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If only this was a rock concert. (My house is more like Ringling Bros. complete with animal acts.) Thank you all for your advice and encouragment. The area is drying, and the lights do still work. I'm not touching it, I've decided. Our AC is on, the fan is on, and luckily it has cooled down so I can open the windows now. I think it's going to be ok, but if not, I'll have my basement guy fix it when he does the basement bath in the next month of so.

I'm here looking for help because my husband is seven time zones away. A child, now punished, plugged up the drain in our shower stall upstairs resulting in a flooded bathroom, 1/2 inch of water on the floor, and about 2 gallons of water flowing out of the canister light in the kitchen, which is apparently installed right under the shower unit. Other than letting the whole mess dry out, does anyone have any other suggestions? I don't want to pull out the canister while it's wet in case I damage the drywall cieling. But, I think I might need to look up there tomorrow or Thursday

I stayed out of this as long as I could. Asking someone to repeatedly present the same paperwork, because for whatever reason it has been lost, is a real world definition of incompetence, on someone's part. After the second time, I would be asking if they had any sort of filing system for actual pieces of paper. My training records were "unfindable," and the person who told me so implied that I had not been truthful. Come to find out, my name had been mis-spelled in our council's records but not National's. Mistakes are to be expected, and I don't mind helping to fix them. But five

I prefer that before leaving the activity, the SM, CM, tour leader ask who is driving back to our CO and who is going right home and with which boys/gear. If I have my son and two others in my neighborhood with thier gear, why should I follow the troop trailer when I have made arrangements with their parents to drop them off at home? Now, if I have boys whose parents are picking them up at the CO, I would of course go back to the CO. If it makes you feel better, why not ask those who don't return to the CO to call you when they get home so you can close out the trip?

You used to have to actually "run" to the bank. I bet all this activity was via EFTs.

Firstly, I wouldn't send out a troop wide e-mail and include non-members on it, but water under the bridge. Secondly, the asst leader needs to rein it in. Thirdly, if Joan is still upset about this, or if you are, contact your service unit manager. If you don't know who that is, call council and they will point you to the right person. Personally, I don't think troops of any kind should be run like private cliques. There are times when it is best for the majority for a child not to belong to a specific troop, but to reject one out of hand becuase of Mom? Even if Mom's the

My experience getting the Pink Princess into Daisies is similar, and I was volunteering as a leader in the Spring. No one got back to me until August. I will hopefully start having twice a month meetings in October and plan to go every other week until June Day Camp then a July event and a back to school party in August. Many GS leaders are tired because they are the whole program. Everything is on their shoudlers whereas in a pack you have others to carry the load for larger events as well as easily identified helpers. It looks easy to only deal with 10 or 12 girls, and I don't think

I think it's more the fear factor (strangers, rejection, disappointing others, etc.) with younger Scouts and the procrastination factor with older ones.

I think a lot of the activities suggested by the other posters would be great hits. Providing dinner and breakfast for overnighters would seal the deal for me.

Why is the kitchen closed?

BTW, anyone offers us donations, we happily accept.

What I got from Council was that in order to maintain 501 © 3 status, Scouts could not just sell stuff. Conducting a fundraiser is part of the program method to help boys set goals, plan, and implement a project; their soliciting donations in any way or form endangers/negates non-profit status. This was what I was looking for.

What do we expect when we (society) send conflicting messages to kids? On the one hand we scare the daylights out of them about possible sexual predators lurking behind every tree, around every bend, and flagrantly disguised as kind, interested youth activities volunteers. And, then we want a twelve year old to call someone he may know only vaguely or not at all? Plus, I am always finding more wonderful oppurtunities than my son ever wants to take advantage of. I am convinced that 13 year old boys are actually inanimate objects.

Hopefully, someone in which ever council this occurred in, has recognized the incident and called the DE on the carpet and the SE has sent out a strongly worded memo that this will not happen again.

Whoa! This just hit me. How does anyone know they AREN'T married? (In CA you can file an essentially sealed marriage certificate.) They could be married but not ready to tell certain family members. Not everyone has a fairytale wedding.

The DE was wrong, and if parents or Scouters want to bring it up quietly to the SE, they should. I wouldn't fire the guy this time, but I would NEXT time. If, however, this has been going on for a while between the couple AND council knows about it, there are bigger fish to fry. As for the fiancee, what did she do while she was there? Was she being actively recruited as a Scouter?

(Sigh) Never mind. I wrangled the reasoning out of someone at council, who still didn't know where they could lay their hands on anything written. I'm not good with the whole, "Just follow this rule" thing. It irked my teachers and professors.

Yes, I know all that. I need to be able to quote the specific, official reasoning.

Can someone please point me to the actual official written policy document that includes an explanation of the reasoning behind this? I need it.

Whew! One more letter I don't have to write!

Judging from what's been said by GS leaders on other sites and reading between the lines on GSUSA's site, don't be surprised if training becomes more standardized and portable.

We have asked the AC to provide the Committee and SM a list of all boys who have not advanced in the past 12 months and are not actively working on an Eagle project. We then schedule a SM conference and BoR just to "check in."

Don't forget to think about recruiting in the spring!!

So fill it out as usual except: Purpose: Rabid Raccoon patrol camp out Adult Tour Leader 1: N/A (cite reference from G2SS) Adult Tour Leader 2: N/A (cite reference from G2SS) Get it signed and send it in several weeks early, not the week of. You'll either get it back approved, or you'll get it back in time to fight for what the boys want or to change your adult leader plan. You'll never know until you try it.

Buffalo, If you think the boys can do it, and the rangers say its ok, let them go. Let their parents drop them off at the gate at a prearranged time, the boys pay thier fee and hike in. I would definitely get into the nitty-gritty of the patrol's camping plan to be sure they had covered all the bases, emphasizing safety and good behaviour. I would also let them know that if they screwed this up by behaving badly or ignoring reasonable safety limits, there would be some serious consequences. If you are still iffy, perhaps the boys could go to one campsite and two adults could spe