For those volleyball fans among our members, we have big news to celebrate regarding former Crew member Ellie Blankenship. The nationally-ranked UNI Panthers finished their regular season undefeated and put the icing on the cake this past weekend by winning the conference tournament in Omaha, NE. Co-captain Ellie B. led the conference during the season [...]
Congratulations to Crew member Collin Sawyer, our latest Eagle Scout! Collin passed his Board of Review last night with flying colors, becoming the 137th Eagle Scout of Troop 766. You can check out the entire list of Eagles at www.bsatroop766.org.
Reminder: There is a regular Crew meeting on Sunday at the Ikes at 6 PM. We [...]
To all Troop 766 and Venture Crew 2000 Scouts and Families:
The families of Jon Warnock and Jonathan Jenkins would like to invite you to attend their combined Eagle Court of Honor. This celebration to officially recognize their achievements will be held on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. at New Covenant Bible Church [...]
Some of the guys working our First Aid demo last weekend were quizzed about why their shirts had a snake wrapped around a staff on them. Well, let’s not get caught again not knowing the answer. This deep bit of trivia is described in the attached article.
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Thanks and many kudos to the group that turned out Saturday to help Tom with his Ranger Project. I’ve included excerpts below from a couple of letters following up on the project:
I would also like to thank Tom for organizing this effort and for bringing the great donuts too! I agree with Rob that [...]
Hey Everyone! What are you doing tomorrow, November 7th, 2009? What, nothing? Well you should come help out with my Ranger Project!! We’ll be meeting at Beverly Park on the SW side of Cedar Rapids to help clear out some nasty invasive species of plants, it’s going to be a lot [...]
Please see the following announcement from Alex:
What- Helping out with Alex Hupp’s Eagle Scout project When- Saturday, November 14, 8:00AM-Noon Where- Alex’s house at 1927 Marietta Road, Ely Job- Staining and gluing parts for the cabinet What to bring- Clothes that can get paint and glue [...]
Local sources, (many members of the Rockwell Collins Amateur Radio Club) who participated in the search for Amelia Earhart’s airplane, will be doing a presentation this coming Monday November 9th at the Marion Public Library. They did significant detail work regarding analyzing the radio logs, locations etc and used this data on search vessels, [...]
The families of Jon Warnock and Jonathan Jenkins would like to invite you to attend their combined Eagle Court of Honor. This celebration to officially recognize their achievements will be held on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. at New Covenant Bible Church in Cedar Rapids. A reception will follow the ceremony. [...]