My favorite out of all the stations was the Beebe guns. Then after we got done with our Scouting skills we thought that it would be cool to make a huge snow ball and roll it down the hill. It took a lot of strength but we got it down the hill and we even made another snowball the same size.

It was also a utensiless overnight, so we made our dinners in foil and cooked them in hot coals. I put Hamburger, Onions, and Potatoes in mine. It was easy to make and tasted great. After dinner and before it was dark all us boys had a huge snowball fight in the woods. When we were all tired from playing we headed back to camp to hang out by the campfire and go to sleep.

In the morning we had to make our own utensiless breakfast so people started cooking eggs, sausages, and biscuits. Most of the people had a hard time with cooking there biscuits on a stick. Then after we packed up and ate our breakfast we had a HUGE snowball fight with all the boys and leaders. I had a lot of fun on this overnight.

(See more pictures from the 2/26/11 overnight at Blue & Grey in the Troop 282 Photo Collection.)

March 2nd, 2011

Climbing Knots Resource Suggestion

We received an email from a local merit badge counselor, who wrote…

Hi, My name is Courtney Goodman, I am a merit badge counselor with a local boy scout troop. we have been using your links page (http://www.bstroop282.com/index.php/links/) for some time now, It has a lot of great stuff on it!! Thanks so much.

The next couple weeks the boys of our troop are working on their climbing merit badge in which I am the counselor for. One of the boys found a great climbing knots page which has about 15 climbing knots as well as a link to climbing equipment: http://www.wesspur.com/tree-climbing-rope-knots.html.
It might be a good addition to your page as well. Let me know what you think.
Have a great day!!

Courtney Goodman

Thanks so much Courtney for your complement and resource link suggestion.
We have added the Climbing Knots resource link to our website’s links page.

February 28th, 2011

Scout Sunday

The Boy Scouts of America annually celebrates its founding on February 8, 1910. Scout Sunday is always the Sunday preceding February 8th, unless the 8th is a Sunday, in which case the 8th would be Scout Sunday. However, a chartered organization or local religious organization may choose to celebrate on another day.

The twelfth part of the Scout law is reverent. This means a Scout is reverent toward God. He is faithful in his religious duties. He respects the beliefs of others. Scout Sunday is always a good time to reinforce to the boys that “a Scout is reverent.”

Yours in Scouting, Mac McLeod Chaplain

(See more pictures from Scout Sunday in the Troop 282 Photo Collection.)

February 19th, 2011

2011 Klondike Derby

By: Curren Gentry

The Klondike Derby was not like most of the others in the past usually it rained or it was really muddy but not this time. This year’s Klondike Derby was super snowy so it was the perfect time for a snowball fight. My favorite activity there was the obstacle course because we had a really good time doing it. We did have some little snowball fights but it was no where like the biggest and last snowball fight with about 50 troops!

The older boys got third place out of all of those scout patrols in the challenge division! Isn’t that pretty good for 50 troops? No one else got an award though. My patrol did get third out of the 5 patrols and it is no surprise that the older boys patrol got first in our troop. But I did have a lot of fun at the Klondike Derby because all of the snowball fights brightened my mood.

(See more pictures of the Klondike Derby in the Troop 282 Photo Collection.)

February 2nd, 2011

New BSA Annual Health and Medical Record Forms

These are the Annual Health and Medical forms you will need for Summer Camp

The 2011 update to the Annual Health and Medical Record consolidates all records from the National Council and the national high-adventure bases, enabling a single form to be used for all BSA activities.

Annual Physicals
The new medical form requires an annual physical for persons participating in certain activities regardless of age. The new medical form no longer allows attaching another physical exam (ie: sports physical) to the BSA medical form. The physician’s signature must be on the BSA form to be valid.

Components of the new form
Part A: General Information. Required for all events.
Part B: Parental release and information. Required for all events.
Part C: Physical Exam & Doctor’s Signature. Required for events exceeding 72 hours.
Part D: For National High Adventure Bases only. This part NOT REQUIRED for summer camps or unit activities.

Download > Parts A, B, and C of the BSA Medical Form. (This is what you will need for Summer Camp)

Download the whole form > Parts A, B, C, and D of the BSA Medical Form.

Please view the Annual Health and Medical Record web page for information about the medical form.

Please view the National BSA Frequently Asked Questions web page for questions about the medical form.

January 24th, 2011

What Came Down Must Go Up

By: Mr. Gentry

On Saturday, January 15th Troop 282 met at the Vaile Mansion to help move all the holiday decorations back up to the 3rd floor storage. There were a lot of boxes, tubs, miscellaneous containers, and Christmas Trees. It seems like there are 4 floors because of the 14 foot ceilings, and all the stairs. It is a neat old building with lots of character and elegance. If you view the rest of the photos in the Troop 282 Photo Collection you will see what I mean.

