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If the pack committee feels the tents are inappropriate for the pack, you may consider trying to sell them to a nearby troop with the stipulation that the pack gets to borrow them back once a year or something like that. Good luck.

If I read this correctly, it was three youths and one female adult going to a non-camping event, a forum. In other words, one boy, two girls and one adult lady driving together to a public meeting. I wouldn't question that situation at all. Most times we have one adult driving multiple youth in a vehicle. And the forum woould have other adults in attendance. But Here comes the rub. What happens if the driver, here the adult female, drops off these youth at their respective homes? After dropping off the first two youth, suddenly we have one/one situation. Unless the last youth in the car

You are trying to cover a lot of territory. But I may be able to help you. Are you looking for adult Eagle or youth? MAC maintains a complete list within its Scout Museum going back many, many years. Please submit an email address where you can be reached directly and some more details and I will respond to you off this forum.

Tachion, One other branch of scouting that was not mentioned so far is Venturing and Sea Scouting. Sea scouting is a special brach of Venturing. Both are for youth age 14-21, so you could have years of more scouting fun as a Venturer/Sea Scouter before just taking on adult leadership responsibilities in a regular troop or in addition to leadership in a troop. My own experience is as an advisor to Sea Scouts. All our older sea scouts have found their rank and participation and ranks in sea Scouting was received very favorably by college recruiters. And the Venturing program has sev

Thanks for sharing this with us. And thank you to all our veterans out there.

First let me extend my condolences to your scouts and families. In addition to the excellent suggestions that have been stated here,I might add that some tangible memorial of the scout might be an appropriate way of helping the scouts cope. They could decide together what it might be. Perhaps a tree planted at your meeting place or at a special campsite with a small placque at its base. Or a special campership in his memory funded by some fundraiser that the troop holds like a car wash, or something where your scouts can take an active role. If the boy was known for something, like

September 2001 issue of Scouting has the article. In the article, Frank Ramirez, associate director of BSA's Scoutreach division, states that Scouting has published close to 100 brochures, training manuals, videos etc in Spanish. Among them is a video titled "Que es Scouting? (BSA no. 94-124, a poster and flier "Scouting, Vale la Pena!" Nos. 94-110 and 94-104, and a resource for Hispanic parents "Requisitos de los Cub Scouts para el Ano 2000" No. 94-195. If those code numbers don't help your local council get more helpful, contact Ramirez.

A recent issue of Scouting Magazine had an extensive article about scouting and the hispanic community. BSA even has a catch phrae for it, "Scouting, Vale la Pena" which they interpret to mean "Scouting, It's worth it" YOur council should be able to get the materials from national, it was a pilot program in Texas, if I recall right, that they now intend to take nationwide. Good luck, bueno suerte.

Wear temporary patches on the back of a uniform sash? I understood that was not acceptable. Only merit badge were to be worn on a merit badge sash. I know speical event patches are routinely worn on the back of Girl Scout sashes, but not on a Boy Scout sash. Can someone clarify that please.

Our Council office has several different Eagle ceremony props available there. We just reserve them and pick them up for the Court of Honor. Have you checked with your council or the District's advancement chair to see if they have them available for your use?

Our troop committee just had a special troop committee training session, a new program I understand. It was very informative and I highly recommend it if available in your council. The primary purpose of the troop committee is to free up the Scoutmaster for direct intervention with the scouts. In other words, the troop committee exists to handle and support all the infastruture that is needed to maintain a good program. The troop treasurer obviously maintains the books, outdoors committeeperson does coordinating of campouts, etc, vehicles and equipment needed; the advancement chair mai

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Unfortunately, not all councils are so enlightened. We did have a scout at an Eagle Board of Review and the Board did point out that his paperwork showed he was 4 days short on 6 months in office. It was resolved, thankfully, but just letting you know. These people used the military style day of the year (Jan 1= #1, Dec.31=day365) and there better be 180 days between, etc. Our troop board of review now meets on the first meeting day of the month, every month. The scouts must meet with the scoutmaster and then schedule himself in advance with the review board. Our board used to meet q

