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  1. Wondering if Facebook could reach my camp with a drone equipped with a fast internet :)

  2. SR, Been there, felt that. 4th quarter elections to make room for AOL ceremonies in the first quarter? I like the concept. Our Chapter has 38 unit elections, & 60 Packs to worry about. But 4th quarter would never work for us. We have to many SM that want their elections as late in May as possible so more of their Scouts can achieve First Class. To try and make room for AOl's, this year we are going to ask the SM to please sign up on an early April Monday and an Early May Monday, same for Tuesday units, one Wed., one Thur, and one Sunday. On the Monday & Tuesday dates, we'll
  3. SR, Been there, felt that. 4th quarter elections to make room for AOL ceremonies in the first quarter? I like the concept. Our Chapter has 38 unit elections, & 60 Packs to worry about. But 4th quarter would never work for us. We have to many SM that want their elections as late in May as possible so more of their Scouts can achieve First Class. To try and make room for AOl's, this year we are going to ask the SM to please sign up on an early April Monday and an Early May Monday, same for Tuesday units, one Wed., one Thur, and one Sunday. On the Monday & Tuesday dates, we'll
  4. Meteor showers Thursday & Friday nights. Saw several last night while sitting at the fire in the backyard with Dave. To cloudy tonight. Jack, are you playing around with a new unit up in Buffalo? At camp, scouts from the other unit out in Calumet with us were using Google Sky, and another app. out on the dam. They both worked nicely, especially the one with the GPS app. 126 at OLOP took a tarp and painted the constellations on the underside. They have the scouts lay under the tarp, and teacj them the constellations before going to camp.
  5. Kudo & Schiff, great sites & concepts. Clemlaw, great advice on involving the OA. Last Wednesday after Call-Outs, I had the chance to talk with a SM of a SN unit from a neighboring District, that is made up of all MR, ASD & Downs scouts. He told me that they were chartered through their Counties Board of DD. They meet one day a week at 1:30 while in school. Several of their scouts are Members of our OA Lodge. The lodge has been very understanding & patient with these Scouts, especially at Ordeal. The Lodge has also been very good with our youngest son who has an A
  6. Crisco, Do some homework. Do you know someone (an oldtimer)that is well respect from that District who you can talk with who knows this SM, and any history that he may have with OA. Depending on the background you get on the SM, you could eother approach the SM and discuss the situation, find out his true feelings, and try to find a solution to the situation, OR If there is a known issue with the SM & OA, refer to the Lodge Advisor about approaching the CC & CO and see if they can be any help. Maybe they do not know the SM is doing this. JTSwestark laid
  7. Twocub, I'm glad the meeting turned out good. I surprised that a couple of things were not brought up in this discussion & have a couple thoughts for future problems. 1) In discussions with the parents, was it asked if there had been any previous events like this away from scouting? Maybe the parents never thought of other incidents as a problem, and are missing a more serious & dangerous issue with the son. 2) Trip to the Burn Unit could voliate HIPPA depending how it is done. Possible things that future offenders have to do: 1) Firemanmship MB 2) Ha
  8. Twocub, I'm glad the meeting turned out good. I surprised that a couple of things were not brought up in this discussion & have a couple thoughts for future problems. 1) In discussions with the parents, was it asked if there had been any previous events like this away from scouting? Maybe the parents never thought of other incidents as a problem, and are missing a more serious & dangerous issue with the son. 2) Trip to the Burn Unit could voliate HIPPA depending how it is done. Possible things that future offenders have to do: 1) Firemanmship MB 2) Ha
  9. MIB, In our Lodge, the Lodge Advisor usually chooses the CA. The District has no input. The term was usually for 3 years, longer if the interest is there. The first time the CA position became available, I let the outgoing CA know that I was interested. I was not well known to him at the time and was passed over for a SM whose Troop was heavily involved in the Lodge. When he stepped down to move into an advisor position at the lodge level, it was passed to an ASM Vigil from another unit. This CA stepped down when he became SM. I spent some time attending the Chapter meetings w
  10. Roadkill, I think he'll surprise you & do well. As Chapter Advisor, I rely heavily on my younger members, especialy the pre-highschoolers, when it comes to elections & ceremonies at the Chapter level. Schiff, Good advise on informing the parents. Eagle92, are your candidates informed of their nomination at the time of election, or surprised at summercamp? When do you do your little informational sitdown with the candidates & parent, after Call-Outs, or before? Do you do this on a unit by unit bases, or have all potential candidates within the District, & par
  11. Tagging a comment about the BOR on the electronic advancememt record is a good idea. Either make it direct & to the point, or with just enough informatio to possible pique the interest of the new troop to possibly call to ask questions. I definitely agree with Scoutnut. Let the mother know that you are complying with her request, and that you will immediately mail the requestion documentation to the new unit, or will be delivering it personally. By no means hand it over to mom.
  12. J, You win the new word of the year award. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and a belated Happy Chanukkah. And for Uncle Tio (Dean), Feliz Navidad.
  13. Our Council merged our two largest Districts (population wise) back in January, creating the Mega-District. 80 units must be a reference number only. We have 45 Troops, around 100 Packs, and I'm not sure how many Crews. We do have a DE & DD handling the new District. We'll see how it works out.
