jtswestark

In our council camp, any staffer can teach a class and the director signs the cards.

A number of years back a past committee member built some nice, thin plywood boxes with fold down fronts and hinged lid. Each of our 4 patrols has one. Each term, the new QM uses his master inventory list and has each patrol QM review for damaged, broken, missing stuff. They get new gear as needed through troop QM. They add to it through the year, their own soap, salt, kool aid, peanut butter, other small non-perishable items that they want to keep for their patrol. They arent too big to prevent one boy from carrying, but two is preferable. Not too large to allow too much crap to accumu

I was involved with our Councils Jambo committee ASM915 referred to. I was an ASM in 2005 and we struggled the whole way through, had a couple open slots right up until before we left. This time, a few of us decided that wouldnt happen again and pushed our Program Director to get the ball rolling last fall. Our pros handled it so much better this time and with some great committee chairs in action, we went through a very orderly adult application process this past winter. Blasted over and over again the deadline for applications. We didnt want any appearances of good old boy selections, a

Anyone ever done a 'switch around' during your trip to/from a campout? I had ASMs assigning Scouts to cars, which drove me nuts. So I came up with this idea and use it once or twice a year. Simple rule: scouts are not allowed to ride with their own parent. They need to ride with someone else. At times, we have a lots of drivers and this is a way of taking a Scout out of his comfort zone, gets him to interact with other adult(s) and shuffles the cliques a little too. Funny the reactions I get. JTS