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Cub Scout Olympics 2016 By: Jeff Osbourne

On Saturday November 12th from 8:00am to 1:00pm

the Cub Scout Olympics will be held at the Boone

County Fairgrounds/Centennial Building. Scout friends

and families are invited. Activities include Free Throws,

Ball Toss, 50 Yard Dash, Jump Rope, Long Jump,

Archery, Air Rifles and more!! Be Sure to Bring your

Rocket!

Don’t Forget: The Fall Camporee October 14-16th at Camp Belzer Click below for details in last month’s newsletter

https://247scouting.com/web/BSA160/attachment/docum

ent_14733571720_2905.pdf

Rocky Mountains – Troop 318 By: Rich Vogler

Seven Boy Scouts along with four adult leaders spend a full week doing High Adventure in the Rocky Mountains the week of July 25, 2016. Each Scout had to earn specific merit badges and be at least 1st class rank to attend this outing. The event has been planned since the beginning of the year with much anticipation. This was an wonderful experience in the beautiful Rocky Mountains where the Scouts enjoyed so many wonderful activities. The activities started with a hiking day trip around Denver including the Capital Building at 5,280 feet, the Denver Mint, and touring the headquarters of REI (a scouters paradise). In addition the trip included white water rafting on the Arkansas River, hiking around Garden of the God's National Park, horse back riding at the Rusty Spurr Ranch, hiking to the top of Grays Peak sitting at 14,267 feet and the final day of bouldering in Rocky Mountain National Park. There were so many wonderful views and memories on this trip it will be hard to top. The scouts were very grateful for churches on our trek who allowed us free shelter and several had showers to enjoy! The Rusty Spurr Horse Ranch

Crossroads of America Council

Boy Scouts of America

Sugar Creek District “Creekside”

October 2016

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Commissioner’s Corner

By: William Turner Autumn is here, and with it popcorn sales and rechartering season. Please see the article in this newsletter for more information. Also remember to submit your unit’s Journey to Excellence (JTE) forms with your charter renewal packet, even if the unit does not qualify for an award. These forms can help you see how you might work to improve your unit next year. The award is really designed to be used year-round to help improve your unit's performance, not just as a set of check boxes to fill in at the end of the year, and the 2017 scoresheets are already available on the national website. We also have a lot of other things happening in the district. Last month saw the Fishing Derby, which was a success once again. The Fall Camporee will be the middle of October at Camp Belzer, and Bob Vernon and his staff are planning an action-packed program. The new year will see the Klondike Derby in January, the district dinner and Pinewood Derby in March, and the Spring Camporee in April. The commissioner corps is here to help the units serve the scouts. We have some ideas to try to improve roundtables and our service to individual units, but we can always use more ideas. If you have any, or need our help with something, please let me or one of my commissioners know. Yours in Unit Service, William Turner Sugar Creek District Commissioner

Online Recharter

By: William Turner The online recharter system is now live! All unit leaders and

committee chairs should have received an email in the last

week of September with their unit’s access code. The District

Executive, Jessica Hofman, can also obtain the access codes

for all units if someone still needs it.

Every unit should access the online system as soon as possible

to ensure they know how to interact with the system. The unit

should designate one person to do this and serve as the charter

renewal processor for the unit. Please forward that person’s

name, email address, and phone number(s) to our

District Executive, Jessica Hofman

(jehofman@crossroadsbsa.org), so we can include this person

on any future charter-related communications.

The unit will need to submit its completed charter renewal

packet at one of the charter renewal submission opportunities

listed below. This year we will assign each unit a 15-minute

window to submit its packet at one of the opportunities in each

county, which we hope will make the entire process go much

more smoothly. Please come to the September and October

roundtables to sign up for a time slot!

Sugar Creek District Turn-In Opportunities

Thursday, October 13, at 7pm, at the district

roundtable, St. Joseph Catholic Church, 319 East

South Street, Lebanon

Wednesday, October 26

o American Legion Post #72

101 Walter Remley Drive, Crawfordsville

(Come in the south door; not the bar)

7:00-8:30pm

o Boone County REMC Community Room

1207 Indianapolis Rd., Lebanon

6:30-8:00pm

o Frankfort Fire Station Training Building

256 South Clay Street, Frankfort

6:30-8:00pm

If these dates are not convenient, contact the District

Commissioner or District Executive to schedule a mutually

agreeable time to submit the packet before the October 26,

2016, due date.

