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Number of
Commissioner visits in first
quarter
of 2009.
132
Number of active
Eagle projects in
Buckeye District as of March 30.
47
Membership in
Buckeye District
2007/2008
4121
Scout Units in
Buckeye District
2007/2008
114
Percent Quality
Units in Buckeye
District
2007/2008
76%
District Committee
Membership in
Buckeye
District 2007/2008
53
22nd Annual Maple
Syrup Festiaval
Attendence
over
3000
2009 Buckeye
Daycamp Attendence
520
Posted Feb. 5, 2010
Things
to do in a Snowstorm
Exterior of a Quinzhee
Interior view
Building
a Quinzhee
From
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia:
A
quinzhee or quinzee is a
shelter made by hollowing out a pile of
settled snow. This is in contrast to an igloo, which is made
from blocks of snow.
To
construct a quinzhee, locate a flat area where snow is in abundance.
Pile snow toits desired height (typically 6-10 feet).
After piling the snow, the site should be left for up to
several hours while the snow sets, making excavation possible.
Before excavating, one can put sticks in the roof and wall,
approximately 10" deep to be used as a guide when digging out the
interior. After this is completed one digs until the sticks
are reached.
Building
a
quinzhee is a common winter camping activity for Okpik trainings and
scout troops in northern states like Minnesota and Wisconsin.
It's a great way to use up all the snow you just shoveled off
your driveway. For
details and additional information, see the Wikipedia
article. Note: The Electricity Merit Badge Clinic scheduled for Feb. 6 has been postponed until Feb. 13. The Mad River Mountain Ski Day is ON NO MATTER WHAT.
Worthington's
creeks and green spaces
are particularly striking after a snowfall. This trail
follows Fisher Run just north of Worthington
You
can hike the creeks, just
make sure your boots are watertight and you're not far from someplace
warm if
when you get wet. Cell phones are not recommended for this
activity unless they're water resistant.
Posted Feb. 2, 2010
American Cultures
Cooking
Collections
Coin Collecting
Disabilities Awareness
Environmental Science
Farm Mechanics
Fish and Wildlife Management
Fly Fishing
Reading
Soil and Water Conservation
Sports
Stamp Collecting
Camp Lazarus
Woodcarving
Simon Kenton Council Merit Badge Boot Camp Camp Lazarus April 5-9, 2010 Are YOU Scout enough for Boot Camp?
Camp Lazarus
is the site for the inaugural SKC Merit Badge Boot Camp. Merit Badge
Boot Camp is being designed to be a true Boot Camp experience. Boot
Camp will be a very structured event. It’s not vacation; it’s not Summer Camp; and it’s not Club Med. It will be BOOT CAMP!
Upon
successful completion of Merit Badge Boot Camp, the enlistee will earn
the following: Cooking, Disabilities Awareness, Fly Fishing,
Woodcarving, Farm Mechanics, Environmental Science, Fish and Wildlife
Management, Soil and Water Conservation, and Sports Merit Badges.
Enlistee’s will also earn the Donor Awareness Award, Paul Bunyan Award, Crime Prevention Award, and the new Camp Lazarus Hike Trail recognition.
Enlistee’s
will also be able to register to earn the Coin Collecting, Stamp
Collecting, Collections, Reading, Radio, and American Cultures Merit
Badges.
Fee
for Merit Badge Boot Camp is $150.00. This includes camping fees
(cabins), food, program, materials, recognitions, Merit Badge Boot Camp
patch, and tee shirt. (Merit Badge materials do not include the Merit Badge book or the signed Blue Card. These are the enlistee’s responsibility)
To register or for or more information, see the event page on the council website.
National
Youth Leadership Training (NTLT)
is a youth leadership development training program of the Boy Scouts of
America (BSA). The program was designed so that Scouts will learn
leadership skills that can be used within Scouting and everyday life.
The
Simon
Kenton Council is offering two sessions of National Youth Leadership
Training. Each course is based on the National BSA syllabus,
but
maintains its own traditions and ceremonies. For more
information and to register, visit the Nagatamen
and Eagle
Feather event pages on the Council Website
The
Buckeye District E-News for February is out with articles
about
District
and
Council events.
The table of contents (listed below) links into a web-based rendering
of the E-News. E-News is also available as a PDF
version.
Back-issues are maintained here.
In
addition to the Buckeye District E-News
and the Council Venturing Newsletter,
Worthington
Scouts
is reposting the Simon
Kenton Council Scout Newsletter.
You'll
usually find these newsletters featured on the front page with a table
of contents. Here's the January edition:
This is not an article about how to avoid wasting time on Facebook.
If you think you're spending too much time on Facebook, check
out Facebook
Addicts Anonymous . . . which is on Facebook.
