Programming
Updating Training Reports
As you review your unit’s training reports on my.scouting.org, don’t forget your Unit Key 3 and commissioners can enter training in the Training Manager. The only exception is you can’t enter your own training.
If your adult leader has training but no certificate, please talk to the District Commissioner to make arrangements on how to proceed.
Cub Scout discipline
When my son began working as a 12-year old den chief, a Boy Scout helping a Cub Scout den, I did not know what to expect. When the meeting was over, I asked him what he thought about it. He said very slowly and deliberately with a pause between each word, “It was like herding cats.”
Many first time den leaders have the same feeling after their first den meeting.
One of the first lesson is that any good den leader can have is how to implement a system that encourages good behavior.
At the website scoutermom.com, she has a wonderful and simple article with some great positive reinforcement mechanisms. Take a look.
Some of these ideas apply equally well to older scouts, too.
Cub Scout Hayride
Again Pack 358 is opening their annual Eagle Creek Park Hayride to the district!
Thank you to Pack 358 for their generosity and demonstration that a “Scout is . . . Kind!”
Pack 358
Eagle Creek
Hayride & Bonfire
When: Sunday, October 30, 2016
Time: 3:00pm – 6:00pm
Where: Shelter “A” at Eagle Creek State Park
Cost: $6 per car for entry to Eagle Creek
Shelter “A” is reserved for dens to use from 10AM – 3PM.
Meal will start at 4:30pm. Please bring your pitch-in food by 4:15pm. See below.
Hayride wagons depart from Shelter “A” – 1-hour fun trip through Eagle Creek
5 wagons depart at 3:15pm
2 wagons depart at 4:45pm
Hot dogs, buns, s’mores, plates, utensils, cups and drinks will be provided by the Pack.
Please bring:
Lions/Tigers: Chips / Snacks
Wolves & Bears: Salads
Webelos: Deserts
Please bring your own roasting sticks.
POC: Leah Haak – Leah.Haak@gmail.com
Sign up at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4eabaa2ca1fe3-pack3
Flyer here. Added 2:53 pm
Bicentential Torch is Coming to Us!
Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts, the Indiana Bicentennial Torch Relay is coming to Boone and Montgomery Counties on October 13th, 2016!
In Montgomery County the torch will be passing through between 10:00am and 12:00pm. In Boone County it will be passing through between 12:30 pm and 2:30pm (at the court house around 1pm and Lincoln Park in Zionsville around 2pm).
Follow the torch and support the torchbearers! Follow them on social media. http://indianatorchrelay.com https://www.facebook.com/INTorchRelay/ https://twitter.com/intorchrelay https://www.facebook.com/boonecountybicentennial Download INTorchRelay app and follow the torch.
That’s not all!
That night between 7 and 10pm a FREE block party will take place at the Boone County 4-H fairgrounds. Anyone can attend. This includes Food, Activities for the Kids, Historical information about the counties and much more. Bring a can food item to donate to the Caring Center, Bring a book to donate to the “Boone Counties little Library” and a favorite picture of your location in Boone County.
New Merit Badge Counselor Material
BSA has just posted a quick article on Bryan on Scouting about becoming a merit badge counselor.
This has been timed to coincide with a how-to pamphlet on the merit badge counseling process and expectations of merit badge counselors. North Star District Merit Badge Counselor Registrar Mike Yates recommends this pamphlet highly.
All troops should print out this material and use it for new counselors to better understand their roles.
Shooting Sports in Scouts
Since the Spring Camporee is tentatively scheduled to focus on rifle shooting and archery, we should probably start boning up on the rules of shooting sports in scouts.
First, some basic rules. Cubs can only do BB Guns and archery in very strictly controlled circumstances, such as a Council campsite. No rifles. Ever. Scouts can do much more, but must follow the scouting rules carefully.
So how do we know the scouting rules?
This is scouts. Of course there is a manual for that. You can download the whole thing from the BSA website along with many other new resources.
Second, why are we so picky about the rules? Remember strict adherence to the Guide for Safe Scouting in shooting sports is the only way to guarantee that the BSA insurance will cover you as a unit leader and your chartered organization when you do shooting sports. This is extremely important, especially adhering to the stricter rules for Cub Scouts.
Our first duty is to protect the boys. Our next duty is safety for other participants. Our final duty is to keep the chartered organizations happy and continuing to support scouting.
If you have questions, contact the District Commissioner or the District Executive.
Belated September Eagle Report
Congratulations to our September Eagle Scouts:
Name Troop #
Jake Fletcher……….358
Agrayan Gupta ……..56
Thomas Burgess ….804
Hudson Thomas ……73
Upcoming events
Commissioners’ meeting: Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 6:00 pm at Second Presbyterian
District Committee: Also Thursday at 7:00 pm, same location
Wood Badge Association dinner: tonight at Belzer
District Camporee: this weekend at the Blind School. Webelos encouraged to visit and see most of our troops in one location.
- Youth Protection Training live: Friday at 8:30 pm at Camporee.
- Introduction to Outdoor Leadership Skills (for Scoutmasters and Asst Scoutmasters and all other volunteers who camp) and Outdoor Webelos Leaders’ Skills (for Cubmasters and Webelos Den Leaders): opening remarks Friday at 9:30 pm and training 8:30 am to 8:00 pm. Attendance at Saturday campfire required.
Roundtable: Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 6:30 pm at Luke’s Lodge at St Luke’s UMC.
YPT report
As rechartering season has now opened, the importance of youth protection training status has risen to priority number one.
Luckily we are beginning to see progress. We now have 127 positions that have expired or Will expire before rechartering season is over. That means we are the sixth of the way to our goal.
The best thing at unit can do right now is to make sure that they have their lead person on rechartering open the rechartering system and review specifically the persons who we need to use protection training to be complete before their unit can recharter. We have recharter turn in his beginning in less than two weeks. This means that any unit that has a leader who needs YPT to recharter can cause problems at the turn in.
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