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    Boy Scout Week in February. Celebrated the birth of Scouting within our local communities. - Placed on the program calendar and permission sought with store owners for window displays, write an article for local paper complete with photos. Publicity, publicity, publicity! Nope, not even a check-off on the lastest Most Excellent Unit Six Sigma Universal Annual Quality Award or whatever it is called. - Saturday the day before official start, set up window displays around town. Nope - Started on Sunday, Scout Sunday. Nope, nope. That's SuperBowl Sunday, nothing more Holy than Football and t
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    I am stunned. What happens if after all this investment by OA, your Council decides to sell? Or is this camp in a land trust? Maybe OA should take over Council? Just stunned.
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    Thanks.
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    Here the OA sells candy bars and sugar drinks for their fundraising. We don't need that. I thought OA just provided the worker bees and maybe tools for camp service projects which were funded completely by the camp/council. Same goes for camperships.
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    Yeah, they know when and how to sell. Some "scout moms" lead them around troop camp sites during Sat evening meal which is running late... business is brisk.
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    So you are approached or maybe ambushed by some District people, "Heh, our scouts need you to plan the fall/spring camporee." You first thought is to politely say no with maybe an excuse of your preference - family, work, knee operation scheduled... But you reflect and consider if I'm in charge, we can finally get a camporee done right but first I need to make my conditions CLEAR to these micro-managing District-types. What would your conditions be to accept? Maybe - No one is selling anything at this camporee. I don't want to see OA selling candy/drinks (frequent) or girl sco
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    Mostly rent for around $10/day. Some have made primitive (hemlock or balsam branch) snowshoes. We have not made PVC snowshoes and I am not keen on using PVC in frigid temps as in my experience, it can shatter.
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    Yes, Snowshoeing is also the AFFORDABLE snow option for my scouts.
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    Balonie. The revisions for 2016 are not all there and no response from e-mail. Snow Sports MB added a Snowshoe option but only usscouts.org had revisions which we need now while there is still snow. http://usscouts.org/mb/changes/mb135-16.asp Forward.
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    It came from Boy Scout Troop 514 in Monument,CO but read the rest http://www.9news.com/story/news/2016/01/28/american-flag-survived-challenger-explosion/79487138/
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    Gold Bond is my friend.
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    Follows down the chain of command, with frequent hiccups and repeats SPL ---> PLC,TC PL's ---> scouts scouts ---> parents ^ SM....: ........................> ()TC() <--> ()TC() yes TC wears earmuffs, SM has hearing aid
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    http://www.theeagle.com/news/local/former-defense-secretary-robert-gates-explains-leadership-as-a-matter/article_ab9df5ab-4f4f-5553-8060-04be58bb302e.html Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said his first leadership role was as a patrol leader of a Boy Scout troop in Kansas many years ago. He said nothing teaches leadership skills like trying to get a bunch of 11- and 12-year-old boys to do what you tell them to do -- especially when you're only a year older than they are. ... Gates said there were two aspects to his book. The first is to give a practical approach on how to lead
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    Our scouts don't e-mail. Texting, Xbox live, face-to-face (troop meeting), handouts. Face-to-face at troop meetings appear the most effective communication. Even our adults rarely read/respond to e-mails, they prefer texts or phone calls. YMMV
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    Provisional crews organized by Philmont. Minimum age: 14 or 15 depending on trek. Duration: 6-21 days. Cost: $300-900 depending on trek (does not include transportation) . Two adult leaders provided by Philmont. Transaction between individual scout and Philmont, no troop or Council middle-men. http://www.scouting.org/~/link.aspx?_id=E2D2654CB05840F79E53AA1F29149456&_z=z Something a couple of our free-spirited, thrifty scouts are considering.
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    ^---This. Like any job know what you are walking into. Review http://www.scouting.org/filestore/financeimpact/pdf/Fiscal_Policies_and_Procedures_for_BSA_Units_March_2015.pdf
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    1. If you can in your state, move your council camp(s) into land trusts so neither Council nor National can sell it. 2. Vote NO to merger. 3. Most of scouting is local, keep control local. Good luck, resistance is not futile. Some councils have voted NO.
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    Well supposedly a Snowshoeing Option was added to Snow Sports MB this year but I can find no info online. National Merit Badge Maintenance Task Force, General Quarters
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    Needs an Executive or Blue Ribbon adjective to be taken seriously. It amazes me that rank and mb requirements are in such a constant flux. They are like Adobe software, in that you have to download an update before you can start. Local scout store still has a dozen 2015 Requirements booklets on the shelf.
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    Might as well put the whole merit badge booklet too. Have you seen how thin the pamphlets for Citizenship in the Community and Nation now are? A Girl Scout Thin Mint is thicker,
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    http://www.vicksburghistory.org/battle-of-sunset-lake Between 200 to 300 volunteer reenactors from the North West Territory Alliance (NWTA) will kick off the event with a Fue de Joie on Friday evening at dusk, when all of the reenactors will fire their guns into the air to signal the opening of the two-day event. A Fue de Joie is a rifle salute fired by soldiers on a ceremonial occasion, each soldier firing in succession along the ranks to make a continuous sound. The feu de joie - literally, 'the firing of joy' - began with companies discharging their muskets one soldier at a time, goi
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    Unfortunately in this book, he makes no statements of his experiences as BSA president, but perhaps we can infer from his stated experiences as president of A&M University. When interviewed for A&M, he made it clear he was not a maintenance guy but rather an agent of change to make the institution better while preserving core values and traditions. I suspect when he was interviewed for the position of BSA president, he stated the same to the Executive Committee and expected their support for his changes if they selected him. My guess anyway. As democracies go, the BSA is not on
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    I should have given Mr. Gates quote its context from Chapter 1 where Mr. Gates talks about the problems of bureaucracy (with examples). He states bureaucracies are everywhere, getting worse, and how a leader can change it. He is particularly concerned that as government and industry become more bureaucratic, more young smart people turn away from serving government and working for those companies. IMO, his advice applies to changing a troop to scout-run, changing a summer camp away from being a merit badge factory, ... Another quote that he cites from President John Adams to his son Th
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    p24 "To be successful agents of change -- of reform -- leaders not only must be able to envision a new way forward but also must be practical, with the skill to build broad support for and implement their vision."
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    A sign or law doesn't make a "gun-free zone". Logan Airport probably has a couple hundred local, state, TSA police while our local multi-town, multi-school district cannot afford ONE cop ("resource officer"). So IMO, to establish a "gun free zone", the government assumes responsibility to add fences, screening devices, and police just like the airport and if that can't be done then do not prohibit conceal carry by law-abiding citizens. My $0.02
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