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I just got back from summer camp. The week went fairly well. They had a COPE program for the adults one hour a day which I attended. This was great as it aided in building commaradarie amoung the adults as well as giving us some realy good ideas for things to propose to the PLC for troop meeting "games". The low point was the day before we left. First, I got an 'urgent' call from my wife at the office. My grandmother had died (not unexpectidly, but nonetheless). Then they had an adult 'scoutmaster' recognigion at the campfire. Since I had attended and signed in at the leaders meetings,

I just got back from my fisrt year at Boy Scout summer camp as an adult. I attended as a Scout for 3 years but that was over 20 years ago. Our troop had no scouts tapped out since we had none elligable who were not already members. However, I did overhear from some of our first year scouts something upsetting that was going on. They were told by some older scouts that becomming an OA member involved a blood oath which of course left them never wanting membership. Our troop OA rep told them that all about the Ordeal was secret and he could not say anything. Maybe I know more than I shoul

I spoke with my sons SM last night. He is on the committee that organized the event. The information was in error. Registration goes till midnight. Thanks to all who responeded for affirming that we shouldn't have to choose between scouts and school.

My oldest son has just recently crossed over to Boy Scouts. There is planning in place for a council wide camporee type event this fall. We were all set to go then we found out that we had to be on site and checked in by 3PM on a Friday in mid Septenber-- a school day. The site is over a four hour drive away. Hence in order to go, we would have to take him out of school on Friday. Before I even started to talk to him about the seriousness of missing a school day so early in the year (and at a new school too), he said he did not want to go and miss school so near the beginning of the y

IMHO it is the responsibility of the Scouter to "Do their best" to "keep themselves phlsically strong..." If another Scouter feels that someone is not living up to this portion of the Scout Oath, they need to remind them about it. We do need to be "Kind" also and remember that the obese Scouter may be "doing their best" and be quite sensitive about the issue. That being said, let us be careful how we define obese. This hits close to home for me, since I am technically (based on that BMI junk that seems to be the gospel in determining obesity) obese. I've been told when tryi

Our pack has always awarded ranks as earned. The boys are always so proud of their accomplishments, it would be wrong not to recognize them ASAP. Before I was CM, the exception to this was the BnG in which just Webelos II got their AOL and crossed over. This left some boys who had just completed their rank on Jan disappointed that they had to wait an extra month to be recognized. When I took the CM job, I insisted that if time were a factor, we would need to cut something else, if the boys earned their ranks, they would recieve them at the monthly pack meeting with proper ceremony, BnG

We had the same question in our pack. We did not see one in the book so we inquired at the council. They told us that the BSA considers hockey to be a contact sport (like football is) and hence it is not an activity sanactioned by them. Hence there is no hockey belt loop and it is highly unlikely you will see one in the future.

This indeed is sad news. I'm from the Gerald R. Ford council whose camp, Camp Gerber is literally right around the corner from Owasippe. (I'm not sure if the property lines abut or not.) I fear the crystal clear nights may soon be drown out by the lights of development.

The church that charters us has imformed us that due to its busy schedule, we have only two hours to use the building for our Blue and Gold. In this time we have the meal, skits from each den, awards culminating in Arrow of Light and cross over, and finally desert. In my opinion (as Cubmaster) the schedule is too tight for two hours especially if Murphy rears his ugly head. What could we cut out/abbreivate to make sure we can get done in time? My vote would be for the desert, but parents have already been told to make something for this.

While it doesn't cover quite all 20, in order to earn the compass emblem and all 3 compass points, it does take earning 19 of the pins.

A couple of months ago, a Webelo II scout was comming home with his mom from the doctor where she had just had an allergy shot. By the time she got home, she was having severe stomach pains and nausous. He had to help her into the house where she sat in the bathroom and was unable to move any further. The scout remained calm and called 911. Although the nausia and pains had lessened the mom was taken to the hospital by ambulance and by the time she had gotten there she was swelling all over. She was having a severe reaction to the allergy shot. The hospital administered antihistimes and s

I am looking for the opionon of some Boy Scout leaders as to what I should emphisize and spend the most time on in preparing my Webelos for crossing over. I know the Arrow of Light requirements, but what knowledge/skills are most important for these boys to have to help them get a good start in Boy Scouting? Second question -- do you loose a lot of new (boy) scouts after summer camp. The last two years, the majority of boys who crossed over in Feburary from our Pack, quit Boy Scouts shortly after attending summer camp. They all had camping experinece and in fact had a blast at cub sc

Hello all. I recently discovered these forums and have been reading them for a few days and find the information invalueable. I decided to register because I can use some advise on a variety of topics that have come up in my scouting experinece and maybe I can even offer some small bits of advice myself. I was in scouting beginning in second grade with cubs and continued on into Boy Scouts earning my Eagle in 1983. When I was about 16, our Scoutmaster formed a coed Explorer group which I also was in and remained in until I was about 21. I returned to scouting 3 years ago at