Merit Badge Day Flier:

Location: Paramount LDS 1st and 3rd Ward 10511 Paramount Blvd Downey, CA 90240

Date:  Saturday, 12 October 2013

Fee for class: $5.00  Lunch is available for purchase: $4.00

Scouts register for their class with the merit badge counselor and pay the class fee on-site.  Cash only accepted.

Schedule:

Registration: 8:00 am

Flag Ceremony: 8:45 am

Session I:  9am – 11:30 am  (Classes close at 9:15 am)

Lunch: 11:30am – 12:00 pm

Session II: 12pm – 2:30pm (Classes close at 12:15pm)

PLEASE NOTE:  CAMOUFLAGE, SWEATS AND T-SHIRTS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE AND YOU WILL BE SENT HOME. COMPLETE UNIFORMS ONLY.

All scouts attending Merit Badge day must have blue cards signed by their Scoutmaster.  Scouts will not be able to attend the class if they do not have this signed blue card.

Email cee1jay@gmail.com for more information

Confirmed Classes:

Morning

COIN  COLLECTING : (Read the Merit Badge pamphlet).  

Scouts must phone at least five days before MB day @ 714-519-5485 Arline Gerard-Prentice. No parents, friends nor siblings should call…just the scouts, themselves!

Six– Collect and show your counselor five different quarters you have acquired from circulation from the 1999-2008  50 State Quarters Program.   Seven– Collect from circulation a set of currently circulating U.S. coins. Include one coin of each denomination (cent, nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar, and any example of a dollar coin). For each coin, locate the mint marks, if any, and designer’s initials, if any.  Nine– Do any one of #9, either A, B, C, or D. Bring the items with you. Note: If you do NOT have a coin collection, then 9-D is easiest, but remember it is a SET of the SAME denomination of coin!   HINT: Easiest “same denomination” means all pennies for each of your years.   Ten-D  Do drawings of FIVE Colonial-era U.S. coins (Coins made before 1776). Draw the FRONT and the BACK of the FIVE coins. Bring all TEN of your drawings.

Dog Care (Mr. Rocky Mooney, Counselor)

Call Mr. Mooney at 562 868-8292 to register for the class.

Theater       (Ms. Cathy Moreno, Counselor)

Email Ms. Moreno to register for the class:  cgmoreno@lasd.org Requirements: signed Blue Card, Read Book and prerequisites 1,2,3,

Photography (Mr. Ross Okazaki, Counselor)

Please contact Mr. Okazaki at ro.merit.badges@gmail.com to register for the class.  Only the first 15 scouts will be accepted to the class.  Prerequisites:  Complete requirements 4 and 5.

Crime Prevention (Mr. Anthony Castruita, Counselor)

Please contact Mr. Castruita at a1castruita@aim,com to register for the class. Only the first 15 scouts will be accepted to the class.

Prerequisites: Have Workbook done before class : Bring proof of Numbers 2, 4 – 7.

Camping Merit Badge (Mr. Carl Freeman, Counselor)

Please contact Mr. Freeman at freeride@att.net to register for the class. Only the first 15 scouts will be accepted to the class.

Prerequisites:  Letter from Scoutmaster or Asst Scoutmaster showing they have completed the following:
4b, 5e,7b,8d 9a,and 9b.  Read Camping Merit Badge Book.  Download the Camping Merit Badge sheet from meritbadge.com

Family Life  – Debbie O’Hara

Please contact Ms. O’Hara by phone 562.929.1738 to register for the class. Please provide the following information to Ms. O’Hara: name, rank, telephone number. Please speak very clearly and slowly. Leave your phone number twice.

Prerequisites: #2, 3, 6b 1-5 and 7b

First Aid (Mr. Leonard Robles, Counselor) – All Day Class

Please contact Mr. Robles at lroblestroop300@yahoo.com to register for the class.  Only the first 15 scouts will be accepted to the class.

Citizenship in the Nation (Mr. John Lewis, Counselor)

Please contact:  Mr. Lewis at teelah@pacbell.net to register for the class

Public Health (Mr. Walter Jordan, Counselor)

Please contact Mr. Jordan at scout@southgatescouts.org to register; copy your parents or scoutmaster in the email.

Merit Badge Counselor Training (Mr. Bobby Joe)

On-site registration, class is from 9:00am – 11:30am

Afternoon Classes

Life to Eagle Training (Mr. Glenn Nishibayashi)

On-site registration, class is from 12pm – 2:00pm

Hiking:  Mr. Larry Good, Counselor

Contact Mr. Larry Good to register at t-sdiecutting@verizon.net

GARDENING:  

Scouts must phone at least five days before MB day @ 714-519-5485 Arline Gerard-Prentice. No parents, friends nor siblings should call…just the scouts, themselves!

 One-A & B Grow six vegetables and six flowers (three from seeds and three from seedlings), through harvesting/flowering. Make a log of your plantings, and take pictures of the results. Bring your log of your plantings, and the pictures of your results.   Three  Test 100 seeds for germination. Plant 100 grass (or other) seeds in a container. Bring it in, or bring a picture. Count the sprouts after approximately three weeks. Log your results.   Four  Visit a nursery.  Be ready to Report on what you learned at your visit.   Six- A, B, C, or D  Build and maintain for 90 days: a compost bin; or a vermipost bin; or a hydroponic garden; or a water garden. Take and bring pictures.

Scholarship (Ms. Cathy Moreno, Counselor)

Email Ms. Moreno to register for the class:  cgmoreno@lasd.org 

Blue Card, Read Book and prerequisites  1,2,3,4 and 5

Citizenship in the World (Mr. John Lewis, Counselor)

Please contact:  Mr. Lewis at teelah@pacbell.net to register for the class

Cooking (Mr. Walter Jordan, Counselor)

Please contact Mr. Jordan at scout@southgatescouts.org to register; copy your parents or scoutmaster in the email.

Complete the following prerequisites: 1a, 1b, 1c, all of 2,

Genealogy – Mr. Carl Freeman

Contact Mr. Freeman via email to register:  freeride@att.net to register.  Only the first 15 scouts who register will be accepted.

Prerequisites:  1. # 2, #3, #4b, #5,  #6, #7  Bring proof of completion to class.

Computers – Mr. Ray Shirley

Contact Mr. Shirley to register and get prerequisites for the class:  rayliner@gmail.com