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“Here rests in honored glory a Comrade In Arms known but to God” June 6, 1944 is one of those days that should forever be ensconced in mankind’s collective history, similar to December 7, 1941, or more recently September 11, 2001.
I’ve said it before to numerous people over the years, that you can’t take it too personally when someone else doesn’t put as high a priority to the thing that you put at a premium, be it an item, activity, cause, hobby, fandom, or other interest.
This little blog of mine, which hardly ever gets any new content (for my twelve followers, sorry about that) , has seen a bit of an uptick over the last week. Normally I see a slight spike in visits to this page at the beginning of each year, when Cub Scout leaders and parents are searching…
BSA National just went live with registrations for the National Jamboree to be held at The Summit Bechtel Reserve near Beckley WV from July 15 – 29, 2017. We are stoked! Both Bear Bait and Tangled were able to go to Jambo in 2013, the first to be held at The Summit.
I look at the calendar, see it is April 28th, and just like that I remember sitting in Cathy Mulligan’s AP Calculus / OSU Math classroom, first period after lunch, on a Friday afternoon in the spring. Worried about whatever it is an eighteen year old worries about at that point in life.
In reading some comments on a Bryan on Scouting blog post, someone lamented that President Obama did not attend that National Jamboree while “every other President attended Boy Scout Jamborees while in office.” I was curious as to how accurate that statement was, as I’ve heard it several times prior to that comment.
I want to share a story about the power of words. At the place where I work, we all get paid by direct deposit. What that means is that the company we work for submits all of our hours worked to another company who processes and puts our salaries directly into our bank accounts.
Wow, first post back in a very very long time. Fittingly, it is about food! A couple of weekends ago, I went on a campout with Troop 18 (my son’s troop, where I am an Asst. Scoutmaster) to Put-in-Bay. We all agreed we wanted to spend as much time kayaking, fishing, going into town and…
So Friday was a pretty busy day. In addition to working a full day, we had family come into town for the Blue & Gold on Saturday. I also had plenty of prep work left to do for the Blue & Gold, but family takes priority so after work we were off to bd’s Mongolian Grill .
To follow up on my post from yesterday, after several phone calls and IM conversations with a few different people it seems we have managed to fix the issue where the troop that was supposed to do our AOL ceremony this Saturday had to back out on us.
I am seriously freaking out right now. Several months ago, we scored an epic win by scheduling Troop 572 to do our AOL ceremony at Blue & Gold. 572 has hands down the best AOL ceremony around. We were all really pleased about this (okay, except the CM who is also a leader or three with…
(This is a follow-up to my previous post on Arrow of Light / Cub Scout Career Arrows, found here .) So they’re done. Finally! And they look pretty sweet! Probably because after doing the design, I had NOTHING to do with them after.
Sorry to disappear for several days there, but I’ve been incommunicado. I wasn’t abandoning my 100 Days of Scouting efforts, I was immersed in a totally new (to me) Scouting environment: Girl Scout encampments. I’ve stopped counting how many bag nights I’ve had camping as a Scout leader since getting back into the movement in…
So if you couldn’t tell from previous posts, one of the things I like about camping is the outdoor cooking. And that includes backpacking. I’m all for lightweight, believe me, but not at the expense of MAH BELLAH! So this week’s shiny of the week is my Jetboil .
So it seems like each Wednesday was the day to post something food related, so I’ll keep with that topic for this week. At our district’s Klondike Derby each year, the adults from each unit who run the cities participate in a chili cook-off.
Tonight I am going to induct my five Webelos II’s into the Order of the Fork. I have been trying to restart this tradition in our pack for four years, but keep forgetting at each campout. So tonight over pizza they will be “forked in” and become members.
Tomorrow is the last regularly scheduled Lightning Dragon den meeting. It should be pretty productive too. Lots to get accomplished. On the list of things to do: Gathering - Collect homework / sign off on AOL for the last 2 boys in the den to be completed (they both had to finish the Showman Activity Badge) / Set…
So most churches celebrated Scout Sunday last Sunday. However, at First Presbyterian Church (my home church) we do Scout Sunday the 2nd weekend in February because it won’t double-up with communion Sundays, which are long enough as it is. This is the 5th Scout Sunday I’ve helped plan at the church and each year it…
Nowdays, just about everyone has a mobile phone, or an iPod or some other electronic device that has those battery bars on them. We are all familiar with the bars, and what happens when there are no bars. Sometimes the little picture of the battery flashes, sometimes you get warnings about low battery.
(As in “oooooooh, shiny! I must have this!”) So I’m going to try out an idea to do a post a week on some sort of piece of gear that I really enjoy using while camping or for other Scouting purposes.
What we need is a few good taters… Song virus achieved? Anyway, goodness knows I love me some taters. Especially on campouts. And I have to say that the newest addition to Scouting Magazine over the last few issues has been the article on Dutch Oven cooking and it is great!
