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Scout Sunday: Feb 7, 2016

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This Sunday is Scout Sunday. Hopefully your unit has made some plans to participate. If not, it is not too late. Simply  

 having your boys agreed to attend one service together in uniform, regardless of denomination is a major contribution. A small contingent in uniform is usually The desirable enough target that any minister would want to recognize the group from the pulpit.

Another alternative is to work hand in hand with the pastor to become an integral part of the service. It may be a simple matter of greeting attendees. It may be helping the ushers. In any case, the idea is to be a participant in the service.Similar ideas can be done for Scout Shabbat for members of synagogues.

To learn more, see the link to Bryan on Scouting.

This entry was posted in Boy Scout, Cub Scouts, Duty to God, Scout Sunday.

Winner of the Coveted Willie Award

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The winner of the North Star District Willie Award for Best Campsite is Troop 69!

   

Senior Patrol Leader is Reese P. 

 

This entry was posted in Boy Scout, Camporees, News.

Winners of the Inaugural Polaris Award for Patrol Competition 

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To recognize and memorialize the best patrol in competitions, the District is inaugurating a new award:the Polaris Award. The new plaque will travel with each new patrol listed and photographed.

The winner of the inaugural Polaris Award is Troop 56’s Elemental Patrol.

   
Members of Elemental are Sam R., Luke E., Will S., and Matthew H.

The phantom is the newest ASM and patrol advisor Cullen B. 

This entry was posted in Boy Scout, Camporees, News.

Scenes from Winter Camporee 2016

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New Scout Handbook is Released

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The new scout handbook (2016 ed.) has finally been released. Take a look at it here.

This entry was posted in Boy Scout, News.

2015 Eagle Scouts in District

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Since 2015 was a reorganizational year for our district and the unofficial website debuted its district-wide announcements part way through the year, we had some of our new Eagle Scouts not receive the recognition that they so richly deserve.Eagle pin

District Eagle Board Coordinator Jerry Simon has provided us with a list of the Scouts who earned their Eagles this past year. They are listed below.

First Name

Last Name

BOR Date (Date of Rank)

Troop #

1

 Cole Akers

1/14/15

514

2

 Eric Feeney

1/14/15

18

3

 James Walters

2/11/15

73

4

 Hugh Bromund

2/11/15

174

5

 Matthew Heath

2/11/15

358

6

 Grant East

2/11/15

191

7

 Aidan Washer

3/11/15

804

8

 Adam Tanner

4/8/15

73

9

 Matthew Munley

4/8/15

804

10

 Zachary Hoyes

4/8/15

804

11

 James Haydock

4/8/15

358

12

 Grant Cawi

5/13/15

804

13

 Cade Williams

5/13/15

586

14

 Noah Lyons

5/13/15

69

15

 William Eckrich

5/13/15

174

16

 Nicholas Young

6/10/15

514

17

 Joshua Shepard

6/10/15

358

18

 Seth Williams

6/10/15

174

19

 Samuel Keller

6/10/15

191

20

 Joseph Schingel

7/8/15

269

21

 Daniel Perkins

7/8/15

804

22

 Brandon Hummel

7/8/15

514

23

 Mitchell Polk

7/26/15

191

24

 Trenton Moore

8/12/15

269

25

 Samuel Teague

8/12/15

56

26

 Joseph Haines

8/12/15

269

27

 Alexander Ray

8/12/15

358

28

 John Bruce

9/9/15

343

29

 Nicholas Leverenz

9/9/15

514

30

 Eric Hofer

9/9/15

514

31

 Daniel Salima

9/9/15

269

32

 Nathaniel Misra

10/14/15

69

33

 Cameron Ruggles

10/14/15

343

34

 Samuel Davis

10/14/15

358

35

 Allen Evans

10/14/15

358

36

 Michael Isakson

11/11/15

514

37

 Matthew Bricker

11/11/15

358

38

 Brian O’Leary

11/11/15

358

39

 Jack Whitlock

11/11/15

191

40

 Jerome Zirnheld

11/11/15

56

41

 Nicholas Shirrell

11/11/15

56

42

 Zachary Badger

12/9/15

358

43

 Jesper Wiebke

12/9/15

358

44

 Luther Rice

12/9/15

358

45

 Brendan Williams

12/9/15

174

46

 Jonathan Martz

12/9/15

73

47

 Nicholas Rivelli

12/9/15

35

48

 John Sweeney

12/9/15

514

49

 James Raines

12/9/15

269

50

 Lars Conard

12/21/15

56

51

 Richard Witt

12/21/15

358

Along with these Eagle Scouts, our troops deserve some recognition for mentoring these scouts:

