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| 5 February 2006 - 15:13 hrs River Run August 2006 - Photos from Troop 269 See: http://target.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lunchdinero/album?.dir=/46ae&.src=ph&.tok=phawW6DBYdKtsnKv For photos of one of last years River Runs taken by our good friends of Troop 269. 5 February 2006 - This week - 15:12 hrs. Troop meeting at 7:00 p.m. Working on advancment and planning, I do beleive. 5 February 2006 - 15:11 hrs. Joint Operation agreement between Troop and Crew Key Committees reached. This is a message from yesterday: It has been a very productive day. The Troop Key Committee met this morning and I have since then spoken with the Crew Key Committee on the phone and in person. We had in the past decided to develop an interim operating plan however Bill Grabosky our District Executive Extraordinaire asked that we work hard to set up a more permanent structure right away, he felt that would be better for the Unit Set taking a quicker approach. Bill has started a Crew in New Prague when he was Scoutmaster of 323 and has experience in this. So here is what we came up with, I think it is a good solution for both groups. Crew meetings continue at 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays at Bethel Lutheran Church and perhaps one of those nights at the St. Peter's Youth Room. Troop meetings are at 7:00 p.m. on those same Thursdays, Note we have 4 meetings a month now for both groups. The Crew will do a flag ceremony in a Crew format at 6:30 at the meetings. We will do joint flags at 7:00 p.m. run by the Troop in the Troop format. The Troop would like the Crew help create a bigger mass at the flag ceremony so that we can attract even more Scouts to our program. We will take turns using the Fellowship Hall and the large room next to the nursery. If the Crew wants to stay for the Troop program - which now will introduce a rotating merit badge system again, they can. If the Crew wants to meet separately and work on Merit Badges or planning they can. We will continue to work on boy planning however we will be introducing parent planned events too. We will need help from the parents in instruction of the Merit Badges and in helping the boys run the boy planned events and also in running the parent planned events. The Crew is encouraged to put on events for the Troop too. Once we get back to Dudley a similar system will take place as we have two main meeting areas with the new Council Fire John and Brandon Brantner built. We can rotate those meeting areas too. The Crew and Troop will be more independent of one another yet still do some programming and camping together. Mark Olson, Terry Barck, Jay Kuivinen and Larry Alderks have committed to taking charge at the Troop level. They welcome more as the more parental involvement in the program the better. Advancement will become a bigger focus at both the Troop and Crew level (hey, we needed some time to get the boys pointed in being more self sufficient and to work out this final arrangement with all parties involved, we may not be that smart, but we are slow). ;~} Jerry Jerome, Lee and Jane Senne, Terri Schwalbe and myself will run the Crew. We encourage all others to help us just as the Troop does too. There are many positions in each organization that remain unfilled and there is a lot of things a few of us do that we would like to give up to someone else. I will be developing a list for both Troop and Crew as to what the parents should be helping with and what they should encourage their sons to do on their own for review by both Committees. I will be asking Ed Buckwald to help me with this. Ed ha been a Scoutmaster for years and started and ran a Post (precursor to the Crew) years ago. One of our basic charges is to teach responsibility, kind of like the teachers do in late Middle School and through High School. In order to lead you need to learn responsibility and the earlier the better. Boy planning and execution of events teaches this responsibility but there is still a need for the parents to help the boys learn this and coax them along. Troop Committee meetings will be on the first Saturday of the month at 8:00 p.m. at Bethel. Crew Committee Meetings will be on a Thursday night at the Crew meeting, which one is still yet to determine. I will be gone on the third Thursday of each month as I have been appointed to the Dundas Planning Commission. Crew will have separate events at times from the Troop but will do some joint events as outlined above. The Aquatics Division remains unchanged however Jay has asked that the Crew help more with these programs. Jay is now certified to teach and certify BSA Lifeguards so we have a real asset here for fundraising and I hope the Crew can step up to this opportunity. It has taken us some time to come to this final arrangement however it is what the boys are asking for and what will work good for both Units and allow them to grow and thrive. Special thanks to Bill Grabosky for coaching us along. It is so nice to have an active DE that takes pride in each and everyone of his Units. Special thanks all to the joint Committees for working this matter out and bringing the Crew to full fruition. We have once