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Everytime a new boss comes in, the org is remade in his/her image. It is the way of the world. If a new SM is invested, the Troop will change alittle or alot, thereby. The Scouts will still need to go camping. The Cubs will still need to "Go see". If the MB books are in color now, so be it. We communicate by electrons rather than mimeo ammonia. Let's go...

Once upon a time, there was a man that worked for a guv'ment agency. Got some promotions, made some friends, was recognized for the goodness of his work (sometimes), chastised when he didn't measure up to someone's expectations (rarely), and garnered some satisfaction thru the years. Then he was offered an "early out" program and BAM, now his wife wants him to "find another job ferpetesake". In many a meeting with equals and higher ups, the most constant complaints he remembers hearing are "howcome we read about THIS in the paper and never heard about it from management? Where's the notifica

"To Be Out"??? GOOUT OUTGO GETGO

If it is not a "Scout" plate, and the "nature" scene is predominant, could you do something that relates to a Scout Camp in Missouri? Frinstance, the big one in Virginia is "GOSHEN" SETON TRAIL GO4TH 2BOUT MYOUT TFOOT TRLB8

Check your yellow pages for "Advertising specialties" and "Printing and Graphic services". Staples and Kinkoes and Minuteman Press are some places to check. Sometimes schools have printshops and can help.

Wrap everything in Sunday paper comics. Boy's Life magazine. Ginger Snaps travel well. Pocket chess and/or checkers. I still have the deck of cards that I used as a Scout, much to my son's amazement. Batteries? Maps? Make it easy to write back. Stamps, envelopes, paper?

So the week went well, despite prior misgivings... Wonderful Wacky World of Wheels, it is then. Scout Skills( flag and knots) Nature (fishing got 114 fish and released; poison ivy ID'ed; beaver sign shown; pealiated woodpecker heard) Crafts (made a totem, a hat and ...) Archery (shorter range per National rules yields many more bulls on the list, 56 pins to bestow) The semi from the American Trucking Association couldn't fit thru the woods, so only the bobtail tractor came to look at ("I heart Trucks" pins passed out) The off road Caterpillar dump truck (BIIIG tires. Wou

Let us now turn in our text books, class, to chapter 12, "Ancient and Obsolete Language" Johnny? Can you tell us about the Mimeograph Machine and Postage stamps, ummm?

"It's not who votes, but who counts the votes that's important."

Lessee now... we need a patch for *Archery Range Safety Ossifer *BBRSO * CSDC Director *CSDC FAEE * Camporee Planning Chair *Wrist Rocket RSO * Pop Corn Wrangler * District Training Chair * "UC without portfolio" * "the go to guy" * Canoeing/camping/cinematocrafy(?)/citizenship/swimming/ fillinblank/ MB Counselor Not a few years ago, our R/T Chair gave out beads for R/T attendance. If you attended every month for a year, you received a leather totem to string on your bead string. Seemed to work, we always had good attendance. Then too, his programs were always fu

I do not have all the requirements in front of me, but the previous discussion leads me to ask: * Are all the above "Campy" Awards to be fulfilled with similar activities? Must a Scout fulfill the requirements for each and all at ONLY Scout events? ie., are church camps, rec department trips, 4H camps, etc., even if otherwise appropriately qualifying, NOT to be counted toward the award requirements?

Lessee now, Not so long ago, a letter (paper) might arrive and be read and re-read after arriving days, weeks, even months after it was written (by hand) and sent. The emotional and informational impact was palpable. I still have the letters that my folks received from me from camps and school. I have theirs to me too. Surviving letters from the days of the revolutionary war and other periods are artifacts attesting to both the special wonder and ordinariness of people back then. How is this lack of tangible evidence of love and affection and concern in years gone by going to be felt in

When 14 year old son starts talking about HIS " good old days".

