Venture Crew 759

Notes for March 8, 2008 meeting

Created March 9, 2009

 

Minutes from February 21, 2009 meeting: Minutes approved.

 

Event recap:

No activities between meetings

 

Upcoming Events:

 

1)       Climbing at Lifetime Fitness March 12.

 

2)       Adapt a Highway; March 14th.  Mt Hebron is sponsoring an “Adopt a Highway” clean-up.  It should take about 2 hours.  Volunteers should meet at the CVS on Route 40 at Centennial Lane by 9 am.  Call Tom Harris at 410-730-7326 for more details.  Bring gloves.

 

3)       Paint Ball: March 21 10am-4pm  3009 North Crane Highway in Bowie

 

4)       Pizza Hut Fundraiser: March 25 from 5-10pm at the Elkridge Pizza Hut on Washington Blvd at Montgomery Rd. See flyer. Colin and Lee said that they may host.

 

5)       Adventuree: March 27-29.  Arielle needs a count ASAP.  $12 for food payable at event.  Camp Safran in Broad Creek.

 

6)       Car Wash: April 4th.  There are 4 gas stations that are willing to help.  Ben is also checking Don Pablos.

 

7)       Venture Quest: April 17-19 at Broad Creek. Hosted by Area 6.

 

8)       Basketball Tournament: May 9th.  Todd found out that area courts cost $250 for 4 hours.  Ashleigh has friends that can officiate. Todd was asked to see which facilities are still open.

 

9)       Shooting Sports: March 16th.  This will need to be rescheduled due to conflicts with the Powder Horn training that Todd and Dale will be attending.

 

10)    White Water Rafting: October 9-11

 

11)    Spaghetti dinner: October 17th

 

12)    SCUBA intro is being rescheduled from the original Jan 8 date.  We are going to open the event to the troop.

 

To Be Done:

1)       CREW IS TASKED TO COME UP WITH MEETING ACTIVITIES!!!!!  Let’s make the meetings fun!!!!  The goal is to have business done in 20-30 minutes and then do the activity to make the meeting more fun and informative. Still need to work on this.

 

2)       “Super Activity” is being planned for December 25 or 26, 2009 to January 2 or 3, 2010 depending on the rates. Dale and  Todd are going to see if they can find packages for Colorado or Utah.

 

3)       Mount Hebron spring festival is scheduled for April 25th.  The cleanup usually takes place shortly before the festival, but the date has not been set at this time. This would be a good opportunity to get our name out to the church which should help with fundraisers such as basket bingo and spaghetti dinners.

 

4)       We need to work out the logistics for the basket ball tournament (delayed until May 9th), spaghetti dinner (Oct 17) and basket bingo.

 

5)       Tee shirts are being ordered. NO CHANGE

 

6)       Todd talked to Tammy Cinatto about the full first aid/CPR course.  We are looking to do the course at two or three crew meetings.  We will invite the troop to join us.  Todd is working on dates and final costs.  Todd is going to set up a date.

 

7)       Every month Ashleigh wants to set up an activity, a service project and a fundraiser.

 

Fundraising:

 

1)       The crew is considering the following fundraisers: restaurants bake sales, basketball tournaments, spaghetti dinners, basket bingo.  Ideas rejected: coffee house, pizza sales, bowling night, car wash.

 

Announcements:

 

Possible future activities: splash down, batting cage, paint ball, camping, hiking, mini golf, rappelling, climbing wall, four wheeling (ATV), horseback riding, snowmobiling, kayaking/canoeing, rafting, snow tubing, snow skiing/boarding, water skiing/wake boarding, backpacking, hiking, SCUBA intro (and beyond), shooting, archery.

Notes from Wes: Since I will not be able to attend the meeting tonight,I thought I would still send my contributions to the meeting. I should be able to attend Adventurre.  Rodger Grabinski (point of contact for the jessup community hall) said that it is fine if we do a meal at the community hall; he just wants a specific date and round about times. I talked with the Pastor at my church, and he said that if we give a specific Saturday that we can make ourselves available; there is plenty of things that can be done. Such as-->

1) Exention of the front porch.
2) Landscaping
3) Building of a shed
4) Laying down a laminate floor in the kitchen area
5) The parking lot needs to be leveled (but I am not sure when because of the expense)

..... these are just a few that I think of off the top of my head; needless to say that if we agree to do something at my church, there can be a project found.

 

Elections: The crew decided to keep the same people in leadership positions, but we need to set a date for future elections.

 

Upcoming meeting:

March  22 April 5, 26 May 10, 17 June 7, 21