again arrived at our next plateau. Hmmm.... I'm wondering what we should try to do next....... :-) Good work all, really good work! YIS UC Don 5 February 2006 - Message from UC - 15:10 hrs. This is a message I sent to Pack and Troop yesterday. We really have such a great thing here. It has been a very productive day. The Troop Key Committee met this morning and I have since then spoken with the Crew Key Committee on the phone and in person. We had in the past decided to develop an interim operating plan however Bill Grabosky our District Executive Extraordinaire asked that we work hard to set up a more permanent structure right away, he felt that would be better for the Unit Set taking a quicker approach. Bill has started a Crew in New Prague when he was Scoutmaster of 323 and has experience in this. So here is what we came up with, I think it is a good solution for both groups. Crew meetings continue at 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays at Bethel Lutheran Church and perhaps one of those nights at the St. Peter's Youth Room. Troop meetings are at 7:00 p.m. on those same Thursdays, Note we have 4 meetings a month now for both groups. The Crew will do a flag ceremony in a Crew format at 6:30 at the meetings. We will do joint flags at 7:00 p.m. run by the Troop in the Troop format. The Troop would like the Crew help create a bigger mass at the flag ceremony so that we can attract even more Scouts to our program. We will take turns using the Fellowship Hall and the large room next to the nursery. If the Crew wants to stay for the Troop program - which now will introduce a rotating merit badge system again, they can. If the Crew wants to meet separately and work on Merit Badges or planning they can. We will continue to work on boy planning however we will be introducing parent planned events too. We will need help from the parents in instruction of the Merit Badges and in helping the boys run the boy planned events and also in running the parent planned events. The Crew is encouraged to put on events for the Troop too. Once we get back to Dudley a similar system will take place as we have two main meeting areas with the new Council Fire John and Brandon Brantner built. We can rotate those meeting areas too. The Crew and Troop will be more independent of one another yet still do some programming and camping together. Mark Olson, Terry Barck, Jay Kuivinen and Larry Alderks have committed to taking charge at the Troop level. They welcome more as the more parental involvement in the program the better. Advancement will become a bigger focus at both the Troop and Crew level (hey, we needed some time to get the boys pointed in being more self sufficient and to work out this final arrangement with all parties involved, we may not be that smart, but we are slow). ;~} Jerry Jerome, Lee and Jane Senne, Terri Schwalbe and myself will run the Crew. We encourage all others to help us just as the Troop does too. There are many positions in each organization that remain unfilled and there is a lot of things a few of us do that we would like to give up to someone else. I will be developing a list for both Troop and Crew as to what the parents should be helping with and what they should encourage their sons to do on their own for review by both Committees. I will be asking Ed Buckwald to help me with this. Ed ha been a Scoutmaster for years and started and ran a Post (precursor to the Crew) years ago. One of our basic charges is to teach responsibility, kind of like the teachers do in late Middle School and through High School. In order to lead you need to learn responsibility and the earlier the better. Boy planning and execution of events teaches this responsibility but there is still a need for the parents to help the boys learn this and coax them along. Troop Committee meetings will be on the first Saturday of the month at 8:00 p.m. at Bethel. Crew Committee Meetings will be on a Thursday night at the Crew meeting, which one is still yet to determine. I will be gone on the third Thursday of each month as I have been appointed to the Dundas Planning Commission. Crew will have separate events at times from the Troop but will do some joint events as outlined above. The Aquatics Division remains unchanged however Jay has asked that the Crew help more with these programs. Jay is now certified to teach and certify BSA Lifeguards so we have a real asset here for fundraising and I hope the Crew can step up to this opportunity. It has taken us some time to come to this final arrangement however it is what the boys are asking for and what will work good for both Units and allow them to grow and thrive. Special thanks to Bill Grabosky for coaching us along. It is so nice to have an active DE that takes pride in each and everyone of his Units. Special thanks all to the joint Committees for working this matter out and bringing the Crew to full fruition. We have once again arrived at our next plateau. Hmmm.... I'm wondering what we should try to do next....... :-) Good work all, really good work! YIS UC Don 7 January 2005 - 10:52 hrs New Troop Committee Chair and Treasurer On behalf of the Troop and Crew I would like to extgend a warm and gentle welcome to Terry Barck in