Please register to help with the March 27 yardsale.  Helpers are needed before and during the event. Go to our yardsale planner to sign up.  Signing up on TheOnePlanner website is quick and easy.  Note: Go to the March calendar page when you arrive.

We still have many helper spots to fill and encourage all our parents and friends to visit the yardsale site to sign-up.  We especially need cashiers, but there are slots for POD organizing, set-up and pricing, refreshments and general support on the day of.

Come experience the spot where the once separated states of the north and the south were reunited - in Appomattox Court House, Virginia!  http://www.nps.gov/apco/index.htm

If you want to explore a part of national history and earn a BSA recognized historical award (medal), be sure to sign up for this trip!!

On the morning of March 13th, we will depart from Trinity UMC and travel to Appomattox Court House where on April 9, 1865 (Palm Sunday) and almost 145 years ago to-the-day, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army to General Ulysses S. Grant, officially ending the bloodiest war in American history. 

AS OF JANUARY 1, 2010, THE ONLY MEDICAL FORM THAT IS VALID IS THE BSA ANNUAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RECORD.  THE "CLASS 1, 2 & 3" FORMS CAN NO LONGER BE USED.

Rockets soared in Hampton, Virginia on Sunday the 21st of February.  Troop 799 showed up at Trinity Church at 2:30pm on Saturday to start off our trip to the Langley Air and Space Museum.  After a brief, yet delicious stop at a Picadilly cafeteria, we reached the museum around 7:00pm.  We had a brief tour around the museum before beginning the Space Exploration Merit Badge.  This will be the first Merit Badge for several new Scouts, while some of the older Scouts will be receiving their second iteration of the badge.  To fulfill the requirements for the merit badge, we discussed occupations in space, challenges faced in space and the physics of space.  Most importantly, we built rockets.  After the explosives were finished, we had free time to wander the museum until we had to bed down on the floor of the museum.  The next morning, after we had breakfasted, we drove to a nearby parking lot to fire our rockets.  Most of them went off without a hitch, until Kenny Jones, Jr.'s rocket simply exploded in midair.  The trip was enjoyed by all - and we scored another merit badge!

- Bennett Hanes, Troop Historian

Beginning on Monday March 1 and continuing on the first Mondays of April, May, and June, Assistance Scoutmaster Jamie Byers will be instructing the Personal Managment Merit Badge. This is an eagle-required badge and focuses on financial management. It is generally most appropriate for somewhat more "mature" scouts as the content focuses on creating a budget and tracking income and esxpenses over a 90 day period.