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Not in that sense, but for our Spring Pow-wow in March, the Pow-wow chairman brought in a drum and dancers who compete in the Pow-wow circuit. They held a class during a two hour period on the drum and songs, and then on their regalia and their dances. Then the drum preformed for our Pow-wow in the afternoon. Aparently the members of the group hail from various nations from the Southeast and Midwest. Everyone recieved some very good insight, and a lot of us hope this is the start to something good. During the day we also had local lodge members teach courses on moccasin making,

Congrats to Justin! As someone who had to have a Council appeal because of a SM who refused to sign an Eagle Application, I can sympathize. It took me a few years to get back into Scouting, I hope the actions of a few don't push you away from a great organization like they did to me. Again, congratuations!

If the election team does a good job with the explaination, then there shouldn't be a problem. Last month I went out as an Advisor with an election team and the troop had about 12 new crossovers. I'd say about 8 of them didn't turn in ballots because it was explained that if you didn't know the candidates that well and you're not sure who to vote for, do not turn in a ballot. I was also surprised to see that only one of the five eligible scouts were voted in by this particular troop. Again, the election team did a good job of explaining the responsibilities of arrowmen and what i

We had the same thing when I went to WB in Central Florida. On staff, there was an ASM of Program and one for Facilities (I might be making that one up, but it was something like that). The ASM of Program had a set of GIANT WB beads, each bead being about 15"x6" on thick rope, and the ASM of Facilites had a bucket and plunger. Everyday a new patrol was assigned "program" and "facilities", so during that day each one would be responsible for leading the groups in song or insuring the dining hall or bathrooms were clean. Every morning at Gilwell Field, the PL of the patrol would "del

I earned Woodcarving, Basketry, Indianlore, and Leatherwork all at my first summer camp. I'd have to look at my MB sash to see which one came first, as I put them in order that I earned them. As for my favorite...I'd have to say Woodwork and Metalwork. While I was living in Germany, our middle school shop teacher was our MB counselor, and let us use our lunch hour to work on projects, even if we weren't in the class. I had a lot of fun building bookcases and bending metal!

Tokala, that must be why we had so many West Central Florida people in my course. I went through SR-794 in 2006 while in the Central Florida Council, and I believe out of the 56 participants, we had about 6-8 from West Central Florida Council.

Actually, I recieved my LOA by email Satuday morning and my letter and patch came in the mail a couple days later. Last weekend I was at our Section's Leadership Retreat, and our Section Chief and antoher that was attending, both are VC's for two of the OA events (Mysterium Compass and PACEsetters) asked anyone if they were going to Jambo as staff and still needed a position. Both of those still have slots.

The historical merit badges are listed on scoutstuff on the insignia page...but that may or may not mean much.

I paid my $100 deposit months ago, and still haven't received my letter or patch....but I do have an assignment. I was emailed by one of the directors last week, we went back and forth by email, eventually talked by phone, and I agreed to work in his area. Assignment but no patch!

I serve as a UC, and for my Council, I think it works District by District. As for my district, we do it by program. For instance, we have one UC who takes care of most of the Venturing Crews, as we have very few, and many are high school ROTC units. As for me, I am responsible for three Cub Scout packs, and one of the CO's has a Troop, which another UC takes care of. I can see it work both ways. In my previous council it was the opposite. I was responsible for two Packs and one CO which had a Pack, Troop, and Crew. It allowed me to understand how the CO ran the program and

Adventurebase 100 is going to be here in Atlanta during the Dogwood Festival at Piedmont Park...too bad it's the same weekend as our Section Conclave. Our Council is asking for volunteers, saying that "there will be extensive volunteer opportunities for Adventurebase." We'll see....

The Eagle Rank patch looks good, since the regular one already has wording around it. I think you'll see more and more of this for 2010. It was announced by Tico Perez in the Fall/Winter "Commissioner" that he recieved permission to have special "2010" commissioner office patches for all commissioner posistions. http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/522-975_FallWinter09_web.pdf As a commissioner, I think it's kind of cool, they have used the older FC badge and wreath for the center.

My wife and I were at our Volunteer Service Center yesterday for the Council's District Committee Training Workshop, and while on break we went in to the Scout Shop to look at a few things. I've been scouring eBay looking for a Jac-shirt, since the one I had as a youth is a little small now, although a still wear it. It's a size 44, and I'm a 48 right now, which would put me at an XL since BSA stopped making them in real sizes and now makes them in the generic S,M,L,XL,ect. I always check in the back where the uniforms are, hoping to find an XL. To my surprise, there it was! Sco

When I was in my first Troop as a youth, living overseas on a military base, it was always promoted to wear your uniform on BSA's annual birthday. But I guess since we were on a base, everyone knew you were a scout anyway so it didn't matter at all to us that we were wearing them.