his new duties as Troop Committee Chair. Terry has extensive Scouting background and was Cubmaster, Committee Chair, Den Leader and Webelos Leader of Pack 344. Terry is also going to take on the Treasurer duties for a while. Thank you Terry! Please support Terry in his new role, this was the last peice of the cog in our Troop/Crew startup transitional plan (see below). We will be well poised to continue to grow the Troop and Crew while we await the influx on new Leaders a year from next February. The Committee Chair leads the Key Committee which sets direction for the Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmasters to follow. Terry is also a member of Bethel Lutheran Church our Chartering Organization and having Terry in this capacity will help in delivering the message Bethel wants to portray in our program as well as continue to build the bonds between our Unit Sets and the Church. The Troop Key Committee on Saturday voted that Terry's appointement should go to a year from this next February before it is up for discussion again (February 2007). Typically we vote each year as a Key Committee on all adult Leadership positions. We do this each February as per BSA Guidelines during Charter renewal and our Troop/Crew Guidelines. Terry will be a very strong assest to our program in this capacity. Again a special thanks to Terry for this time committment, for the strength and for this leadership gift he brings us. YIS Don 7 January 2005 - 10:41 hrs Crew Charter Officially Established As of December 31st 2005 we have an official Crew. Please welcome John and Chris and their dad Steve to our membership. John and Chris are my nephews and will be joining us occassionally in our journeys. Steve my brother-in-law was a past Scout and Leader here in town and will be helping as he can. With these additional two youth we had the 5 boys required to charter the Crew. This also helped the Council to achieve the Quality Council Award this year as they needed a couple of Crews to qualify for that award. The Venturing Patrol will become official Crew members and join the "Chartered Five" at the end of May. Thank you to all who helped in making our dream a reality. We finally have officially completed our mission of a unified Unit Set and now have a program that offers Life and Leadership skills for boys and girls from kindergarten through college. We should all be very proud for our accomplishments! YIS Don 7 January 2005 - 10:32 hrs Meeting this Thursday - The Stock Market Game begins...... It is Roundtable this Thursday however at the last Troop Key Committee meeting we decided to start to have Troop/Crew meetings each Thursday night. Leaders will take turns going to Roundtable like we did a couple of years ago. This Thursday we are starting the Stock Market Game. All Scouts are encouraged to attend this meeting as it is the start of the game. There are prizes for the most profitable player. First prize is $20.00, 2nd prize is $10.00 and 3rd prize is $5.00. Terry Barck has found a cool internet gaming site and will be presenting this to the Scouts this Thursday. See "Cool Internet Site that Terry Barck Found.com" for a preview of the information. Terry will be bringing a laptop and projector to explaine the rules of the game to the Scouts this Thursday. So do not miss the meeting or you will miss the opportunity to win the prizes. If you have to miss, please contact Terry Barck at tbarck@redwingtechnologies.com This event works with the Personal Management Merit Badge and helps fullfill requirements. See "The Stock Market Game" for a preview. (large download powerpoint file) We will be going back to 4 meetings a month as our norm so remember Thursday for Scouts. 7 January 2005 10:17 hrs Transitional Operating Plan Complete! Our past three Troop/Crew Key Committee meetings have been very productive. Good work to everyone. Here is a short recap of the events. The Troop and Crew Key Committees are now two separate entities. This is in keeping with our goal to establish a "Total Program Concept" Unit Set. The Crew is going to stay close to the Troop for the rest of this School year but have some sepatate programming. The objective of moving the Troop back to being more boy-led Troop is complete and the Crew Committee and Crew are committed to helping the Troop through this transitonal process. With the introduction of a Crew to the equation it changes the operating scheme slightly. Luckily and as always the BSA has this thought through and we are simply following BSA guidelines with respect to Troop and Crew integration. Crews are designed to teach Leadership through service as all top leaders in all organizations are generally the most helpful people. This is why they are moved up the ladder. A simple thought yet a harder skill to aquire. Help others and others will help you. They will also see your helpfullness as a form of Leadership. The best leaders no one even knows they are leading. People follow because they want to not because they have to. This higher level learning is the focus of a Crew's instruction. Our tranistional plan is generally a tweaked copy of how we started the Troop from the Pack hoepfully we will enjoy the same success. At this point it appears we are but we still will have a few bugs to work out. Troop Committee meetings are on the first Monday evening of each month at 7:00 p.m. at Bethel. Crew Committee meetings are on the forthThursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. and at the location of the Crew meeting. Troop and Crew now (see above) meet each Thursday. Troop New Monthly Schedule First Thursday - Regular Troop Meeting
