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District
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Stu Stern
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301-464-1678stuscout@erols.com
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District
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District
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Pete Saderholm
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410-451-4713 petegene@erols.com
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Scout Executive
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Vincent
Robinson
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301-214-9182
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Dear Senior members of the Patuxent Commissioner
Staff,
Effect next Tuesday, April 23rd, at
our regularly scheduled Commissioners meeting I will resign my Commission.I
have found that the pressure of maintaining this position and fullfilling
the other duties in my life are not compatable.I
have to many church responsibilities and am now spending to little time
with my wife and grandchildren.In
looking to the future I need to change this and so I have elected to do
this at this time.
It has been a pleasure to serve the District
and I pray that you will support the next District Commissioner as well
as you have supported me.
Yours in Scouting,
Pete Saderholm
This is a reminder for those who have taken Sessions 1 and 2.
Perhaps the next thing we need to do is create a better (and longer)
list of suggestions, and a sign up sheet for events and exhibits. We need
to get units involved in the event but not tie them up so much they don't
have time to enjoy things. Also, many things can be done by Scouters or
outside resources. We have lots of resources in the Council and need only
ask to fill any holes in our plans.
If you will send me your ideas and contacts and I'll put them together
for our next meeting to discuss.
Some key words to spark your thoughts:
We can plan a very free form event (except for merit badge considerations) or nail down a theme and limit what we consider. I'm leaning toward a free-for-all fun day and I think you are too but we haven't decided.
- American Indian
- Mountain Man
- Westward expansion
- Cultures
- Skills
- Beliefs
- Games
- Life Styles
- Habitats
- Foods (obtaining and cooking)
Send me your thoughts SOON please. Spring is here and I'm moving away
from this keyboard and getting outside more. (Going to Goshen Monday for
a few days for example. And then there is yard work, painting, . . .)
YIS
May 3 to 5: 21st Century Wood Badge
Spring
Course: May 3-5, June 7-9
Fall Course: Sept 13-15, Oct 11-13
21st Century Woodbadge is open to all Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Varsity Scout adn Venture Scout Leaders who have completed the Basic training for their registered position in Scouting. Cub Leaders must have completed New Leader Essentials, and then the position specific training for their position. Boy Scout and Varsity leaders must have completed New Leader Essentials, the position specific training and Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills.
Woodbadge for the 21st Century has no "invitation" requirement if you have completed the basic training requirements.
For more information, fill out the coupon on page 25 of the Dec 2001 Scouter Digest from NCAC, or send your name, address, telephone number and district to: NCAC; Woodbadge 2002; 9190 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814
Goshen
Bear Workend Do you want to be a Bear? Many of your Patuxent District Scouter
friends are already Bears; Goshen Bears that is. Join us for the weekend
(Workend in Bear talk). We work a full day on Saturday and half day on
Sunday doing everything you can imagine for maintenance at Goshen. The
facilities, which are well maintained by the Goshen Bears are becoming
known around the country. Usually we have 30-40 Patuxent Scouters, men
and women, of the 150-200 Workend attendees. All you need is a working
body, work clothes, and a few dollars for food. Its now $16.00 for five
meals (and how those cooks from FSK do feed us!) This is the first increase
in memory. Pre-registration and $8.00 of your meal fee is requested to
be in two weeks before the Workend of Friday-Sunday, May 17 to 19 For more
information ask a Bear or call Ed Allison (301) 927-6949 or Bob Leek (301)
725-6443. Goshen Bears Workend Please consider this opportunity for fellowship
and hard work. Goshen could use more helpers! Tom Wertz has a list of the
jobs available. "
Preregistration
is required. Registration form can be downloaded at
https://www.angelfire.com/md2/bsapax/paxpost/recognition/dinner.jpg
Venturing Crew 893 (Centreville, VA) has an opening for 1 (and possibly2) Venturers on our crew that is going to Philmont this summer.We're part of NCAC unit-contingent P-702 that will join up in Colorado Springs on the morning of July 1 and be at Philmont from July 2-14.
