Last Regular Meeting of the Year!  Bring Books! Ms Elaine will be present to catch up on achievements. Make sure all accomplishments are recorded for Court of Honor. Also we need to know who is going to Advanceorama on January 26- a great way to get extra merit badges needed for advancement. Early Registration ends Dec 15.

Bring Canned Goods too! Yule Log is a canned food drive for area food banks.

Friday Dec 7-9 Yule Log at Scoutland- our biggest combined outing of the year. Leave Scout Hut ~6:00-630pm,  return Sunday about noon. Adult are taking care of meals so scouts can focus on events. Cub Scouts are encouraged to visit.

End of Year Court of Honor Monday December 10 at St Annas Catholic Church, 1401 Alcovy St. Scouts should be in full uniform including sashes. Scouts arrive at 630, program starts at 7pm. Troop will provide chicken, families are asked to bring covered side dish, salad, or desert. Parents and families  are invited. Gift exchange will occur. Scouts interested in participating should bring wrapped gift of a scouting nature worth no more 10-15 dollars.

Happy Thanksgiving Troop 81 and Families

Chicken BBQ Fundraiser a Great Success! Thanks to all who sold tickets and contributed time and items. We cleared $1600 on 190 tickets sold. Camden M won the $50 dollar Smoothie King gift certificate for most tickets sold. The Willis family won the $500 gift certificate raffle.

Congratulations to Troop 81 Scouts at Sweetwater Camporee. Our well prepared and well trained Scouts won 3 of the five competitions- Flag pole lashing, Desert preparation, and Fire Starting.

Final Outing of the Year Yule Log December 7-9, Scoutland on Lake Lanier. The next two meetings after Thanksgiving will focus on preparation for this big event. This is a big canned food drive for Atlanta area food banks. Scouts are asked to bring canned goods for donation to the next 2 meetings to help out others who are hungry around the holidays. Cub Scout packs are invited to attend for overnight or just for the day.

End of the Year Court of Honor. All Scouts, Leaders and Families are invited to our final event of the year. Badges and ranks of the year will be awarded. Monday December 10 at St Annas Parrish Hall. Scouts should arrive by 6:30pm, program to start 7:00Pm. Scouts in full uniform including sashes. All Pictures for the slide show should be turned into Dr Schorr by Monday November 26. Chicken will be provided by the troop. Sides, drinks and deserts are donated by families. At the next meeting the scouts will decide if they want to do a white elephant gift exchange at the gathering.

Troop 81 Fundraiser Final night for Chicken BBQ Raffle tickets turnin is Monday, October 8. Please bring money and stubs so we can get an accurate count of the number of chickens we need to purchase. Both Scouts and family are needed to help prepare and distribute the meals on Saturday, October 13. Please come to Mondays meeting with an idea of who can help. We usually have an early shift for cooking and a late shift for distribution.

Austin Schorr Eagle Court of Honor All Scouts and Families are welcome to celebrate Scouting's Highest Achievement. Sunday, October 14 at 4:00 PM at St Annas Catholic Church 1401 Alcovy Street. Dinner reception to follow. All Scouts should be in full Class A uniform with sash and bolo tie.

Big News Troop 81 is excited to announce two upcoming Eagle Scout Courts of Honor. All Scouts and their family are encouraged to join the community in recognizing this high achievement. These ceremonies are inspiring to young Scouts to continue their efforts toward this lofty goal. All Scouts should be in full Class A uniforms.

Ken Partain will hold his ceremony on Saturday, September 29, at 1:00pm at Good Hope Christian Church located at 176 High Shoals Rd, Good Hope, Ga 30641.

Austin Schorr will hold his ceremony on Sunday, October 14, 4:00pm at St Annas Catholic Church Parrish Hall. Dinner reception will follow ceremony. Fellowship around Austin's Eagle Project Fire Ring will conclude the festivities.

October 13 Troop 81 BBQ Fundraiser. All scouts need to sell tickets to help fund the troop for the upcoming year. We have added a raffle to the ticket, with the winning ticket receiving a $500 gift certificate toward purchase of a Black Powder Muzzleloader from CVA Muzzleloaders. This can be converted to an Academy Sports Certificate if winner chooses. Tickets will be available soon. Make sure your scout keeps the stub of the ticket sold to enter it into the raffle.

Congratulations to Camden Miley elected as Senior Patrol Leader at last meeting.  Congratulations to Reagan May elected to Assistant Senior Patrol Leader.

Troop 81 Announcements

Next Campout postponed due to scheduling conflicts at the Horse Park and the opening day of deer season. Next campout at Georgia International Horse Park now scheduled for September 15-16. Plan for canoe and kayak in the wetlands as well as hike and bike trails along the beautiful Yellow river. Please check your scouts schedule so we can get an accurate head count at the next meeting.