- 7:00 p.m. Bethel or Dudley. Crew New Monthly Schedule First Thursday - Regular Crew Meeting
- 6:30 p.m. Bethel or Dudley - WIthin this "Total Program Concept" approach the Crew becomes the finishing school where the higher level skills are learned. The Troop becomes the advanment and learning phase of the equation. After completing the 7th grade, boys can elect to join the Ventruing Patrol which meets with the Crew as a transitioning tool to Venturing. The Ventruing program while it does restructure a typical Troop format has proven Nationally to keep boys in the program longer, which gives more of them a chance to make Eagle and all of them the chance to learn life skills that will lead to success, financially, emotionally and spiritually. As I have said a hundred times, the longer and more exposure I get to the BSA system, the more I respect and admite the thought that has evolved over the past 100 years, from people like you and me. As Unit Commissioner I am very proud of our dedicated Leaders and committed Parents to our program. Establishing new Units is very hard work and takes a lot of thought. Establishing a "Total Program Concept" Unit Set from our intial 6 boys (5 years ago) is remarkable accomplishment. Thank you all for your continued support and help. We could not do what we have done without each of us helping in our own small ways. Keep up the good work all! YIS Don 5 January 2005 - 10:20 hrs Message from Floyd and Lila about Training Due to a conflict with scheduling a Saturday at United Methodist
Church in Northfield we have cancelled the January 21st Troop Committee
training. 4 January 2005 - 14:14 hrs This Week Thursday: Crew Meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Bethel - working on Personal Managment. Troop invited. Troop Meeting at 7:00 p.m. at Bethel - Ventruing Patrol has program, they want to work on advancment. Also need to coordinate the Klondike Derby, January Outing (Snow Base) and the OA Ice Fishing Contest. Derek may have other things to talk about too. Saturday: Key Committee Meeting at 8:00 a.m. at Bethel. Topics: Committee chair more to come..... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. See you Thursday. YIS Don 18 December 2005 - 12:34 hrs This Week This week the Crew asked to work on Personal Management Merit Badge. Troop memebrs are invited. We will start at 6:30 p.m. at Bethel. Troop Meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. Mark Olson and Jay Kuivinen have been helping the Raven Patrol with the January Outing. We need to tie this down at this meeting and get sign up sheets going and dates picked. It is looking like the first or second weekend in January as the third weekend is Super Saturday and the forth is Pinewood Derby (Troop and Crew emmebrs invited to see if yuo can beat Alec - he is really easy to beat). One option for the campout is SNOWBASE see: http://www.northernstarbsa.org/Camping/SnowBase.asp February is the Klondike Derby. Troop 337 is sponsoring this event and Mr. Buckwald has asked that the SPL coordinate this with him. It is going to be a lopt different than last year and really really cool as it is an historic reenactment of the first expedition to Anartica. See: There are lots of other activities to choose from and scheudle for the rest of the year. See BLOG items below for a complete listing of Council and District Events. 18 December 2005 - 10:19 hrs Governor's Ball We braved the cold and ice, we slipped around in fancy cars, our guests were very happy. Special thanks to all of you from the Pack, Troop, Crew and Campfire Girls that helped last night parking cars for the Governor's Ball. The guests were very gracious and we had a large donation just just about full by the end of the night. Just about everybody who is anybody was at the Ball last night. This type of service is very good for our local image. Thanks to Kristen Stets and the rest of the Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee that helped make this event one of Northfield's best ever. Members of the Rolvaag and Thye Families were there along with Governor Quie to represent our local Governors that have served our State. A very impressive organizational system developed by our own Tracy Barron helped us find the cars in record time. One of our Crew Scouts even helped with car retrieval. Some of our boys also helped with coordination and getting guests up and down the stairs. It was a great turn out on our part. GOOD WORK ALL! YIS Don 15 December 2005 - 21:27 hrs Awesome Court of Honor Other than I forgot Brandon's second class and Peter's FIshing and Danny's Surveying badge it went real well. Derek did n excellent job of running the show. Pastor Craig Ellingboe had a wonderful talk that we all enjoyed thouroughly. Thank you Craig!. The boys ran and planned this event themselves. Good work