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  1. mashmaster
    Thumbs up.
  2. mashmaster
    Thanks for all the feedback, the newsletter for this month is complete. I think it is OK. SSScout has a copy of it and can comment if it is good, bad, or otherwise :-)
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    We just finished with a Webelos specific camp here. These are the things the boys liked most: Rappelling Rock Wall Climbing Kayaking STEM: Drones, Robotics Archery Air Rifles Pool of course :-)
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    Ugh, that is so sad. Our pack, we decided to bring band saws to a campout 3 weeks before the derby and we let the boys design and cut it out. That mostly helps.
  5. mashmaster
    I live in Texas, what is this snow thing you speak of?
  6. mashmaster
    You mean their dads made the cars right :-) I always wanted to pull the boy aside shine a bright light on them and ask them have they seen this car before this morning :-)
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    I am looking forward to Boy Scouts :-) Six more months.....
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    Our units here tend to be mainly white as well. Some are all hispanic and some all black. Our unit has a small amount of non-white but mainly white. Our area has a lot of Indian population and we have tried and tried to reach out to them but never had any interest. I think sometimes it is just a cultural thing. I wish I knew the answer to tap into that population because I think diversity is a good thing.
  9. mashmaster
    Oh I got it. One of my favorite not scout appropriate movies....
  10. mashmaster
    Thanks for the feedback!
  11. mashmaster
    Sounds about right. Personally, I have some girl siblings that would be better scouts than some of my boys.
  12. mashmaster
    UU? I know UCC support the Baden Powell scouting program.
  13. mashmaster
    Ok I should provide more details :-) I have been producing the newsletter for a year now and it is widely read by leaders in the district I get positive feedback from many of them each month. Open rate of about 25%. The first page is always the overview page with the district events for the month and next. We always include campground reviews, camping recipes, and camp trips with pictures of the units that send them in. This month I have Philmont, Northern Tier, and summer camp trip reports with pictures. So what I am looking for are articles that are interesting for leaders. Fo
  14. mashmaster
    Ok we need something better to talk about than BSA policies and parents :-) I write a newsletter for our district and am looking for topics to write about. It goes out to all cub, boy scout, team, and crew parent in our district so anything that reaches those groups would be awesome. Other than cooking or camping.... :-) Any ideas? or better yet, contributions? Thanks in advance. (Topic name changed by a Moderator)
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    Our Lutheran church is in favor of the ruling yesterday. They are not Missouri which is much more conservative.
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    yes that is correct. The money goes to BSA not the local unit. I wouldn't call it a trickle. My company alone donated $2.1 Million last year and we are a small to medium sized tech company.
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    As of today my company will match $1 for $1 for donations to BSA and also pay $ for every hour I volunteer up to $1000/year. I am sure other tech companies are in the same boat. That would not be an insignificant amount if Apple, Intel, UPS, .... started donating money.
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    One interesting outcome of the decision. Today my work opened up $1 for $1 matching for BSA and they will donate money for every hour of volunteer work that I put in. Assuming this is the same for other tech companies, suddenly the financial loss of losing LDS could be eased. I believe that after the dust settles the issue will go away. All leaders need to be approved by the LDS church, since the church is so against homosexuality, clearly they would never appoint(approve) a leader who is gay, How can they be a member of the church if that is the issue. If they are gay and part of the
  19. mashmaster
    Well it will be interesting. My LDS friends don't see it as a problem since their Ward can approve or assign the leaders they want for the unit. But they aren't LDS leaders for the church.
  20. mashmaster
    Well said. For those that want to leave, I hope you can reconcile in your hearts why we are all here. We appreciate and the boys appreciate what you do for them.
  21. mashmaster
    Love this idea! I got a hiking stick medallion , loved it.
  22. mashmaster
    The camp I just came back from had a Robotics team from the local high school. They brought a bunch of drone helicopters and the boys loved t. Do you have access to a climbing wall? That is another favorite. And of course pool time :-)
  23. mashmaster
    I too got the good side of parents this week. I was a patrol advisor for 13 young men (aged 9 and 10) to help guide them through camp and learning to work as a patrol. Half were from another council and the others from our council. The boys had a great time with many ups and downs in the 100 degree heat and overcoming obstacles like rapelling for the first time for example. At the end of 4 days the boys all were sad it was over and wanted to know when they will see me again. Most likely I will not see most of the boys in the patrol other than the ones that were in my unit. At the end
  24. mashmaster
    Thank you for all you do. I do stuff at my cub unit level, district level, and help out with training anyway I can and that my wife will let me.
  25. mashmaster
    Awesome story, loved reading it.
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