Program Benefits and Scout_l
Barry C Runnels (Barry_C_Runnels@MMACMAIL.JCCBI.GOV)
Mon, 31 Mar 1997 09:30:16 CST
Hi Alan
You have a very interesting post:
>I am a college student (at close to 40 it is difficult), and to spend
>hours climbing through Scouts-L is tiring (to say the least) and very time
>consuming.
If we all ask the same questions, I don't think we would need Scout_L.
>What I really like to read about is Cub Packs, Scout Troops
>doing things, the program and what benefits it had.
I have one. Four years ago, our pack had its own Summer Cub Scout Day Camp.
Most of our parents couldn't take the time off during the week for the
District Day Camp, so we did our own on a Weekend. Anyway one of our events
was building Cubmobiles and racing them on the last day. It was a great day
camp and we still race those cubmobles at least twice a year since.
Three years ago we let all the Cubs race on our cubmobles at the District
Cub-O-Ree (A Saturday where all Packs provide and event at the local Park).
Two years ago, a new Pack heard about our cubmobiles from our DE who saw
them at the Cub-O-Ree. The CM was looking for a father/son activity to get
more activities in his Pack. We invited him to our Spring Cubmobile/Kite
Flying Day and let his son race our cars. Last year their Pack had their
own Pack Cubmobile races.
Last Fall our DE asked a Pack that was falling apart to talk with us about
Cubmobiles. We loaned them the Ramps and Cubmobiles and now that Pack is
doing very well. What they really wanted was some ideas how to get bonding
in the Pack. The Cub Mobiles just got them thinking of different activities
for each month. I still don't know who gave them that idea?
Next month, our District is having its first District Cubmobile races. The
chair of that committee is the CM of the Pack that we invited to our Spring
Cubmobile/Kite Flying Day.
>I would like to see program ideas here, too many people try to exert their
>personal beliefs and feelings on others.
It took me almost a year to realize that not everyone sees life and
Scouting the way I do. I think they should and I don't know why they don't.
But I learned that some people like to spend three months on the subject of
coffee. So what do you do? You can get off Scout_L and miss out on one of
the best resource of Scouting information and Activity ideas in the world,
or you can try to feed all your success to the folks like you and me who
thirst for new and better ideas and skip the boring stuff.
And little by little, we change them to see life our way. I would love to
hear about your units activities.
You remind me of something I read on Scout_L and repeated to myself as we
were 15 minutes from starting our White Water Rafting Trip. I spent three
months Planning this part of our summer trip. The Outfitter had just given
us our briefing of how not to die if we fall out. As I was looking at 27
sons of loving parents who trust me to bring these guys home safe, I
thought "MAKE IT FUN!, MAKE IT SAFE!, AND PRAY TO GOD ALL THE TIME!".
Thankyou God, I love this Scouting Stuff.
Barry Runnels
"Mighty" Pack 339
Troop 386
Edmond OK
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