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  1. Make it personal to the Scout - get a flag and take it on a tour. Fly it over their favorite summer camp, at the state park where he had his first campout, over the lake they learned to canoe on (that one will be trickier), etc.
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  3. Scout accounts: I agree with Qwazse on only one of his takeaways. The others I partially agree with. My takeaway? low risk, potentially illegal and potentially inappropriate. Is it illegal for individual scout accounts? The IRS has not yet made that clear (in other words, there have been no test cases), however the IRS did send a letter in response to a unit that asked them about it (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/02-0041.pdf) and while the IRS wouldn't come right out and say it (hmmm - kind of like National perhaps?), they strongly hint that it is probably not ok for a Scout to
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  4. Sea Scouts on the Lake. Lake Scouts? http://kstp.com/news/nonprofit-teaches-children-to-sail-on-lake-nokomis/4985191/
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  6. @Eagledad and @CalicoPenn I think accountable is the wrong word. Supportive might be better. This program is about youth and we're the ones working with the youth. Support goes two ways. Maybe they should take Wood Badge and review a few things. The first is servant leadership. Another is the idea of a 360 degree review. The final one is the idea of having a clear vision of the program.
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  7. My son just returned from his first camp. He chose Small Boat Sailing, Motorboating, and Kayaking and spent most of his day at the waterfront. During his free time (of which we made sure he had plenty) he was either snorkeling or shooting at the archery range. He attended a star watching party, even though he didn't take Astronomy, just because he loves stars (and it's hard to see them in our city). He went on an overnight canoing trip in which dolphins played next to the canoes. Sure, the camp was pricey if we thought about it as a weeklong merit badge university and gauged it as $/MB Ea
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  8. We did our first of 2 summer camps three weeks ago. Seven out of the twelve boys who attended are new to the troop since February, and participated in the camp's Trailblazer program. They spent a good portion of the 'instructional day' working on Second Class & First Class requirements. They also had time in the middle of the day for merit badges, most of them earned 2 for the week. I say most of them, as this camp is, thankfully, a stickler for completions being actually earned. A couple of the younger boys, along with some of the older ones, came back with incompletes that they
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  9. It is estimated that there are 1.4 million gang members in the United States. There are more adolescent boys in gangs than in scouting. Physical and sexual abuse in gangs is so common that the news media doesn't bother to report it. It's not news. Every case of sexual abuse in scouting is a headline story.
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  10. Turns out it's from a unit in Santa Tecla, El Salvador for their 50th anniversary. https://www.facebook.com/689570167822190/photos/a.1016987398413797.1073741839.689570167822190/1016988595080344/?type=3&theater https://www.facebook.com/gruposcout20elsalvador/photos/p.1050170995061372/1050170995061372/?type=1&theater
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