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I would make sure that the coin slot for the Vibromassage feature accepts quarters and the new dollar coin. That way you will get fewer complaints. ;-)

Yep, sometimes we do it right. http://www.gazette.net/stories/051408/olnenew101118_32359.shtml

Just because two dozen guys and gals with pnuemohammers and 2x4s and bags of concrete and asphalt shingles and pvc and copper pipe and sheetrock and BX and ROMEX cable trying to follow white on blue paper plans that were drawn up by another half dozen guys and gals build my house doesn't mean I can't say I just built my house. Evolution is more about how it got dun not what or who dun it. Seperate issue. "The giraffe is a horse designed by a committee".

!!! Boy registers as a new Scout. On the application is a section for Shirt size, Pant size, Belt size, Hat size, sock size. Application comes with Pack/Troop/Crew number and Community and Council already imprinted. Boy and parents include $150. registration/dues. In 3 weeks, Boy receives Official Boy Scouts of America© uniform, delivered by an uniformed official of the US Government. Shirt is already "Embroidered" with the "Boy Scouts of America" strip over the pocket, the appropriate Troop Number, Community name, Council ID on the sleeve, and World Brotherhood patch INTO THE SHIRT. Z

emb021: Thanks... I knew the strip history was more complicated, I just simplified it from my own fuzzy memory. As a boy, my Troop resisted the elimination of the "Community / Town" strips, the Troop ordered a special combo town/state/numeral patch for awhile. I thought they made eminently good sense at the time, and the Council patch fit over it easily. Many moon later, when I came back to the Troop as a Dad, the Troop was back in the main groove with CSP and Troop numeral. So we progress. And what, more than $100. to get outfitted with the new up-to-date stuff?

First there were Troop Numerals, White on Red. Then, Add "Town" and "State" strips above the numerals. Add a "Council" Strip above the "Town" Then the PTB eliminated the "Town" and "State" strips and made the "Council" strip real pretty and prominent. ("Council" and Troop numerals") Now the PTB make the "Council" strip less prominent and the Troop numerals less visible (subdued, I think, is the term?). Is the final object to be a "Scout" but not a Scout from East South Jersy Troop #100 ? Are Merit Badges being "subdued" too, or is some color being retained? S

>>Pinewood derby set up at: *PTA Back to School picnic *Public Library *ask District and Council for County Fair set up. They might already have such. Make sure you bring extra cars for visitors to use. Have lots of Cub Scout Propaganda (excuse me.. Literature). >>Make sure your boys are well uniformed. Yep, Cubs in uniform at School will pick up some interest. *Look for Parades to participate in. Have a banner with name and sponsor, folks walk along and pass out literature to hands along the route. Be ready to answer questions from folks some distance away and refer them to

We'll put this here in Cub Scouts, 'cause that's where it starts. Had a good Webelos Weekend. Our Troop did a Whittlin'Chip instruction station. Lotsa Webs learned about safe knife handling and care. Then we loaned them a pocket knife and gave them a bar of soap and told'em to make something. They sat down on a big blue tarp and went to work. We saw cars, airplanes, a tent, and even some recognizable animals. My question is: What can you do with the remains of about 75 bars of Ivory soap? Anybody out there know how to successfully make bars out of scraps? So far, all we can do i

Many good comments. Listen to blake47. The cost of KEEPING a bus must be balanced against the USE of the bus. Suburbans are cheaper in all categories. Renting vans or busses can be cheaper if the useage is rare. Our church owns a set of summer camp properties and a traveling camp ("Teen Adventure") and so owns a small fleet of busses. The youngest is 1996. Bought because they are used, and in the off season, rented out to other affiliated schools and meetings. This entails training counselors to obtain their CDL/Passenger endorsement. They specifically got busses without airbrakes (another en

I think that ,well, a uniform is a uniform... You join something and one of the reasons you join can be the neat uniform. It sets one apart, marks one as different, special. I recently found a book at a used book sale. "Matching Mountains with the Boy Scout Uniform" by Edward F. Reimer. pub. E.P.Dutton 1929. It is a history of uniforms, why wear them, the US Scout uniform, who makes it (Eisner), why it is liked (tough, good looking, Scouts like to decorate it with "colorful patches" and therefore will work harder to earn awards, and a general approbrium of Scouting and how people res

Don't forget a period of "Silent Worship". Just sit and listen to the woods around you. Since I wouldn't want to subject anyone to my singing (except perhaps at a campfire), I counsel leaving singing off the menu. Then too, "All Gods Critters have a Place in the Choir" is one of my favorite hymns.

We really do need a "Chaplaincy" section. Faith must be a personal thing, it starts with our parents, our upbringing. Whatever we are taught thru example or overt teaching is the basis of what we accept or rebel against or seek and learn about.It also is dependant on the choices and opportunities with which life presents us (Quakers speak of "way opening"). The Spirit does throw things in our way for us to walk around or pick up and examine. I had a friend at work who was Jehovah's Witness. She and I would have some searching discussions early in the morning as the work day started.