Our Philmont crew is all-male, 17 and 18 year old Venturers.We have Trek 20, a 70+ mile trek that starts up north in the Valle Vidal, heads over to Baldy, and then ends down in the central region with a hike over the Tooth of Time and into base camp.
If you know of any older Venturers who may be interested in going to Philmont this Summer, please have them contact me in the next two weeks at:
trump@cox.rr.comH: 703.502.1737 W: 301.295.9773
Dave Trump Advisor, Crew 893 Philmont 1966, 1999
Philmont Provisional Crew Advisors
Needed
Do you know of anyone who would like to go
to Philmont as a Crew Advisor?The
NCAC High Adventure Committee needs several adult advisors to fill out
its P707 trip,July 5 to July 19
2002.Without provo advisors, youth
members who want to go to Philmont on their own will not make it this year.If
you are interested, please contact Robert Kirk at rkirk@joejacquescpa.com
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Scouts interested in starting any of the merit badges are welcomed, but need to make an appointment. Please let me know that you just starting the merit badge.
All Scouts are expected to have read the merit badge books for the merit badge they want to work on. Requirements and workbooks: https://www.angelfire.com/md2/bsapax/MBDays/apr/index.html or http://www.geocities.com/paxmeritbadge/MBDays/apr/index.html
Saturday,
May 11, 2002 10AM - 3PM Scouting on the Mall
Scouting on the mall is the single largest one day event hosted by the NCAC. Scouts will build sites, displays, and demostrations to show each other and the general public what Scouting is all about. Highlights in past years have included pioneering towers, monkey bridges, rapelling and climbing towers, and campfire cooking demonstrations. Scouting on the Mall is open for Tigers, Cub and Webelos, Boy Scouts, Varsity, and Venture Scouts and Exployers. ITS BIG. Checkout the web site at http://www.boyscouts-ncac.org/camps/special.html and submit your registration form ASAP to get your first choice of activity.
Contact Patuxent Chair Ed Partington partington.ed@erols.com or 301-464-3138.
June 21: 
Baysox
Scout Sleepover
We have order forms available now to order tickets. Copies will be available
at Roundtable. The two sleepovers will be June 21st and August 2nd. Tickets
for each of those will open up the day AFTER the previous Scout Night.
For more information, please contact: Donald Gakenheimer; Theme Night Coordinator;
Bowie Baysox; 4101 NE Crain Hwy; Bowie, MD 20716; 301-805-6000 x300; dgakenheimer@baysox.com
Future Scouting Events:
Fall Camporee: Patuxent Rendevous
The theme will be Rendezvous and it will have an American Indian/mountain man emphasis. The place is American Legion Youth Camp at Cheltingham, MD, a place for a largish ground fire for a dance and campfire.
The committee was pulled together in March. It will be an event that
not as craft concentrated as an OA Indian Seminar, or a true Powwow. If
we can teach Scouts, Webelos and Cubs a little dancing, Indian culture/lore/spirituality,
American history, and how the two peoples cooperated in the beginning,
we might use this as a continuing theme to build better transition into
Scouts and OA.
Contact Nick Dunten nick.dunten@verizon.net
July 15 to July 26 Blair Atholl International
Patrol Jamborette Blair Atholl Estate, Scotland
The Jamborette is held on the grounds of Blair Castle, albeit on a
different field (it was moved to its present location on Target Field in
1970 when the Caravan Park was built on the old site). The patrols are
divided up into six sub-camps - MacDonald, MacLean, Morrison, Murray, Robertson,
and Stewart - each forming its own circle on the huge field.
Featuring:
Hill walking, expeditions, watersports, pioneering
For: 1,000, 13-16 years old
Fee: 150, incl. food
Home hospitality: Yes!
