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Rim of the Bay Hike at Mission Peak

Posted by troop_leadership on November 30th, 2007 filed in Uncategorized, Outings, 2007 Fall, 2007 Winter




Come along on this great Rim of the Bay Hike at Mission Peak!
It’s a great hike that will earn yourself another patch to your collection, and will also burn off any unwanted calories from the night before.
Once at the top, we will eat lunch while at the same time view the entire bay area with excellent views all around. On a good day, you may even be able to see the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The hike will be Saturday, December 8th. Meet at the scout  house at 7:45am for an 8:00am departure. You will be back home no later than 5:00pm.
Read the flyer for more info.
All you need is personal sack lunch, water, ten essentials, and appropriate clothing/footwear.  (no cost).
Reply deadline is Wednesday, December 5th.

Scouting for Food 2007 Recap

Posted by ben_eastburn on November 29th, 2007 filed in Community Services




by Robert Fox

Scouting for Food 2007 was a great success for Troop 57. Troop 57 collected the most food of any other troop in the Stanford District by far, over five thousand pounds. That’s over two and a half tons of food to feed the hungry. I started off the morning at the Scout House with Patrol 6 at quarter to nine. We split up our territory between the two drivers and drove to our territory. We hit the streets by nine and were picking bags of food off doorsteps, left out for us to collect. However, many houses did not put out their bags as instructed on the door hangers we left the week before. We rang doorbells for the houses where there were no bags and often we were given food. We were all done by eleven thirty after a morning of walking the neighborhood. We loaded up the cars and headed for the LDS Church on Middlefield Road. There we dropped off our food. For most people, the morning was over, but not for me. I had volunteered to unload cars and weigh food at the church, so I got out and started on my second duty of the day. For the next three and a half hours, we unloaded cars that had come to drop off food and weighed the food. We then loaded the food into crates and then into trucks. Like last year, we filled up the first truck so we needed to call for a second truck. However, we didn’t have enough crates to put the food in, so we started putting the food into bins, smaller than crates, like the ones at the supermarket. We soon filled up these too, and we started putting the food in on the floor of the truck. Overall, this was a great year of Scouting for Food. This was a record year for Scouting for Food in the Stanford DIstrict, 43,482 pounds. Thank you to all Scouts who helped feed the hungry.

Ocean Fishing Trip recap

Posted by robert_fox on November 12th, 2007 filed in Outings, 2007 Fall




By Andreas Vought, Patrol 2 Scribe

We had a great Ocean Fishing trip on the 13th of October. The trip was lead by scout leader Alex Sholtz. We went rock fishing off of Pigeon Point. Everyone had a blast.
    We started by spending the night at San Pedro  Valley County Park in Pacifica. We got there early, giving us lots of time to play football and relax. We had a fantastic salmon and potato dinner. We also had asparagus for dinner followed by a fire and marshmallows. We got to bed pretty early because of the big day ahead of us. We go up early, around 5:00. We drove to the dock and left the Half Moon Bay Marina before 6:00, it was still quite dark. We spent four hours fishing. Everyone caught at least two fish. The fish we caught where rock fish, ling cod, and Cabazon. Some scouts caught as many as 19! I caught five, which my family and I enjoyed that very evening. Last time Troop 57 went Ocean Fishing, almost everyone got very seasick and had an unpleasant time. This year, we only had one person who got sick. I had a great time last year but think this year’s trip was even better. 
Over all I would highly recommend this trip to anybody. If you have any questions about that trip that I have not answered, please feel free to ask



2007 Scouting for Food

Posted by Administrator on November 6th, 2007 filed in Community Services




Scouting for Food:  All Troop Community Service Event

Door Hanger distribution day: November 10^th, 2007

Food pick-up day: November 17^th, 2007

Dear Patrol Leaders and Lead Patrol ASMs,

We have a wonderful opportunity to sponsor a great humanitarian community service project. This is the scouting for food project that you have so faithfully supported in past years. This is a great way for the entire Troop to be involved in an activity that serves those less fortunate. Please download the following instruction and maps.

Instructions
Patrol1 Map
Patrol3 Map
Patrol4 Map
Patrol5 Map
Patrol6 Map


Posted by Administrator on November 6th, 2007 filed in Uncategorized





Michael Findley

Posted by ben_eastburn on November 5th, 2007 filed in Uncategorized, 2006 Eagles





Biography at time of Eagle Court:
Mike Findley was born in Pasadena, CA and moved to Palo Alto at the age of nine months. He is the youngest of four siblings; he has two brothers, Daniel and Aaron and a sister, Rachel. He is uncle to Alana and Jonathan. Staying with an international family in Escondido Village at Stanford during the day as a toddler, his first spoken words were Mandarin rather than English. Offered food unappetizing to him, he would exclaim Piao! Piao! to his puzzled parents. (more…)