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  1. "Emma's Weight Loss program" (popup) I have always thuht the reason for all safety training is to get folks to think "WHAT IF" and learn from OTHER peoples mistakes. The guidelines in G2SS are full of the results of other people's accidents and lots of 'what if' exercises. It's the Scouters job to make the Scout think about the 'what ifs'. Camporee camp fire set up by the OA. Someone thought that (because it was a BIG camporee), two campfires would be good, lots of light, lots of space, big stage space. Lots of acts on the ticket. Several Scouters finally convinced the OA M
  2. Icongratulate you on your new adventure. As a newly minted DDC whose "specialty" is officially new units, let me second all that has preceded. And add one suggestion. If the nascent Troop is, as you say, sponsored by "interested parents", this implies a seperate incorporation. This can be well and good, but if you search these forums, you will discover some threads that discuss the pros and cons of such a self-sponsored unit. It almost always turns out easier and better if the overall charter org is a seperate self sufficient institution. As you no doubt know, Scout units are success
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    "Sheriff George Wilcox says he has found strange debris on the ranch where he works".
  4. mmmmmmmmmm.... Yep, caught on that one... shorthand will trip ya up..."(funding hospitals that treat burn victims, etc.)" English as a language is word order sensitive. Just ask Yoda!
  5. I like museums and history. We only fully appreciate where we are going by remembering where we've been. Eagle92 has a lot of realy good ideas. Gift Shop? would that conflict with the Council Scout Shop? A local Council has a full service Scout Shop at each Scout camp, manned (personned?) by volunteers. A share of the income stays with the camp. Is the building donated? Owned by whom? If it is Council owned ( as I read/assume) then you may be in a better place, but even so, make sure. Long term lease at a dollar a year? Make sure of your legal basis, as one owners charity might not be s
  6. We really do need a "Scouting and Faith" or "Chaplaincy and Religion" or "Duty to God" or some such thread section, don't you think? This thread is about MORE than an alleged atheistic Cub Scout and/or family, yes? It's not just "Cub Scouts" or even "Issues and Politics".
  7. So my dad always said he could not join a church that was "too organized", that too many churches had the wrong idea about belief. And he was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason, Shrine member. Masonic ceremony at his funeral memorial service in a Methodist Church (chartered my Scout Troop). I attended Demolay (Junior Masons, see Knights Templar) at his request, but ultimately saw no real reason behind it. Scouting was all the "brotherhood" and service to others I needed. The secrecy and oaths, even in Demolay, were too weird and ultimately unnecesary to me. Even at that tender age, I realized t
  8. CSDC:: "Where's Frankie? Anyone seen Frankie?" Webelos Weekend::: (Saturday Morning) "Well, Tom told me that Jake was picking up the Archery stuff from Council...."
  9. "YOU are number SIX..." The bumper sticker reads..." WILL WORK FOR COLORFUL SCRAPS OF CLOTH"
  10. Ditto twocubdad: My wife, the CSDCDirector, and I the FAEE, only used a excel spreadsheet. The Council would send us immense spreedsheet data dumps as registration progressed, and she would condense and eliminate many columns as unneeded. Tote up the columns for tshirt sizes and numbers and den sizes, etc. As to advancement, we always provided each Den Walker with a pile of pages to distribute to each Cub to take home with their souvenir patch on the last day. This page liasted all the badges, belt loops and awards that (1) the Cub DEFINITELY earned by virtue of having attended 5 days of CS
  11. Old style non-spring clothes pin. Adult carefully drills 1/16th inch hole crosswise thru solid (not "leg" part) of pin. Paint pin to look like Cub Scout (blue pants, white tennies, blue shirt, dots for awards, round head painted 'flesh' tone, little eyes&nose, etc.) . Carefully push blue pipe cleaner thru hole for arms. Cut 1/2 inch pvc pipe 1 inch long, sand smooth. Hotglue pincub to tube. OR, if you can push TWO pipe cleaners thru the hole (slightly larger hole?), one for arms, one for twisting together for neckerchief holder.