Host: The Scout Association
E-mail: admin@scouts-scotland.org.uk
Contact: Scottish Headquarters, The Scout Association, Fordell Firs,
Hillend, Dunfermline, Fife KY11 7HQ, United Kingdom
Cub Scout Events
April 13 Pinewood Derby
They
will also be readily available online and via email. Emails with questions
and offers to help can be sent to Lenny Wertz at juslenny@hotmail.com 1)
The 2002 Derby will be held at theBeltway Plaza Center Court on the 13th
of April. 2) Anyone interested in helping with the operation of a really
fun event, please contact Lenny Lenny Wertz Scoutmaster BSA Troop 746 Greenbelt,
Maryland Patuxent District Pinewood Derby Crew Chief Please use the preregistration
form provide at https://www.angelfire.com/md2/bsapax/paxpost/pinewood
or
http://www.geocities.com/paxpost2001/pinewood
May 18 to 19: Upcoming May to October 2002 Parent/Son Weekends
The
Parent/Son Camping program is designed to give a Cub Scout or Webelos Scout
and his adult partner an opportunity to spend a fun-filled 24-hour period
together in the outdoors. During this 24-hour period, they will learn more
about each other by working and playing together within a planned program
of activities. The weekend program begins on Saturday about 10:00 AM with
check in and site set up. You bring a sack lunch with you, set up your
tent, and get ready for the opening ceremony and Flag Raising at 12:15
PM. This kicks off a fun filled afternoon of activities for all. A staff
of volunteers will be on hand to assist and guide you through this adventure.
They will also offer safety guidelines and train you in new or old skills
in everything from handicraft projects to sports, archery, BB shooting
and campcrafts.
This experience will offer a great evening meal (cooked by the program staff) and an exciting campfire that will allow your Scouts and you the opportunity to become "Showmen" in your own right, by performing skits, songs and cheers. You then get to enjoy the peaceful night sky as the sounds of nature lull you into a restful night of sleep in your tent.
Sunday morning we will provide you with a continental breakfast served by the staff and a non-denominational religious service. Then it is on to cleaning up your gear and campsite, a game or two, site inspection and closing ceremony. Everyone is ready to depart for home by 11:00 AM and you will take with you a great experience shared together.
Space is limited: 96 pairs per weekend. Cost is $60.00 per buddy pair and is NON REFUNDABLE. The fee includes patches and T-shirts for each camper, crafts supplies, meals, etc.
The dates and locations are:
May 18-19, 2002, Rosaryville State Park, Prince Georges County, Maryland
June 1-2, 2002, Claude Moore Farm, Ashburn, Virginia
August 3-4, 2002, Camp William B Snyder, Haymarket, Virginia
September 14-15, 2002, Izaak Walton League, Poolesville, Maryland
October 12-13, 2002, Camp William B Snyder, Haymarket, Virginia
Details and signup forms are on the NCAC Homepage:
http://www.boyscouts-ncac.org/camps/weekend.html
http://www.boyscouts-ncac.org/camps/ctg/p-sweek.html
Camp
Akela June 24 thru 28, 2002 at Allen's Pond in Bowie, MD Cub Scout Day
Camp - Camp Akela - "Circus*Circus" - will be held June 24 thru 28, 2002
at Allen's Pond in Bowie, MD (Dates were misprinted in Scouter's Digest!!).
Registration info has been distributed to all Packs at Roundtable &
by snail-mail. Registration will be done by Pack, not as individuals. Scouts
will have opportunity to earn Fishing Belt Loop, Archery Belt Loop &
Weather Belt Loop. Webelos can earn Geology & Naturalist Activity pins.
In addition to traditional scout skills, crafts, nature and the famous
cub-cart races, there will also be Clown College held everyday to learn
how to juggle, make-up a clown face & other important circus skills.
Call Cathy Reed-Fink at 301-390-6948 with questions.
Order
of the Arrow
Dues
Your 2002 OA Lodge Dues is past due. It costs seven dollars to be an active member of the Lodge and it allows you to attend all Lodge and Chapter functions. Separate forms are available for this payment and will be contained in the next Wolf Howl.
The Chapter OA Troop Rooster was disseminated In January to all the District Scoutmasters and/or OA Troop Representatives. We requested your input to correct and update our Chapter’Äôs records. If you have not done so, please send back your responses in the envelope provided or bring it to the April Roundtable. As of this date we have only received responses from half of the troops.
