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A new Show is out. The final part of my 3 part series on Leave No Trace. You can get more information and down the show here . Or you can download and listen to the show by clicking here . Either way.. enjoy the show. Have a Great Scouting Day!
...an interesting title, isn't it? Imagine what the world today would be like if scouting was a mandatory program that everyone in the world had to be a part of. Let's start with the political leaders: If all of our government leaders were scouts and/or scouters and had to live up to their oath and…
Here is the story from Scouting.org about the 2 millionth Eagle Scout: Anthony Thomas to Represent 97 Years of Scouting Tradition and Honor, Serve as Youth Representative at BSA 100th Anniversary Events Anthony Thomas, Lakeville, Minn. View the Value of Scouting story.
Here are the names of the people who earned the Silver Buffalo Award in 2009. Each awardee will have a link to the profile on National Council's website: Kent Clayburn. Click here. Randall K Cline. Click here. Larry CUnningham. Click here.
In business numbers are everything.. in Scouting... well not so much, but when it comes to impact... I guess a number can demonstrate that you are in fact making a small impact and spreading the word, helping others to deliver the promise of Scouting.
You may think that "Webelos" has always stood for "WE'll BE LOyal Scouts." But actually, "Webelos" originally stood for the first letters of the ranks leading up to Boy Scouting: Wolf, Bear, Lion, Scout . The term is explained in this excerpt from the 1948 Lion Cub Scout Book: "The name WEBELOS (say Wee-belos) is like…
Here's a new spin on recycling the news: Keenan Klos and Pack 249 used hundreds of newspapers to celebrate the March Cub Scout theme, "Jurassic Pack." Pack leaders asked the boys to roll newspaper tubes with their parents at home.
Not that this is a regular segment ...but I had to make the title catchy... But here is my recipe of the week, can't remember where I got it, more than likely from our friends at Trail Cooking.com Try this one.
I've hung in there long enough to enjoy watching some of my old Scouts grow up and journey far into adulthood. Scouts from my first few years as Scoutmaster are now approaching forty years of age (!) and have families of their own.
Have a Great Scouting Day!...
2 Vote On Idea There are great resources and training put into the development, retention, and growth of our executive staff yet there is very little for local council support staff. In every local council the support staff play a key role in the success of a council.
0 Vote On Idea As a Venturer, I promise to do my duty to God and help strengthen America, to help others, and to seek truth, fairness, and adventure in the world. There is something odd about those last two lines.
Tonight we held the Group's AGM and I'm going to do a podcast about AGMs soon. But one of the things we did was give out some awards. The first, and most important, was the Cub of the Year Award.
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Yup, 2 in a month...imagine that. The next to last show about the Commissioner's Service and a bit more about the troop. Click here to download
On Monday we promised that today's Name That Council would be easier than last week's. But we hope you didn't expect a gimme. If you think you know the council whose members wear the patch shown, e-mail us with your guess along with your name, unit number, position, and hometown.
Here are a few photo's from my Group's AGM last night. The rest can be seen here in the Group's photo gallery. One of the things we have to do is to elect a Group Executive Committee and each of the committee members got given a hat to show who they are and what jobs…
These 12 little words... they can make a difference in your life. Have a Great Scouting Day!
0 Vote On Idea The incompatability with Internet Explorer v. 8.0 needs to be addressed. When purchasing new computers it will be difficult to downgrade the browser to a prior version that was never installed in the first place. That puts us in the position of retaining old, outdated computers in order to maintain compatability…
1 Vote On Idea The Youth Membership Application asks for the School's name. I do not know of a place where this information can be manually entered into Scoutnet. Recently, one of my District Executives asked me for a breakdown of his units, by school / school distrist.
1 Vote On Idea Unfortunately, the Adventure Base 100 traveling exhibit will not be stopping in our council. However, it will be traveling through our council twice. Our folks are disappointed about it not being able to stop here, but understand the scheduling and time constraints involved.
0 Vote On Idea Would it be possible to have prior year total on a prospect list? There are many times when my District Executives are looking to wrap a campaign and need a list of their unworked prospects and giving history.
1 Vote On Idea If you look on the old uniform, there was a patch that said Boy Scouts of America. It has since been replaced with glued on letters. These letters begin to fall off after awhile. I think we should return to having the Boy Scouts of America placed on a embroidered patch…
1 Vote On Idea As we use mobile devices to access the internet, mobile website options would be good to be able to access and view the various websites. Comments (0) Technology , mobile , internet
-1 Vote On Idea How about the ablitity to send out texts to people the same way mass email is an option. More and more texting is used. Another tool to reach those that use Texting. Comments (0) Technology , communication txt
0 Vote On Idea Monmouth Council has developed several sources of sustainable and diversified revenue through innovative use of the council's assets. In the Scout Service Center's back space, the council has partnered with Garden State Rocks, an indoor state-of-the-art rock climbing center and has a 5 year lease.
