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  1. As asked posts, IS THERE A MORALITY CLAUSE in the DE's contract? Do Councils and or National have one as part of the Professionals contract? Many companies and schools have them. If they are violated, your toast. I just read an article where some young high school art teacher on the side posed seminude. The pictures were tasteful. Everything was covered by arms, hands etc. so nothing was exposed. The students somehow came across the pictures. Toast and gone. She's not teaching at that system now. I'm just curious, since BSA deals with youth whether there is one in place.
  2. Worst case scenario with 18y/o drivers, If you only have three drivers, and one is 18, have his vehicle sandwiched between the other two vehicles. That way he knows he has someone in from and behind watching him. Then we have the opposite situation where the parents say it is alright for an 18y/o ASM to drive their kids around when you have an issue with his driving. This I have a real problem with. When I was a young one, I switched Troops. The first campout was about an hour to an hour and a half away. I got to ride with some of the older scouts awith one of the 18 y/o brothers drivin
  3. Skipper, Next summer, try and send all you older Scouts to NYLT if you want them to pick up on how the patrol method is suppose to work. When I was in Scouting in the 70's, we didn't know anything other then patrol method. on winter cabin campouts, yes we would cook as a troop, but that was the only time. When I came back into boy Scouts as a leader about 6 years ago, the troop we joined had pretty much lost the concept of patrol method. Now we're so small that we can only man one patrol. Hopefully that will change over the next two years as we hope to see an influx of about 12-51 Webelo
  4. Stosh, Take them out on nature hikes and teach them plant and tree ident. Then they can become Lisabob's amatuer naturalist and serve a function. That should keep them busy for a couple of campouts. Then move them to dutch oven cooking. That will kill off a couple more trips. USR, I'll have to remember the chair trick. Luckily our troop is soooo small that all the fathers are CM's. But then again we have the problem with that they all like to cook. That's a topic for another thread.
  5. Liz, Just get the Troop to start outpost camping for summercamp. It has ben years since our roop has stayed in main camp or went to the dining hall. We do all of our own cooking. My son has red dye and dairy intolerance's, not true allergies. They interfere with his neurochemistry. When we go camping, our family usually will supply his cheese and rice milk. Dan is good at checking out labels for red dye. A few years back, Dan and I went on a 50 miler with another Troop. They went way out of their way to accommodate Dan. They bought the rice milk and cheese. They used the rice milk in th
  6. If the Troop continues to do Troop cooking, make him the grubmaster. Then you know for sure that peanuts won't be making an appearance. As others have said, give the Scouts credit and teach them about the allergy. I would teach everyone in the Troop how to use the epipen, not just the older Scouts and leaders. He may be on a hike with the younger ones when someone pulls out homemade trailmix, and the others might not be around. As stated, talk with the GP, or see if one of the parents is a RN or medic. Have them help train everyone and use oranges for real injection practice. Find out
  7. I cannot believe the apathy toward rules that has shown itself in this thread and the thread that this one was spun from. Has the liberal way of thinking that has emerged over the last 40+ years so infiltrated our society that we now show such a disregard toward rules and laws? Is the mindset now that if it does not affect me or my family that I will turn a blind eye toward what is happening or has happened because I don't want to get invovled? Isn't this a similar mindset to 1930's Europe, or more recently Rwanda and Darfur? So what if a Scout gets abused by a leader, or a Venturer retur
  8. Lisa, Since I'm a married ASM, am I allowed to sleep in the tent with the unmarried SM, or am I only allowed to sleep in the tent with another married leader? Just joking.
  9. Did you hear about the dyslexic atheist? HE real thought there was a Dog. Oops1 Can I say that here? If not, moderator, send it off into cyberspace. Maybe the next time Scouting Magazine publishes a list of books, it might ve advisable to break the list down into appropriate age ranges, like they do for movies. That way you don't have a Webelos reading something like "Clockwork Orange" or an Erica Jong contribution. I guess it was good that the list was in Scouting Magazine. That way the parents/leaders would see the list, and be able to make the decision whether they wanted their
  10. shortridge, 7R it is. When were you there? And speaking of parsnips, don't forget about Wild Grapes and Canadian Moon Flower. We outpost in Calumet for sumemrcamp. We have had Wild Grapes growing next to the pavillion for years, so we thought. This year one of the staffers was over for a visit and noticed the Moon Flower growing on the opposite side of the road. The leaves the first year a distictly unique. The second years growth, the leaves are identical to the Wild Grape, growing on a vine with fruit that looks just like Wild Grape. But guess what? The berries will kill you. Good thi
  11. Sorry for the multiple posts. Something hicupped somewhere and it wsn't me. Now granddad had Parkinsons, but honestly, I wasn't shaking either.
