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Scott, Check the Council's archives. Our Council/ OA Lodge actually had a nice leather bound book on our history published back in the early 90's. The book was a wealth of information. We found out our town chartered the first Cub Pack in the Council back in the 30's, and that I was aquainted with the first Cubmaster years later in the 80's. Regional Scouting Archives. Also ask Council where the Regional Scouting Archives for your area is located. Our's is at a local University. I asked my DE if she knew of any oldtimers from the District who could help me with a troop histor

Ms Summer, This may be overkill, but have your son add a response deadline for the SM in the email, let's say three days. Unfortunately your son's SM has already pulled the delay tactic of "I didn't get that email" and might try it again. If the SM does not respond by the third day, have a typed letter of the email ready, and have it sent Certified Mail to both the SM and the Committee Chair. Pay for the notification of delivery, so your son knows when it was handed to the SM & CC, and the SM & CC had to sign for it. Have your son send the email today, April 2nd with the de

Has anyone very held an election for more then one troop at the same time and location? We have several troops that are in very close proximity to each other, some with meeting places across the street from each other, and that meet on the same night. With the problem of finding enough members willing to be on election teams, and having enough Scouters to get them to all the different locations on different nights. I was toying with the idea of running multiple unit elections on the same night at one location with a smaller team. This way the scouts aren't tied up one or two extra

Eagle Foot, Just pick up an application and sign up as a District at large. Then start showing up at their RT's. Soon or later, someones interest will be peeked. SWMBO you never know from one day to the next whether Scoting is the evil competion. but ever so slowly, SHE IS BEING ASSIMULATED!!!! The CCS Cchair is slowly drawing her in on special projects. And her best freind, who is Native, and does cultural outreach programs does a lot of her programing around Scouting. SWMBO came for a scheduled done hour meeting with her friend and one of my fellow Lodge advisors about putting on a

Eagle Foot, Just pick up an application and sign up as a District at large. Then start showing up at their RT's. Soon or later, someones interest will be peeked. SWMBO you never know from one day to the next whether Scoting is the evil competion. but ever so slowly, SHE IS BEING ASSIMULATED!!!! The CCS Cchair is slowly drawing her in on special projects. And her best freind, who is Nativ, and does cultural outreach programs does a lot of her programing around Scouting. SWMBO came for a scheduled done hour meeting with her friend and one of my fellow Lodge advisors about putting on a m

And ohhhh that one hour a week for therapy. Oops, I mean on Monday night, for the troop meeting, one hour one Thursday from Sept. to Feb. for the Rel. Emb. program, One hour the second Fri. Morning for R&M One hour the second Wed. for RT One hour on the third Thur. for LEC ONe hour quarterly for the DCCS I tell my wife at least I'm not falling off a a barstool somewhere trying to hit one someone. And everything else I'm involved with outside of scouting, has some crazy tie back into scouting. It's only a dream. It's only a dream. It's only a dream. AAARGGHHH

scoutldr, The EDBOR was mainly going to make sure that the OA Rep was actually attending Chapter meetings if he was trying to use the position for POR. But I like the Obligation question, and will have to remember and try that sometime. jr, I feel that if the Scouts are willing to be invovled and make an effort to support the Lodge, Vigil is possible, but will take time. It's strange how National will change election criteria to boost the numbers for Ordeal, but then still keep quotas on how many Vigils a Lodge is allowed to except each year based on Lodge membership. The committed m

gdw, Knowing you and knowing about some of your issues from some of the other threads, I think I know and understand about the accommodation your talking about. We both know the Lodge will take care of it, and the other candidates will probably never know. Go for it. I know you would be a great asset. Being inducted back in the days of PI, I was tapped out back in the early 70's, and very involved. Yes, I think that OA has lost some of it's zing it had back then. It was hard to get elected, and the scouts that went through with it, were the ones that wanted to be there. The commitment t

Pack, What was that poor priest's name? You know, the one who was excommunicated because of his thesis on evolution, religion, and man being created when God finally gave him a soul. If I remember correctly, he he was educated as a scientist, couldn't turn his back on what was proven by science, and tried to reconcile the two. God created everything. As evolution took place, God finally said thatI would like one of my beasts to be in my image. When god finally saw a beast that He liked in His image,He gave it a soul, and thus the creation of man as we know him. Now I know that is ext

This weekend, I had an interesting conversation with a dear friend of mine, a Sister that I work with. I asked why she was still at the hospital at dinner time. She was working on a paper. I do not remember what the paper was about, but it immediately made me think of this thread. I pulled up a chair as I stated I'm going to burn in you know where, drawing laughter from her and the other two women with her. I leaned over and let her in on some of our conversations here. I then asked if she had heard about the Brazilian case, and explained what was happening. She became very quite and sol

The mother and doctors were excommunicated. The step-father of coarse was not. Scout, depending on how your priest answers the question, then ask him, does the mother and doctors still get excommunicated if they did not go through with an abortion, killing the girl instead, knowing that she would not survive the pregnancy? Also ask if the perp should be excommunicated, and whether he feels God will reconcile with mom and the doc's when they arrive? I do agree, that on the very rare occassion, that miracles do happen, but as stated they are rare. Been there, and involved in a few.