Next Meeting September 10, plan for new SPL and ASPL elections. All scouts encouraged to be in Class A uniform.

Tickets for Troop 81 Chicken BBQ coming soon. This is our single fundraiser of the year and the more tickets we sell, the more money the troop has to live on. Tell friends, family and neighbors. October 13.

Yule Log in December is also a  food drive for area food banks. Scouts are encouraged to start bringing extra can goods between now and December for this contribution.

Troop 81 Schedule for rest of 2018

Congratulations to all the Scouts who spent last week at Camp Rainey Mountain. Despite some stitches and a sprained ankle, all the Scouts had a great time. Thanks to Scoutmaster Eddie and Mr Ron for accompanying our young scouts.

To rest and recover, there will be no meeting Monday July 16. Meetings will resume Monday July 23.

Schedule for the Rest of the Year. Please put these dates on your calendar so our Scouts can plan to attend as many overnight campouts as possible. Often, the Scouts wait to the last meeting before an outing to check if they can attend. This makes planning difficult and often creates scheduling conflicts that occur from a lack of planning.

August 18-19 Mocassin Creek Falls and Trail. Primitive camp near Trailhead. Short hike up Mocassin Creek, swim and play in waterfalls.

September 8-9 Conyers International Horse park. Camp in Special Scouts only section adjacent to wilderness area. Mountain Bike, Kayak and canoe fun.

October 13  Troop 81 Annual Chicken BBQ- our only fundraiser of the year.

November 9-11 Sweetwater Camporee verses Troop 81 Campout

December 7-9 Yule Log Camporee-  Biggest Event of the year with combined districts competing for top honors in tradition Scout Skills events

December 10 End of Year Court of Honor- Pot luck dinner and awards ceremony recognizing all the achievements and rank advancements of the last year. Slide show allows remembrance of all the great experiences and fun from the past year.

Camping at Hartwell was a great success. The scouts passed their swim tests and are ready for summer camp. All enjoyed swimming and tubing on the ski boat we had up for the weekend. Congratulations to Camden who waterskied for the first time!

All Scouts remember summertime is a great time to work on advancements.  Make best use of the calm summertime to begin projects or finish requirement. Please bring your books to meetings and activities. It is difficult to run a troop if our attendance is so sporadic.

Summer camp approaches! July 8-14 Camp Rainey Mountain. The next few meetings will focus on getting ready summer camp. Adopting a new patrol name, planning our entrance gate, developing packing list for troop and personal. Please bring signed physical forms including copies of insurance card to the next meetings. Final payments for camp are due as well.

Adult leader meeting was held. A tentative schedule for the rest of the year is near completion. This will be distributed so scouts and families can plan around these activities.

Troop 81 is proud to announce our newest Eagle Scout Austin Schorr. He joins the ranks of many Eagles produced by Troop 81 is the last few years.

Next Campout May 5-6 First Campout for our 5 new scouts. All Scouts urged to attend and get to know and help orient the new scouts to camping.
Meet at Scout hut at 730am in class A uniform. Will be camping at Schorr Farm 2490 HD Atha Rd Monroe. (white fence with White columns). Mr Partain will be grubmaster for adults and scouts.

New Scouts need to bring tents, pads,sleeping bags, cook kit and utensils, water bottle, extra clothes, rain gear, flashlight, Knife(If they want to get totum chip card). toiletries. There is running water and a bathroom for scout use.

Tick and Chigger season is here, bring bug repellant and sun block too

Thanks for a great turnout for Troop 81 Welcome Ceremony. The new scouts did a great job launching their fiery arrows across the pond. Our SPL and Scouts conducted a great ceremony. Thanks Mr T and Mr Yeater for the pyrotechnics. What a beautiful evening with good attendance from local cub scout packs.

Congratulation to Brantley Y on his Eagle Court of Honor. It was well attended and impressive. Troop 81 has added another Eagle to its nest! Job well done.

Saturday April 28 all Troop 81 Scouts invited to celebrate Brantley Yeater Eagle Court of Honor 11:00 am Monroe Country Day School 603 S Broad Street Monroe GA. Come in full uniform and sash. Congratulations to Brantley achieving Scoutings highest honor.

Monday April 30 Special New Scout Welcome ceremony at Mr Thompson's property 240 Powers  Rd. Scouts in full uniform should be there by 6:30pm. Ceremony to start at 7:pm. We have invited the members of pack 1737 and pack 524 to come participate. Each Scout family is asked to bring a dozen cupcakes or brownies to serve our guests and new members after to ceremony. The troop will supply drinks.



