We have been notified of a scheduled planned outage of our Troop website happening Friday, September 6th, 5PM ET into the morning of Saturday, September 7th. During this time there will be NO access to our Troop website. Our hosting provider will be cloning their servers from one data center to another.  To accomplish that, the servers cannot be online while the cloning is occurring. Which is why there will be no access to our Troop website (or email that uses the site, such as E-Blasts and alias email addresses) during the transition. This should not affect our Troop in any way. We simply wanted to give everyone a heads up, so there would not be any confusion if you try to access the Troop website during this time.

Troop 640, has been nice enough to offer up some fundraising slots to serve beer/food at home Broncos games.  They have had fewer volunteers than previous years so are desperate to find some volunteer help for this upcoming season.  You earn around $100 per game per person that works and split cash tips.  This could earn enough for summer camp in 2-3 games and probably enough for all activities with 5-6 games.  Last season, the Davis and White families were able to earn enough to send their boys to Florida Sea Base with enough left over to also attend summer camp.  The stand that we volunteer at serves beer, nachos and hot dogs.  You do need to take TIPS training to serve beer. Boys can volunteer to cook the hot dogs/brats to earn money too.  Contact Julie Berland at julieberland@q.com if you would like to volunteer. 

This will be the final "summer" camping trip before school get's too busy for everyone.  The DAC in Septmber is a "fall" camping trip.   The focus for this camping weekend is going to be rank advancement and cooking.  We are looking to complete the hiking/orienteering for the lower rank advancement requirement.  In addition we are looking to comlete the hiking meal requirement in the cooking Merit Badge.  We will also do some swimming at Soda Lake, weather permitting.  Please consider having your scout come out to the campout, even if they cannot spend the night.  In addition for all the marching Band scouts, you could come out after Saturday practice to work on some requirements, pick up a night of camping and enjoy a campfire as there are currenlty no fire bans.  Bear Creek lake park is only a short drive for all of our troop.  Hope to see you there.

The Thursday night Troop Meeting is a "fishing meeting" and has been reloacted to Cottonwood Park, Lakewood CO. Here is a link to the map:

https://goo.gl/maps/5dhQgxkLMdGHHBnt7

This Tuesday Aug 20th Toop 808 is performing a flag ceremony at the Pack 814 meeting on August 20th. The meeting will take place at Westgate Elementary School ay 6:30 pm. Please sign up on the website if you will be able to attend and help out.  Wear your class A complete with nerckerchief.  Westgate is on Yale on the West side of Wadsworth Blvd, not too far from our own meeting location.

We've received our quarterly statement for the King Soopers Community Rewards program and will be receiving a payment soon. If you have regisitered your Loyalty Card with Troop 808 please check your account and let Mrs. Fitzjarrell, Troop Treasurer know the amount you contributed. See the attachment for instructions. If you have not yet registered your Loyalty Card with Troop 808, and want to, please check our website or contact Mrs. Fitzjarrell. Thank you for your support of Troop 808!