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Wilderness 5K at Camp Belzer By: Jessica Hofman

This year’s Wilderness Race for Scouting is

November 12 at Camp Belzer! Early bird

registration is open, which includes the participation

fee AND choice of shirt for $20. The unit with the

most participants will receive an awesome

trophy! Medals for all finishers. NEW this year is

a fully accessible 1 Mile route. The 5K course will

not change. Event is family friendly and open to the

public.

Registration is open for this year’s Wilderness Race

for Scouting! Early bird registration closes October

23. Participate in the 5K OR new for 2016, a 1 Mile

fully accessible route. Event open to the public and

family friendly! For more information and to

register visit:

http://www.crossroadsbsa.org/wildernessrace

2016 Feast of the Hunters Moon By: David Hovde

As a member of the Board of Governors of the

Tippecanoe County Historical Association, I want to thank

Troops 318, 326, 337, 338, and 359 for their efforts in

making the 2016 Feast of the Hunters' Moon a very

successful event. As an assistant district commissioner for

the Sugar Creek District I was very pleased to see so

many from our district participating. Troop 350 was also

represented. The 2017 Feast will be the 50th anniversary

of the Feast and 300th anniversary of the founding of

Fort Ouiatenon. As chair of the 50/300 committee for

TCHA, I can say that we are planning special scouting

activities for the 2017 Feast. More to come on these

activities soon. Again, thanks everyone for making the

Feast such an outstanding event. Check out the story on Troop 338: http://wlfi.com/2016/10/01/feast-of-the-hunters-moon-a-23-

year-tradition-for-local-family/

Do you need Baloo Training? By: Wendell Zetterberg

BALOO Training will be on November 19th at Camp

Cullom in the Lodge starting at 8 AM and ending at

about 8:30 PM.

The cost will be $12.50 to cover the food and checks

need to be made out and sent to:

Wendell Zetterberg Sr.

95 North Spring Street

Frankfort, IN 46041-9778

wzetterbergsr@gmail.com

You MUST preregister and prepay for this event!

There will be no walk-ins.

There are some selections for food that will need to

accompany the check:

Lunch choices ; Hamburger, Chicken Breast, Ham or

Pork Chop

Dinner choices are: Beef Stew or Chili Mac (spicy),

Dessert choices are: Apple or Cherry

dump cake

This training is NEEDED by an adult

member of EACH Cub Scout Pack

that goes camping. At least one

person from each pack needs to attend

this training.

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Fishing Derby 2016 Results

By: Dana Harrison

What a Good day for A Cub Scouts Fishing Derby

The 21th Sugar Creek District Fishing Derby was

held at Frankfort’s City Lagoons on Sept. 10, from

1pm to 4. It was a bright and sunny day just like

every fishing derby should be, but the sun didn’t

come out until 3ish. Our Cub Scouts and their

fishing partner had to sit through some cloudy and

windy hours with line in the water waiting for the

tug, or maybe they just set side by side and talk

about the “good old days”. There were 66 fishing

teams made up of a Cub Scout and his Mom or Dad

or Grandpa or Special Kin. This number was down

from last year by only 1 team, we fear the weather

kept Scouts and Units home safe and dry that day,

but those that did come are real fishermen. The fish

were biting about like last year at this exceptional

group of ponds with more than 1510 fish and 2

turtles caught, and all measured then turned loose

again. So the excitement and interest was high, but

deep down every Scout, he wanted the trophy for the

biggest or most fish caught. The Cub Scouts that did

take home the trophies this year were:

Our new Lion Cub Scouts are

Kindergarteners, and this is the first year for this

rank in Cub Scouting. It is a Pilot Program in

Crossroads of America Council, and only a few of

the packs in Sugar Creek District are welcoming

Lions into their Packs. We only had 5 come out with

their partners. They were from Packs 311, 316, and

357. We hope this first taste of Cub Scouting lights

a fire in their hearts that carries them to Eagle Scout.

The Most fish caught by a Lion was Carson

Mooneyhan from Pack 316 with 36 fish, second

with 34 was Dacoda Davis from Pack 311 and third

was Gabe McKinzie Pack 311 with 30 fish. Biggest

Bluegill caught by a Lion was 8 ½” by Jack Padgett

from Pack 357, Next Largest Bluegill was 7” by

Jacob Thompson from Pack 357, and third place

went to Gabe McKinzie.