Next Outing May 5-6, Orientation campout at the Schorr farm. All scouts encouraged to attend to help train our newest new scouts in the patrol method, setting up tents and learning the basics of cooking.

June Outing June 9-10, Camp  Rotary, on the shores of beautiful Lake Hartwell. This an important outing to get the scouts swim tested for summer camp. Also this is a Family Campout where families can join us for the day or stay for the weekend.

Summer Camp July 8-14 th Camp Rainey Mountain. New Scouts are encouraged to sign up- there is still room for New Scouts in TNT training. All scouts going to summercamp need to be making their 2nd and third payment. Give checks to Ron Yeater.

Sweetwater Camporee for Troop 81 was canceled due to poor attendance from our Scouts. We need better participation in order to Plan and Execute good activities.  After spending several weeks planning and building pieces for a human sized Battleship Games, we only had three Scouts planning on attending the event. Instead we took the scouts on a 5 mile hike through Sweetwater Creek State Park. We toured the ruins of 5 story cotton mill burned by Shermans troops on their march to the sea during the Civil War. The weather was great and we even got views of the Atlanta Skyline from the ridgetop. Hamburgers and cinnamon rolls finished the evening.

Next Outing is an overnight Canoe trip down the Flint River. For this exciting excursion, we need all Scouts planning to go to be at next meeting April 9. ( NO MEETING APRIL 2 DUE TO SPRING BREAK) We have to have a accurate number so that we have seats and paddles available for all those going. Likewise, as all canoes need 2 paddlers we need even number of paddlers. We plan to leave Saturday and head to Thomason Georgia. The Scout Camp there will help us with shuttles to the put in and take out spots. The trip is 22 miles. Water is calm in this section of the river. We will camp along the riverbank.

Troop 81 is welcoming 4 new Webelos on a Crossing over ceremony at Walnut Grove Methodist Church on Saturday April 21 at 4 pm. We need as many Scouts as possible to help welcome our newest members and make them feel welcome. We may have our own welcoming ceremony at the Thompson Property later in April.

Brantley Yeater is planning an Eagle Ceremony on April 29 at 4 pm. Location and specifics to follow.

Troop 81 Scouts at St Annas are helping with flag raising on April 7 at Noon Mass. New flag poles have been erected and Father Dan wants Boy Scouts to help raise the first flags. Angela Yarman will have more info.

New Shirt and Sweatshirt Order- Ron Yeater is collecting money and sizes for a supplemental T Shirt/Sweatshirt order. Additional T shirts are $13.00, Long sleeve T shirts are $15.00, Hooded Sweatshirts are 20.00, front zip sweatshirts are 23.00. Checks and sizes are due Monday Mar 19.

Congratualtions to our new Senior Patrol Leader Tyler Hayman and new Assistant Senior Patrol Leader Liam Willis. They were elected last meeting.

Please come prepared to commit to our next Sweetwater Camporee March 23-25 at Scoutland. The Scouts have been building pieces for Human size Battle ship to participate in the games.

Tonight's Meeting  Monday March 6 
81 years of Troop 81 T Shirts

T Shirts are in! They will be handed out tonight. They will be given to Scouts who have paid their Yearly dues. Adults and extra shirts and hoodies need to be paid for with check or cash.

Coming In March - Elections for Senior Patrol Leader and Assistant Senior Patrol Leader.

Next Outing Spring Sweetwater Camporee. The Theme is human board games. Our Scouts want to do Battleship. March 23-25 Scoutland.

Welcome our newest Scout Anthony who crossed over last week from Pack 1737. Our Scouts in full uniform were there to welcome him to our troop at a ceremony at the American Legion in Monroe. We still new scouts to keep our troop growing. We also need better participation from our regular scouts who are not participating in our outdoor activities. Also please do not pick up your scout until after the meeting is ajourned. Important information is always communicated at circle up. 

Next Monday February 26 We have been invited to participate in an Arrow of Light ceremony for a local Cub Scout Troop. We need all Scouts in full dress uniform to meet at the Scout Hut at 7:00PM. After flags we will drive to the American Legion in Monroe on Alcovy St for the ceremony. We will then return to the Scout Hut to close the meeting. We expect one Webalow from the pack to join Troop 81 and we want to welcome him and encourage the Webalow 1s to stay in the program and hopefully join our troop next year.

81 years of Troop 81 T shirt Final design tweaks have been made and Mr Yeater is putting our T shirt order in. Please contact Mr Yeater with any order changes or modifications ASAP.