A Couple of "wow" factor things: * Contact the local TV station with a Traffic 'copter. Tell'm about the camp and see if they (#1) might do a story about it on TV and (#2) do a fly over while everybody smiles and waves! HEY!! spell out "CUBSCOUTSROCK" on the ground with the campers for the copter to see and photograph (takes a fair amount of advance planning: line out the letters on the ground for the Cubs to stand on, proper proportions, one or two lines thick, think it out... * Contact State Police and see if they can arrange a landing of the Medivac Helicopter (assuming they are

Spouse is CSDC Director. Makes me "Assistant Everything Else". CSDC s are very site specific: physical area restraints, Council restraints, local politics, local economics, etc. I would not expect a more rural Kansas District, for example, to cost the same as a Big City District CSDC. We picked up a wavering program and have run the CSDC for the last 5 years to great acclaim (twist arm patting selves on back). BUT... When we found our ideal park location (woods, picnic pavilions, lake for fishing and boat ride, open field for sports and state police helicopter landing, easyroad ac

SM Minute:: Pass around a honeydew melon from a chain store. Not as "ripe" as a "local" melon, but ready to eat. Let Scouts agree that it is firm. Hold the melon about shoulder high and say "this HEAD does not have a helmet. When you fall off your bike, or motorcycle, or hood of a car and hit the pavement, this IS what WILL happen." Let the melon roll off your hand. Close the meeting. (clean up the mess) Try it before you "perform". ((State Police Presentation at school))

Ye-ah... My mothah came frum Brookline and it toook fo'evah for hehr to loose hehr accent when she mooved down heah to Murlin. Course that was waay befoah Ah came along, but the accent was still theah, for me to mahvel at as Ah grewup. Then too, my Granmah had a good doze of the back bay for me to learn from...

Thank You.

Whoa, That's why we're here. From Belief in God to Belief in Popcorn. So, again, if one sees their "Duty to God" is to NOT believe in him/her/it, then where's the problem? The Scout Promise and Law are the Scout's basis of behavior, as we have seen noted before here. I agree that the Adult Scouters need to note, encourage and model the following of those life guides. It is very sad when they do not, but the ideals are still there for the Scout to aspire to. Belief is personal, and (thank God) the rules under which our fore fathers agreed we should all live include a proviso to w

Friend of mine told me he liked a water bed (this was back in the 70's). But he gave it up when he found out how many canteens it took to fill it...

That's it! It's an mp3 pocket! Wheres the camelback slot in the shirt back for hydration?

In my stint as a Chaplain at the '05 Jamboree, one of my duties was as a "welcomer" at the Relations Tents. Here were exhibits by social orgs (Lions, Rotary, American Legion, etc) and various religious groups, LDS, Catholic, Methodists, Islam, etc. The Scouts could earn a "Duty to God" badge by (among other things) visiting the Relations Tent and speaking to the rep of their faith, if there was one, and they would sign off on that requirement. If there was no rep for their particular faith, and no Chaplain around of that particularity, then they could speak to the "Chaplain on Duty" a little

Goat skin Bottas... not filled with dihydroxile monoxide...

Sometimes a needy pack needs outside help. Local Scout Troop for Den Chiefs? Local service club? Big Brothers? Kiwanis? Lions? Check with your DE about enlisting some outside adult help. It is understandable when some of the parents want a Scout program for their son but outside forces( losing a job, divorce, etc.) interfer. First loyalty must be to your own, but if you can see your way clear to dig alittle more, you might be the means to turn the tide and help a bunch of Cubs for whom this is not their fault. I bet the rest of the Cubs understand what's going on. They just don't have the pow

I second everything that has been posited above. From my reading, here are my assumptions: the two boys are brothers or close relatives (cousins? adopted? foster care?). The parent(s) is/are unskilled in parenting or over stressed in the rest of their life or are just following the model their own parents gave them. The boys are doing what they know best: stretching the envelope, looking for their boundaries, unknowingly looking for someone to say NO and make it stick. In a couple of personal experiences, we had to arrange for a meeting between the parents, the child(ren) involved, a