First Graders, Tiger Cub Scouts: Most

Fish Caught: First Place with 71 fish, Andrew

Blazier from Pack 336, second place, Gavin Phebus,

Pack 337 with 35 fish, and in third was Hovey

Newbauer, from Pack 337 catching 32 fish. Largest

Bluegill caught: Andrew Blazier Pack 336 caught a

7 inch bluegill, second place, Lincoln StMyer Pack

337, third Place; Tristan Coonrod Pack 336. Our last

category is “Other”; any fish not a Bluegill or a

Catfish, by the way, not a single catfish was caught

this year. This year we had a Rock Bass, a couple

Small Mouth Bass and a couple others. The winner

for Tigers in this category was Jayden Sallee Pack

338 with a 10.5 inch Small Mouth Bass, Junior

Coffman Pack 338 took second and Cameron Cook

Pack 338 took third.

Wolf Cub Scouts: The Most Fish caught

was by Alex Galvin Pack 338 catching 108 fish

taking home first place for most fish caught over-all,

Haden Heavalon, Pack 337 caught 103 fish and

Chase Mooneyhan Pack 316 caught 69 fish. Andy

Graff of Pack 316, caught a 8 inch Bluegill, Treyton

Corkwell in Pack 311, caught a 6.5” Bluegill, and

Treyton Scott in Pack 336, caught a 6.25 inch

Bluegill. Jayce Crew from Pack 338, caught 13”

other, for second place; Chase Mooneyhan from

Pack 316, caught a 9” other.

Bear Cub Scouts: Jaden Kellogg, Pack

337, caught the most fish with 75, Owen McGill,

Pack 336, caught second with 73 and Noah Earl

from Pack 316 caught 43 fish. Noah Earl Pack 316

caught the largest Bluegill for the Wolfs a 6.5 inch,

Owen McGill Pack 336 was second, Jaden Kellogg

Pack 337, Jaden also caught the Largest other, a

12.5 inch Bass.

Webelos Cub Scout: Artie Milliser Pack

350 caught the largest Bluegill at 9 inches, Branden

Lorinmore, Pack 336, caught a 7.5 inches for second

place. Eli Cree Pack 337, caught a 7 inch Bluegill.

Skyler Lonsberry from Pack 316 caught the largest

Other caught by a Webelos, it was 14” whale,

Second place was Colby Dehn from Pack 338 with

9.5 inch other and Danven Corkwell, Pack

331caught an 8” other. For most fish caught first for

the Webelos Scouts; Skyler Lonsberry, Pack 316,

caught the most fish with 148, Decon Cole, Pack

311, caught 60 fish, and Christian Mooneyhan Pack

316, caught 46 fish.

Along with a new Rank at the Derby, we had a new

event; The Fishing Derby Scavenger Hunt and

one family spent as much time fishing as they did

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hunting. For the Lions, The Wolves and the

Webelos, the winners were the Mooneyhans, Pack

316, Lion-Carson, Wolf-Chase and Webelos-

Christian. For the Tigers Andy Blazier, Pack 336,

brought in the most treasures.

The overall Trophy went to the host Pack,

Pack 337 from Presbyterian church in Rossville

with the most fishermen, at 21 Cub Scouts and

their partners. Coming in second place this year

was Pack 316 from Suncrest Elementary School in

Frankfort, with 12 scouts and their partners, the rest

of the packs in attendance were Pack 311 from

___Charter in Michigantown, Pack 318 from First

United Methodist Church in Crawfordsville, Pack

336 From ____Charter in Mulberry, Pack 338 From

St. Matthew’s UMC in Frankfort, Pack 343 From

____Charter in ___TOWN____, Pack 350 from

Grandville Wells Elementary, Pack 357 from

___Charter in ___TOWN____, Pack 359 from

___Charter, in Lebanon, Altogether we had 10 Cub

Scout Units from all three county of Sugar Creek

District in attendance.

Special thanks to Mayor McBarnes, Jim

Strode, Tammy Carpenter, Tina Stock, and Jason

Earl for their help setting this up and all the

volunteers that help with the care and upkeep here at

the Frankfort Lagoons. We liked this group of

ponds and how well stocked it was, we have already

made arrangements to return for all of Sugar Creek

District Fishing Derbies until the ponds run dry or

we catch all the fish in them.

