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purcelce

Been back for a few hours from our District Camporee.

It was "Leave No Trace" theme. We set up 7 outposts that went over each LNT principle. Had a game, or patrol competition at each station.

We topped off the weekend with a large campfire, a few skits, U.S. Flag burning...I mean retirement. Did get to meet Hops in person.

The Camporee went off without a hitch. If any of you guy out there are intrested in this LNT Camporee,let me know and I'll send you some info.

YIS

Cary P

Go to http://www.okawbsa.org/ and look under Council Staff. Send an email to the St Clair District Director and ask for information on NESA Merit Badge Day.

This is put on every year at our council.

Hope it Helps

Cary P

First Jesse in MN, now Arnold in CA.

Anybody else from the movie "Predator" running for Gov?

The best Gov of all time was John LePetteme (Mel Brooks) from Blazings Saddles. "Give the Governor a Harumph!"

My GI flyers bags...The best set of luggage I have ever owned.

Just got back from OA Chapter Meeting, and took my son along.

Tonight was Officer Elections.

The first call for Chapter Chief nominations came up, and one of the Youth nominated my son Austin.

Had to turn down nomination due to two things. Austin isn't in OA yet, and he turns 2 next month

Did you guys get your program helps in the current issue? I didn't get anything.

Last issue I just got Cub Scout.

I'm suppose to get both Boy and Cub Scout.

guyww,

Welcome to the formums, and it's nice to have another military member aboard. There are a few active duty military guys and vets.

I work with three Troops and a Cub Pack here at Scott AFB. "Military" Scout units can be a challenge when it comes to leaders deploying, Scouts only staying in the Pack/Troop for a 1 - 2 years due to PCSs....well enough of my ramblings.

Shemgren has a great answer for Akela.

Yours in Scouting

Cary P

Good Answer FOG.

Pro Wrestling is not a sport, yet the entertainers are athletic.

Oh how I remember my youth heading to the National Guard Armory to watch wrasslin. Also a special memory was Saturday afternoons watching wrasslin with my grandfather. I miss that old geezer

Hey FOG,

It was too early in the morning to attempt to spell "ALUMINUM", plus I've been calling tin foil all my life.

Stop being so picky...If your going to be picky then keep your posts on the Uniform boards

Welcome to boards!

You'll find these forums informative, and at at times entertaining.

As for good ole cooking over the coals, here's one you can try.

Foil Packs:

Get a good size piece of tin foil. Add 1/2 pound hamburger meat, 6-7 sliced carrots, 4-5 sliced potatoes, and just one slice of onion. Season with salt and pepper. Wrap all this good stuff in the foil.

Bury the foil pack in the coals. Cook about 15 - 20 minutes.

Yours in Scouting

Cary P

Here's a good one. Somebody is selling popcorn on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3627844210&category=404

Cheap Plug:

If you want Girl Scout Cookies, let me know. My daughter is selling them for the first time this year.

YIS

Cary

This plan seems to be working.

SM has a goal of 25 Scouts. Troop is sitting at around 13-14.

Plan for Scouts:

1. Individual - Gets a new Scout to register. Scout gets Recruiter patch. When the new Scout makes Tenderfoot, both the old and new Scout get a knife (We had some donated to the troop).

2. Troop - When the Troop gets to 25, SM is going to have a Pizza Party.

Plan was started three weeks ago, and we have had one new Scout join up.

We have a MOS type tribe here in our council, Tribe of Mannaseh. I was inducted last year. The tribe started three years ago. The "values" of the Tribe are great, but our tribe is not youth led, which I have a problem with. I still wear my claws and beads as it this program does have it's merits.

YIS

Swaking Battle Carp

Is MOS youth led?

Below is from a Cincinati newspaper

Scout leader ready to prove 'Survivor' skills

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By Rick Bird

Post staff writer

Megan Morris sounded relieved and excited she could finally tell her schoolmates at Kings Mills High School why her mom suddenly disappeared for several weeks in June and July.

Seems her mother, Lillian "Lill" Morris, 51, of Deerfield Township, just outside Loveland, was off filming "Survivor." She is among the latest "Survivors," part of the cast for the seventh edition of the show announced Thursday by CBS.

"Survivor: Pearl Islands," filmed off the Pacific coast of Panama, debuts Sept. 18.

"It was kind of difficult," Megan said about keeping the secret. "You'd tell one person one thing and another person another. It got hard to keep our stories straight."

"I told her, 'Let me help you do this.' I'll be the bad guy in this," said Lonnie Morris, Lillian's husband of 30 years, about keeping the secret.