guys! Oh and I forgot my memory stick for my camera (actually could not find it in haste) and so I only got two pictures. If anyone else took any digital ones and yuor e-mail server will handle it lese send them to me and I will put in Q-Pics. Bill Grabosky our District Executive (DE) was in attendance. He has been instrumental into helping us get our Crew going. Bill is an excellent DE and we are very fortunate to have him. We will need to have the boys do another Court of Honor before the end of February to insure our Quality Unit and SUper Quality Unit Award this year. My apologies for the three awards I forget, I ususally muck up at least a couple of things. I will try to fgure out how to get the twopictures I have off of my resident memory in my camera and post them to a future BLOG. YIS Don Leader's Breakfast Cancelled. 15 December 2005 - 21:30 hrs I forgot I had my Mom's Christmas tommorrow and so I need to cancel Leader's Breakfast to get ready for that as there is SSSAS and the Swim at 10:30 and 12:30 respecively. Sorry, have to do next time. YIS Don 15 December 2005 - 21:27 hrs University Of Minnesota Scout Wrestling Day Tuesday January 3rd at 7:00 p.m. Minnesota vrs Arizona State. $10.00 - Ticket, Candy, Pop and a Scout Patch. See QN344-03121-UofMWrestling.pdf 14 December 2005 - 17:42 hrs Troop Committee Challenge Training. Floyd and Lila are offering Troop Committee Challenge Training - see message from Lila below: From: Floyd & Lila Caron [mailto:csc@cvtel.net] We are planning a training session for Troop Committee members
(this counts for supplemental training for Scoutmasters, and Assistant
Scoutmasters). 12 December 2005 - 16:36 hrs Northfield Troop Leader's Joint Breakfast with Bill. This Friday the 16th Bill Grabosky has invited the Northfield Troop Leaders to breakfast at the Tavenr at 7:00 a.m. to discuss how we can handle some new boys from the Northfield Middle School Youth Center who want to become Boy Scouts. This is a great opportunity for Leaders to get to know the other Troop leaders in town. We have a great opporunity here to touch the lives of even more young men. Hope to see you there. YIS Don 12 December 2005 - 16:36 hrs SNOW BASE - Possibly a go! Jay and Mark are working with the Raven Patrol on the Janaury outing. Snow Base is an option and is open on the first, second and forth weekends of the month. There are two programs to choose from. See: http://www.northernstarbsa.org/Camping/SnowBase.asp Mark McCaib the Council Camp Director says that they have lots of gear at Tomahawk and no one gets cold. Boys age 10-12 camp inside while boys age 13 and above can opt to sleep one night in an igloo they build (or they can camp inside too). Sounds like a fun program and it is at Tomahawk which means it will be the best. Boys will need to decide what they want to do. A Troop that comes on our River Runs has also invited us winter camping or we could go elsewhere. 12 December 2005 - 16:36 hrs The 50 Miler - August 3rd to 7th. Get the coveted 50 mile Afoot Afloat Patch on yet another program from the 344 Aquatics Division. This event coincides with one of our River Runs but goes two days longer. See: QT344-04400-50miler.htm for more details. 11 December 2005 - 16:46 hrs The Crew begins! I just got two membership applications from my two nephews and a Leader Application from my brother-in-law and so we now have enough members to start the Crew officially! We will need all Crew leaders to sign a membership application and our 3 High School members (you know who you are, - no names on web you know). Please get these to me at the Court of Honor on Thursday, we are under a time crunch the Council needs this complete this year to make Quality Council. Youth application = YOUTH at http://www.scouting.org/forms/28-303.pdf Adult application = ADULT at http://www.scouting.org/forms/28-501.pdf This is good news as we can get a quicker reservation to Philmont this way. Troops are 4 year waiting list (or lottery system) and Crews are a 1 year waiting list. We are almost official gang, please get your leader and Scout forms in to me this Thursday. YIS Don 11 December 2005 - 16:23 hrs New Web Construction Complete The 344 Unit Web Site updating has been complete. All pages should be up to the date with information, leaders names and other contacts. You will note you will never see a boys names on these pages. If you want to submit documents for this web log or for storing on our Server just e-mail Don at mailto:don@starrarch.com . You will note that the Pack, Troop and Crew sites are all reflecting Alec's new motif. It is way cool. I will beusing this and the Crew Blog to assimilate information so that you can cathc up on your Socut news at your liesure rather than feeling like you ave to read your e-mail all the time. Check the BLOGS from time to time Troop and Crew . Also see the schedule pages for Troop and Crew to see what is going on. You boys should be working on getting your phone chain refined and up and running so that you can learn to assimiliate the information on your own. We have also added some new sites that now brings our web strucutre up to 11 sites and over 10,500 files. Check out the new 344 Web Site Controller at "The One SIte" at http://www.344Units.com from this site you will see in addition to http://northfieldscouts.indianhead.org, we have added Now you can select frames or no frames (enhanced) version of our Unit Set sites as well as access recent photographs, our server and our operations guide. Remember "The One Site" at http://www.344Units.com or look for the following symbol scatered throughout our many pages. "The One
