ScoutNut

I made these with Girl Scouts. Very easy and very "leave no trace" friendly when used with a Burner Buddy! A Burner Buddy is a tuna can with corregated cardboard strips, cut the same depth as the can, coiled inside. The can should be filled pretty well with the cardboard. Then melt wax, or old candles in a double boiler and fill the can almost to the top. A little cardboard should be above the wax. These last a very long time. All you have to do is add wax periodicaly. The coffee can has (as stated elsewhere) vents punched on the sides, with a church key can opener, around the

If I understand this correctly, your CC, who is also your COR, is trying to get a married couple who she dislikes to quit the Troop. This married couple is very active with the Troop and has done nothing wrong expect get on the wrong side of your CC/COR. Does that about sum it up? How does the rest of the Troop Committee and Troop parents feel about the situation? From your posts it almost sounds like the problem is the CC/COR not the couple. Why exactly does she want them out? These are some of the problems that happen when you have 1 person (especially if that person has some c

Call the Catholic Youth Organization in your Archdiocese, they will be able to give you info. You might also contact your Parish Youth Ministry office. Your daughter should be able to work on the Family of God program. This is for girls ages 7-9 or the Brownie level. Juniors (ages 9-11) I Live My Faith. Cadettes (ages 12-15) Marian Seniors (high school) Spirit Alive There used to be a Pualla (sp?) Maria program between the I Live My Faith & Marian, but that appears to have been removed. My girls have earned all 5 religious awards. They received the Spiri

The AOL and the religious knot are the 2 earned badges that can be transfered to the Boy Scout uniform. The World Crest badge can also be transfered. Also, since you wear the last earned rank badge on your left pocket, many new Boy Scouts are wearing the new Webelos rank badge until they earn their Scout rank.

You might suggest she talk to her Unit Commissioner.

From the on-line Fast Start Training for Pack Committee - "The pack committee meets as part of the monthly pack leaders' meeting." In Cub Scouts there is only 1 meeting for everybody, including all parents if they want to show up! It should also be held every month. In our Pack Committee meetings we review how the last Pack meeting went. What we think worked & what we would change. We talk about the next 2 months Pack meetings to sort out what we are doing. Any info that needs to go to the boys is given to the Den Leaders at this time. Extra Pack-wide activities/outings for

If this couple are indeed causing families to either leave or never join the pack, then you need to discuss this with your Charter Organization Rep. Your Charter Organization, in the form of your COR, is the only one who can "fire" Pack leaders or committee members. The position of Unit Commissioner is a Council one and your COR has no control over that, but they do over CC and TL. I would also talk to your Tiger/Wolf family and try to find out if her problem with the Tiger Leader is a Youth Protection one. That can be very serious.

Quixote & KWC57 are quite correct. The younger brother should NOT have been allowed to join as a Wolf. I understand the parents & Packs issues, but it does a disservice to the boys to break the rules like this. The younger boy did not meet the BSA joining requirements for a Wolf den, therefore he also did not meet the requirements to receive a Wolf rank badge. Even if he did all of the book requirements he should not be given the Wolf rank. If you would have had him simply participating as a tag-a-long or working with one of his parents on his Tiger rank while taging-a-long, t

So you are saying your Troop would go along with a 3rd grade boy being registered as a Cub Scout, but wearing the uniform of, participating in the activities of, and being given (can't possibly be earned since he is not a registered BS) the rank badges of a Boy Scout? If you do this, you had better hope that none of the other Boy Scouts or their families find out. IMHO it makes a mockery of the Boy Scout program and trivializes the work the other boys have done to earn their BS ranks. If this happened in our Troop, my son & I would quickly find a new Troop.

Pack - 1 - Popcorn. This covers most expenses. Outings are either free or minimal cost for non-scouts only (scout is free). Troop - 2 - Popcorn: all profit goes to the scout who earns it. The boys use this to pay for campouts, summer camp, scout stuff, etc. Pancake Breakfast: Profit to Troop, boys who work it get service hours to go towards money off for summer camp.

The problems with the Den Chief program fall on both Pack & Troop. If the Pack leaders (including CM) have not been trained then they probably have not even heard of a Den Chief. Those that have heard of them usually do not really know what they should be used for or how to work with them. You have only a very small % of Pack people who really know what a Den Chief can and should do. That is why a lot of Packs never even consider Den Chiefs or, if they do have them, use them as gofers or treat them as just a larger member of their den. It seems that a lot of Troops out there don't

We have been told by our council that they are no longer allowing Packs and/or Webelos Dens to camp with Troops at Camporees. The reason they gave was that the rules and regs for camping was way to different for the different programs. They also stated that Cubs/Webelos are not allowed to participate in any activities that are specifically for Boy Scouts. We used to have Webelos camp overnight with the Troops at the yearly camporee. No more. Council said that National felt that the Webelos were doing to many activities that were ment for Boy Scouts only. Troops are now encouraged to

"They're hoping that their old image carries them through the current problems. Instead, the image has gone from moral patriots to mindless, conservative, anamatronic, little army men." You should preface this with "In my opinion". This is definately not a factual statement. I have never, ever heard anyone in my area come even remotely close to depicting the image of a scout that way. "In regards to media coverage, which is being seen more by the public: the wonderful experience that Boy Scouts has to offer, or the controversy with gays and atheists?" The media coverage you

"I wonder - as far as spin goes - if the BSA (exec) could somehow allow chartering groups to sponsor both BSA (youth) and Learning for Life groups to join together in a kind of joint-activities w/separate memberships." I doubt it, the programs are to different. Learning for Life is a classroom based educational program. Exploring, a division of Learning for Life is a worksite education program.

