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  1. Try this: http://www.ntier.org/index.html Go to documents and download the Trading Post Catalog for 2004. They offer a red 100% wool shirt-jac, made by a US manufacturer - Bemidji Woolen Mills, with BSA logo patch already sewn on pocket, two button-down pockets plus two hand-warmer pockets. Only $89.99 plus shipping. Much better deal than the one in the National catalog. Warm, extra pockets, looks just like the National one, sold by a BSA High Adventure Ccamp Trading Post, for almost half the price. My wife got it for my last Christmas, and everyone wanted to know where it came from
  2. I guess if you can order the following from your Scout Shop, it should satisfy you: # 57-491 Charter and Bylaws of the BSA # 57-492 Rule and Regulations of the BSA Though I do recall someone saying something to the effect that since these documents mainly apply to how Councils should be administered, and not how units should be administered, only Councils may be able to receive them.
  3. Finished the first weekend of NE-II-132 on the 11th, looking forward to the second weekend on the 30th. So, I'm still a Beaver, and a good old Beaver too.
  4. Because if you can't put "New" and "Improved" and "Updated" on the cover (even if it isn't), then it won't sell. Or so the prevailing Madison Avenue mentality goes.
  5. Of course, Irish nationalists serving in both the Conferderate and Union armies realized Proud Eagle's last point and formed a Feinian army, made up of Civil War veterans. This army "invaded" Canada from US soil a number of times in 1866-1870, but was defeated each time. And didn't some US presidential candidate run under the slogan "54.40 or Fight", which would have meant "annexing" a huge slice of Canada? So the US, or it's citizens, have actually invaded Canada a number of times, and our politicians have occasionally called for the annexation of pieces of Canada. Oh yeah, and
  6. "Teacher, is this going to be on the quiz?" While we do not really want to go down that road, there is a middle gound that we need to find. The Scouts need to learn the appropriate information to advance, and yet they need to get the appropriate real world info. Last night, I had the "privilege" of being a victim for a first aid demomnstration at my son's troop meeting. I had "a bleeding head wound, a profusely bleeding cut on my left arm and a broken right lower leg." The patrol treating me put a splint on my left leg. I told them that I had passed out from pain first when they moved the
  7. In what seems like decades ago (because it was), when I received by Webelos badge in a ceremony in the school auditorium, I walked to the other side of the auditorium, where the Scoutmaster of the Tropp associated with the school was waiting, with the Troop. Mr Sevenoaks (I still think that is a great name for a Scoutmaster) asked each of us a few questions, and then gave us the Scout(?) badge and welcomed us into the troop. My son crossed over last Friday, and when he and his three buddies walked over the bridge, the Scoutmaster gave each a Troop hat, Troop neckerchief, Boy Scout neckerchie
  8. Somehow, a thread about food in Issues and Politics inevitably leads OGE to a song....... isn't stream of consciousness posting great?
  9. You're expecting way too much logic and business sense from a non-profit, FOG. That's why my council thinks it makes good economic, financial and strategic planning sense to sell a one of a kind piece of real estate (camp) to get funding that they say they will use to keep up the other real estate (camps) and also rent out facilities to replace the one they sold. Selling your house so you can rent an apartment.....financial planners always recommend that. OXCOPS, keep bringing it up. Ultimately, squeaky wheels get oiled.(This message has been edited by Marty_Doyle)
  10. I was actually thinking that OGE was really "with it" and "kewl" until he said "which as most any hipster knows". I'm pretty sure "hipster" was out of vogue before disco was "in". Another current favorite of the senior Webelos is "Sweet". Everything (except girls and food) seems to be "Sweet".
