Weekly Meetings, Campouts and other Activities
(meetings are held in the Carriage House at Jesse Lee unless noted)

Space Exploration Merit Badge update
If you're interested in completing the Space Exploration merit badge that we already started, please refer to the attached worksheet. Using the worksheet as a guide, please complete and fill in the following if you haven't done so already:

Requirements 2,4,5,6,7 (we did at one of the meetings already), 8. If you haven't finished or launched your rocket, we will try to get that done in by the end of April.

Community Service Opportunities
Ryan Adams Memorial Main Street Improvement
Saturday, April 27th, 7:00 a.m.

All BSA troops in Ridgefield have been asked to pitch in for a spring-cleaning and landscape improvement along Main Street. Assemble in front of Town Hall at 7:15 a.m. when Mr. and Mrs. Adams will speak followed by First Selectperson Marconi at 7:30. Then, we'll get started with the project in memory of Troop 76 scout Ryan Adams, who earned Eagle at age 13.

For this community service project, please wear Class B shirts, boots and work gloves. Please bring leaf and dirt rakes, pitchforks for the mulch, push brooms and flat shovels (such as snow shovels) to remove debris piles. Most importantly, bring wheelbarrows. Each troop needs two or three wheelbarrows to maintain a continuous flow of mulch.

Save Aldrich Park from an Invasion
May 5th from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. is the next opportunity to help the Ridgefield Conservation Commission remove Burning Bush, an invasive plant growing rampant in Aldrich Park. Bring gloves. Details available here. Participation will count for any rank advancement-related service hours. For scouts at Star rank, these count as conservation hours. For scouts interested in starting the Citizenship in the Community merit badge (Eagle required), one of its requirements is performing 8 hours of service for the same organization. Scouts interested in working on this badge, please reach out to Scoutmaster Pearl for a blue card. No sign-up sheet will be available for this project. If you'd like to help Aldrich Park, bring a parent, or coordinate yourselves into groups with parental coverage.

Ridgefield's Rid Litter Days
Saturday, April 27th & Sunday, April 28th to help remove litter in the town. For details on this event, read the flyer.

Ridgefield Camporee at Sturges
Saturday, May 18th and Sunday, May 19th

Swim Test for Summer Camp
Tuesday, June 11th. Read details in the Camp Sequassen section below.

Tentative Big Trip weekend
June 21st - 23rd. Details to come

Camp Sequassen (summer camp): Sunday, July 21 - Saturday, July 27
To sign up and full details, click on the "Activities" link above

Council Events
The Connecticut Yankee Council, the regional BSA office, offers exciting events and programs for cub and boy scouts under their umbrella. Here's Council's latest newsletter.  These events are not organized or staffed by Troop 76, however all scouts may sign up.

All Troop Sign Up sheets are available here

Financial Assistance
If a scout family is in need of financial assistance at any time, please contact Troop Committee Chair Yvette Thompson.  All financial assistance requests are kept strictly confidential.

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