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One simple name, YIS Don 11 December 2005 - 16:21 hrs This Week - December 11th through December 17th Court of Honor Thursday December 15th at 6:30 p.m. the Crew is hosting the Troop's Court of Honor. Pastor Craig Ellingboe of St Peter's Lutheran Church is the guest speaker. Come for a fun filled night and meal at the Northfield Retirement Center Chapel Super Saturday is also this weekend on the 17th. Leader's Breakfast - 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. at Tavern - Pack, Troop, Crew, Ship and Campfire Girl Leaders come for a fun filled breakfast. Get help from veteran Scouters, find out what is going on, help coordinate the effort between the various Units for joint programming. Help us keep our "Total Program Concept" Unit Set running smoothly at all levels. Troop is paying for the first $20.00 of the breakfast SSSAS (Super Saturday Supplemental Advancement System) 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Work on open Merit Badge work or participate in Environmental Merit Badge Class currently running. Note we are looking for more Merit Badge Councilors to teach classes. Meets at Northfield Middle School Library. Family Swim Our monthly Rolling Hills District Family Swim program runs fro 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the Northfield Middle School Pool. See the Ought Four Thousand at QT344-04000 on the Q-Server for more info. Work on Swimming requirements for advancement and Merit Badges (Cub Scouts too). 11 December 2005 - 14:16 hrs Junior Leader College Whole day event on April 8th, 2006. Put on by the Council. Includes training for youth and adults. Get Junior Leader Training at this event. Giant Midway, cook, have fun, play games, see what Units from the entire Council are up to. Junior Leader College - on "Q-Docs" 11 December 2005 - 14:14 hrs Klondike Derby - February 18th 2006 Byrd and Gould in Antarctica - An Historic reenactment at the Science Center at the Maltby Nature Preserve This should be Way Cool!!!! See the following links for info: QD344-03109-KlondikeFlyer2006.pdf QD344-03110-KlondikeFlyer2006002.pdf QD344-03111-KlondikeFlyer2006003.pdf QD344-03112-KlondikeFlyer2006004.pdf This event should be coordinated by the PLC and Senior Patrol Leader with Ed Buckwald at ozark@rconnect.com or 645-9823 before 2200 hrs. 11 December 2005 - 14:09 hrs Valley Fair with the Scouts - Super Event - Council wide On Saturday May 20th 2006 come to valley fair. See flyer at: QD344-03117-ValleyFair-2006.pdf 11 December 2005 - 13:58 hrs District Ice Fishing Contest Saturday February 26th - 9:00 a.m. The yearly District Fishing Contest is coming again. Alec always loses you know. :-) See flyer at: QD344-03116-Ice Fishing Derby.pdf 11 December 2005 - 13:57 hrs Rolling Hills District Ski event at Welch Village and camp out at Phillippo. Saturday January 29th 2006 See flyers at: QD344-03118-Welch Village-2006.pdf QD344-03119-Welch Village and Phillippo Campng -2006.pdf 11 December 2005 - 13:56 hrs Sunday February 5th 2006 come ski and snowboard. Council Event. Bring the whole family. See flyer at: QN344-03115-Trollhaugen2006.pdf 11 December 2005 - 13:55 hrs Camp Rippley Extreme Program April 22, 22, 23 Come to Rippley for some fun and extreme excitement! See flyer at: QN344-03113-X-TREME Program.pdf 11 December 2005 - 13:54 hrs Wanna watch some bull riders? Target Center December 30-31 - 8:00 p.m. See flyer at: QN344-03114-Bull RIders Target Center Program.pdf 11 December 2005 - 10:21 SNOW BASE! Mark and Jay are working with the Raven Patrol to pull together their January event. I will be calling up for availability. It looks like the 7th or the 14th are the only dates open on our calendar, however we could move JLT and go ont he 28th too. There has been interest in going to Tomahawk in the winter. Boys age 11-12 spend two days outside and one night sleeping inside. Boys 13 and older can opt for the more advanced program and spend one night inside, two days outside and one night outside (camping). Build the Legend of 344, come to Snow Base! see: http://www.northernstarbsa.org/Camping/SnowBase.asp for more information. More to come. 10 December 2005 - 08:19 hrs University of Scouting Here is where you learn it all! Come take training from the Council's best. See message below from Steve Stobbs. Learn how a Crew and Troop operate and achieve the Aims of Scouting. My Fellow Scouters: Kelly Glover's University of Scouting committee met last night
and Schedule for the event will be the same as the October 29th
event, 7:30 This decision enables us to spend a little more time in the
area of Please help me spread the word. --Steve Stobbs 9 December 2005 - 14:04 hrs Message from Dave Arola - Excel Energy Events -----Original Message-----
Bellow is a link to our special Scout offer page at the Xcel