Also, special thanks to Jessica Hofman,

Marky and Katrina Glass, Jason and Crissy Earl,

(the other lady that helped all day that no one got a

name for) and Wendell Zetterberg Plus everyone

else for their help this year with the record keeping

and book work. And thanks to our District Ex,

Jessica Hofman, for coming out and diving right

into the middle of things. A very special thanks to

all the Boy Scouts from Troop 311; Quinton Cline,

Josh Russell, Dalton Edwards, Kage Riley, Brendan

Watkins. and Craig Allen that came out and helped,

we really appreciate the great work they offered, and

the Scouting spirit they show the younger Cub

Scouts. Special thanks to U-Save Bait Shop and Carl

for being our official Bait Shop provider for the

event. We want to thank Ribbons by Sheryl Phillips,

The Athletic Annex for the fine trophies and

Emblem Enterprise for our “fishy” Patches. By the

way, any ribbons or trophies not picked up will be at

the District Roundtable in October.

This was our 21st Sugar Creek District

Fishing Derby, 18 1/2 years of sun shine and good

memories, two 1/2 years of wet and cloudy days and

good memories; the District hopes that next years

derby will bring all these Cub Scouts and their

families back, along with all their New Scouting

friends who have joined the Boy Scout family, to

catch all the old fish caught this year and all their

relatives. Next years Sugar Creek Fishing Derby,

Celebrating the 22st year of Sugar Creek District’s

Fishing Derby, will be Held at the Frankfort

Lagoons on September 9, 2017, weather permitting.

If you have nothing planned for that day, and

are not going to be bringing a Cub Scout to fish

with, come on out and help us with the 2017 Fishing

Derby. We can always use the help. And if your son

has crossed over into Boy Scouting and would like

to Pay back the District by coming out and helping,

he can earn community service time helping at the

derby. Everyone wins.

If you would like information on joining the

Boy Scouts of America you can contact the

Crossroads of America Council at: (877) 925-1900,

or go to the council web site:

www.crossroadsbsa.org, or www.becomeascout.org.

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Name with Caught Bluegill Catfish Other Pack Rank

Gabe McKinzie

30 6

311 lion

Dacoda Davis

35 5.5

311 Lion

Oliver Thorly

311 Wolf

Treyton Corkwell

9 6.5

311 Wolf

Jacob Thorley

311 Webelos

Decon Cole

60 6

311 Webelos

Danven Corkwell

6

311 Webelos Turtle

Carson Mooneyhan

36 5

316 Lion

Tyler Glass

31 6"

316 Wolf

Chase Mooneyhan

69

9 316 Wolf

Andy Graff

1 8

316 Wolf

Javany Gonzalaz

19 5.5

316 Wolf

Andrew Lopez

5 5.5

316 Bear

Noah Earl

43 6,5

316 Bear

Christian Mooneyhan

46 6.5

316 Webelos

Marcos Baker

316 Webelos

Derrick Sommers

316 Webelos Turtle

Shaun Barker

30 6

316 Webelos

Skyler Lonsbeerry

148 6.5

14 316 Webelos

Noah Myers

25 5.5

318 Webelos

Marshall Little

11 5.5

318 Webelos

Tristan Coonrod

17 6

336 Tiger

Andrew Blazier

71 7

336 Tiger

Treyton Scott

32 6.5

336 Wof

Bo Johnson

336 Wolf

Alex King

336 Wolf

Owen McGill

73 6"

336 Bear

Branden Larinmore

3 7.5

336 Webelos

Trey Knop

337 Tiger

Dylan Knop

337 Tiger

Aidon Wells

8 4

337 Tiger

Lincoln St. Myer

11 6.5

337 Tiger

Oliver Randall

337 Tiger

Gavin Phebus

35

7 337 Tiger

Clayten Brwn

1 6

337 Tiger

Charles Amber

337 Tiger

Hovey Newbauer

32 6

337 Tiger

Blake Fearnow

12 5.5

337 Wolf

Haden Heavilon

75 6

337 Wolf

Jaden Kellog

75 6

12.5 337 Bear

Mason Alford

14 5.5

337 Webelos

Bo Reslor

44 5.5

337 Webelos

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Roman St.Myer

14 6

337 Webelos

Ely Cree

3 7

8.5 337 Webelos

Malachi Garretson

337 Webelos

Colin Wheeler

337 Webelos

Cameran Cook

27 5

7.5 338 Tiger

Junior Coffman

10 5

8 338 Tiger

Xavier Kirk

2 5.5

338 Tiger

Jayden Sallee

2 5.5

10.5 338 Tiger

Graham Teya

338 Wolf

Jayce Crew

8 5

13 338 Wolf

Alex Galvan

207 6

338 Wolf

Deacon Watson

1 5.5

338 Bear

Kolby Dehn

36 6"