Most everyone is familiar with the Klondike Derby, where teams of Webelos, Boys Scouts or Venturers pull decent sized sleds through the (mud/slush/snow/ice) going to different cities and earning gold nuggets. But what about a version for Cub Scouts? Well, in Dan Beard Council, up until last year we had “Cub Winter Day.”
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” -T.S. Eliot Today marks the 101st birthday of the Boy Scouts of America! I know how we’ll be opening our pack meeting tonight, maybe with a little singing?
So I was reading back on the Scouting Magazine blog and came across the post on great campfire stories . I had one pop into my head that I heard when I was a Boy Scout (or possibly a Webelos), told around the campfire by Mr.
So Sunday was 98 days until Jon crosses over to Boy Scouts. On this actual day, we spent most of the day preparing for the Eagle Court of Honor of a young man from Troop 18 who is also a member of my church.
So for today, I’m going to go way back to Friday and Saturday, September 29 & 30, 2006. That was the date of (I believe) the first Hopewell District Cub-o-Ree. It also was the very first Cub Scout event that Jon and I attended, having signed up maybe a week before that.
(Why did this get posted on Monday with a timestamp of last Friday?) Okay, so I did the math and this past Friday (when I intended to make this post) was exactly 100 days to the day before our Blue & Gold Banquet, when young Jon Walker will cross over to Boy Scouts and the vast…
So apparently you can make a cobbler that isn’t in a dutch oven…who knew? Last night’s dessert started out as “There is a half a #10 can of apple pie filling leftover from the pack meeting. What are we going to do with this?”
Pack 19 held their monthly Pack Meeting last night and even though it ran a little longer than expected, it went very well! The core value of the month was citizenship, and we integrated this and Thanksgiving (which, as a national holiday fits right in there) to come up with our activities.
Last weekend several boys from both Pack 19 and Troop 18 participated in the John Colter race at the old Camp Hook (now the southern half of Twin Creek Metropark) over in Carlisle. John Colter race is an annual event put on by Troop 572 (also of Middletown).
On November 11th in 1918 the armistice agreement between the Allies and Germany was finally signed, bringing an end to the war which had raged throughout Europe, at least in the western front. This agreement, which had taken several weeks to negotiate, was signed in a railway car in the Compiègne Forest in northern France…
So, being a den leader of a group of 5th grade Webelos (and a dad of one of them), I know that it is now closing in on 4 short months until our Blue and Gold Banquet where our oldest Webelos cross over to Boy Scouts.
So another Webelos campout is under the Lightning Dragons’ belts, and overall I am very pleased with how things turned out. Half of the Webelos II boys attended along with 4 of the Webelos I boys. Those seven along with myself and the Webelos I Den Leader were sponsored by Troop 718 who sent 6…
[Author’s note: Throughout this article I am not referring to any specific Troop, this is more general.] I’ve had the opportunity to visit several Boy Scout troops during my time in Scouts, and the one thing I know for sure is that each one operates differently.
So the school night went pretty well. Had about 10 boys show up it looked like. One signed up last night, and most of the rest seemed pretty interested so we invited them to our Pack Meeting / Campfire next Tuesday night.
Cub Scouts (Pack 19 and also possibly Pack 572) will be recruiting at Middletown Christian School on Thusrday October 6 at 7:30 PM. This will be the first recruitment at MCS since Pack 972 folded almost 3 years ago. There are about 100 boys in the school who are Cub Scout aged and our District…
So last week just after the first Arena show, which I listened to most of on QBSA Jambo Radio, I felt compelled to write an Editorial piece about the Scouts for my local newspaper. Their usual submission requirements are no greater than 350 words…this came in around 1,000.
“No girls! For a whole week! Oh yeah!” That’s what my son (Webelos II, 90% done with Arrow of Light and slacking hard) has been saying, anyway. Because this morning I dropped off my daughter (Jr. Girl Scout, Bronze Award recipient) and my wife (Juliette Coordinator for the NOVA Service Unit of Girl Scouts of…
National Night Out is a program that has been running in Middletown for the last decade or so. Each year at a different city park there is a community-wide free event where the public can come and a free meal (hot dog, chips & a soda) and visit with a large number of community organizations (public…
So back in June we held our “Annual Pack Program Planning Meeting.” Actually we had two. The Cubmaster couldn’t be at the actual meeting, so he and I, our Outings Chair and one of our Webelos Den Leaders met at Fricker’s and talked out some ideas that he had.
http://blog.girlscouts.org/2010/07/congrats-to-boy-scouts-of-america.html The BSA and GS-USA sure have taken different paths to get where they are today, and as a parent of one of each I can see good and bad points in each program. They are both quite different programs, but the end game of each – to build young people of character, prepare them to…