All the boys did a great job of working together to get the job done. Afterwards they were treated with pop, cookies, donuts, cake, and other tasty snacks. We received many compliments and thanks. Everyone was happy to help out.

(See more pictures about this service project in the Troop 282 Photo Collection.)

January 24th, 2011

Food Drive for Fairmount Food Pantry 2010

By: Mac McLeod

For this year’s food drive for Fairmount Food Pantry the Boy Scouts and their families collected food for seven weeks, putting out approximately 10,000 bags and collecting over 35,000 items. This is the sixth year Troop 282 has had a food drive for the pantry, and each year it gets bigger.

This food will support the food pantry for almost the entire year. We serve Northwest Independence. The boundaries are the city limits to the West, Sterling on the East, the Missouri River on the North, and 23rd Street on the South. This food drive not only helps people in need, but it will also free up funds to do other things like upgrade the windows in the pantry house and put siding on all three buildings.

Along with the Food Drive, Troop 282 also came to the Fairmount Christian Church to help assemble 325 holiday food boxes for needy families. The food boxes consisted of the following items. A 12 lb. turkey, a 5 lb. ham, or a baking hen. Brown and service rolls, butter, mac & cheese, canned vegetables, green beans, corn, canned soup, ramen noodle soup, instant potatoes, canned fruit, hot chocolate, cookies and candy bars. These boxes are truly for those less fortunate during Christmas.

The Fairmount Pantry would like to thank to Boy Scout Troop 282 and everyone that contributed to this great community service project. This project could not be done with out everyone who took time out of their busy schedules to help.

Thank you so much,
Mac McLeod
Chrm Food Pantry

(See more pictures in the Troop 282 Photo Collection of the 2010 Food Drive.)

December 22nd, 2010

Ringing the Bell for the Salvation Army

by Mr. Gentry

Saturday Dec. 18 at Walmart, Troop 282 did their last Community Service project for the Christmas Season.

As many of you know Troop 282 rang the bells for the Salvation Army from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM at all 3 doors of Walmart. It’s a great thing to do during the Christmas season and we found most people to be very friendly and generous.

Curren and myself had the 3pm to 5pm shift at the South door. We happily rang the bell and tried to give everyone a "Merry Christmas" as they walked past. It was a little cold but we were dressed pretty well and just needed to move our feet every now and then to keep them warm. We heard that some of the other Troop 282 families at earlier shifts were singing Christmas Carols and that someone even had Christmas music playing while they rang the bell. It’s great to hear that everyone had a good time volunteering.

I want to encourage everyone that’s out there, if you haven’t come out to ring the bell, you should. We considered it an honor and a privilege to ring bells for the Salvation Army!

We couldn’t get a picture of everyone, but we did get a picture of a few of the many families that helped, go see them in the Troop 282 Photo Collection.

December 20th, 2010

Food Drive Figures Challenge

And the winner is… Jacob McLeod with a guess of 35,265!

35,622 was the actual total number of items we collected for this years Food Drive for Fairmount Pantry.

Fairmount Pantry and Boy Scout Troop 282 would like to say THANK YOU to everyone that contributed to this great community service project.

We set a goal of 30,000 items this year and with the help of many participants, including the generosity of the Citizens of Independence, we reached our goal and then some with a total of 35,622 items collected.

In case you didn’t know, Troop 282 and their families went door to door in the neighborhoods of Independence passing out over 10,000 food drive bags and picking up items for seven weeks from October 23rd to December 4th. The boys also collected food from their friends, family, and neighbors. All the items collected were donated to the Fairmount Pantry located at 800 S. Hardy in Independence, MO.

An online contest was held here on our troop website. The Boy’s submitted their guess at the total number of items collected. The boy’s guess that was closest to the actual total number of items collected won! The grand prize winner will receive 1 can of pop each week for a year.*

*This challenge has ended and was only for the Boy Scouts of troop 282. The one can of pop will be awarded after each weekly Scout Meeting for one year starting 12/27/2010. The winner must be present at the end of the scout meeting to claim his can of pop. No carry over or accruing of pops will be allowed.

December 5th, 2010

Historic Carpentry Merit Badge

Some of our Scouts just completed the requirements for the Historic Carpentry Merit Badge.

This Merit Badge was first offered in 1911 and discontinued in 1952. It is part of the Historic Merit Badge Program that is only available for this 100th Anniversary year. The program honors Scouting’s rich 100-year history by introducing today’s Scouts to the merit badges earned by yesterday’s youth.

Think about how times have changed from a hundred years ago.

Can you imagine a life without power tools?
Long before manufacturing, everything was made by hand. Craftsmen developed their skills to become a master. The final test was the production of a great piece called a masterpiece.

To get the most out of this merit badge, the boys did it the old-fashioned way with good, old-fashioned hand tools.

Special thanks goes to the Hendrens and Newberrys for teaching this Merit Badge.

(See more pictures of the boys working on their project in the Troop 282 Photo Collection.)