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REMEMBERING THE PONDEROSA I wish I could turn back time and visit the Ponderosa again. Yes, the Ponderosa that was the stage set for the television series “Bonanza,” in the town of Incline Village along the shores of Lake Tahoe.
Sakiko Wehrman, Santa Clara County Council District Cub Scout Roundtable Commissioner, leads us through October theme activities for Down on the Farm. Ted Rohling, Vice President for Training at the Alamo Area Council, sheds some light on Cub Scout leader training. And Pedro's back with another groaner.
Don and Stan Child, Council Commissioner in the Great Salt Lake Council talk about how to lay out the kind of plan that can result in quality unit service.
Through the values that Baden-Powell has set down, if I do my part and I keep spreading the word and I keep promoting, then I can one day live to say that I made a difference in this world."
Don discusses a new tool for tracking units visits with John McCollum from Circle Ten Council, in Texas. Don shows us how unit visitations are vital to attaining the Centennial award.
Don continues his discussion of the effective commissioner team with Rick Hillenbrand, from National Capital Area Council in Bethesda Maryland. In this chat, they focus on bringing diversity onto the commissioner team.
Don visits with Stephanie Ricketts, Council Commissioner in Greater Cleveland as they discuss putting together a quality commissioner team for the council.
In this episode, Don chats with our co-educational program's National president, Dave George. They discuss what commissioners should know about this rapidly-growing teen Scouting program.
Denner: David Wolf Achievements: #1. Feats of Skill #3. Keep your body healthy #10. Family Fun
75. AN AMAZING NUMBER!!! This coming Monday Troop 26 celebrates an amazing achievement. We will be inducting my 75th Senior Patrol Leader into office. 75 Senior Patrol Leaders. An uninterrupted chain of young men who have been elected by their peers to run Troop 26 since 1969.
We had our "after-summer-camp Court of Honor" this past Thursday evening. Great turnout … nice to see all the families there! The food was good, the fellowship was great, and it was a grand evening to review the accomplishments of Troop 11's young men.
Loren and I spent the day at Bayport. The OA Lodge is clearing a nature trail and building benches for rest and teaching areas. The majority of the clearing work was done at the Summer Ordeal in August, and today we were building benches, drilling holes to set the bench supports, and building a gateway…
DOES OUR PATROL METHOD PASS THE SMELL TEST? Recently, as we are now between the birth of Scouting and the birth of the B.S.A., Scouters have been harking back to the beginnings a la Baden-Powell. In one of his 1909 writings, B.P.
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Our Troop paddles the Delaware river every other year, and we just finished this summer's trip. The trip was fun -- as usual, but it was also quite challenging early on. Monday and Tuesday it rained and was cool. We stopped at Dingman's Ferry on Tuesday at noon, which has public rest rooms.
MY CAMPFIRE STORIES ARE PUBLIC NOW! Today ten of the stories I’ve been telling around the campfire are published in the new book, HAUNTED CAMPS: The Campfire Stories of Scoutmaster B.C. Justice. The details are on the book’s website, http://www.hauntedcamps.com/ .
THE DI VINCI CODE, TROOP 26 STYLE OR "THE LOST SENIOR PATROL LEADER" It's interesting what we remember. And after years and years, how much of it is accurate. I had the opportunity to ask myself that question last week.
KUDOS TO PACK 266 Since we don’t have a “feeder” pack, recruiting has always been a challenge for us. In our 27 years of existence, only a handful of Webelos have ever visited our troop, even though we have invited them to every type of event conceivable.