Lillian is the oldest member of the newly announced cast of 16 competing to win

$1 million in the top-rated reality show.

The cast members for the latest edition are perhaps overall the youngest group ever in the series, with 10 players under 30 and five ranging from 30 to early 40s.

Morris becomes the first tri-state contestant since Rodger Bingham of Crittenden County, Ky., appeared in the show when he finished fifth in "Survivor Australia."

Bingham was one of the show's most popular players for his simple honesty and decency, and, since his appearance, Cincinnati has remained the No. 1 rated market for the show.

The latest "Survivor" also features another player with tri-state connections. He is Andrew Savage, a Utica, N.Y., native who graduated from the University of Cincinnati law school in 1987. The 40-year-old now practices law in Chicago.

Morris, a native of Waterville, Maine, who moved to the tri-state as a teen, is a decade-long Boy Scout troop leader in Warren County. She certainly plays that angle up in the show as she is pictured on the tropical island wearing her Scout leader uniform. The official CBS bio lists her occupation as "Scout troop leader" and she appeared in a taped clip on CBS Thursday morning, when the cast was introduced, saying "I'm the proud Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 617 in Cincinnati, Ohio."

The Dan Beard Boy Scout Council is proudly aware of Morris, who is the leader of a long-time troop of some 80 boys that covers the Kings Mill, Landen and Deerfield Township areas.

"There have been a lot Eagle scouts from her troop. It's very active and the parents really love her," said Andy Swallow. a spokesman for the Dan Beard Council. "She has been a scoutmaster for a National Jamboree contingent, been to Philmont (in New Mexico). Her troop is very active in high adventure. They do at least one outing a year whether it's hiking the Appalachian Trail or extended canoeing and camping. She is definitely an outdoor's person."

Morris is not allowed to speak to the media under an agreement she signs with the show's producers until (or if) she is voted off the show. But her family members were allowed to talk Thursday. Both her daughter and husband said it was hard keeping the secret from friends this summer.

"Lill's not a liar, which is one reason I never thought she'd make it on the show from the times I'd seen it," laughed husband Lonnie, who works as a transportation operations manager for McLane Food Services in Boone County, Ky.

"At first I thought she had lost her mind," Morris said when he found out his wife was selected for the show. "There were some sacrifices that had to be made in order for her to do it. But I told her to go for it. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

The Morris' also have a son, Clayton, a senior at Wright State University.

At Kings Mill High, Megan said the secret was finally out Thursday.

"It was mostly disbelief this morning," she said when word got around to classmates about her mom. "'Your mother cannot be on 'Survivor.' Are you serious?'

"But if you know my mom everybody would say she is the perfect person for 'Survivor.' She is an outdoorsman, she's a Boy Scout leader. She gets along with a lot of different people. This is her game. This is her destiny."

Lonnie said his wife tried to apply for the show when open auditions were held last February at Newport on the Levee that attracted close to 1,000 people. She arrived late and was told there would not be time to tape a tryout and was advised to send in her own tape. And that's what she did.

"I have no idea what she sent them," Lonnie admitted. "I've never seen the tape."

This has got to be the sickest thread I have ever seen!

How can anyone stand baked beans? YUK

I did read a news article that she got National's blessing to wear the uniform. Good for her.

On a sad note, Nicole got booted (the one in the blue dress). Now we will never know if that blue dress will hold up on high adventure trips

Throws baseball, softball, and bowlingball right

Throws frisbee left

Guitar plays left

Bats right

Writes right

Mouses right

shoots pistol right

votes right

shoots those who vote left....just kidding

Try contacting the Post's Public Affairs office. They should have a point of contact for Scouts at Ft Campbell. If that doesn't get you any leads, then I would contact Shawnee Trails Council Service Center. They should be able to give you at least the Scoutmaster's contact information for Ft. Campbell.

Happy Hunting.

Cary P

Sorry Laura but I've never worked with a troop that has used a Jr ASM.

Here's an idea. We have a tweener (over 18, not 21) ASM who is in charge of conducting/organizing high adventure activities. He's planing a special campout for the older boys in the troop.

flo,

I know each unit must have it's own committee.

What I'm looking for is a CO that has mutiple units that has committee members that serve on all unit committes that the CO charters.

Can somebody provide me some insight, advice, and comments.

Many Charter Organizations sponsor multiple units.

Do you guys have "one" committee for all the units?

Looking for the pros/cons of having "one " committee for multiple units.

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The past few Eagle COH's that I've been invited to, I gave a card with an OA flap from my collection.

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