  12. gwd, Glad to hear the good news. How close is the Webelos meeting place to you? Could they reschedule their meetings to coinside with yours? Could you hold one meeting a month at their location? Have you started courting the Webelos I den yet? I have been trying to get the SM to involve the local Webelos Den in some of our activities. We are in the same boat as your unit, very small Troop with no CO attached Pack, and former CM drawing the Webelos to his old Troop several miles away. The local Pack is at the UMC. Our Troop meets in the community park in the Scout House, a cynder block b
  13. Cub Scout campout eh? Maybe the Cubs might not have realized what was happening, but I'll bet some of the Den Chiefs picked up on it, or other older Scouts helping out that weekend. Liz, Two sleeping bags? I'm sure they both had sleeping bags. Then again some sleeping bags can be zipped together to make a real big one. Maybe two tents would have been more appropriate. Oh! To costly on staff wages. Scratch that, I forgot, he's now a DE with a 4 year degree and should be able to afford two bags and two tents. MichaelOA, DO you condone letting 16 or 17 year old Scouts driving other
  14. Cub Scout campout eh? Maybe the Cubs might not have realized what was happening, but I'll bet some of the Den Chiefs picked up on it, or other older Scouts helping out that weekend. Liz, Two sleeping bags? I'm sure they both had sleeping bags. Then again some sleeping bags can be zipped together to make a real big one. Maybe two tents would have been more appropriate. Oh! To costly on staff wages. Scratch that, I forgot, he's mow a DE with a 4 year degree and should be able to afford two bags and two tents. MichaelOA, DO you condone letting 16 or 17 year old Scouts driving other
  15. Cub Scout campout eh? Maybe the Cubs might not have realized what was happening, but I'll bet some of the Den Chiefs picked up on it, or other older Scouts helping out that weekend. Liz, Two sleeping bags? I'm sure they both had sleeping bags. Then again some sleeping bags can be zipped together to make a real big one. Maybe two tents would have been more appropriate. Oh! To costly on staff wages. Scratch that, I forgot, he's mow a DE with a 4 year degree and should be able to afford two bags and two tents. MichaelOA, DO you condone letting 16 or 17 year old Scouts driving other
  16. Lisabob, Our Council has a three fold program. 1) For camp honors each year, the Scouts need to be able to identify 15 plants/trees, 4 constelations, and 10 insects for Year 1, 25 plants, 6 constelations and 10 birds for Year 2 and 35 plants, 8 constelations, and 10 or 15 mammals. 4th and 5th years are required to handle leadership positions, like teaching the younger ones. 2) Camp offers a 3 hour naturalist program for youth and adults the first two sfternoons at summer camp. 3)Camp also offers the Burroughs Award, which is three tiered, bronze, gold and silver. T
  17. jb, Was the Patrol yell "NEVER MORE"? LOL.
  18. ktchace, The program is still around, but there are some issues with the people running. Other threads have complained that it taking months to get the medals and patches, even though they are cashing your checks. BKale, from the forum has started the Youth Patriotism Award, baesd off of the Heritage Award, to pick up in place of it. Check under Open Forum for the Youth Patriotism Award for information. He has done a nice job and it went active on 9/11. Good Luck. Eric Prather Bicentennial Eagle ASM Troop 915 Canal Fulton, Oh.
  19. Rumor has it this time that they are going to be more selective about staff. They has some people on 2005 that were not as fit as they should have been. Supposedly the physical/medical requirements will be simular to Philmonts. At least that is what is being portrayed on the Jambo-L. Talk with your SE. He will have to sign off on approval for any staffers coming out of his Council. Good luck.
  20. FScouter, It probably depends on what state you live in. Ohio declared Sept. 11th as Patriot's Day, and all flags are to be at half mast. Eric P.
  21. GW, Gee, it sounds like you fell hook line and sinker and followed through just like the author wanted, the movie first, then the book series, "I thought the movie was pretty good. Read the book to and enjoyed it". Now granted, you're an adult and can read through the symbolism that a youth might miss. ScoutNut, now I always heard that PLAYBOY had good articles and stories, but would you want a Scout reading PLAYBOY because of the articles and stories? NOT! LOL. Granted, Ms Jacobs probably should have checked out her source, and then the books and authors on the list she used, before pu
  22. Well, SCOUTING Magazine's article "GUYS READ GUYS BOOKS" just went against the dread "G's". In the list of books for older Scouts, the articles author has listed Pullman's "THE GOLDEN COMPASS". Ms Jacobs must have been on vacation on a deserted isle last fall when the movie version created such controversy among the religious community, that the movie bombed immediately. Not to say that the book might not be a good read, but considering it promotes Atheism with the main characters goal being to killing God in the last book of the trilogy, is this what we want our Scouting reading on their own.
  23. belayer, So the SM vetos a Scout post election. Let's not be niave here. Scouts like to talk, even after elections. Sooner or later it will come out, "Yep, John, I voted for you. What happenned? You didn't get called out!" WHO'S going to be on the hotseat now? I would think I would have a more irate parent, and a Scout with a more severely wounded self confidence now to handle, and probably lost some major respect from both the parent and the Scout along the way. Now I'm going to be tied up with having to handle damage control. I don't want to come across as pounding your stones, may
  24. Geneology was a big obby of mine back in the 70's when I was a scout. Luckily for me, there seemed to be someone in the family who had giid information on several of the different branches. We could trace most back to the early 1800's or mid to lat 1700's. My dad's mother had a cousin who spent 30+ years tracing the one line. She was able to trace it back to the 1060's England. It was pretty vague up to the 1300's, then became quite detalied. There were several Knights, Lords and different battles mentioned. A high school budy and I found out that we were several generations removed, him
  25. bkale, Wow! What a project. It is looking good. This is somthing that could definitely work in the Venture realm. Have you talked with our favorite people down in Texas about BSA recognizing this? Don't forget the Girl Scouts and Campfire Scouts. Good Luck.
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