We're back from an awesome week out west! It was amazing how well everything worked out and we got to do every activity that the scouts had hoped for - even doing the Space Needle which I would have just as soon missed.
Everyone loves to hear a story. Especially a story that has a some comedy with a little grossness mixed into it. Add a moral to the story and you have something to tell the Boy Scouts around the campfire. But what if the moral of the story includes a bad pun?
Now I don't know what has happened to boys.. and you before you think I am going to rant about video games and MTV.. stop. But I wonder when we stopped being physically fit. I remember as a kid there were not to many "Heavy kids".
Podcast number 12. On this one I talk a bit about some of the stuff the Group has done over the last month and then about the Group Annual General Meeting.
I have been a strong proponent of leadership training ever since I went though my new leader essentials training as a Tiger Coach and that was several years ago and I have since learned through my interaction with my scout friends in other countries (I have been involved in communication with some 35 countries with…
Today, we started locating all our gear for next week's week long excursion to Buffalo Trails Scout Ranch. In doing so, I realized that a couple of our lids and straws to our beloved Camel Bak Water Bottles had perished.
In the last few weeks we have had two of our Scouts become Eagle Scouts. Casey and Cameron had their BOR's and are now officially Eagle Scouts. Congratulations to these two young men. All we need now is to celebrate their achievements at the upcoming Court of Honors.
The Troop will be leaving for BTSR in the Davis mountains in west Texas at the end of the week. The boys and a few adults went through the gear, serviced and washed the trailers, so we would be ready for the trip out there.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it… You must make yourself succeed every time.
This weekend I completed my 16 hours of Wilderness First Aid training. Crews bound for Philmont this summer must have "... at a least one person, preferably two, (either an advisor or a youth participant) in each crew be currently certified in American Red Cross Wilderness First Aid or the equivalent and CPR from the American…
We hope you had an easy time figuring out the location of the peaceful scene shown in Friday's challenge. After all, getting stressed would prevent you from enjoying the idyllic panorama of the lighthouse and lake pictured in the patch.
The August 2009 ( Fun in the Sun ) Program Helps pages from BSA National are available (free) for download. Cub Scout Program Helps is a great resource for crafts, games, activities, and more for pack meetings and activities and Tiger, Wolf, and Bear den meetings.
1 Vote On Idea I don't think it is a good security item that passwords are needed to be given to anyone from the end-user for their assistance when there is a problem, the computer security community (outside of scouting) has spent years telling users that they should never have to give out their passwords.
Hello fellow Scouters, Now that it's summer, it's time for many of us to go on vacation. I'm sure that there are many who would want to get away from Scouting when on a family vacation, which is OK. But for those who don't mind a Scouting activity while traveling with the family, don't forget…
If you haven't seen the new BSA medical form , take a look. It is universal for all levels of Scouting now, regardless of age. One new item on it is a checkbox for the BSA's Immunization Exemption form. This allows Scouts and their families with faith or medical reasons to not have any or all…
1 Vote On Idea National and Region should be able to track the following and share it with councils monthly on MyBSA: the number of Family FOS gifts, the percentage of families giving, and what the average gift is. This info has been helpful for our council.
There is a great little book available called The Scoutmaster Minute, Your handbook for inspiring moments by Ron Wendel. I like this little book, fits well in the pack and it has saved my bacon a time or two when I needed something quick at a camp fire or at the end of a meeting.
When you see a fellow Scouter wearing this red, green, and yellow knot, what does it tell you? For us, it's a sign that this Scouter was dedicated to the program from a very young age. So dedicated, in fact, that he earned the Arrow of Light Award , the pinnacle of Cub Scouting, before he…
[ Homeschool laws vary by state. Many comments about homeschooling below are general in nature, and may not apply to a specific situation.] Homeschoolers account for 3% of all school-aged children in the United States right now. Begun primarily by religious conservatives almost 30 years ago, today you can find homeschoolers of every religious and secular…
Just a quick reminder that any podcast I do is available through iTunes , so please take a look and have a listen! And now the question. If a review or a rating is left on iTunes do you get any notification?
Philmont, Seabase and Northern Tier are the three most familiar national High Adventure Bases, there are dozens of other Council Based Programs. Thousands of Scouts participate in and enjoy the big three high adventure bases each year. I have colleagues in Scouting who recommend them highly.