Reminder All Adult leaders need to bring a copy of there current Youth Protection Certifcate to the next meeting or e mail it to troop81monroe@gmail.com  This is required for recharter now. Also bring checks for T shirts 13, long sleeves 15 and hoodies 20 so we can place order. Thanks

There will be a meeting on February 19 to make final plans and food preparation for our next outing February 24-25. This will include camping in Unicoi State park and exploring Anna Ruby Falls. A side hike up Yonah Mountain is possible if time and weather allow. If your scout can't make this meeting but still plans to go on the outing, please let one of the adult leaders know.

Final T shirt orders: Celebrating 81 years of Troop 81. Minor tweaks to the design were offered and Mr Yeater has sizes and quanities. Each scout gets a t shirt included in their annual dues. The adult dues do not cover the cost of the T shirt. Please give Ron Yeater a check or cash to cover your order. T Shirt $13.00 (Adults only), Long Sleeve T Shirt $15.00 (any orders), Hoodie $20.00( any orders). Make check out to Troop 81.

Next event Planning 

February 24-25 Camping at Unicoi State Park with a trip to the beautiful Anna Ruby Falls then a 5 mile hike down Smith Creek Trail back to Unicoi, one of Georgia's most  beautiful state parks. We will be training on Day Hike preparation as well as  bear country preparation. Scouts need to come prepared to commit to this exciting exploration of North Georgia Natural Beauty.

T Shirts Final Designs We will be reviewing the design and style of a special T Shirt celebrating 81 years of Troop 81. Established in 1937, our troop has much history to be proud of. Scouts get a shirt included with their dues. Additional shirts will be $13. Long Sleeve shirts will be $15 and hoodies will be $20. Please bring checks and size orders to Mondays meeting. Shirts will be a new poly/cotton blend that will breath better. Ron Yeater will be collecting orders and have examples of the shirt  and hoodie.

Summer Camp at Camp Rainey. Due to conflicts with schedules,  the dates of Summer Camp have been moved to July 8-14. Please encourage your scout to attend summer camp. It is loads of fun and a great way to earn merit badges needed for rank advancement. Initial Payment of $90 dollars is due at end of February.

Congratulations to Ken Partain for completing his Eagle Project at Good Hope Christian Church. He renovated the large playground, removing obsolete structures, cleaning existing structures, installing a wooden mulch barrier and spreading 9 inches of new mulch throughout the entire area. Thank you for the scouts and adults who pitched in their time and effort. Remember the Scout Slogan "Do a good turn daily."

Important Meeting Monday Jan 29
Troop 81 is welcoming 7 Cub Scout Webelos on Monday. We need all scouts to show up in full uniform so we can make a good impression. We plan to have chariot races and other games to show the visitors our skills and encourage them to join our troop. We really need some younger scouts to train and to give our older scouts the ability to lead.

Advance arama was Saturday. All participating Scouts need to keep their blue cards and seek assistance to complete any requirements remaining.

Ken Partain's Eagle project at Good Hope Christian Church was a great success with all the new wooden borders installed on the playground completed. Obsolete playground equipment was demolished and removed and everything is ready for the 9 inches on new mulch to be installed. Thanks to all Scouts and adult leaders who showed up to help. Scouting is a great program as it focuses on service to God and others.

Annual Dues for Scouts are Due. Please bring cash or check to Mondays meeting.

Scouts $60.00
Adult Leaders $30.00

Preliminary Schedule for 2018- The leaders of Troop 81  meet on December 28 to sketch the dates for the first half of 2018. These are just preliminary and may be changed based on feedback from the membership.

January 13 Christopher Yarman Eagle Court of Honor all are invited to attend and congratulate Christopher on reaching Scouting Highest Achievement.

January 15 There will be a meeting. We may have boys visiting from a pack 1737. We will be determining which merit badges the boys should try to sign up for for advancearama.

January 27 Boy Scout Advance arama Berkmar High School 8am -4pm a great way to rapidly acheive merit badges needed for rank advancement.

February 24,25 Campout

March 23,24,25 Sweetwater Camporee Scoutland

April 14,15 Campout

May 5,6 Campout

June 9,10 Lake Hartwell Campout

June 24-30 Possible Camp Rainey Summer Camp dates(need to confirm)

2018 Boy Scout Dues due by end of January
           Scouts $60 (includes T Shirt and subscription to Boys Life)
           Adult Leaders $30

 Summer Camp Camp Rainey Mountain  cost 265 estimate
          First payment end of February $90
          Second payment end of April $90
          Final Payment end of May $85


2018 New T Shirt Design The Scouts will help design a special T Shirt for 2018 as we celebrate our 81st  year of Troop 81.

OA tapout coming in Jan, Feb

Christopher Yarman's Eagle Court of Honor is this Saturday!

Hope to see all Scouts and their families as we celebrate Troop 81's newest Eagle Scout on Saturday, January 13 at 11:00 at St. Anna's!