Energy http://www.xcelenergycenter.com/boyscouts/index.jsp The Northern Star Council does receive proceeds from every
ticket Dave Arola 9 December 2005 - 09:51 hrs Message from John Andrews Chief Executive Officer of NorthernStar Council: -----Original Message-----
Our headline story this chilly Friday is the Million Dollar
Day of Scouters in the News: President's Cabinet Member and longtime
Scouter We also extend our hearts and prayers to TED and LINDA SELBITSCHKA,
as General Mills Information Technology Explorer Post 3633 will
be one of Have you ever heard of EUROJAM2005? Our own Scouters DAVE NOVY
and JIM The Order of the Arrow is one of the primary traditional Scouting Cub Scout Membership has been the "holy grail" of
Scouting for the past Quality District Awards are certainly being earned by many
of our Lastly, I would like to recognize the outstanding STAFF of
the Northern We are all busy, with more opportunities and dreams than can
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Sunday, 19 June 2005 - 1:20 p.m. Good work Scouts on the Concessions Stand (Alice's Restaurant). We did break even again this year which is what was our goal. The Scouts planned and ran the entire enterprise themselves. Good work! YIS Don Sunday, 19 June 2005 - 1:19 p.m. Special thanks to John Brantner (again) for mowing the field at Dudley yesterday. It was a very hot day and John mowed the entire camp with his push mower as his rider is in the shop. John had quite a workout! Thank you again. Don Sunday, 19 June 2005 - 1:18 p.m. Garage Sale Smashing Success Thank you to all who helped in so many ways on the garage sale. We have met our goal for this years sale! Congratulations everyone. Good work!!!! It was a lot of effort, but many people helped which made it easier. We are going out tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. to throw the few remaining items that are left in the dumpster and vacuum and clean the CarTIME building and site. Help is needed, we know it is Father's Day, but if you are done with your festivities and want to stop out that would be great. We are taking the remaining clothes to Goodwill on Tuesday and Brian Reuss (e-mail address above) could use some help with unloading if you have time to ride with him. We fit it all in his snowmobile trailer which means we got rid of the bulk of it. So many people did so much this year! Thank you all! YIS Don Sunday, 12 June 2005 - 12:57 p.m. Garage Sale Concessions Stand - "The Plan" I just got of the phone with our Chair of the Concessions Stand - MJ and here is what we are thinking. We need help staffing the booth on Friday and Saturday. We have Thursday covered. Jane Senne and me (Don) will be there and we have 4 Scouts to help us. We will also cover the garage sale that day and are staying over Wednesday night. Join us if you would like bring your own food. Michael will be calling or delegating the duty of calling all the Scouts and parents to see when they can help staff the Concessions stand. Menu (Tentative Pricing - Scouts and families can buy food for approx. 1/2 price rounded up to nearest quarter) Breakfasts Pancakes $1.00 Lunches Hot Dogs $1.25
(includes pickle) Thursday Supper Bratwurst $2.00 We will be getting the food on Wednesday Night and storing it in coolers. We will only be buying light and can return to Cub to replenish as necessary. YIS, Don Sunday, 12 June 2005 - 11:54 a.m. Jamison had one of our Senior Scouts stay over last night and we took him to St. Peter's this morning. Pastor Craig Ellingboe had an excellent sermon as usual, if you do not know him he is a very powerful and intelligent speaker, but does so in a kind, soft and loving manner. His sermons always effect me deeply. Today's sermon was part two in a series on the insides of the human soul, what lies beneath the surface we portray. In this lesson Craig said that suffering leads to endurance, endurance leads to hope and that hope is everlasting. In life we all will suffer at some point, and Craig taught us how Paul explains this and why it must be this way. We all have our strife's and turmoil's in life and in many ways Scouting falls into this hope category. Hope for our sons, hope for our future, hope for our families and hope for our Nation. For the Kyrie we sang one of my favorite songs in between the verbiage. It would be nice to do this at a campfire or a Chapel some time and so I have printed the words below to jar our memories. The melody can be found at: http://home.fuse.net/rust/B191.html . The Scouts are so good at acapello singing but have grown tired of our old songs. It would really touch my heart to hear them sing this for us. Softly and Tenderly Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, Calling for you and for me; Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading, Pleading for you and
for me? Time is now fleeting; the moments are passing, Passing from you
and from me. Oh! for the wonderful love He has promised, promised for you and