A Facebook search on the term "Boy
Scouts"turns up over 500 Facebook groups
devoted to some aspect of scouting, e.g. Old
School Boy Scouts Against Geocaching (USE A COMPASS NEXT TIME!).
Check them out, you might find something interesting.
Scouting facebook groups of interest to local scouters
include:
Central Region Venturing Area
Fall Fun Rally 2010 BSA's Centennial
Year
National Venturing Event
Scouting for Food
Central Region Venturing
JLOW Staff Discussion Page
A year of celebration
A century of making a difference
Simon Kenton Council Venturing BSA
Simon Kenton Council
Venturing
Camp Lazarus
SKC Rappel Masters
Posted
Jan. 20, 2010
Award Recommendation
Flyer
The District Award of Merit
The District/Division Award of Merit is awarded by a District or
Exploring Division to volunteer and professional adults for service to
youth in the District or Division. Normally, the award is presented for
service to youth in excess of five years.
Nominate your leaders for District
Awards
Buckeye District will hold its
annual
Volunteer Recognition Dinner on May 8, 2010 at the Grace
Brethren
Church in Powell. This is your opportunity to say Thank You
and recognize leaders who have devoted their time and energy to
providing the scouting program for your children -- the youth of
Buckeye District. To nominate a leader, fill out the award
recommendation form (linked at right). For more information
about the District awards, see the recommendation flyer (upper right).
See also these articles in
Work
on the Worthington Website
resumed as of January 5 after a hiatus of several months.
The list of events (left column) is in the process of being
updated. In addition, many links on
the
site have been broken due to major changes in the Council and Buckeye
District websites. These will be repaired as part of a top
to
bottom review of the site.
WorthingtonScouts.org
The Worthington Scouts website
was created in 2006as
part of a Simon Kenton Council
initiative to bring scouting closer to the community. It is
operated under the supervision of the Worthington Assistant District
Commissioner and is intended to provide service and information to
scout units of Worthington, Ohio. The site's focus varies due to
the
short attention span of its
webmaster, but the site attempts to
highlight material that might be interesting or useful to
local
scouts and scouters.
Articles, pictures, and information from area scouts, scouters, and
units are welcome and encouraged. Send material to
TheUnknown Scout was an anonymous member of the
The Boy Scout Association in the United Kingdom whose good turn
inspired William D. Boyce to form the Boy Scouts of
America.
Boyce
was lost on a
foggy street in London in 1909 when an unknown Scout came to his aid,
guiding him to his destination. The boy then refused Boyce's tip,
explaining that he was a Boy Scout and was merely doing his daily good
turn. Soon thereafter, Boyce met with General
Baden-Powell,
who was Chief Scout at the time. Boyce returned to America, and, four
months later, founded the Boy Scouts of America on February 8, 1910.
In
1926, the second presentation of the Silver Buffalo Award was to the Unknown Scout. That
award resides in the museum at Gilwell Park.
In
addition to the award, a statue of a buffalo was presented with a
plaque, inscribed:
"To
the Unknown Scout Whose Faithfulness
in the Performance of the
Daily Good turn
Brought the Scout Movement to the United States of
America."
On February 7th,
celebrate the 100th anniversary of Boy Scouting in America and honor
the
Unknown Scout by doing a good turn. Who knows what you might
start.
Posted
Jan 18, 2010
Wilderness First Aid Website
BSA Health and Safety records
show the most frequent causes of serious health emergencies during
Scout events are
Vehicular accidents
cardiac emergencies
falls
lightning
Red Cross Wilderness First Aid
Saturday, Sunday Mar. 13, 14, 2010
or
Saturday, Sunday April 10, 11, 2010
Delaware County Bank, Lewis Center, OH
"Wilderness First Aid"
is a Red Cross First Aid Course with an emphasis on outdoor situations.
The certification lasts three years. All Philmont crews must have at
least one member who is certified in Wilderness First Aid! Cost
of the course is $75 and you must be at least 14 to participate.
According to the Wilderness Safety Council, there are three major
differences between backwoods and street emergencies:
transit
backwoods
accidents occur more than an hour from the hospital
resources
wilderness
rescuers must improvise a response from what is in their backpack,
their experience and their knowledge
environment
proper
sanitation, lighting, and termperature regulation do not exist in the
great outdoors.
A
wilderness first aid course is a comprehensive lesson in how to react,
respond, and save life in remote, life threatening situations.
Ohio
Expo Center
717
E. 17th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43211
The Great
Train Expo
Ohio Expo Center
Saturday and Sunday,
Feb. 13-14, 2010
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
This
is not necessarily a scouting event, but if you like model trains, grab
the nearest tiger den and attend this event as a go see it.
