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  1. RT @RichardOnTwitch: Made it back home just in time to beat a major snow storm and stream! It's time for #PAXEast Story Time! https://t.co/…

  2. It sure sounds like the pack needs help. All of the pack's leaders should be registered and have taken YPT training, if this isn't happening, something isn't being done right somewhere. The main technical dificultiy we run into with online YPT is getting it credited to the right BSA ID, but if you have a printed (or pdf copy) certificate with your name, that is good enough for me. There is offline YPT but I've never seen it in person. I do wish all parents would take it, and youth too for that matter. I know my older son has done it as they required it for day camp staff, ev
  3. RT @OANorthChief: Enjoying some time with some @OANorth NLS staff and @OAWestChief before the first seminar of the year! #AdventureAwaits h…

  4. Even the first source conflicts. If you can't set the facebook group to private, you are exposing full names of youth who may post on it.
  5. I get different answers from different people and different documented sources, some linked above! Suggestoin, use common sense. Know your scouts, know their families, what is their preference? Be flexible.
  6. I knew that existed in writing somewhere, I just couldn't find it!
  7. I remember my first BoR in 1989, it was terrifying, I was told up front that my knowledge of what I learned would be tested, and it was. This was probably already against the rules in 1989, but I'll tell you, I could demonstrate any tenderfoot skill, this testing continued through first class. Even though it was scary at first, I wouldn't change it.
  8. OA Chapter Adviser here - the bottom line is: it is the Scoutmaster's decision to make. The OA qualifications do not mention specifics, and we aren't going to make up qualifications as we go. Some will only count camping nights done in tents, other's will count nights done in "camping structures" like, cabins. I don't know anyone who would count a hotel room stay, but who knows. My son's scoutmaster asked me a similar question, and here is a paraphrase of his decision, basically, if there is a furnace, air conditioning, or indoor plumbing, it doesn't count, otherwise, it does. I think
  9. Not only could, but should! Also, if he earned the arrow of light and/or eagle scout, he should wear those too.
  10. Your local council approves the charter http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/524-402_WB.pdf A council scout executive is the decision maker on charter approval, and he/she may take input from the local DE. I don't have statistics on the number of charters denied, but since the number of units is a metric that the professional scouters get measured on, it seems unlikely. There have been rumblings about denying charters to organizations specifically set up to run a scout unit, like "Friends of Troop 1234" but I haven't heard much about that lately. Those usually happen when a group o
  11. RT @bryanonscouting: Gen. Paul Selva, an Eagle Scout, meets #BSA2016RTN delegates at the Pentagon. "Prepared for Life, right? It's true. It…

  12. This. If you think about it, most SMs will exceed the camping nights every year almost by default. I suppose there are SMs that don't camp with their unit or units that don't camp, but something tells me they aren't all that interested in a brotherhood of honor campers (if we are honoring tradition).
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  14. Wow, quite frustrating. Every pack is run by volunteers with different roles, some are better at it than others. It sounds like yours has some disfunction somewhere. It seems like in your pack the application, other paperwork, and money was given to the den leader to handle, but he is probably just the interface, and just delivers it all to someone else. Most of my experience, that sort of thing is handled by the commitee. The magazine, Boys Life, should have been included in the application and your funds transferred to your local council, if they didn't do this, I'd be worried t
  15. A pound an a half of crab meat. #Lent #OldBay

  16. There are so many things. It comes down to you and your son, if you volunteered with the troop are you ready to step further back even if you are at meetings, etc. Does he need space to figure out how to do it without a parent? You can take a break, just stay registered and make sure you are trained for your position. You could stay with the pack in some capacity, committee membership chair, next year's tiger den leader. My mother took over as cubmaster of the pack I bridged out of. You could sign on with the troop in a capacity. If you like to camp, be an assistant scoutmaster, orga
  17. DEs will come and go, you hate to see the good ones go, and you hate to see the bad ones go on to be someone else's problem. District volunteers that has been around for more than a couple of years are used to this. How is your district's FOS doing? I think we all know that FOS and council pay checks are connected. A DE that is working for the volunteers sure does make it easier for us to open our wallets doesn't it?
  18. RT @Pontifex: Lent is a new beginning, a path leading to the certain goal of Easter, Christ’s victory over death.

  19. RT @bryanonscouting: It's official! I'm going to the Jamboree. Will I see you at @BechtelSummit this summer? https://t.co/Wi3gWPs9mr

  20. Our team handled two Arrow of Light Blue & Gold Banquets on the same day, one early in the afternoon, and one later. The later one was a little bit of a scheduling mess as they were told they were needed at four o’clock pm. The team feels like an hour to prepare is necessary so they arrived at 3, only to find out that they aren’t really needed until five thirty, which really turned out to be more like quarter to six. We know how these things happen, but they can be quite irksome, but the team kept a cheerful attitude and killed some time while waiting for the cubs to be ready for
  21. That is pretty much how it works, but every lodge will have its own process. My lodge has a form where you would fill out your information, ordeal date, brotherhood date, etc. & from what lodge. If you had an OALM ID, you could put that on there. Some lodges were better at keeping records than others and some these days are more picky than others in their verification. Some have better online presence than others, some have lodge meetings or if it is broken into chapters, chapter meetings. I'm a chapter adviser, I get adults transferring in from lodges long ago every so often, it
  22. My wife is the CC of a pack and didn't participate in the Lion pilot. One of the main reasons was that the council instructed pilot packs not to deviate from the Lion pilot program and leaving the Lions out of so many pack activities didn't sit well with the committee.
  23. Sounds like fun - I'm looking forward to helping with the K2BSA demonstration station!
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