St. Matthews is looking for young people to staff the CarniFall Festival for kids at the St Matthews Day School on Oct 17, 4:30 - 8:30. Please sign up using this online form. Younger scouts are welcome to come with a parent. They will have a pizza dinner for volunteers. 

The next Range Safety Officer (RSO) training is scheduled for March 6. The date has not been posted yet on the Council calendar yet, so mark your calendar. This class fills up, so watch and enroll once it's posted. Having adults trained as Range Safety Officers allows our troop to conduct archery and other shootitng sports activities. 

The Order of the Arrow (OA) is Scouting's National Honor Society. Tonkawa Lodge #99, our local OA chapter, aims to benefit the Capitol Area Council and the Scouts within it by promoting the high ideals of the Scout Oath and Law, helping arrowmen internalize a cheerful servant spirit as well as a willingness to help others at all times. They do service work, such as helping maintain Lost Pines Scout Ranch. 

Please take a moment to let us know if you can or cannot come to the Guadalupe Camping and Tubing Trip! That's happening this next weekend -- Friday Sept 12 through Sunday Sept 14. Some people are coming out on Saturday morning, just to go tubing, and that is just fine. We will be renting tubes and life jackets, and eating lunch while on the river. NOTE: our campsite is located downriver from Canyon Lake (a flood control lake). Parents, if you have any questions about the trip, know that we will talk about it at the meeting this coming Tuesday, as part of the monthly Parents Meeting. 

Our October trip will be bicycling in San Antonio! Please mark your calendars for October 3-5 and let us know on the website if you can attend or not. It shoudl be a really pleasant day of bicycling at the beginning of the fall weather. (Forecasts currently suggests lows in the 60s that weekend!). We will be close by, so come out for just the day if you can't spare the time for camping!