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Sometimes that is the best solution, though. (Obviously, not here.)

It's still minus one goblin due to idiotic behaviour.

According to the LA Times story, the three "Scout" leaders were out there with eight Boy Scouts, who had spent the afternoon playing hot lava on the goblins. http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-utah-boy-scout-leader-toppling-rock-safety-concerns-20131018,0,334713.story

And, how many think these yobs were "Trained?"

Are there any universities or ball parks that would allow your pack/troop to come in and clean up the day after games? Maybe even after events at county fairgrounds? My university did that, and student organizations got paid for it. It took about hundred people to clean up a 40,000 seat stadium in a couple hours. Just the trash. Do you have a county fair or some other community event where you could sell bottled water and sodas? Or even just staff a booth for the event organizers, that way you aren't providing money to buy the beverages and ice? And, is any troop over on the ric

BD, you'll also find that a lot of people will tell you they don't want popcorn, but they will give you a couple bucks. Best of luck. Your suburbanite "neighbors" are an embarrassment.

Only if they meet right after school do I know of any youth group that routinely offers up some kind of organized snack. Snack takes up time, creates trash, leaves crumbs, etc. No. Just no.

Wow, GS cabins sure have gotten cushy. Ours had a huge rock fireplace that heated two rooms, and the kitchen was heated by a wood stove you cooked on. We had a picnic table and stacks of military surplus 4 inch mattresses. Good times.

Just get custom visors and issue them to the guards only. AFter three or four years, that beat up, frayed and faded hat will mean something to the wearer and the kids at camp. Add year pins or custom made "Saves" pins.

Qwazse, education is the key. If you can find some women who are very willing to be very forthcoming about handling hygiene issues in the field, you may be able to convince the girls. It's way more than how not to end up with pee in your socks and what to do with the toilet paper. Watch TV and write down what you think the message is of most H&BA products aimed at women and teen girls. Another thing which you'd think GSUSA could deal with but doesn't.

Many, many GS leaders now were never GS as girls. Many have never been camping, and the unfamiliarity of it inhibits them. They don't want to do something that will result in girls being injured, or even uncomfortable. So, they don't camp. Councils have had to consolidate due to enourmous financial liabilities. The surviving councils are too large and impersonal.. GSUSA's pension liabilities are staggering. Under utilized camps and camps that will cost millions to bring up to standard are tempting low-hanging fruit. GS got hit hard by the '80s when suddenly so many extra-curricular

I wish BSA would fix the org chart that shows the CM reporting to the Committee. I'll leave it to managerial types to figure out how to depict the CC and CM working as a team. http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/CubScouts/Leaders/About/ThePack.aspx

Isn't National the only body that can revoke membership? Unit's can kick you out, but you're still a member unless no one will recharter you?

I was located in Southern Germany for four years and now live in North Africa, still part of TAC. And, truth is KISC is in the village while you have to hike up to the Chalet. One reason our Girl Scouts went to KISC.

One more great place for Scouts, this one in Germany. Burg Rieneck up by Weisbaden, relatively. http://www.burg-rieneck.de/en/

Our troop in Germany attended both a week long troop run summer camp and Alpine. A good time was always had by all. Alpine was more merit badge focused, but the cool outdoor ones. Many of our European packs, troops, and Girl Scouts visit KISC because it is so well run, clean, and the staff is always helpful. It would be great if councils in the States could send contingents of older boys to Kandersteg for a week, anytime during the year, with some additional touring on the continent. I don't think the Center ever closes. Kandersteg village has a great little bus system, and Scouts w

Our past units have also used various photo storage sites. Invitations were sent out from a private account and interested parents created accounts and passwords to view photos online. If you do have children whose parents do not want their photo disseminated, put a smiley face sticker in an obvious spot on his clothes. If the sticker's in the photo, don't post that one or blur his face.

We don't build character, say "Done." and are good to go for life. Our characters are constantly being challenged, confirmed, rebuilt. A troop's effort to build or re-enforce good character should be relevant to all the members, adult and youth. I dare say there are plenty of adults who should work on building better characters.

Asking at every BoR "What does the Scout Oath and Law mean to you?" is a great idea.

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And cubs do like Denver omelets? Sorry, I find boiling eggs in a bag to be beyond odd. How often does the bag pop or leak?

Stosh, are you saying to put the rocks in the bottom of the DO, and the pie plate/tin on top?

The environment in the US is significantly cleaner now than in 1970. Does the Ohio catch on fire anymore? Is the Potomac still a deathly swill of typhus and cholera? An industrial society is going to create industrial pollution. We now manage it much better, as do the Germans and Swiss. It's not like those two countries are pristine. As for Germany, visit a German lay-by, not an autohof, but a regular rest area. Filthy, every one of them. I also recall a recycling scandal there in the early 2000's when people discovered that their sorted trash was being exported to China. It was rig

We also kept a year's worth of recharter in the bank as a hedge against not being able to fundraise or some other catastrophe. Also, Council has been wanting recharter money and paperwork turned in earlier and earlier, and not on the last day of the recharter month. However, we also had to turn in a yearly audit to the JAG office.

So maybe "sleep" isn't the right verb. How about "remain contained?"