Online Greenery sales are now open! Returning scouts can reactivate their account from previous years. New Scouts can visit: http://util.sherwoodforestfarms.com/users/register/regcode:5010646bf1  Scroll down to “New Participant Registration” and register your scout as a participant. Next, add a name, picture and short welcome statement to set up a personal mini-site. If you set up a miniwebsite, that’s the link to share with people (otherwise, they need to know to choose your Scout’s name from a dropdown menu when ordering). Additionally, you can sign up to sell at St. Matthew’s, Sunday, Nov 2nd and Sunday, Nov 9th. Scouts usually attend the service at 10:30 am and are recognized during announcements then leave to attend to their sales table. Sales time is 11:20 AM so there will be enough time to set up and make sure there is a working internet connection (if internet connection is weak, you may have to use a cell phone hotspot). A table will be set up outside the Sanctuary for Scouts to take orders.  If your Scout would like to participate, please sign up on the Troop 511 website. Please be prepared to use your own laptop or tablet to help church members submit their online orders. For more info, please see the attachment.

All parents are invited to join us at Waterloo Ice House on Burnet Road (near 183) on Thursday Oct 23 at 7 PM. We will work on plans for the SpecOps campout. It's Wings Night, and we have space resereved in the indoor back porch area. Watch for an email to come with some items for discussion. Note that this is a No Kids meeting because for this campout, we are going to surprise the Scouts! If you are game to help and can't make it. reach out to Jennifer (jjuday@gmail.com or 512-838-3213) to talk about this! It's going to be so much fun! 

  Has your Scout gone to Summer or Winter Camp yet? It's a great experience! Troop 511 is heading to Camp Karankawa, down near Corpus Christi, for Winter Camp, for a few days during winter break. We will arrive midday on Dec 27 and leave midday on Dec 30. If your Scout has not yet attended camp, this is a great chance to start. Scouts can earn up to 4 merit badges, and we expect it to be shorts-and-t-shirt weather down on the coast. Get started today: 

Scout Sunday will be Feb. 8. We'll ask that as many people as possible attend. It's our annual formal "thank you" to the lovely people of St Matt's, without whose support the troop would not be here. Scouts, please wear your Class A! Scouts will participate by conducting a flag ceremony at the start and being readers (there are 3 short passages to read). They can also act as ushers. 

All hands on deck! Scouts, please be sure to come to our next meeting on Oct 14! We will build fires, eat smores and likely play a game with visitors from Pack 49. If there's a fellow Scout from Troop 511 you haven't seen in a while, give them a call and ask them to come help us welcome the Arrow of Light/Webelos of Pack 49! Parents, we will have a Parents Committee Meeting that night, so please plan to stay! 

Scouting Adventure Weekend is coming up Oct 17-19! While we are not sending the whole troop, we would love to have a few 511 Scouts participate. At Scouting Adventure Weekend, BSA Scouts will work with Cub Scouts on an activity and can participate in shooting skills work themselves. Cubs will be working on adventures for their rank, meeting older scouts and improving their shooting range skills. This is an opportunity to meet scouts in other units. OA callout is planned for Saturday evening. Bring your favorite recipe for the dutch oven cooking contest. Registration for Armadillo Scouting Adventure Weekend closes Sunday Oct 12 at 11:59 PM.