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KL Wisconsin

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  1. Contact your credit card company directly and have the amount put "in dispute". You can start this process with a phone call, but will have to follow up with your complaint in writing. The credit card company will then be trying to collect its money from scouter.com. You will not be required to pay the disputed balance until the problem is resolved. That is why you have a major credit card, they have a lot more power than you alone. Good luck
  2. Suggestions: In addition to Den Chiefs, invite the Webelos to join your troop on campouts or other activities. Make then feel your troop is looking forward to having them as part of the troop. Look at costs. How do your dues/fees compare to other troops. Parents often don't understand the program as much as the simple bottom line. Our troop had problems with parents percieving us as "expensive" compared to another troop. To overcome that perception, we put in writing that we charged nothing to attend any and all campouts, no extra charges for patches, etc. that the dues were the to
  3. It is the scout's responsibility to have his handbook signed off. But remember these are 11-12 year old kids we are talking about. And it is not easy for some young boys to approach adults and ask for their attention. So I'd say, I think it is also the responsibility of the adults to make themselves "accessible". A simple reminder announcement like "I'll be at the rear of the room at the end of the meeting if you have something you want me to see or sign off in your handbook" can work wonders to making the boys feel relaxed and confident to get these signatures. For low ranks, we als
  4. Could you please define "Patrol Star". Our troop has never heard of it.
  5. I don't know an official appraiser, but most areas have old/antique book stores where someone can help you. I would probably get appraisals from more than one source. Informally, you can get an idea of their value by looking at what price similiar books are selling on ebay. Go in under "boy scout books" or handbooks and be prepared to see a lot of entries. If these are early BS handbooks, the ones with a scout using semaphore on the cover, they will sell for several hundred dollars each, even in poor condition. In checking out ebay, you can also get the email addresses of some of the sell
  6. You say the pack is very small and has no troop to feed into. Perhaps it would be appropriate to suggest the pack combine with another, larger pack with a better leader base and a charter organization that is willing to assume a positive function. If the parent who is willing to participate and believes in the scouting program for his son sees that his child's scouting experience would be improved by joining another pack, maybe that is what is needed for all the boys. You don't say who your charter organization is whether it is a grade school or church or what, but it may be time to make so
  7. A quick addition to the crossing over to multiple troops. I've seen it with each boy being given the kerchief, etc by his new troop. But then at the end, a Scoutmaster invited all the new scouts to join all Scouts from all the troops in reciting the Scout Oath and Law together. It made a very warm, unifying closing. Then the scouts all left the Pack meeting together in a quiet procession. It was quite moving and impressive for the Cubs, too.
  8. From Wisconsin, our council troop for Philmont in 2001 is estimated at $650. I think that includes roundtrip bus travel. I would recommend including costs of some of the necessary equipment such as a frame backpack, lightweight sleeping bag, and lightweight sleeping pad in your estimates for the scouts and parents, if your scouts do not already have that type of equipment.
  9. We are getting the same thing here. I contacted council because I am a Sea Scouting advisor in a neighboring council. The two councils are quite near one another, and do many joint fund-raising programs, etc. We intended to offer this specialized program to all the older scouts in the area. Instead of simply taking the information of when we meet, etc. the council New Troop staffer immediately tried to recruit me to start a parallel program for them, simply because I was trained. I pointed out that Sea Scouting generally required some equipment, somewhat special equipment,like a Body of Wa
  10. Our troop is relatively new and just got large enough to really make a patrol system work in the last year or so. We have been reconfiguring patrols every 6 months when new SPL and ASPL are elected. Up to now, we've had patrols of mixed ages of scouts plus one New Scout patrol. This time the Scoutmaster made up 4 patrols of scouts divided by their longevity in scouting: 1st year scouts, 2nd year, 3rd year and a new Venture Patrol of 4th year and above, in effect the High school-aged scouts. I commented that this seemed like a continuation of Cub Scouting to me with Wolf, Bear, etc, age
  11. Try checking with council for boys who attended the last National Jamboree or World Jamboree. The scouts often exchange uniforms and those boys may have some they could show your group.
  12. Where is THE auction site. Would love to get a copy of this movie, too, and was told it wasn't available on video. Thanks
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