White Oak District NewsFlash

February 20, 2013

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HISTORY OF SCOUTING TRAIL
 
(see attached flyer)
History Of Scouting Trail
Trail Inaugural Weekend
May 25, 26 or 27, 2013
(Trails are wheelchair and A SPECIAL Inaugural Trail Medal Available to
Service Dog friendly.) the FIRST 3000 to Register & Complete .
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Trail Inaugural Weekend - Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-27 can be completed
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DEN CHIEF TRAINING 3/9
 
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Registration: 1:00PM Class at 1:30PM to 4:30PM
 
COST: $15.00 per Youth At least One Adult must accompany boy(s) from the Unit. (Adult can be from their Troop or the Pack that they are working with.)
Adults are free but must register
 
Location: Potomac Izaak Walton,
12230 McCrossin Lane, Potomac, MD 20854-1010
 
ONLINE REGISTRATION
Go to the Seneca web page, Or you can click on the District Calendar, and then click on the date.
http://www.boyscouts-ncac.org/OpenRosters/View_Homepage.aspx?orgkey=2664
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Online Registration without payment: Payment must be received
by February 28, 2013 at NCAC. Enclose a copy of the online registration and payment of $15
to the Marriott Scout Service Center by February 28, 2013. Drop it off at the lobby information
center desk or mail it to 9190 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814-3897. Make checks payable
to NCAC/BSA. Please note on the bottom of check Seneca Den Chief Training Cost Center
922.
Online registration with payment will be accepted through March 7th.
 
Who Else Should Come?? Boy Scout and Cub Scout Leader(s) who will be
working with the Den Chief (s) are encouraged to attend this course at NO charge, but you
MUST register. To be credited for the course you will need to complete the same prerequisite
as the boys and provided proof of completion.  This is a FULL uniformed event; Class A (not just waist up). Dress for the weather – you will be outside for part of the training.
 
What to Bring?
  • If you have a current 2012 edition of the Den Chief Hand Book, if not one will be provided; for youth only Adults should bring a copy of the book (a few copies may be available for purchase)
  • Pencil and paper
  • Your own drinks/water bottles. (please have your name on the bottle)
  • Prerequisite: Complete "Den Chief Fast Start" training online, located at myscouting.org. You will need to create an account with your BSA ID number.  Bring Proof (copy of card) (on line: http://www.myscouting.org)  It should take you about 30 minutes to complete and will generate a graduation card at the end.

For more information contact Course Director: Chris Brown: at cbrown@ivyfa.com or 301-404-1521

CUB SCOUT PACK 492 IN THE NEWS

Our local Cub Scout Pack (Pack 492 in Rockville Maryland) recently completed a service project which was covered by the Montgomery Gazette Newspaper.  Pack 492 teamed up with the Maryland Forest Service and planted brand new trees on the grounds of Lucy Barnsley Elementary School in Rockville.  Here is an online link to the newspapers article:  http://www.gazette.net/article/20121114/NEWS/711149360/0/gazette&template=gazette

JP Marple
Webelos 2 Den Leader
Pack 492
 
SEA BASE OPPORTUNITY JULY 7-14, 2013
 
Troop 944 has 7-9 openings for Sea Base Scuba Adventure (dorm living while diving) on July 7-14, 2013.  Costs are $900 for Sea Base, approximately $550 for transportation and $17 for a crew shirt.  Medical forms for all participants are due to Sea Base by Feb. 25, 2013.  If interested, please contact Ken Sprinkle, Troop Committee Chair at kens@infoservinc.com or (H) (301) 299-2156 (M) (240) 393-5618.  Don’t hesitate, these spaces won’t last.
 
 

 

ILLUMINATION AT GETTYSBURG - 6/30
 
Provide by Tom Rose, SA, T255, thomas.rose@starpower.net, 301-807-6441.
Here is a wonderful opportunity to participate in an illumination at Gettysburg June 30.  My Troop 255 has done this 3 times on the annual Remembrance Day each November that commemorates Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.  We stay at the Artillery Ridge Campground that borders the battlefield nearby (on the site of the Union artillery park – assembly area for reserve artillery). Here is a note from the organizer.
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2013 marks a special year in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania as we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The Gettysburg Foundation is hosting a 150th Commemorative Illumination from 9:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on June 30, 2013 at Soldiers’ National Cemetery to pay tribute to the more than 3,500 soldiers who fought and were killed in Gettysburg in 1863. At the illumination, a luminary is placed on each of the 3,500 gravestones and throughout the walkways of the cemetery.
 
The Gettysburg Foundation invites you to assist us in making this event a success. The Gettysburg Foundation relies heavily on volunteerism to make these events happen. Volunteers are needed to help set-up and clean-up the cemetery. The set-up will be from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and include placing luminaries on each gravestone, filling the luminaires with a candle and a block to support the candle, and lighting the candles. Clean-up will begin at 10:30 p.m. and last about an hour. At clean-up, we will extinguish all the candles and collect the trash.
 
To register your troop, or if you have any questions, please call me at 717-339-2148 or contact me via e-mail at aswade@gettysburgfoundation.org.
 

 

CUB SCOUT DAY AT THE NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM

Cub Scout Day at the National Building Museum – March 16

During Cub Scout Day at the National Building Museum, boys can participate in interactive, hands-on activities to earn badges and explore the built environment!

  • Work with the American Society of Civil Engineers to build a bridge out of straws;
  • Take part in a historical scavenger hunt;
  • Construct a crazy catapult;
  • Learn how to draw building plans; and
  • Design and construct a newspaper chair!

Where: National Building Museum, 401 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
When: March 16, 2013; Morning Session 10 am to 1 pm, Afternoon Session 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Cost: $10 per Scout or sibling, free for adults (fee includes a special event patch)
How: Register online at go.nbm.org/scouts

BOY SCOUTS & LDS
On May 21, 1913, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially
affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America. Since the beginnings of that dynamic partnership, millions of youth and adults have registered as participants and leaders in LDS Church-sponsored Scouting units, and leaders of the two organizations have worked together to instill character, citizenship and fitness in young men.
 
“Impossible to measure is the great good that has come from [Scouting] during the past century. Skills have been learned, values have been established, good deeds have been done, and lives have been enriched.”
 
                  –President Thomas S. Monson, 2010
 
 
Worth a click "100 Years of Scouting in the LDS Church - A Timeline"
 http://ldsbsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Scout-Timeline-Jan-21-2013.pdf
 
Actually this Timeline starts in 1875, goes through 1899: Robert Baden-Powell
writes "Aids to Scouting", 1910: William D. Boyce incorporates the Boy Scouts of
America thanks to a good turn from an unknown English Scout, 1913 LDS Church
joins the Boy Scouts of America as BSA's first chartered organization, and on
and on through a fascinating 4 page pdf document.
 
 
LDS-BSA Relationships page:
 http://ldsbsa.org/
 
 
Submitted by Greg Bass <G_R_Bass@yahoo.com>
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