I was one of those youth who were told that the National Training made you "Trained" for all the Troop positions (except Den Chief). Just a quick question, where or are there any Councils who have a specific name for their training? I went to the "Youth National Training" in 1990 (what ever it was called then) in Transatlantic Council, which called it "Golden Falcon". No Smokey Bears, but a "Golden Falcon" neckerchief, slide, stave, ect. TAC still calls their week-long yearly NYLT, "Golden Falcon". I thought about starting a new thread, but I wasn't sure what forum it would go und

I agree with Shortridge's comments...I really think the older boys who do remain active despite their other involvements, aren't always with their Troop. Now that I'm my Lodge's Conclave Adviser, I've noticed that alot of the Lodge and Chapter Officers do ALOT for the Lodge and are active in their school or sports as well, but not really in their Troops. Many serve on Staff at Summer Camp or go on HA trips in the summer...they're really looking for that next challenging activity. Many like to teach the younger scouts (CS/first year BS), but seemed to get weighed down with the boys who'v

I really think it falls under the "normal" category...young men 15/16-18 want to 'hang out' with guys their own age. I'm about 13 years removed from the Boy Scouting program, so Venturing didn't come about until right before my 21st birthday, so I didn't get the chance to experience that. But...I was 'active' while in HS, which meant that I attended about 90% of the weekly Troop meetings and about 50% of the weekend activities. I did play three sports in HS, along with being the President of the Key Club, but to tell you the truth, the only reason I stayed active was to finish my Eagle

Trainerlady, I really appreciate it, I'm sure I caught them at a bad time. It just irked me that they were too busy to be of any real help because they were too focused on counting. Oh well, we got the uniform, I sewed everything on (it's it right place...with numbers touching the CSP!), and he enjoyed opening up his gifts on Christmas. Right now he's looking forward to his first "real" meeting on Tuesday....no harm, no foul. I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year!

92, Not having worked retail, I'm sure inventory is a PITA. I was just annoyed, knowing I could pick up a shirt, pair of pants,and a pair of switchbacks for a 1/3 of what a new shirt and pants cost. Which brings me to NJ's question, what are they going to do with all the old uniforms? Do you think they'll bring them all back to a central location and sell them on scoutstuff.com? In the last couple of months I've ordered the old poly/wool shirts (1 s/s, 1 l/s), and although the website said they were in stock, they didn't ship because they were out.

First off, I have to say, this isn't a love/hate thread about the new uniforms. They're here and that's it. I had my first experience with the new Centennial Supplex shirt last week and I had a couple of questions. My wife's cousin (12 years old) wanted to join a Troop, and since his mother was injured on the job last year and has been rehabing, we thought that as a Christmas gift we'd pay for his registration, Boy's Life, Uniform, and book. We ended up with the Supplex uniform, and when I took it over to my mom's house to sew everything on, I noticed that the material was very del

You're very lucky to have him. I once knew a SE, who was quick to tell everyone he was the "Supreme Chief of the Fire"...but you never saw him at any Lodge events, except the occational Winter Banquet. Never worked or even showed up, and wouldn't support the LEC, often saying that at the SCotF, he had "veto" power. I'm very optomistic about our new SE, and hope the good work from our previous one will continue. Eagle92, sounds like you've got a great one!

I've got an older version, which I recieved from my dad when he came back from Turkey/N. Iraqi in the early 90's. It's just the bag and the compression sack. I've been using it for over 15 years, it's very warm, goes in the sack great, but is a bit heavy. When it does get a bit warm, I usually just take a poncho liner, in stead of a bag.

Our Council just went through that, and it was explained to us from a member who was on the search committee that they used John's technique. Our SE is moving on to be the NE Regional Executive, so the search committee was comitted to find someone who would work on our weaknesses while preserving our strengths. We think we got him, as we received the previous SE of Dan Beard Council on December 1st. I haven't met him yet, but it looks like he'll be attending our Lodge Winter Banquet in a few weeks, so we'll see.

For anyone who gives donations to the United Way, do a little research on the specific UW in your area. Before moving to Atlanta, I spent five years with UW of Brevard's (FL) Emerging Leaders program (20-40 year olds) as well as sitting on allocation funding panels for that time. There are two ways local UW's actually fund programs. The first is the way UW of Brevard did it, they have three designation opprotunities, the UW general fund, a specific group of organizations (Children and Families, Substance Abuse, Homelessnes, ect), or you can direct designate. An organization submits

The "Activity Uniform" shorts were khaki. I still have my red polo circa 1992, but I think that the shorts finally wore out a few years ago and they were thrown out. I actually didn't really mind wearing them, and actually there's some photos of me at summer camp in '94 of me wearing my scout shirt and the "activity" shorts. They were pretty comfortable, and they had a longer inseam than those really short scout shorts I had with the cargo pockets on the side.