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http://www.kaiserklan.com/roundtable/ world famous north star district. hundreds of attendes a month. they've had to move over the years to larger locals.

woah. It sounds like you need to go to people above the council level on this one. Guam. wow.

scout camp 2003: 80 scouts 60 leaders this ratio has been near the same for years now. at one point we had 30 scouts and 20 leaders. then 50 scouts and 30 leaders. we have everything down pat (there's leaders meetings in may/june). each leader has a job, even if it's to get ice, check this one merit badge areas records, or handle the after campfire cracker barrels. no leader who goes down doesn't have something to do. it's excessiveness of leaders that lets us setup a campsite for 150 in 2 hours and pull it down nearly as fast. we can send 5 leaders to sit at the showers e

how serious do you want to get? not serious: the tree song. hold your arms out like they're branches. (make a big wide Y) TREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hold EEEEEEEEE for a short while. there, done. that's it. for a more serious skit: you have the banker. should be the most serious guy there. then you have 3-4 frogs. hopping to the banker. he has a helper who mans the desk. the first two come up asking for a loan to the helper. the helper asks if they have any collatoral they show him something cheap (stuffed animal, hammer, etc) he takes it to the banker. they ov

in our area there's a scout cabin. it's used off and on for all the troops in town. we used to use it semi-regularly but not always even inside. the building is two-stories with a heating system running off a wood fire. for our webelos campout the scouts stay outside and the webelos inside. we partition off a corner with tarps using nails setup for just this purpose for any women. the webelos all stay upstairs. this is perfect because you can hear any movement at night from downstairs. any other time it'll be a seperate area if necessary (lockin) but usually they just get

we haven't always had patches for every weird patrol. the flaming hampsters, a patrol formed in 93, died in 97, and brought back in 98 (older scout patrol, finally dead) never had one. it was a mishmash of patrols and they tended to use their old patch. currently we have weird ones. the flaming lepricans use the pedro patch decorated up. the thunder panthers is the panther patch with a lightning bolt. a new patrol is the soaring snails. we're lucky to have a leader who's the local scout product seller/clothing store/show store and has all the equipment. our big thing is

you have to start somewhere. at this point any advertising you can get would be nice. get the word out at all the middle school level. 7th and 8th graders can join too, and have made it to eagle from that point. see if theres any brothers or kids in your neighborhood who can join too who werent in scouts. kids who've dropped out may be a good choice. there may have been any number of reasons, but a new troop may be for them. goto camp! even if you have to double up with another small troop find one to goto. use the first few years to be heavy into recruitment. get really

as seen in other threads here the pack and troop doesn't really control the money or org. its all the charter org since the pack isn't a seperate entity at all. find out when they have a meeting and get on their schedule and present your concerns to them. in my experience, most any group thats willing to support cub scouts will not be happy to hear that the adults are pushing them away with their actions. the charter org has all the power they need.

as far as uniforms go, this tends to be a troop rule that just goes down over the years. I've heard the required for insurance line at times and others not. I do think that requiring the scouts to wear a scouting shirt is the best policy. when you make a pitstop the group is easy to find and you get good advertisement. if your scouts are in scout shirts and act good, then you've helped publicise the program. many troops that aren't in scout uniform are in a troop shirt instead

http://374.flyingember.com one thing that I've found that makes or breaks a webpage is pictures and being current. a newsletter, attendence calendar are all great, but become out of date so quickly. putting up images of the scouts over the years is much more interesting and you get the same scouts for years in them. I have ones going back to 96/97. I have over 45 mb of images on the page. make the page timeless. information about where meetings are, general information about events attended and where you goto camp. local links. don't put up specific information about a cam

now, many lodges have a basis before oa came to its area, I'm doing research into connections to missouri groups. now, many people here have access to local history faster than I do. (I've been through the usscouts program) if your oa lodge has the usage of an eagle claw, leather pouch-like lanyard, assigns names to all members, history contains the words manhawka, or had its basis in st joe missouri or h roe bartle, uses paint to denote ranks within it (other than lodge 80), and you're outside the midwest I'd like to get a tip on where to search/who to contact. I'm especially

Now, although the most important part of membership is keeping the 1st years, I'd argue that the second is keeping new 18 year olds. I'm 21 and have been active since I turned 18 (I'm more active at 18 than I was at 13). I was youth prot trained at 18 (I need to renew that here soon), am merit badge trained, and am leader trained. I served a full summer on camp staff at 18 and a partial summer at 19. I am registered with two troops (one at college and one with my home troop, same council conveniently) and have attended camp with both the past two summers. (19 and 20) I am unfo

around here all crossovers happen in feb/mar. most webelos patrols just need blue and gold and they're gone. earliness is no issue. as for keeping a scout, the troop guide is very important on the boy level, but also a young adult leader or first year program dad (usually a parent of a second or third year scout from my experience) to provide a level of adult support. the first year specific program leader can help transition the scouts from the cub program to the scout program with the assistance of the troop guide. in my opinion both are needed. the leader can slowly let down

are you the unit comissioner for your troop or is someone else? if you're the unit comiss for your troop I'd make it your job to get good information to the scoutmaster. this includes policies, training dates, program ideas and the like. otherwise I'd find your uc and see that he's informed about the troop. don't push it but make sure he's up to date. sometimes being informed as to ways to "expand your skills" helps a lot. its likely time for the scoutmaster to get to places where he can be with other leaders more and learn the program. the best troops I've seen are the ones

easy answer: no. now, you could allow him to be registered as a cub scout, but you'd find that he'd be unable to attend most things the boy scouts do, and that includes scout camp and many of the campouts events. there'd be no awards or badges that could be earned. I believe that as a cub scout he'd have to have the grandmother on all campouts. the cub scout insurance covers cub scout approved events, not boy scout approved events. base your answer not only on the age, but on the program too and how you'd be doing a disservice to the troop, pack, and other boys for making an

I was a den chief for a brief period of time. I had no confidence at that point. I even turned down the option of a second den that needed one (It took me years to build it up my confidence). I ended up as the most active scout in my patrol and I'm 21 now and am still very active. I'm actually registered with two troops and go camping with both. I know some den chiefs. two are very active with the troop and not quite trained enough to be good with the dens. one is very active with the pack and not quite enough with the troop and needs the training too. I've known a few others over

For the past 10 summers I've gone to camp (some staff, some more than one session with different troops). My first 5 years it was 11 days (left the 11th morning), for the past 5 it's been 10 (leave the 10th morning). However, most camps I've seen run a 7 day session. (H Roe Bartle Scout Reservation) Are there many camps that still run over a week long?