  12. "What has the District done for me lately?" Yep the District can "own" nothing unto it self, but yet it can, as a Scout is Trustworthy. I presently have probably $500. worth of equipment in my shed that by rights is the Districts (or some Districts, we've been reorganized and amalgamated three times in the past five years). It was bought with fees from CSDC, Camporees, and Web Weekends. It is brought out and used as needed. It will go onto somebody elses shed eventually. Out our way, Camporees and WWeekends are sponsored and organized by local units. The stuff needed comes out of their
  13. Thank you. Goes to show you don't get help until you ask for it. Go ahead and ASK.
  14. Scoutnut! Consider the results of your suggestion! Take a 1/2 inch PVC pipe (free scrap from your plumber friend), cut off a 1 inch length for the slide, sand smooth. Hot glue a leaf shape to it... I would love to see a life size Sycamore leaf on a Tiger NCh slide! Our Sycamore has 12 inch wide leaves! A Mature Black Oak would be similar sized! Wonderful...I think it would be GREAT! Use soft craft foam sheets, various colors.
  15. "The humble, meek, merciful, just, pious, and devout souls are everywhere of one rreligion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers." = William Penn = The Fruits of Solitude = So when is the Forum going to give us a Chaplaincy and Faith Forum? Seems to me that the Politics is/are a seperate thing from the G word items... There have been many times I have been asked, at public displays and private confabs, "do you have to be Christian to be a Scout?" or it's conver
  16. Correction to previous post: Yes, I guess I have met some whose religion will allow a mention of doubt. But it is still,hey, (as Paul said) 'come and see', my truth may well be a better truth than yours. Personal experience: I once worked with a young lady (well, we were both youngER then...) who was a devout Jehovah's Witness. We were both on the late night shift, not much to do but watch after the building. And we did discuss religion! It was interesting to me how we both professed belief in Christ as Savior, but how she refused to read anything I passed to her for considerati
  17. Scout Field Book, c1948, 1959 printing. Any book by Ernest Thompson Seton. Seek them out.
  18. Is this a "special" colection, that is not ordinarily done? Or is it a mere extention of a regular, usual, ongoing collection? Our Council does "Scouting for Food" in Novenber for a local agency that collects and distributes food to needy folks. It is not an Eagle project, but is Council sponsored. The SfF collects well over 50% of the pantry's total yearly supply. The scope of your Eagle's project needs to be considered. Could it be expanded to include the whole county? The whole District? The whole Council? Now, there would be leadership demonstrated! Get others to help write letters, co
  19. It is the duty of every parent (and they fulfill this duty,whether they are aware of it or not) to school their children in what they feel is the best way to honor and worship God/higher power/universal spirits as they have perceived this method to be. Most of these methods are codified into "official" religions (or lack there of). It is then the children's duty (again, they fulfill this duty, whether they are aware of it or not) to either ACCEPT or REJECT that method. It will happen, either way. Christian parents will end up with athiest children or Bishops. Jewish parents will end up with R
  20. Optimist: The glass is half full. Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Engineer: The container was not designed so as to optimize the volume to contents ratio. Scouter: Is the source of the water safe? Pass the iodine tablets.
  21. *ahem* "Reverence to God and reverence for one's neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God, is the basis of every form of religion. The method of expression of reverence to God varies with every sect and denomination. What sect or denomination a boy belongs to depends, as a rule on his parents' wishes. It is they who decide. It is our business to respect their wishes and to second their efforts to inculcate reverence, what ever form of the religion the boy professes." ==Robert Baden-Powell, "Aids to Scoutmastership" That said, if the form of reverence the parents cho
  22. I am familiar with JCorbi's. We've been on both sides of the pizza box here. I've never seen anything but Corbi labels on their packages. Never "XYZ Elementary School Pizza" or "Boy Scout Troop ABC Pizza". It's aways labeled Joe Corbi Pizza. Eagle32, has your Council declared WHY , what has happened to get Corbi declared of limits? Perhaps Corbi is claiming that one can "raise money for your Scout Troop!" Is that too much?
  23. I heard Mazucca's speech. I wonder that he thinks Latino family values are so foreign to BSA ideals that BSA must adjust to accomodate these newly minted citizens. I have been counseled by my Latino friends, especially those of central American origin, that the Hispanic community is often eager to join Scouts, if the boys (and girls!) are first approached by their friends at school, and if the Scouters involved make sure that they are seen as anything but a semi-military group. The tan shirts, the uniforms, the ceremony tho often done with a military bearing, tends to remind of the less than
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