9.5 338 Webelos

Xaviar Mercado Dad

343 Webelos

Robert Carmichael

350 Tiger

Marshall Dyllon

350 Tiger

Drew Williams

350 Wolf

Artie Milliser

2 9

350 Webelos

Jack Padgett

12 8.5

351 Lion

Jason Thompson

18 7

357 Lion

Keaden Thomas

5 5.5

357 Bear

Aiden Henson Mom 49 6"

6" 359 Bear

Tony Baltierre

9 5.5

Tiger

Jaden Kellog

75 6

12.5 337 Bear

Deacon Watson

1 5.5

338 Bear

Andrew Lopez

5 5.5

316 Bear

Keaden Thomas

5 5.5

357 Bear

Noah Earl

43 6,5

316 Bear

Owen McGill

73 6"

336 Bear

Aiden Henson Mom 49 6"

6" 359 Bear

Jack Padgett

12 8.5

351 Lion

Gabe McKinzie

30 6

311 lion

Dacoda Davis

35 5.5

311 Lion

Carson Mooneyhan

36 5

316 Lion

Jason Thompson

18 7

357 Lion

Tristan Coonrod

17 6

336 Tiger

Cameran Cook

27 5

7.5 338 Tiger

Junior Coffman

10 5

8 338 Tiger

Trey Knop

337 Tiger

Dylan Knop

337 Tiger

Aidon Wells

8 4

337 Tiger

Robert Carmichael

350 Tiger

Lincoln St. Myer

11 6.5

337 Tiger

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Oliver Randall

337 Tiger

Gavin Phebus

35

7 337 Tiger

Clayten Brwn

1 6

337 Tiger

Charles Amber

337 Tiger

Hovey Newbauer

32 6

337 Tiger

Andrew Blazier

71 7

336 Tiger

Xavier Kirk

2 5.5

338 Tiger

Marshall Dyllon

350 Tiger

Tony Baltierre

9 5.5

Tiger

Jayden Sallee

2 5.5

10.5 338 Tiger

Christian Mooneyhan

46 6.5

316 Webelos

Jacob Thorley

311 Webelos

Marcos Baker

316 Webelos

Mason Alford

14 5.5

337 Webelos

Derrick Sommers

316 Webelos Turtle

Bo Reslor

44 5.5

337 Webelos

Shaun Barker

30 6

316 Webelos

Xaviar Mercado Dad

343 Webelos

Artie Milliser

2 9

350 Webelos

Noah Myers

25 5.5

318 Webelos

Roman St.Myer

14 6

337 Webelos

Ely Cree

3 7

8.5 337 Webelos

Marshall Little

11 5.5

318 Webelos

Decon Cole

60 6

311 Webelos

Danven Corkwell

6

311 Webelos Turtle

Branden Larinmore

3 7.5

336 Webelos

Malachi Garretson

337 Webelos

Colin Wheeler

337 Webelos

Skyler Lonsbeerry

148 6.5

14 316 Webelos

Kolby Dehn

36 6"

9.5 338 Webelos

Treyton Scott

32 6.5

336 Wof

Tyler Glass

31 6"

316 Wolf

Drew Williams

350 Wolf

Blake Fearnow

12 5.5

337 Wolf

Graham Teya

338 Wolf

Jayce Crew

8 5

13 338 Wolf

Bo Johnson

336 Wolf

Alex King

336 Wolf

Oliver Thorly

311 Wolf

Chase Mooneyhan

69

9 316 Wolf

Haden Heavilon

75 6

337 Wolf

Alex Galvan

207 6

338 Wolf

Treyton Corkwell

9 6.5

311 Wolf

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Andy Graff

1 8

316 Wolf

Javany Gonzalaz

19 5.5

316 Wolf

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