Unit Centennial Quality Award Review
Don "opens the hood" on the Centennial Quality Unit Award, showing us how to help turn the six criteria into concrete and achievable goals for unit leaders.
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March 2007
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Posts in March 2007
Kevin Stephan (opens in a new tab)
Eagle Scout Saves His Hero's Life
Commissioner Recruiting (opens in a new tab)
Don probes the winning ways to having enough commissioners to serve in every unit. One council shares their 10-step process that has provided them with unusually successful recruitment record.
Youth Retention (opens in a new tab)
Don focuses on how to retain more youth in Scouting. We hear how one local council has enjoyed special success, then we discuss the tools that let more youth enjoy a better program for a longer time.
Opportunity Knocks - I'm a Viking!!!
I'm a Viking!!! That's what I heard last Monday night at Troop Meeting. A brand new scout. "I'm a Viking". The Vikings are our oldest continually running patrol, started in 1969 by soon to be Eagle Scout Jimmy Smith. A lot of the new Scouts joined that patrol during that first two years.
Opportunity Knocks #66 - Dream the Impossible Dream
Ladies and gentlemen. It's been over two weeks since my last Opportunity Knocks. It's been a little hectic here at the hospital and I apologize for not writing on schedule. I'm glad to report that I'm not dead. I was just very busy.
How a Lost Scout got lost. (opens in a new tab)
From the CNN website: A 12-year-old Boy Scout missing for four days in North Carolina’s wilderness wandered away from his campsite because he was homesick and planned to hitchhike home, the boy’s father said Tuesday. Michael told his father he slept in tree branches during the night, drank river water and prayed he wouldn’t get…
Opportunity Knocks #67 - Breaking all the Rules
I had lunch with a guy today who took his son to a different troop. He said that he had heard that Troop 26 "broke all the rules". Of course I asked what rules we broke. He couldn't answer that.