  11. I can't define "cool", but it is a thing that as leaders we should be aware of, because it impacts recruiting and retention. If they are not here, they will get no benefit from the program. Being way older than the current crop of Cub and Boy Scouts, I asked the resident expert on "cool" in our house for help - my nine year old daughter. She said my son is "cool" because he is a fifth grader. Therefore, since he is the "big fish", being in Cub Scouts doesn't detract from that. And no one in elementary school comments on it very much. Cub Scouts isn't cool or uncool, it just is. Like
  12. According to the Council website, there are 22 thousand Scouts in the various programs in Greater Niagara Frontier, and only one Scout Shop. So the volume could be there to "glom" $40 K per annum. The problem is that it would have to be $40K in cash (unless Mrs. M was dealing with other criminals, who would cash checks made out to the Council for her). That's around $160 in cash per day, every day the Shop was open (assuming 250 business days a year). Tough not to notice, espcially when she was on vacation. Obviously, she was the person reviewing the register tapes, counting the re
  13. I don't think BSA owns the rights to "Pinewood Derby", so there probably will not be a lawsuit. Also, there is a lot of Scouting stuff in the movie - it is Cub Scouts, with uniforms, Packs et cetera. The producers must have cleared it with BSA. The Scouts appear to be mostly in correct Cub Scout uniform in the trailer, but from the wrong era. What's with the 1960's "beanies" on the Cub Scouts in the Derby crowd shots? (Is there a comeback in the works? It would be cheaper than than the current four baseball cap/neckerchief scheme - four because Tigers go to blue uniforms with orange necke
  14. This was the first year of leadership for all but the Webelos II den leaders, so the new leaders were not ready at the start of the year to think too much about den outings. So, as a Pack, we decided to plan a number of events that all dens could participate in. Most events, excluding the few I listed, had around 15 Scouts attending - the Pack is currently at 28 boys, so I considered that a decent attendance rate. (Also, my first Pack calendar only had a few more events that the two previous Cubmaster's versions, so the Cubs kind of expect a full calendar - I have copies going back 10 years
  15. Our Pack "year" runs from September 1 to August 31, based on the "way it has always been done". So, that means it is time for me, as CM, to start thinking about what next year's calendar should look like (I need to get a request in to the public school facilities department soon to secure dates for Pack events run at the school - our CO is the school PTA). This year's calendar had a Pack Night every month, usually on the last Friday of each month, at least one Pack event each month, participation in the Council's Popcorn sales and as many district and council events as we know of in
  16. So I looked at the ad above, thinking I might get a DI hat for myself...... when I thought how cool the color guard in our flag ceremonies and parades would look wearing those white British Army "Zulu" helmets. And the Cub Scouts would want to take part in flag ceremonies. We'll see what the budget allows...
  17. As KS, TwoCubDad, Hunt and ASM1 said, don't buy the magazine, turn the channel, skip over the post. Your choice. An organized "campaign" seems un-Scoutlike and un-American. I didn't squelch Wheeler, why would I "shun" or "boycott" FOG? I think Eamonn or OGE said it first, some of what FOG posts is deliberate chain-jerking, sometimes to elicit a specific discussion on a subject that is of importance to him. And some of it is plain old Bob White bashing. Most of the posters are "adult" in age, if not behaviour. Part of what we are supposed to be teaching Scouts through "Adult A
  18. Just went to one March 6. Some of the better offerings (IMHO): An intro course to Packmaster/Troopmaster An intermediate course for both Cub Scouting beyond the Ranks - covered Progress Towards Rank, totems, arrow points, Academic & Sports belt loops and pins, World Conservation, religious emblems (there was also another course soleley on religious emblems), BSA Family Award, Webelos activity badges. Missed a few - Crime Prevention, Conservation Good Turn, US Heritage, Heavy Shoulder, Super Achiever, Twentier, Recruiter, Interpreter, etc. Safe Swim Defense/ Safety Afl
  19. P.S. means "post script", Latin (?) for after the letter..... Or did you mean the joke about the Mrs. Smith's prepared pies available at your local grocers?
  20. To follow up on OGE's pun.......... {Chorus} Moose Moose Moose, Moose and Squirrel Moose Moose, Moose and Squirrel Moose Moose, Moose and Squirrel Of All the Cartoons in this world Nothing can top the Moose and Squirrel.
  21. I pretty much copied the requirements from page 439 of the current Webelos book, just leaving out the part about being less 18 years old. We are going over with the requirements with all of our second year Webelos in the Pack, since they spent last weekend building a tee-pee, hiking, "orienteering", setting up camp with a Troop, and have a conference with the Scoutmaster, which finished the last requirements for their AoL. The Scoutmaster and I went over this to determine the best time to hold a bridging ceremony - as soon as possible but still allowing them time to "show off" their Ao
  22. A boy can join Boy Scouts if he: is 11 years old, or has completed the fifth grade, or earned the Arrow of Light in Cub Scouts. The Arrow of Light requirements include being either 10.5 years old, or six months past the completion of fourth grade. So one may infer from the question that a boy needs to have completed the fifth grade before he can join Boy Scouts, but there are two acceptable alternative "paths".
  23. Maybe it's just me, but the "Is it allowed?" juxtaposed against a "9/11 remembrance pin" does not seem in harmony with the aims of Scouting.(Citizenship?) I would focus more on the fact that the Scout was wearing a uniform shirt and congratualte him (or her, since Ventureres were mentioned also) on that, rather than looking to criticize one "illegal" pin. (This message has been edited by Marty_Doyle)
  24. Unfortunately, one runs into a practical reality at some point. I'm a finance guy at work, and look at the operations of the Pack from that vantage. I worked up the budget last June, and if I could have done everything as planned, it would cost on the order of $300 per Scout. I couldn't ask for that from many of the families in the Pack. So, revised budget. The trip to the Battleship Massachusetts, the minor league baseball game, the district Akela camping trip, etc. became additional, supplemental fees. A new Pinewood Derby track was put on hold. There was one check due at registratio
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