The Scout, Last month I dragged you through the weed, this month it's the coals. Being the good Catholics we are, and knowing church doctrine, how would you respond to this unfortunate but true situation I heard about today. Scenario: A nine year old girl is sexually abused and raped by her step-father. She ends up pregnant with twins. The twins will not survive to gestation, nor will the nine year old if she tries to carry them to term. The doctors advice that without the abortion, she will die. The doctors are Catholic, as is the family. As a Catholic, what do you do, let her die, o

Gern has a valid point about the parasite host relationship. Then there was the ideology tossed out there a few years back, that Islam was preaching to procreate. Have as many children as possible. Then as the Judeo-Christian religions' population dropped off, or remained at a constant, Islam would become the dominate religion, then being able to flex their will on the rest of the world. This is not my theory, but it has some validity. Last fall, my wife and her best friend went to Detroit to see the friend's daughter. The three of them took the daughters two girls swimming at a loca

I read the other day that supposedly the attorney generals office is looking into the physician and clinic involved with implanting the embryos. If it goes to trial, and the physician and clinic are found guilty, I feel the punishment should be providing for and covering the expenses for the octuplets until they reach 18. Maybe if we make the accomplishes also responsible for their actions, maybe they will reconsider trying something asinine like this in the future. Then we could always consult Swift's "A Modest Proposal" on how to handle this situation.(This message has been edited by A

shortridge, Just across the cornfield from you in Canal Fulton, and your old Council. Delaware? You still get to go ice skating in the cars on occasion. Do you still remember how to handle the vehicle when you wake up to a half inch of snow, or ice over down there? Gern, you mean we get to keep the boys until 11th grade before they run off to sports? Yeah!!!!

shortridge, Just across the cornfield from you in Canal Fulton, and your old Council. Delaware? You still get to go ice skating in the cars on occasion. Do you still remember how to handle the vehicle when you wake up to a half inch of snow, or ice over down there? Gern, you mean we get to keep the boys until 11th grade before they run off to sprots? Yeah!!!!

What a Mooooooooooooooving story. Udderly ridiculous. Here PETA, PETA, PETA. Don't let Packsaddle anywhere near the cows. He'll have them disected in a matter of minutes. Hey Pack, your psychology Prof should have asked the university for some steers for his experiments. Lobster tastes good, but the couple of whole beefs will give you a lot of steaks and burgers.

t4, If you decide to go with two day passes, check out East Harbor State Park. It's just across the bay from the Point. Might be a good place to camp the night before and the night inbetween the two days.

OGE, "The inevitable reality is that life ends in death". Yep, from the time we are born, we're start on the road to dying. Ed, the Scout is from Buffalo, and now hiding from all the snow in Missouri. By the way, how old are you since you brought it up? Scout, But would she. If she was informed up front that the treatment would kill the fetus, nontreatment would kill both of them, and to save her, she would need an abortion, I guess she is stuck in the moral dilemma that no matter how she proceeds, she will be killing her unborn baby. Guilty in all three instances. Which carrie

WOW!! Work a couple of off shifts, don't post for a couple of days, a look what I miss. DanK, My heart goes out to you and your family. Such decisions should never have to be made. Scout, I thought that you were raised in Buffalo, one of the URR stops on the way to Canada, not the deep south 60 years ago. My young friend, I understand that you are only using the slavery thing to drive home a point, but tread lightly, the ice is very thin, and starting to crack, just like Erie in the spring. Just think of the reaction I would get if I used the Holocaust, Hitler and the Jews. S

OGE, My apologies. I though that the D&X was a tipo, C being next to X on the keyboard. Working in a Catholic facility for 25 years, I had never heard the term. And yes people, please do not mistake a D&C as an abortion. IT IS NOT.

SCOUTING HAS IT'S REDEMPTION (tongue in cheek)!!! Just keep voting against your local school levy. After Tuesdays dismal school levy results, one northeastern public school system, North Royalton, a Cleveland suburb, is dropping all high school sports. They are the first public system in Ohio to take this step, and probably not the last. They already folded the spring sports programs, marching band and other EC's earlier this winter. It at least appears that they have their priorities straight, academics before sports. Bet there are a lot PO'ed parents and future superstars. If I wer

Gern, An answer to your last question, probably Tom Edison. He was a closet psychopath, and the first to jump at the chance to throw the switch on Old Sparky. But because he wired it with DC not AC, he couldn't kill the guy, no matter how many times he throw the switch. True story.

Dan & OGE, The term your looking for is D&C. Pack, Punishment for suicide? Yep. Now if it was a failed attempt, we could always impoes the death penalty. OOPS, I didn't say that, did I???

As Neil states in his last post, and I mentioned earlier, It can be gone with the blink of an eye. Our present SM played in the Minor Leagues, He was even called up to the Majors for a few with the Indians. While in a Minor League game, he caught his ankle in a drain great going for a fly ball. Tore up the leg, career gone. Unfortunately, he still places more emphasize on sports.