BSA Troop 60 :: Boy Scout Troop of Farmland and Parker City, Randolph County, Indiana

The Troop had a great time at the Fall Camporee held at camp Red Wing Oct. 7, 8 & 9. We had a few guests, Charles Haas and his son Chaz, a second year Webelo stayed the weekend with us. Charles ran the Archery course and helped a bunch with leadership over the weekend. I think Chaz had a pretty good time with our boys also. We had one of our Pack 60 Webelos, Tyler Gowin with us for the weekend. Tyler is a joy and he had a great time. Tyler even managed to win the cub scouts division in the derby make and race. Way to go Tyler! The troop had eight boys come for the weekend and all had a great time. The Troop ran a fire building station for the Saturday events and we give  a great big thank you to those guys who helped run the station for the day. Thanks also to Keith Heckman who stayed a good portion of the day to keep an eye on things at the station. The days events included BB shooting, Archery, Rope making, water rockets, canoeing, water life study, Scout essentials, fire building and a derby car build and race.

 As always we ate petty well. Friday night started off with a hog roast and Saturday night we had burgers and dogs at a family style pitch in cookout.  And who could forget “Jacks Fart”! It’s not what it sounds like! We awoke Saturday & Sunday morning to Jacks cannon being fired off. Its quite a loud report and even being in the furthest camp site we heard it loud and clear! And lastly a big thanks to Jim Davis for his Sunday morning service. Overall a great weekend with the boys and fellow Scouters and we thank all those who chaired, planned, helped, ran the events and especially the leaders who come to make Scouting what it is for our boys.

Yours in Scouting

Steve Oliphant 

September 17th was the Girts Archery Extravaganza at the Farmland Conservation Club. Four members of the Troop along with two leaders took part and had a great time. Although we did not attend as scouts we were certainly recognized as such from the many hours we have spent in the concession stand there and other funtions in the community. We all had a great time shooting our tradional bows and just being in the woods sharing some good time together.

For the past several years our Troop has ran the consession stand for the Farmland Conservation Club at there Spring & Fall Traditional Bow Shoots. Its been a good fund raiser for our boys and given them some good experiance and service to the many shooters who come out. I can’t thank enough the many vendors and guys from the Club who spend the time to mentor and teach our young men. The vendors are always especially generous to our guys and always willing to help them learn about this awesome sport. This time at this Fall Shoot we were privilaged to have Roy B & Steve W take us around the Big game course and show six of our youth and two adults how the course is shot and scored and they gave all of us some really good pointers to imporove our shooting skills. One of our boys Brandon Burton (15) was a natural with the bow. Brandon had only shot a few times with his friend and fellow scout Garrett Oliphant (15) over the past few weeks. Since Brandon was new to the sport he used Garretts Bow & Arrows. Brandon and Garrett went throught the 40 target Big Game course and scored there shots and Brandon won the Youth Division. What a proud moment for all of us. Great job Brandon and thanks Garrett for being so generous with your Bow.

 I also wnat to give a big Thank you to leaders Keith Heckman, Dylan Oliphant & Frank Turner for there help and Guidance. A big thanks to the parents who came out to help and/or drove your kids to and from the event and especially thank you to the boys for making and serving lots of breakfast, lunch and dinner items to hungary bow enthusiasts. The Troop thanks you all for the approximate $300 we made for upcoming Troop campouts.

Steve Oliphant - Scoutmaster Troop 60

Most of the boys from the troop were present this Memorial day weekend to serve up meals to the many participants that came to camp and shoot targets at the Farmland Conservation Clubs annual traditional bow shoot. The troop was able to raise nearly $400 for camp fees to help out the boys. We had a few of the boys do some bow shooting which they really enjoyed. Dylan did a canoe training class for our new scouts and parents and of course the boys had a night game of cammando’s. A troop favorite. Special thanks to Frank for heading it up and the parents who came out to help. Big thanks to the F.C.C. for this chance to help the boys and to be around a great sport and a great bunch of folks.

The Spring Camporee at Red Wing Scout Camp was a great time for all and a big success. A big Thank You goes out to our own leader Frank Turner who was the Camp Master and put in many hours to organize and head up the camporee. Our boys did the knot tying station and our own Eagle Dylan Oliphant headed up the Sunday morning Chapel Service. We had three of our new scouts in attendance, 6 older members and three leaders. Thanks guys for a great time and a great camp

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The boys worked really hard doing some cleanup at the maxville cemetary. They have worked two staurdays thus far and plan on doing some more over the spring and summer.

The latest Eagle from Troop 60 is Ethan Jacobs.