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I have 3 roosters right now, so 2 need a new home. Does anyone want them? I'll drop them off at council so they can be "council roosers."

on this page scroll down and look at the power point to see if it's helpful to you. http://www.grandcanyonbsa.org/forms-resources/internet-unit-services/internet-charter-renewal/5788 you can click on the tutorial as well. To help people who have never done it before, try to get with the unit leaders more than once if you really want to have the internet available for them. 1. get everyone that doesn't have internet to come to you and log into internet advancement (get their passwords etc from council for them if necessary). From there they can see and print their roster for

was61 We are in Phoenix and have meetings all summer long. Our meetings are held at a very un-air conditioned scout building (with no insulation, the a/c can run all the time and not make a dent). So the scouts meet outside all summer long. We go for a pool party one night. We go to summer camp, we do a hike up in sedona area (wet beaver creek, clear creek, west fork oak creek)--sometimes with a campout depending on camp locations due to fire danger or sometimes just a day hike sometimes we have an indoor rock climbing thing, or similar indoor venue. sometimes head to califo

I find craft projects of all kinds to serve a very very useful purpose nowadays, that may not have been an issue in 1957. In the past if you were in kindergarten or 1st grade etc you were doing a bit of arts and craft stuff at school. You were cutting and gluing and drawing and making magnets and popsicle stick picture frames and all sorts of things. Now in 2012, it seems so much of the artsy crafty stuff of school is GONE. We have a school district here where kindergarteners and 1st graders must have an email address thru the school and check their email every day, they learn to typ

I do have spanish speaking family in my pack. Most do not read spanish very well, but speak it fluently. So the written spanish would only be helpful if I use it to read the info to the parent so they know what goes on that line. But if they answer in spanish, I have to go find someone with more knowledge than I to actually make it understandable on both sides. If a parent writes out their child's information in spanish, that isn't going to help me keep their child safer if I don't know spanish. I know enough Spanish to be dangerous. And again, the info on the dr page should be in engli

MOST health care providers in the united states read and write english and they are the ones that should be filling out part C. Making part C take two pages in order to translate it to spanish seems unnecessary. I mean I guess if the spanish reading only parent now can read the question their doctor answered on the form--but if the doctor answers in written english, that isn't going to help them. and if the doctor answers the questions in spanish that isn't going to help the unit leder or the camp medical staff (etc) be able to understand what is going on with the particular scout's medical

Why create one form that tries to do both languages? it makes the form difficult to read for either/both languages and makes it 4 pages instead of 3. why not a form that looks just like the existing form, with everything in spanish? as long as the fields stay the same, getting information would be the same. if a unit is primarily spanish speaking, they could use the spanish form.

1. Help them identify who needs to update their training asap. provide them a list of who, what they need to take and where to get that training. explain that without that training the person cannot be re-registered. give them this information 3 months out, a review 2 months out and a fix it or lose them list about a month out. send that information to the person identified as needing training directly, and provide the name of the contact person at council if training records are showing missing training to get it fixed (our council has an online survey you can complete to add missing trai

We had a scout with ODD. Well actually we didn't know he was ODD at first, his parents didn't say. Their med form listed ADD and his dr said he needed to have high supervision. He was a webelo but his parent did stick around quite a bit. We had quite a few issues with the young man not doing as told, not wanting to move to the next activity, saying no a lot, but he really didn't play much with the other scouts or bother them at least at first. We did ok for a while, but then mom changed his school again (and proceeded to tell us he'd gone to like 5 different schools in the last

I believe the 14 number for average size of troop. I know a few biggies, over 100 scouts, I know a handful of 30-50 and the majority are about size 5 or 7 mostly the smaller LDS troops in most of Arizona. Mesa has some LDS troops that are bigger than that, but because they are small basically neighborhood troops based on their church membership, most are small.

Well I'm trying to make it thru the newest Youth Protection training video, which I've now restarted 3 times after it stops and won't continue for some strange reason. There wasn't anything I saw in the most recent video about porn viewing on a campout, but then after viewing for almost 90 minutes to finally get thru 30 minutes of it, I think I almost fell asleep thru the last bit. oops it does cover inappropriate pictures or videos taken of someone in a restroom or perhaps changing clothes, if you find out you are supposed to confiscate the device and secure it and take it to the

the page about it at bsa says "Dens that have at least half of their members at the three summer pack events can earn a den ribbon. Pack members who take part in all three events are eligible for the National Summertime Pack Award pin, to wear on the right pocket flap of their uniform."