  1. Troop 358 at St Alphonsius Catholic Church in Zionsville had 12 Eagle Scouts.
  2. Troop 514 at St Monica’s Catholic Church in Pike Township suffered a fire at their church but still mustered 7 Eagle Scouts.
  3. Troop 804 at the American Legion Post in Zionsville had 5 Eagle Scouts.
  4. Troop 269 at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church on the south end of Pike Township had 5 Eagle Scouts.
  5. Troop 191 at Church at the Crossing had 4 Eagle Scouts.
  6. Troop 174 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic had 4 Eagle Scouts.
  7. Troop 56 at St Luke’s United Methodist Church had 4 Eagle Scouts.
  8. Troop 73 at St Paul’s Episcopal Church had 3 Eagle Scouts.
  9. Troop 343 sponsored by Pike Township Fire Department and meeting at Bethel United Methodist Church had 2 Eagle Scouts.
  10. Troop 69 at Trader’s Point Christian Church had 2 Eagle Scouts.
  11. Troop 586 at the Zionsville LDS Meeting House had 1 Eagle Scout.
  12. Troop 35 at St Joan of Arc Catholic Church had 1 Eagle Scout.
  13. Troop 18 at Second Presbyterian Church had 1 Eagle Scout.

This means that of our 13 active troops in the district, each and every one of them had an Eagle Scout this past year. That speaks very highly of the quality of scouting across our district.

We have no district records to easily assess the past history of Eagle Scouts, but based on Jerry’s recollection, this has been a record breaking year. Customarily, Jerry schedules about 35 Eagle boards per year. Current trends suggest that the pace is not backing off any time soon.

Thank you to the scouters whose mentoring helped these scouts reach the Eagle rank.

Congratulations to the new Eagle Scouts and their families. May they see many Eagle Palms in the next several years.

This entry was posted in Advancement, Boy Scout, Eagle Boards of Review, News.

Additional December Eagles

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Here is the latest from Jerry Simon:

The following scouts passed their BOR on December 21, 2015. This will be their Date-of-Rank but will not be official until CAC receives approval from National which should happen in 2 to 4 Weeks.

Lars Conard – Troop 56

Richard Logan Witt – Troop 358

This entry was posted in Boy Scout, Eagle Boards of Review.

Eagle awards

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At the district meeting, we discussed council awards for new Eagles. The link is here http://www.crossroadsbsa.org/BSA160page384.php.

This entry was posted in Boy Scout, Crossroads of America Council.

Part-time Patrol Method

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Bobwhite Blather blog has a great article about scout troops that believe they are running a successful patrol method.

Frank questions whether this is truly an example of running a successful patrol method.

This is especially a waste of great learning opportunities when there are so many resources for improving the patrol method. Clarke Green has an entire section of his website dedicated to this one question and its philosophical reasons. He even has written a book about the process of implementing the patrol system from the scoutmaster’s perspective.

The recent Eagle Scout turned blogger Enoch Heise has a wonderful post on the real basics and purpose of the patrol. Not too many months ago (from an adult’s perspective), Enoch was an SPL. Now as newly minted adult scouter he uses his practical lessons to teach other adults.

There are even books on the subject. Here is one from the British Scout Association in 1943. Here is one of more recent vintage, that I can only find in paperback. I have read it. It has great stuff.

Read more about the patrol method. Become a believer.

This entry was posted in Patrol System.

Congratulations to the newest Eagles!

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Here is the latest report from Eagle Boards Coordinator Jerry Simon:

These North Star scouts successfully completed their Eagle BOR last night, December 9th. This will be their date-of-rank but only after the applications are approved by National. Normally it takes two to four weeks for the Eagle Rank packet to get back to CAC but, due to the time of year, it may be closer to the longer period.[]
Zachary Badger T- 358
Jonathan Martz  T- 73
James Raines  T- 269
Luther Rice  T- 358
Nicholas Rivelli T-35
John Sweeny T- 514
Jesper Wiebke  T- 358
Brendan Williams T-174
Congratulations to each of these young gentlemen. We are all proud of you and your efforts.

This entry was posted in Boy Scout, Eagle Boards of Review.