The WAGGGS site has links to the different countries. You might try sending the country of your choice an e-mail asking for information. Perhaps they could put you in touch with a troop who is doing the USA for Thinking Day! You could also try the links thru WOSM (World Organization of the Scout Movement) : http://www.scout.org/front/index.shtml Many countries are dual registered because they are co-ed. You might be able to find different info.(This message has been edited by ScoutNut)

ASM514 - As others have stated, the ONLY way that this raffle could be done is if your CO holds the raffle on its own, with nothing stating that the raffle has any connection to BSA or your unit. It would be, in effect, a fundraiser strictly for your CO. What they do with their money after they have it in their bank account is up to them.

"such raffle could not employ BSA symbols or be advertised as a benefit for BSA unless BSA gave its approval (read, got their cut)." The only fundraiser that BSA (at least in our Council) gets a "cut" of is popcorn sales. Other fundraisers held by units, for their units (fundraising for another organization is also not allowed) have to be approved by council, but our council does not require that we give them a portion of our proceeds. The approval is to make sure that the fundraiser meets the rules and regs of the BSA as set down on the back of the "Unit Money Earning Application".

Our Cubs usually march in 1 parade a year. I would not try to keep them in perfect formation, close is good enough. Posters are quite correct about the flags. Even with the flag holders they are heavy and very tall for even some of the older boys. Have the adults carry the larger flags and give the lighter/shorter den flags to the boys. You want the boys to have as much fun as possible! We have the boys wave to the crowd and sing scout songs as they march. Silly marching chants are good too. If there are some who might get tired, have a few parents bring wagons that have been decorated

Studio 2B is a new program for girls 11-17 years old. This is National's response to the need for an updated older girl program and comes out of their New Directions research. Their will be 3 age groups addressed, 11-13, 13-15, and 15-17. Leaders will be called Advisors, and according to the reasearch should be between 18-29 years old because girls want leaders who are more "teen savy". There are new Studio 2B resources which include a Basics binder set ($9.95), that is 24 pages and explains Studio 2B. This is ment for the girls to carry with and add to. There are also the Collections ($

Kittle - You are most welcome! Glad it helped. I find that keeping an eye on my councils website helps. That, combined with browsing thru flyers at our scout shop, helps me to keep up with what's going on. If I had to wait for our CM I would not have a CLUE! LOL!

Bobcat is most certainly a rank. It is the 2nd rank that boys can achieve in the Cub Scout program (the first being Tiger). It is also the FIRST rank that ALL boys who join Cub Scouts, no matter what level they join in (except Tiger) MUST earn before they can receive any achievement recognitions for the level they are in. That means that a boy who joins Cub Scouts for the first time as a 2nd grade Bear, MUST earn his Bobcat rank badge before he can receive his Progress thru Ranks totem or any instant recognition beads! He can work on the achievements for his level, but he cannot receive th

Katrina - The Native Trails District of Buffalo Trace Council is holding training on 02/15/03, at the University of Southern Indiana. Here is the website: http://members.sigecom.net/bsa156/ntd.html There is contact information there. Hope you can make it. Every boy deserves a trained leader! Let your council know you want more training opportunities thruout the year!

Ghosthost13 - Check out your local State Parks. Some might have patch programs. If you are near the National Lakeshore, I believe they participate in the NPS Junior Ranger program. Your county park districts might also have patch programs thru their nature centers. Also check out area historical societies or landmarks. One of our neighbouring towns has many, many historical houses and spots. They have a patch you can earn for completing a historical hike around the town. BSA Family Award was mentioned. This is a nice award for the families to work on individualy. Do you and y

Twocubdad is correct, B&G, aside from being a celebration of the beginning of scouting, is also a regular Pack meeting. So you should include what you usually do at Pack meetings along with any "party" type stuff. Some Packs go all out hog wild for B&G. They rent a hall and everything. We stay at our regular meeting place in our Parish Hall, but fancy it up. Our B&G is on a Saturday evening so there are no worries about school the next day. We issue special guest invitations to the head of our CO (Holy Name Society), our parish Pastor and priests, and our Troop's SM and A

Check with your Council. Some are now offering Basic Leader Training as a take-home course. Also bring your co with you to your District's next Roundtable. You will find lots of info and training for using next month's theme.