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| District Chairman | Stu Stern | 301-262-7177 stuscout@mris.com | District Websites: |
| District Commissioner | Pete Saderholm | 410-451-4713 petegene@erols.com | http://www.bsa.net/md/patuxent |
| Scout Executive (Acting) | Dave Roberts | Droberts@boyscouts-ncac.org | http://www.boyscouts-ncac.org//district/patuxent/ |
| Designate to the United Way/CFC #8046 | |||
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The NCAC is offering a Powder Horn
course at Camp Goshen, August 13-18, 2001.
Powder Horn is an exciting new
training opportunity designed to expose Venturing advisors to the
activities and skills necessary to operate a successful crew. The
course does not seek to make Venturing advisors an expert or even
self-sufficient in any aspect of the Ranger award skills.
Venturing advisors will still need to call on trained and
certified individuals (consultants) to help provide instruction.
The course will provide a listing of local resources for
Venturing activities. Cost of the course is $185. Participants
should be registered adult member of BSA, meet the physical
requirements of a BSA Class III exam and should have completed
either Scoutmastership Fundamentals or Adult Venturing Leader
Basic Training. For more information and a registration form,
call John Wolfgang,
The
single most important time for membership in the Scouting Units
in the District is September when we conduct our Annual Join
Scout Nights at our Sponsoring organizations and in our
communities. This is when young boys start on the road to Eagle
by joining a Cub pack in their area, at their school, or in their
church. This activity is conducted in mid-September after school
starts but the preparation time is coming up soon.
An Orientation for the Join Scouting Night will be conducted by
Tom Manning on Tuesday, 28 August 2001 at 7:30 PM at the New
Carrollton City Hall. Representatives from each Cub Pack and each
Boy Scout Troop that is planning to participate should plan on
being at this meeting. Materials will be handed out that will be
helpful for the annual program, coordination of School visits can
be made, information on the new Tiger Cub program will be
available, and all the forms and fees will be discussed.
By the time of this meeting each Cub Pack should have decided who
will be the Unit's Join Scouting Coordinator. This person, the
Pack Committee Chairperson and the Tiger Den Leader should all
try to be present.
Goshen Bear Workend by Bob Leek
Do you want to be a Bear? Many of your Patuxent District Scouter friends are already Bears; Goshen Bears that is. Join us on the weekend (Workend in Bear talk) Septemeber 28 to 30th. 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, $14.00 for five meals (and how those cooks from FSK do feed us!). Pre-registration and $7.00 of your meal fee is requested to be in two weeks before the Workend of Friday-Sunday 22-24. For more information ask a Bear or call Ed Allison (301) 927-6949 or Bob Leek (301) 725-6443.
Information will soon be available about date, time and location, but it will be in early October. Get training forms or to turn them to Virginia Fromel at 6400 85th Place, New Carrollton, MD 20784 or turn them at Round Table. Ginny Fromel VFromel@aol.com
Baysox Scout Night
April 28. 7:05 PM Pre-game parade for scouts in uniform, bring
banners. Discouted tickets: $3.50 for Souts and Leaders, $5.50
for Family Members, $8.50 for reserved Box Seats. Fireworks
following the game. Call 301-805-6000 or http://www.baysox.com
Contact: Donald Gakenheimer, Theme Night Coordinator, Bowie Baysox, 4101 NE Crain Hwy, Bowie, MD 20716, 301-805-6000 x300
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.
Space is limited: 96 pairs per weekend. Cost is $56.00 per buddy
pair and is NON-REFUNDABLE.
The dates and locations are:
September 15-16, 2001, Izaak
Walton League, Poolesville,
Maryland October 13-14, 2001
Camp William B Snyder, Haymarket, Virginia
Details and signup forms are
on the NCAC Homepage: http://www.boyscouts-ncac.org/camps/weekend.html
Come and join 1,000
fellow Cub Scout Leaders to learn new ideas for crafts,
advancement activities, games, songs, program administration and
much, much more!! All classes are taught by experienced Cub
Scouters with an average of 5 years as leaders and/or trainers in
the Cub Scouting program.