for me; ____________________________________________________ I have posted this hymn in the Chaplain section of the Server 01000 series. I am bringing the laptop to Tomahawk and perhaps we can sign it there...... YIS Don Sunday - 12 June 2005 - 10:15 a.m. Shooting Sports Camp Opportunity Earn your MN DNR Hunter Safety Certificate and your Bow Hunter Education Certificate. Learn to shoot and hunt safely and effectively with both rifle and bow. Have some exciting times. Sponsored jointly by the Great Rivers Greening, Indianhead Council, BSA and the Minnesota Deer Hunters Associations. Kiwanis Scout Camp, Marine on St. Croix, MN Choose from one of two dates: Sunday, July 17th through Friday, July 22 (Session 1) or July 31 through August 5th (Session 2). Cost for registered Scouts 12 years old and older. $220.00 (a $350.00 value). Non Scouts and young ladies are also welcome but the fee is $300.00 for them. Lots of other stuff to do like canoeing, bird banding, lots of time on the rifle and archery range, climbing wall, swimming in pool, deer tracing and GPS instruction. Call Kiwanis directly 651-433-2801 to sign up. Saturday - 11 June 2005 - 9:50p.m. Troop Meeting - Thursday June 16th - 7:00 p.m. Troop Meeting is at 7:00 p.m. at CarTIME this week. We will gather around our campfire and work on Personal Fitness (Don't forget Terry's assignment guys) and Brownsea. The Pack will be running the sale that night. Saturday - 11 June 2005 - 9:49 p.m. Committee Meeting this Tuesday Night at 7:00 p.m. at CarTIME. Linus will be getting out an e-mail and is planning on having a Committee Meeting this week. Saturday - 11 June 2005 - 9:00 p.m. John Brantner is helping in performing a ceremony tomorrow (Sunday June 12th) at the American Legion in Faribault at 1:30 p.m. to retire 360 flags. He could use some help from the Troop, he thought it would take about an hour. Should be a cool ceremony. If you can make it I know John would appreciate it. Thanks, Don Saturday - 11 June 2005 - 8:55 p.m. Bethel Clean up was a success. 3 Boy Scouts, 3parents and 1 Cub Scout showed up to help the Bethel Congregation. Pastor Tim is going to thank us officially at service tomorrow (Sunday). I told them next year we will try to get more people, I am thinking by then we will have the Crew going and we can ask the Pack to help too. I also told him that perhaps next year we can coordinate it with a campout as we have better luck getting people to help through that venue. Good work and thanks to all who came today to help. YIS Don Saturday - 11 June 2005 - 8:52 p.m. Garage Sale is shaping up. More help still needed. After the Clean Up at Bethel we went out to CarTIME for the Community Pick Up Day. We got a lot of valuable stuff. We have a radial arm saw that we have a bid on for $100.00, a one year old color T.V. 17", a 5 1/2 hp lawn mower. Tons of Boom Boxes, more clothes than we have ever had before, a water softener, lots of beds, couches, chairs, furniture, mirrors, electronics. We have a counter top dishwasher, a stove, a vintage refrigerator which is really cool and more than you can ever imagine including a Satellite Dish. Alec decided that a price discount could be given to people that have helped or donated during the Pre-Sale on Wednesday Night. We are thinking Wednesday night pricing for clothing is as follows: Shirts = $3.00 If you helped and/or donated with or to the garage sale you can take a dollar off the Wednesday pricing or: Shirts = $2.00 Wednesday night you can get some pretty good clothing with Brand Names like Tommy, Guess, Levis etc. Thursday and Friday pricing would be: Shirts = $2.00 Saturday pricing would be: Shirts = $1.00 After Saturday 5:00 p.m. everything left is free to the Public. John Brantner thinks the 1932 T-Bucket may be sold and has someone else who is really interested too. We still need help sorting, Linda and friends have been doing a lot of it and have made a lot of progress but we keep getting more stuff, so there is still a lot to do. There is a do list by the front door of the large bay. Today we worked on kids clothes and getting stuff out of the large bay so Linda has room to sort. Schedule for Garage Sale: Sunday - Sorting continues - we have a lot left to sort through. Call me for key. Need help. Monday - Sorting during the day - need help. Set up Tents at night - need help. Tuesday - Sorting during the day - need help. Get stuff from Kobbs Barn at night - need help. Wednesday - Sorting and pricing during the day - need help. Don and at this point 4 Scouts are camping out at CarTIME. More are welcome. Need Leader or parent to campout for two deep. Please contact me if you can camp out. Thursday - Don, Jane and Janice as parent Staff - 4 Scouts so far to work concessions stand. Need help from Scouts and Parents. Need people to camp out to guard the stuff. Friday - Need people to cover this day - Parent Staff and Scouts in Concessions stand. Tracy camping out. Saturday - Need people to cover this day . Parent Staff and Scouts in Concessions stand. Saturday Night - Need help with tear down. Contact Terry Barck for Coordination. We have decided for the garage sale campout to let everyone fen for themselves on food. We will be running the concessions stand with a limited menu. Scouts can purchase from the menu at half price or bring their own food to cook or order pizza and have it delivered. This year should be our biggest year ever. YIS Don |
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