If the idea of the summertime pack award to see the boys a little bit over the summer, then 2 outings in one month and no outings in another month is ok. But that isn't exactly what the summertime pack award is about IMHO. It is about seeing the boys consistently over the summer, one time a month to keep them in the habit of scouting. The national website says something like one event in each month, take attendance and those who attended each event over the 3 months get the award. Be careful in cub scouts with trying to give everyone every award by squinting and "do your be

So how is the best boy led way to get ideas INTO The PLC's brains to add new things to the calendar? Cause our troop is stuck in doing the same old, same old and the attendance is dropping, then the number of scouts is dropping and well everyone is bored. btdt too many times, nothing exciting here. At what point does an adult add ideas to their lists? at what point does an ASM, or committee member or just a parent add ideas cause the SM seems perfectly happy to just let things go along, as the boy led leads them into the dust? Personally I can come up with a lot of ideas, and wa

Real life Ethical Situation. Scout goes to camp. Get sick and spends more than a day puking, missing mb class where they do Environmental Science experiments. He asks mb counselor if he can make them up, but there just isn't time. He comes home and in the packet turned in to advancement chair for the troop is a completed advancement form for Environmental Science. He needs it, as it's the only thing holding him up from Star is one more Eagle required MB. What would you do, how would you handle it as a scout if it happened to you. How would you handle it if you were the scou

Basically the only time we've successfully changed den leaders without someone quitting is between the tiger and wolf year when leaders often switch around--that is if they did the tiger year right where every parent took a chance at leading and planning a bit. Even if we have a den leader who really wants to just be a parent, if they show up to a meeting in unifom, everyone just looks to them for leadership--and the other parents really pressure them to keep the job unless they were REALLY bad at it--heck often even if they are really BAD at it the other parents in the den talk them into

Eolesen, Your explanation fits the situation pretty well. A lot of moms really do thrive all all the details, and the messages from dads are often cryptic. Luckily I've kind of gotten used to communicating primarily with males over the years (I'm surrounded by them) so I am pretty good at reading between the lines. It's best to remember that if there really was a problem with your child, you would have gotten a direct phone call. But otherwise it was a hey this is what is going on at camp right now kind of message. I'd take it as a heads up that there would be stories to tell (we s

That when siblings go to summer camp with the troop, it often has repercussions with the COR and the CO but when the CC and SM aren't sure they agree and the ASM who brought the sibling starts to get defensive... and you watch a bunch of people in the committee meeting begin to get up and put their chairs away and leave. Well you start to wonder what is going to explode next....

Let's see.... Same camp as Eolsen, but I think a week later. showed up on Sunday, started eating in the dining hall Monday lunch. Started seeing illness approx 24 hours later. Nurse refused to acknowledge that it was anything to do with contagious stuff-- "it's just dehydration, drink this." then she says "well it only lasts 24 hours, wait til you stop puking and then start drinking again." and then she says "it's certainly not an epidemic, it's only a few people sick." Most likely it happened due to extreme overcrowding. Kitchen usually feeds 3-400 people maybe. week 1 the

I was addressing the thought "How difficult is it to make a 30 second phone call?" Sure you can use a phone tree to have 1 person call 2 and those 2 people call 2. I know from experience thought that often the message gets kind of watered down by the time it gets to the last person in the list--like a game of telephone. So you get a 2nd hand-phone tree message from some parent that you may or may not know--depends on how far down the phone tree you are says the scoutmaster called and wanted us to get you the message that some scouts are sick at camp, but they are drinking water and w

We had 38 people at camp, so that means the SM would have spent at least 38 minutes on the phone. With there only being a few places at camp that get cell service for most providers, the SM would have to go away from the boys to one of these locations to use his phone--sure there were enough adults to monitor the scouts, but that does mean the SM is going to miss out on an hour of time making phone calls for no real good reason. You assume that the SM can use the camp phone to make these calls, but since that phone is for emergencies only, the SM can't tie up the line making call after

oh the phone/txts were a problem not only for letting me know they were puking and I couldn't do anything about it.... but another scout, he's old enough to "know better" was txting his dad on the day they were to come home that he didn't have a ride and that dad would need to come get him. There were plenty of rides, there were actually 8 extra seatbelts and one driver (we carpooled) could have stayed home. and another scout who got sick was txting his mom and dad both asking them to come get him when he was sick. he puked once, layed around for a few hours and then was off and ba

Momof2cubs, I had my scout at camp, and he did get sick. It really didn't make me feel any better to get the txt message that says I'm puking. Of course, that txt message came from his dad(he's ASM), who checked his phone once a day and told me that most of the troop was coming down with pukes. Being able to communicate by txt message at that point did not make me feel any better. Talking to him on the phone wouldn't have helped either since you can't see how green around the gills they are, or tell for yourself if they are dehydrated or give them the hug you know they wan

Food We have a potluck dinner on Saturday night. Pack buys hotdogs or burgers or chicken depending on budget. We have a potluck breakfast sunday morning. Pack buys pancakes and syrup. each den is supposed to assign people in their den to bring eggs, bacon, sausage, etc. sometimes that works out well, sometimes it's just pancakes. other meals the families are on their own, but dens are encouraged to eat together. Camp fires we have been places where each tent could have a campfire. the problem is that then we end up with 20 fires and kids runnin around in the dark which isn'

We do day camp here in Phoenix in June. so it's HOT to say the least. The week we went it was 113 on Monday. We do not allow camelbacks for drinking water--if they want to wear it with ice in it to keep them cool, that's ok and works well. But there is no easy way to tell how much the boy is drinking, and that can mean the difference between fun at daycamp or a ride to the hospital. We require clear water bottles, and take a boatload of frozen commercial water bottles with us for the day in rolling ice chests. There is also way to refill a camelback at day camp unless you use the