I'd like to take a minute here on the blog to welcome our newest Scouts, Dominik, Sebastian, Joe, David, Stefano and Jeffrey. Some of these guys are returning from time spent in the Cubs, but they're new to us.
Membership is going up, but we want it even higher. The more guys in the troop, the more activities we can plan and fund. Here's a picture from two weeks ago as the venerable Mr. Tom Dowd shows our guys some knot basics. There's 11 scouts in this picture, and there were a few more there that night, the older boys were working on cleaning up the window outside.
The increased membership paid off well today, as we had our first fundraiser of the year, our bake sale. Every boy and adult brought at least two cakes, trays of cupcakes, cookies or brownies for us to sell. Everything looked really great and we managed to sell out of everything just in time for the last Mass from St. Matthias. Thanks to all the Scouts and especially to all of the parents who helped out today.
All in all, it was a huge success and we raised over $300 that will help to buy new camping gear for the troop, go towards our year end trip in June and towards efforts to repair or replace the Scout office store front windows.
Here's a few pictures from the bake sale:
