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Can you avoid this headache and get the equine therapy center to allow your scout to do this on a different day then the others?

Heck, he can borrow a horse and play John Wayne too!

If that was the case, we wouldn't have registered sex offenders as leaders

Real issue I have. When is the background done versus the crime? Its my understanding that national only runs a background check when you send in a new application. I've had adults run off the same application for 10+ years, never changing positions, so never sending in a new application. I can only assume that National is not re-running background checks on everyone, every year. At least the offender was following 2 deep leadership in a car.

Funny you bring this up. In the last 8 years of being a volunteer, I have never needed my card for any reason. And now with the Myscouting app on my cell phone, I just load the app to find my BSA number. As a former pack committee chair, it would take months for the cards to come in, and then a couple more months to chase down all the boys to give them the cards. I've never had a scout that showed they cared to have a card either.

Personally I waited till my next year my council offered it. I felt I would connect better with people from my own council, and be able to use those relationships down the road better. That and I am not in a huge hurry to take WB. Its on my list, but nothing I can't live without. Due to your extra PTO, it might be worth it to take it now, that way you don't have to make a hard choice next time on what to take off for.

in our district, all "smaller" knots are handled by the units. Den leader, scouters training, etc. District award of merit and bigger ones are done at the District and Council level

As a ASM, I never sign my sons requirements, unless it was in a group setting. We have enough ASMs at meetings to send our kids to each other instead. For most our dads, its because we would be harder on our own son then another scout. I know that's not right, but it happens that way.

Sounds like the troop should start a Sea Scouts Unit and focus on that boat monthly. If its truly the Old timers show, I would cut losses and go to another troop or start your own. Take the hit now and cut your losses.

Everyone keeps saying its up to the charter, but they must have missed the part that says "Our Troop is chartered by "Friends of... so-and-so" and NOT a non-profit nor does our C.O. have their own EIN. This I confirmed. So I cannot use the Tax ID or EIN for our C.O." The biggest issue with having a charter being a "friends of ..... group" is exactly this, EIN numbers. Wish I could help more, I know our old cubmaster managed to get a EIN number hassle free when, or so she said, but I'm not sure what steps she took, and now we are under a different charter anyway.

As a scout we went to Camp Crooked Creek in Kentucky As a leader (moved to Maine) and so far the last two years we went to Camp William Hinds in Raymond. This coming summer we are going to Camp Roosevelt outside of Bangor

Webelos den leader uniform: Webelos adult necker and webelos slide. We do make themed slides each month that I wear at pack meetings. Scoutmaster uniform: Troop logo necker and either a yellow paracord woggle, or my son make me a 3-d printed yellow Troop 111 slide District committee uniform: Handmade wooden slide, made by a host unit for a district event

We had custom baseball caps made with our troops logo and colors. The PLC voted for that to be official headgear for the troop

Our pack for the last 7 years, have done this: All show-n-sells were totaled, and then divided by the amount of time slots filled. So ideally, if we had a total of $100 sold, and 10 scouts filled the time slots to make the sales, each would credit $10 towards their sales and add them to their Take order totals for prize ordering. Now mind you, we do $20,000 on average for show-n-sells, and this year had 36 scouts participating, some as little as 1 two hour slot, and one went as many a 19 two hour slots. This years average was $100 per shift, so my daughter that did 15 shifts ear

If this kid was getting kicked out of summer camp early, that's probably the same reason they went to Disney without him

When we changed banks with our pack, we had to have a letter from our CO, with their letterhead, stating our Pack and names of those going on the account, allowing us to use their EIN. Hopefully something similar and your last Charter agreement would be enough. Or try another bank, we use local credit unions for our pack and troop.

Ain't that the truth sometimes

I am signed up to do our Councils Wood badge next fall. Looking forward to see it for myself. Tickets might be a challenge for me, I already volunteer in a Pack, 2 troops, and district level. Last years course had 90% of the council staff in it, so of course when it became ticket writing time, they were "influencing" district and council level tickets out of people. Not all people caved, but the ones struggling to think of their own jumped on board.

Could shut up the Project Coordinator by building a shelf to hold the LEGO tubs. But on a serious note, is this Eagle Project Coordinator in your unit, or the district? If he's in your unit, maybe have your Scout reach out to someone on the Committee for a second opinion. Whenever a project is proposed to our Committee, the entire committee will ask questions (to help smooth out details) and lead them in the right direction. And no, its not about building something.

Its the Scout doing the Eagle Project responsibility to find and provide the workforce. No where does it say it has to be fellow Scouts to volunteer. Personally I would encourage an open invitation because more hands could me quicker work. But if they feel they can get it done with a select group, then that's their decision. As a Eagle scout mentor, they should remind the Scout that in a work place in the future, they will have to work with people not of their own choosing, and this would be a great opportunity to get experience in working with a vast group of people.

Maybe pushing one every year is too much? These trips can take a year of planning and fundraising to make happen, which is why most troops do every other year or every three years on these types of trips. If you pump them out every year, how much input and planning do the Scouts really have versus letting the adults plan it?

I have a spare shirt that has my knots, council patch and no unit number or position patch, makes a good backup shirt

The earlier adopter program for Cubs required a minimum of 5 girls, not sure if that still applies

This is probably going to be more 11-12 year old. At least the core 5 we have lined up are. And we plan to start recruitment focusing on 6th grade and middle school. I would have to look into ILST more. I've heard the term, but I've never seen it happen before. Our currently scoutmaster has done "leadership training" for newer PL's, but I doubt its ILST standard.

Some very great points. The only thing on the committee shadowing the troop's. Our 2 females that have already agreed to step up, have no clue on how to run a troop (Positional training will happen soon), nor how to hold a SM conference and Board of Review. They are both Mom's of boys in Scouting, but haven't volunteered for anything on the troop level. The soon to be Scoutmaster has been a popcorn kernel for the pack and nothing else. The potential Committee Chair has been a Assistant den leader for two months now and has no clue on what a Committee Chair does, or how to hold