Message of the Week

Just a reminder that summer camp deposits of $200 can now be paid, with an additional $235 due March 2. If your Scout is going on the Philmont High Adventure trip, their high adventure accounts should now have a balance of $1100. Thanks for your attention to this!

This Tuesday’s meeting will be a virtual Advancement Night, from 7:00-8:30 PM. You do not need to wear your Class A uniform, but please spend some time looking over requirements to work on, which will help you have a more successful Advancement Night experience. For those Scouts who […]

Our next day camp will be Oregon Trail Camp, scheduled for Saturday, February 20th! We will be back at the Byzantine Catholic Monastery of St Claire, on Cady Road, in North Royalton. Come join us, and see if your patrol can make it all the way to […]

As part of our annual Scouting for Food service project, our troop will be collecting household items and toiletries from scouts over the next several weeks. Items will be combined with troop grocery donations for four families served through the Strongsville Food Bank, and the surplus items […]

Our troop meeting this week will be held in-person, in the pavilion at the back of the parking lot of St. John Neumann Catholic Church. We will be meeting from 7:00-8:30 PM. Everyone who attends must bring a completed Troop 701 COVID Screening form. This form should be filled […]

Troop 701 is currently planning to return to Heritage Scout Reservation in the Laurel Highlands area of Pennsylvania this summer from Sunday, July 18, to Saturday, July 24. The cost for summer camp this year is $435 per Scout if paid in full to Heritage by April […]

I will be wrapping up the Sgt. Clean’s Car Wash Fundraiser in the next few weeks. Please let me know by Tuesday, February 2nd if you would like any additional cards to sell. Money needs to be turned in by Tuesday, February 16th. Now that the troop […]

Last Thursday, the Cuyahoga County Board of Health extended the county-wide Stay-at-Home Advisory until January 31st. While we were hopeful that the advisory would have been allowed to expire last week, we also knew that an extension was a realistic possibility. Here is how the extension impacts […]

The next hike for the Hiking merit badge series is scheduled for Saturday, January 23rd. This hike will take us to Medina County, near Chippewa Lake. We will be hiking the Chippewa Inlet Trail, the trails in Buckeye Woods Park, along with the wooded trails in the […]

Our ability to gather as a troop to complete service projects has been somewhat curtailed this year because of social distancing. In order to be awarded the Community Service Award, a Scout must log 12 service hours per year, and participate in at least four separate projects. […]