Slide show of VCrew Rafting trip on Yough... "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

Narraticong: I like that. A fifth choice. John-in-KC: I respect what you have said. In fact, I find agreement in your Christian attitude, however...The idea that I am seeking to "mix and match".... I'm not sure that is what a "Scout's Own" seeks to do. Very often, the idea that someone else may have ANOTHER, different faith than my own, equally important, equally rewarding, taught and accepted equally as fervently as my own, can lead to both consternation and seeking. The Christ that I accept may not be acceptable to another. I may not judge them except by their actions ("fruit").

I train drivers. The first thing I tell the newbies is "there is no such thing as a dumb question". I train folks at IOLS. The first thing I tell the nascent Scoutmasters is "there is no such thing as a dumb question". Then I ask them if they know the 13th point of the Scout Law.

I think I have suggested before that the Forum needs a "Chaplain" section... I will be leading the discussion/class about "Scout's Own" at the IOLS next month. Our District (soon to be morphed along with 5 other Districts into a larger mega county region. Another story) has Units sponsored by Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Protestant, Mormon and non-religious organizations. The curriculum I read in the link above really mirrors the stuff I talk about and ask. I pass out and we participate in a model "Scout's Own" that we have developed over the years and frankly have never had anything but g

Ditto the above comments. I would do my best to ignore her rude and inappropriate behavior. Smile and treat her as you do the other parents. Make an effort to ask her to help with things. Compliment the boy when you can for HIS efforts and make him to feel he is welcome and appreciated as a Cub. Try to make sure the boy's choice is Scouting. Depend on your reputation as a caring, competant Scout Leader to carry the day. Eventually, others may take her aside and "coffee cup" her. KiS MiF YiS

Scoutmaster Derek Flint ? Yeah, I remember him... I only know Remington Steele by reputation. Used to moonlight as a Shooting Range Officer as I remember...

Ditto F Scouter.... Pull out any Scout Manual... Hung on a wall, horizontally or vertically, Blue Union hangs on flags own right, the left of the viewer. Peace (preferable) or war, makes no difference. "Urban legend" stuff, uh.

Reviewing the above , I see not only a difference of opinion as to where and when to wear a patch, but a confusion as to WHAT patch we're talking about. Whitlin' Chip is earned by Cub Scouts, usually Bears and Webelos, and confers on the earner the privilege of carrying and utilizing a POCKET KNIFE on Cub Scout activities. Totin' Chip is earned by Boy Scouts and confers on the earner the privilege of utilizing a pocket knife, an ax or hand axe, or saw. Poor, unsafe useage can result in the privilege being revoked. See previous threads Both are termed "temporary" patches

A campfire is set to go ( make it non-fail!) in the ring. Each Scout is asked to bring in a GOOD dry piece of wood to add to the pile. The trail into the fire circle is lined with Camp Staff or OA . Scouts are instructed to enter the fire circle in silence. This instruction should be made to the camp unit leaders early on, and the Staff lining the trail should silently reinforce the idea by standing with "signs up". Each Sout enters the circle and throws his piece onto the pile and then takes his seat with his unit. When all are in, the Staff trails in and stands on each side of the fi

"Made ya think" Scout and not... many are no more... Mast Cove Camp, Portland MA The Nature Camp, somewhere out in VA Camp Theodore Roosevelt, Chesapeake Bay, MD Camp Wilson, VA Camp Freedom (Troop orgnized), Clarksville, MD Cedar Point, MD Heritage Reservation, Union PA Broadcreek, MD Camp Catoctin, Thurmont MD Camp Shiloh, Madison VA '05 National Jamboree CSDC, Lake Needwood, MD Camper, Counselor, Adult Leader, Maintenance Man, Bus Driver. It's all good. to misiquote somebody, " a bad day at camp is far better than a go

Growing up (I think I'm grown up), I found that some of the folks I admired most were the ones that could say they were 'sorry' for their own action or words. Admitting fault, 'owning' ones error and not trying to pass it off to someone else is a sign, I think, of being further along the human trail than others. It surprises people and is often the only way of de-fusing dangerous situations. Even if the error/hurt/problem is not immediately recognized by the affected party, if the actor (not the acted upon) admits to the difficulty early on, it will more often than not by-pass the argument an

I remember an article about the USCGC Eagle, the 'Tall Ship' that the Coast Guard trains it's officers on. The Officer of the Deck (a Cadet)was drilling his crew (other Cadets) and got to a series of commands to arrange the sails and rigging for getting under way. The article quoted him exactly, and then noted that the crew "held fast" because the O/D had said the orders in the wrong sequence. All the commands needed to take place, but the Cadets were taught to ALWAYS do them in the sequence given. The article noted that this was the equivalent of being told to put your shoes on and then your

Cub Pack has lack of membership. CC and CM and PTreas and only DL beat bushes for new members. Remaining parents see the headlights coming over the hill. No one wants to be the new CC and CM. CO is a "CO of Convenience". Parents make plans, T/F to other units. CP has no fund raising for two years, has really nice catered B&G, Web crossover, sends Webs to summer camp almost free, Cubs to CSDC almost free. When CM and CC resign (boys moving on), no one will take up the reins, unit desolves. DE beats bushes to no avail. DC has PFlag and supplies and PWD track. Treasury was about $50 at the en