IInformation and Application at this website powwow.html
https://www.angelfire.com/md2/bsapax/paxpost/aug/powwow.html
or http://www.geocities.com/paxpost2001/aug/powwow.html
Friends of
Scouting
Thank you to all the units and presenters that helped with this
year's program. Thanks to the support of over 60% of the units in
the district, we have pledges of just over $17,000 for the Family
Campaign. If you have funds for the program or if your unit did a
FOS presentation and did not turn it in please turn it at
Roundtable or to your unit commissioner or to me. Again thank you
for your help and support. Dick Clark 301-352-8606 or dickclark2@aol.com
It is not too early to set dates and presenters for next years presentations. Please call Dick Clark if you would like to join in this important activity.
Some unit never received a presentation in 2001 of the good work that is done with the money collected for FOS. They were never given an opportunity to help with this important work. Let's not exclude units, because a someone isn't available for the presentation. Many hands make light the work. The units who didn't receive a presentation in 2001 are Packs 9, 132, 251, 252, 256, 257, 1009, 1010 and 1250 and Troops 67, 256, 257, 411, 707, 716, 740, 746, 1022, 1212 and 1559.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
Upcoming Patuxent District merit badge days for the coming Scout
year:
October 27, 2001 - Citizenship in the Community, Nation and World
February 2, 2002 - First Aid, Emergency Preparedness, and
Personal Fitness
April 20, 2002 - Communications, Family Life, and Personal
Management
MERIT BADGE DAY HOST TROOPS NEEDED!
We are looking for Troops to host the October 27 and
February 20 Patuxent District merit badge day. It does not take a
lot of work-- you provide the meeting place and I will get the
merit badge counselors. If you are interested contact Tim Looney
@ 301-805-1352 or by email: jtlooney@hotmail.com
Merit Badge Counselors must renew their registration once per year. In May - June, Troop Merit Badge Coordinators have been contacting counselors to request your renewed commitment to this program. During this renewal period, those who are not on the Counsel's list, who do not reapply with a valid adult application, will be dropped from the District Merit Badge Counselor list and will not be valid Merit Badge Counselors. All units have re-registered. A list of valid merit badge counselors will be published in late August, early September. More information will follow - chris.schwartz@ieee.orgchris.schwartz@ieee.org
The National Capital area council has hired an executive whose job is Venturing. HIs name is Mark Heeley and he is interested in contacting those who might want to be involved in Venturing roundtable on a district or multi-district basis. He will also be a source of information about council level Venturing activities. He can be reached via E-mail at mheeley@boyscouts-ncac.org or by phone at 301-214-9105.
The new Cub Roundtable Commissioner for Patuxent District will be David Smith, a Webelos Den Leader of Pack 1688 in Bowie. David has been on the Roundtable Staff for several years and has been actively perusing training at both the local and national levels. Having served as a Cubmaster and Pack Committee Chairman he has experience in many Cub leadership roles. Dave has also been to leader training at Philmont Scout Ranch. Our Crack Roundtable Staff from last year is still active and will be there to assist and enlighten you every month. We are always looking for enthusiastic leaders to join us in demonstrating and informing both new and experienced Cub Leaders.
Last year's Cub Roundtable Commissioner Brian Suddeth is still around and active too! A 29 year veteran of Scouting, he plans to focus this year on sharpening his skills as a Boy Scout leader. He will be attending the Boy Scout Roundtables and serving on the Troop 1688 Committee, Pack 1046 Den Leader Coach, District Staff, and NCAC Parent/Son Camping staff. You'll still not be able to escape him, since he'll be popping up at the Cub Roundtable occasionally also. Our experienced and friendly Cub Roundtable Staff are ready to roll with a new year of ideas for you. Ginny Fromel, Sue Moffit, Joan Smith, Ed Weeks and Brian Suddeth will be working with Dave Smith to keep you informed and help you build a healthy, happy Pack. Meet us at the Glen Dale Firehouse every 2nd Wednesday at 7:30 PM. For details call David Smith at 301-352-0365 or Brian Suddeth 301-262-9426.
Feel free to drop me news of available Eagle Projects at chris.schwartz@ieee.org I will publish these in Pax Post.