I agree with the idea of having the lead group sit and smell the flowers as Rooster suggests. But I want to add that the break is needed by all. We had the experience of the lead group being told to wait up, but as soon as the slower part of the group got to the meeting point, the leaders who were rested were jumping up, anxious to continue the trail. Consequently the slower ones were actually never getting a break because they would inevitably want to try to keep up with the "hares". This happens in cycling, hiking and also skiing, both cross country and downhill. It takes real disciplin

Instead of participating in a parade, I'd like to suggest a "back to the good old days" Memorial Day activity for your scouts. The veterans groups who have always placed flags on the graves of veterans are having trouble doing it anymore. We helped them at one cemetary and saw first hand the struggles these men were having doing what they feel is a honor duty. We watched vets who could no longer bend over to push the flags into the ground hold bundles of flags while someone else pushed them down for them. There were some scouts there, but they really could have used more. Contact your loc

$415 is the Philmont 2002 fee. Our troop has two crews going in 2002.

Someone just asked me in an email if a Venturer can wear his Boy Scout rank patch (First class, Star, Life) on his Venturing crew uniform. The answer is no, nor any merit badges or merit badge sash. The Eagle ribbon and religious ribbon can be worn. To get back to the original question, I believe a male should be required to have troop affiliation for troop level activities such as rank advancement and merit badge work. One of the strengths of the Venturing program should be that it requires a Venturer to demonstrate and teach their knowledge to earn its awards. The most logical au

Point of clarification Kevin M Dual registration is NOT required for a male youth to earn advancement in Boy Scouting as a member of a Crew/Ship. He is a member of BSA, period. That is part of the ambiguity that we have been talking about on this thread. He can continue to earn merit badges and rank advancement without any troop affiliation provided he held rank of First Class before joining a Crew/Ship. The current BSA Handbook requirements for Star, Life and Eagle only states positions of responsibility within Boy Scout troops or Varsity Scout teams, which would make one think tr

Sounds like a good troop service project, but remember US Scouting started with the lone scout who refused payment for a good deed, piquing Boyce's curiosity, etc, etc. If you want to have a tip bucket available, how about making up a sign that any donations would be donated to an organization such as MADD or a Children's Hospital or some other worthy cause. They you could help travelers and some other worthwhile charity.

BSA will make custom made-to-measure uniforms. It is an option in the catalog. If you have your measurements, I'm sure they will try to fit your needs. Just look in the catalog or call the national supply office. Good luck, hope this helps.

The Venturing program has all kinds of inequalities and inconsistencies. I happen to be a trained advisor for Venturing and am an advisor to a Sea Scout Ship. Sea Scouting is a branch of Venturing, if you read one brochure, with separate rank/awards with a nautical orientation. But now our Venturer Sea Scouts must be dual registered within Venturing in order for them to earn any of the Ranger, Silver or Gold awards. So they have to be members of Crew 123 as well as Ship 123 if they would like to earn Venturing awards. And to make the silliness even dumber, Crew 123 and Ship 123 are not al

Another source: Check out eBay auctions under Boy Scout Shorts or Boy Scout Shirts. They have had lots of adult size shorts, pants and shirts available lately.

If pressure to buy back one's own cake is too tough, perhaps you could entirely eliminate the possibility of bidding on one's own cake. Color code each year/family bid card with a different color card stock or index card that you use for their bid number. Tigers get orange, wolves get yellow bid cards, bears get blue, Webelos I get white, and Webelos II get green, or something. Then if pack is bidding on a Bear's cake, no bids are accepted from blue bid cards, etc. That would eliminate buy-backs not only from the Cubs own family, but from his age group. Do warn the families in advance of

Hope this explains the steps we used. We called wholesale nurseries until we found one who would supply us with hanging flower baskets. Many wholesale nurseries would sell us the baskets outright, but only one in this area would do it on a consignment basis. We guaranteed that we would return unsold ones the same afternoon in good, saleable condition. We generally sell between 250-350 baskets depending on weather, etc., and suppliers like those kinds of numbers. We did deal with one nursery who negotiated with us that we could return unsold stock provided we guaranteed that we would pu

Your posting could make a really good scoutmaster minute or something to be read at a troop court of honor. I can imagine many people squirming in their seats listening to your comments.