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  1. You're "stealing" my council's field director to be your new scout executive. We're loosing a very dedicated scout professional to you. May he serve you as well as he has served us here in Pine Tree Council, Maine Wilderness. (chuckle) From my understanding the physical area your council serves is roughly the size of one of our smallest districts.
  2. If you accept an invitation, be sure it is for a topic you know little about and want to learn about. I made the mistake of accepting an invitation for a topic I knew. The topic was not well described in Scouting Magazine or the material sent from PTC. The description for District Activities did not sound like a 101-type training, but an advanced training on District Activities. Alas, it was a 101 training for people who have never done any kind of district level activities planning. With over ten years on various camporee/klondike/similar district level activities, I gained nothing from
  3. Welcome SPL and Dark Amber. DA, this is not a live chat-type system. It's a "discussion board". You post...then someone else responds, then someone else, then someone else and so on. Browse through the various topics and don't be afraid to jump in if you see something you can reply to.
  4. Back in my days as an SM, what worked for my troop was a 5 to 10 minute huddle by the Junior Leaders/PLC at the end of the meeting. In this huddle they would both discuss what worked/did not work that night and they would go over the tasks of the following meeting (as preplanned at the previous month's PLC meeting).
  5. Let's see if this will let me post today (it refused my password yesterday). And typing this now, the system is real jerky. You'd think I was on dial-up rather then DSL. (shrug) We'll see... At the top of my wish list this year: I don't need nothin'. I don't want nothin'. I don't have room for nothin'. Seriously. I have all the scouting related gear I need. Except a lantern case. I don't expect to get one again this year, though this has been on my list for the past five years. You see six years back my mother gave me a propane coleman lantern for Christmas. She didn't
  6. The patch company will not print the logo without permission from national and my DE called Texas on this matter that is when I found out it would take 6 mos for all the companys to get the paperwork done. Sounds like you're dealing with a company that has never done BSA-related patches before. Maybe you could try a different company. Several advertise in Scouting Magazine.
  7. Thank you for all your tips posted so far and those yet to be posted. A very timely topic. This is the topic of request by those who attend our roundtable for the next roundtable two weeks from tonight.
  8. When I was active at the troop level, our unit awarded a plaque to the outgoing SPL and SM whenever the position changed. Usually, a piece of "waste wood" local cedar or hardwood, polished smooth and varnished. On this we affix the position patch in question, the unit number below this and a brass plate with the person's name on it and the time period they served. The tradition dates back roughly 15 years.
  9. My district, Kennebec Valley (West-Central Maine) is a large, rural, sparsely populated district (it's over a 2 hour drive north to south and over an hour east to west on back roads). As such, our DC tries to assign UC's to units near their home town and that results in a UC handling all unit types in that area. Many times, they help facilitate communications between a pack and a troop or troop and a crew. As many of you know, there can be a lot of volunteer turnover at the unit level (especially the pack level) and this helps keep communication channels open. The only exception to
  10. Life! Breath life into this old thread and make it live again! I have two degrees in Meteorology, but am a victim of politics. I finished my master degree just as Contract on America took effect, slashing the National Weather Service Budget in half and flooding the private sector with highly skilled meteorologists. The result, "entry level" in my field requires 2 years of work-related experience. (blink, blink) I was even rejected (1996) by the military with a generic form letter stating they were inundated with meteorologists and didn't need any more. Alas, the bank doesn't lik
  11. Can you elaborate more on these Bicentennial Freedom Trails? They were before my time in scouting and the only Freedom Trail I'm familiar with is in Boston which is overseen by the Boston-Minuteman Council: http://www.bsaboston.org/ (Click on Council Events) According to the website, it has been in operation since 1972.
  12. Here's another option for you. Outside the USA, many scouting organizations have "Camp Blankets" instead of patch vests. Here are two websites with patterns/suggestions: http://guidinguk.freeservers.com/campblanket.html and http://www.geocities.com/3rdharpenden/misc/campblanket/blankidx.htm
  13. Prairie, I know it's been three weeks since you sent out your request. Please contact me if you are still looking for these. I have three 7's and two 1's. They are used.
  14. Back several (several, several) years ago in my early college days, my younger brother was coming up through our home troop. I came home one weekend to serve as one of the leaders for a trip to Baxter State Park in north central Maine. Saturday evening of the trip, bro was talking to friends when someone asked him to move the fire grate. He was so enthralled in his conversation that he reached over bare-handed and removed the grate from the fire while continuing to talking. He trailed off when he realized that everyone had become silent and were staring at him. It was then that he rea
  15. You can also try: http://www.oaimages.com aka the online OA Bluebook Guide Unfortunately, there is no way to search by lodge totem at this time. Many lodges have the turtle for its totem. The patch you have a scan of uses the same style turtle as found on many Unami 1 patches/flaps. However, I did not see anything under Unami that was similar to the patch you picked-up. This site also has a "Whats It" section. Good luck and when you do learn what this is, please share it with the rest of us.
  16. The only camp box similiar to what you're asking for we simply call a "coffin" because it takes at least 6 scouts (or more) to haul one. Several troops in our district have those port-a-garage style awnings. Volunteers in soe of those units have designed wooden boxes that all those poles/elbows/tarp pieces can be hauled in. The resulting box is roughly the size of a coffin and when filled weighs so much that it takes six to eight "paulbearers" to haul the thing. But once at the campsite, legs slide into these and make good-size worktables. One example I saw the legs slid into the side
  17. Thank you for the clarification. I retract my earlier statement.
  18. OldGreyEagle wrote: "...we only had 5 channels to choose from..." Five? I'm jealous. I currently get two and only if I stand on one foot while holding the antenna: PBS and CBS. I happen to live in the "Maine Wilderness" on the edge of the range of the state's two broadcast markets. When I moved from an apartment to a house, I found that a Net connection was more valuable then cable, and I could only afford one bill or the other, but not both, so I'm here rather then vegging in front of the boob tube. I miss History Channel and Sci-Fi at times, but not enough to fork over that ki
  19. If he had hoped to build a museum, then shame on that council for selling off his collection.
  20. I've never heard of a Powder Horn course being offered up this way. Then again, I'm not active with Venturers. However, most of the councils in New England offer a University of Scouting program (usually on different weekends). Some of our leaders go as far south as Conneticut and some from down that way travel the 500 miles to attend our University. Why should they do this when they have a course in their own council or close by? To get/share ideas with scouters from other councils/states. I made the trip down to one in CT a few years back and took a Roundtable course. Some of
  21. As usual when I try and use this bulletin board system, it's not happy with either my password or simply crashes when I try and post. My apologies in advance if this hits multiple times. Is there even any admin-types around anymore who work on this thing. Anyway, enough ranting, Eamonn asked for help (and the system crashes when I try to spin this off into a new thread): Eamonn wrote: "I'm having a problem with power point. I want to play music all the way through the presentation (several tracks) The music seems to want to stop between each slide." It's been a little while
  22. Wiggs, would your council also baulk at a service project to help a state or town park--neither of which are non-profit entities? How about a project that helps the scout's school? Like the others, I'd be asking for the council's official documentation showing that the project must be for a non-profit only--sounds like they're adding to the requirements to me.
  23. And I now have the Lubbock. Thank you to all for your help.
  24. If this is what you want, then grab the phonebook and look-up embroidery/silk-screening companies in your area. Many have the equipment to put just about anything on anything these days including a Boy Scout logo (whether or not this is legal to do) on a blanket.
  25. Your local scout council office should be able to special order one for you. Fifteen years back, we needed a Polish one for a scout in our unit. It took a little longer, but we got one.
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