Mountain District

From scoutstuff.org and Scouting Magazine -

The file attachment is printable pdf's that you can use to track the achievements accomplished toward earning the patch ribbons for the 100th Anniversary celebration.

Along with the Year of Celebration marking Scouting’s 100th anniversary comes a real collector’s item: The centennial edition of The Boy Scout Handbook, which carries several rank requirement changes that go into effect Jan. 1, 2010:

Tenderfoot

A Scout must teach another person how to tie a square knot using the EDGE model (explain, demonstrate, guide, and enable). He also must be able to discuss four specific examples of how he lived the points of the Scout Law in his daily life.

Second Class


Do your boys know their way around a campsite? How are they in a canoe, on a horse, or climbing a mountain? If their outdoor skills have been heightened through the Scouting program, they'll soon have a new award to show for it: the National Outdoor Award badges.

The program, conceived by the volunteer-led National Camping Task Force of the BSA, includes a series of five badges designed to recognize a Boy Scout or Varsity Scout who has demonstrated knowledge and experience in performing high-level outdoor activities.

The five categories are:

Any Scout who recruits a friends into Scouting between October 5-December 4 will be entered into a Council-wide drawing for the following great prizes:

1. GPX 2GB Digital Media Player
2. Small Wonder High Definition Digital Camcorder
3. Audiovox 8" Portable DVD Player

Three lucky Scouts in our Council will win one of these items!

Write a one-page report titled “The Best Book I Read This Year” and enter it in the Boys’ Life 2009 “Say Yes to Reading!” contest.

The book can be fiction or nonfiction. But the report has to be in your own words — 500 words tops. Enter in one of these three age categories:

The Mountain District has completed its Annual Business Meeting. Congratulations and thanks to Russ Eagle for taking the role of Mountain District Chairman and to Mark Mullins for continuing as the Mountain District Commissioner. In addition to these leaders, thanks to the district members at large for their support commitment for units in our district.

Each year, every Scout unit recharters with the National BSA.  Registered Scouts' rank advancement can be recorded and leaders' backgrounds checked. Unregistered people fall through the cracks. A proper and timely reregistration process validates our membership, an important process.