May 5th 2011

On Thursday May 5th, Troop 845 Scouts Ty Fenton and Lawton Ives spoke at the 2011 Distinguished Citizens Award honoring UNC President Bill Friday.  Lawton opened the evening, telling stories of his first year in Scouting then delivered the prayer before dinner.   Ty Fenton later delivered a speech on 'Prepared for Life' that pulled from epic tales of his decorated Scouting trail to Eagle.  Check out the videos here or some more photos on our photo page.

               

Ty Fenton Speaking at the 2011 DCA dinner Lawton Ives Speaking at the 2011 DCA dinner 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 21st 2011 

Troop 845 welcomes a new member to the family.  Affectionately known as The Black Mamba, the new Troop van made its debut this weekend and was a spectacular, exciting, and much anticipated success.  Thanks so much to all of the supporters of the campaign and also to the very diligent and resourceful Mamba Purchasing Team.  This van is about to transport Scouts in style on an epic number of epic trips.

 The Black Mamba after its debut trip to the Camp Bowers COPE Course

Recent News - December 9th 2010
Troop 845 Scouts were recently featured in the Occonechee Council's 2011 Friends of Scouting campaign.  This is the annual fundraising effort for the Council and two of our Scouts are featured as narrators in this year's video.  

Check it out. 

Also, Troop 845 Eagle Scout and leader David Hare was featured in the Philanthropy Journal for his work with the Lineberger Cancer Center on the Cycle 20Ten ride from this last summer.  You can read the online article here.

 

November 10, 2010

This summer Troop 845 sent a crew of Scouts, dubbed Cycle20Ten, out to bike across the United States from Maryland to Washington State.  The ride took 10 weeks and they covered 3700 miles on their way across America.  Along the way Troop 845 worked with UNC's Lineberger Cancer Center, and over the summer the Cycle20Ten crew raised over $25,000 for cancer research.  For all of their fundraising efforts, leader David Hare and the Cycle20Ten riders were award the Youth Philanthropists of the Year award for the State of North Carolina.

Cycle20Ten received the NC Youth Philanthropists of the Year award for 2010

Scouts from Troop 845 were recently featured in the new Camp Durant promotional video.  The Occoneechee Council is in the process of completing a camp-wide and stunning renovation of Camp Durant and T845 Scouts were happy to help promote the new facilities and get thousands of new Scouts down to Durant in the coming years.