  14. Proud Eagle, On rereading the article, I agree, he doesn't mention who the CO is. I was initially misinterrpreting what I read, assuming (Oh no!! There's that "A" word)since it was in a Catholic site, that everything was Catholic. Shame on me. "That will be 10 Hail Mary's". LOL.
  15. Our Polar Bear requirement is anytime from November 1st to the last day of March. Then again, living in NE Ohio, most nighttime temps are in the 30's, but we have had temps no lower the 50 on rare occassions. I know our ALTC (first second weekend in Nov.) the last two years had temps in the 60's & 70's. Then you have our Klondikes that have ranged from +25F down to high day temps of -13F. One year Council called out to Klondike and told the Troops staying Saturday night to go home. Temps were to be @ 0 with windchills of -15 that night. Said that if we stayed, they wouldn't cover
  16. Baden Panza, Round up my steed Rocinante, oops I mean Gwenny, my son's 90lb shepard, and fetch me my helmet (bedpan) for head. I'll be tilting to the might oak with my shovel as we charge down the drive through the snow. Baden & Information, good idea. This morning in our RR meeting (3 due to snow), we discussed sending letters out to the religious CO's IR/IHs to see if we could drum up some new committee members. We'll also make mention of it at RT, but felt we would have a better responseaway from RT because most of them are already tied to other committees. Baden, it will
  17. Our subcommittee was formed when the Relationship & Membership Chair decided to form the subcommittees suggseted in the Relationship Committee handbook. Approximately 8 people stayed with the RR committee. Most of them were part of the original Relationship committee from way back (before my time). Average age, 70-75. This creates some unique issues which I'm trying to work through, most being set in their ways. One person has a committee that started out mainly as a catch all for non-Catholic faiths aimed at Religious Emblems promotions. Over the last three years since committee for
  18. I have been tasked with starting a Religious Relations committee for our Council. I have read what is listed in the Relations Committee Handbook that relates to this committee. I am intersted in hearing what other Councils are doing in with their committees besides Emblems promotions. How did you form & staff your committees? What other activities does your committee do or sponsor? How active is the committee with the camp chaplain? I am open for any and all ideas. Thanks in advance. ASM 915
  19. Our oldest joined at 15years & 9 months. He managed to pull off his Eagle, Ad Altere Dei, Heroism Award, & Ordeal in the 27 months. All this while swimming varsity, member of the Weightifting team, Spanish, German, International Clubs, illustrator for the literary journal, taking honors coursework,volunteering for the county parks, student board member for the village park board, helping teach CCD, & an alter server. He said the meritbadges were easy, especially if you coordinated your school assignments with the MB requirements. He had a burnout spell of about three mo
  20. Scoutnut, You're right about "GOD & ME". I meant to say "LIGHT OF CHRIST". 92 caught my mistake. Thanks 92.
  21. Scoutfish, Congratulations. Is District Camp Promotions Chair & District Camping Chair considered the same in your District, or are you jsut a minion under the District Camping Chair? If you end up being one in the same, that means you can set up your own committee to run, which probably will end up covering both Cubs & Boy scouts. One of the jobs of your District's OA Chapter Chief is to attend the District Committee meeting, and work with the District Camping Chair with Camp Promotions. The Chapter Chief is responsible to take information that you pass on to him in referen
  22. AK, If the youth are all of the Protestant denominations, see if Council can lend you the RE books for those denominations. Take a look at the requirements and see how much they vary. If they are pretty much in line with each other, have the family ask their pastor if he has an issue with another pastor (if you have a willing one) work with the little ones as a group. Since each pastor has to sign the application that he/she knows that the youth is working on the RE, this is a good time to ask. Then the pastor that is helping the youth signs as the counsellor. Have the youth go back to hi
  23. Beavah, Shame on you. You left OA out. I thinl wakwib is correct in saying that sometimes that the boys are more clued in on things, how their peers are, then the adults. It always amazes me at unit OA elections when a unit has several eligible candidates, and only 1 or 2 get elected. Sometimes I'm left wondering whether the youths were elected due to being the real scout, or by the popularity vote. Our Troop is, make that was so small that the three eligible for SPL just rotate it around. We just doubled in size, and will triple by summer. It will be interesting to see what the you
  24. Proud Eagle, I'll bet you he is Catholic. Why else would he be reading articles at Inside Catholic? I am Chritian, and been on both sides of the fence, raised in a Protestant denomination, and am now Catholic. I was raised to be tolerant of others, and their beliefs, even if those beliefs are different then mine. Should everyone be Catholoic? Who cares as long as they're Christain. Should everyone be Christian? It would be nice, but won't happen. As long as they learn to be tolerant & respectful of others, that's fine. As stated by others posting on the IC article, BSA requires m
  25. Interesting article. I wonder if they immediately reverted back to the Inquisition state of mind? Or were they Scout like, Helpful & Friendly at first, and offered to help find a Troop that would be more in line with the families religious viewpoints. NAH, probably not. Then again, they probably didn't look upon it as an opportunity to possibly passivey show someone not of the faith, how to come to the faith. I wonder how the Troop committee would have looked upon a Jewish or Hindu boy asking to join the Troop. We have a IR priest that ois our DIOCESAN COMMITTEE ON SCOUTIN
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