Admission is $7.00 for adults and kids under 12 are free.
For more information, see http://www.trainexpoinc.com/
Model trains can be lots of fun and fit into most of the hobby and
collecting achievements in the various Cub Scout ranks. With
the
aid of a five dollar multimeter, model trains can be used to illustrate
principles of electricity for the Webelos Engineering
Activity badge and Boy
Scout Electricity Merit Badge.
This is not about rock anthems from the 60's. It's about your
unit website. From the Council website:
Capturing
Unit Information... Don't
miss the chance to have your Pack's web site listed on Simon Kenton
Council's web site.We
are collecting unit information to make sure we have the most current
contact information for your unit.If you are a unit leader, fill out the form
at the attached link. Form.
Pack
and troop websites are some of scouting's best kept secrets, although
probably not by design. Help raise the visibility of your
pack/troop
website by filling in the informational form posted by the Simon
Kenton Council
and linked by the thumbnail image at left. The information
will be
stored on a private spreadsheet and will eventually make its way into
useful lists on Simon Kenton Council's website.
Powderhorn
April 29-May 3, 2011 May
22-22, 2011 Camp
Lazarus
Simon Kenton Council
Venturing Newsletter
Jan/Feb 2010
The June/July Venturing newsletter
was
distributed this week.
Table of contents is listed below. Printable PDF
and MSWord
versions are also available. The official version of the
newsletter as well as previous issues can be found on
the Council
Website.
The
Tri-Creek District is pleased to offer Basic Adult Leader Outdoor
Orientation (BALOO).
Basic
Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation (BALOO) is a one-day training event
that introduces leaders and parents to the skills needed to plan and
conduct pack outdoor activities, particularly pack camping.
Participants
who complete this training course will:
Understand
the focus of the Cub Scout level of the BSA outdoor program.
Gain
the skills needed to plan and carry out a successful Cub Scout-level
overnight activity.
Learn
more about the resources available from the BSA for carrying out this
activity.
This
training is required for any adult who is in charge of planning a pack
campout.
BALOO
will be held on Saturday, March 20, 2010, from 8 AM to 4 PM, at
Reynoldsburg United Methodist Church. The cost for the course
is $15
per participant. To register, please visit the District
calendar:
BALOO
is an all-day event. Please plan to bring a sack
lunch. Also don't forget to wear your Class A uniform.
If
you have any questions, please use the email contact on the doubleknot
page.
Posted
Jan. 11, 2010
Volunteer Opportunities Volunteer at the Council Office
If you can wrangle a webpage,
fling files, or speak honeyed words to soothe the savage scouter, then
Simon Kenton
Council has opportunities for you to volunteer at the scout office.
Our highly capable, but highly overworked scout professionals
can use help with
Data
Entry
Reception/Telephone
Mailing
Filing
Computer
Mainenance
Computer
Programming
Office
Maintenance
If you would like to do some service work for Council or just think
that helping out is more productive than complaining, fill out the form
linked at the right. There's lots to do.
Posted
Jan. 8, 2010
Wii Safety Warning
January
is the traditional month for Contraband campouts. Troops camp
indoors
at a facility with good heating, lots of horizontal surfaces and power
outlets, and a WiFi connection (we
hope). The goal is to bring in every
electronic entertainment device known to man and boy --
X-Box's,
Gamecubes, Nintendos, computers, Wii's etc -- and spend the weekend
shooting
aliens, refighting the Battle of Britain, playing virtual tennis, and
frying brain cells.
Since the Guide
to Safe Scouting has little to say about electronic contraband,
Worthington Scouts has attempted to fill this gap by passing along a
safety tip -- illustrated by the video at left.
When playing Wii
sports, always be sure
to secure the Wii Remote to your wrist.
Updated March 10, 2009
Central Ohio Greenways Read
about Roundtable in
the District E-News
Come to Roundtable to meet other
scouters,
get ideas for your pack and den meetings, and
to find out about upcoming District and Council events!
This month is a good time to spring into action with outdoor activities
such as hikes, sports and games, cleaning up litter along ponds, parks
or roadsides, or planting some trees for improved habitat. Make plaster
casts of the animal tracks you find on your hike. Visit and talk with
someone who works with wildlife conservation and visit a fish hatchery,
zoo, animal shelter, or wildlife sanctuary. Bring along food and
supplies that they might need as part of your "Good Turn for America."
Build bird houses, bird baths, feeding stations, or boxes for nesting
materials. Do a community service project with your chartered
organization to show your positive attitude in doing your best. This
would be a good month to work on the Conservation belt loop and pin.
Character Connection: Positive Attitude
Complete,
comprehensive information about training opportunities in Buckeye
District may be found on the District
website. Council trainings are listed on the council
website. The list below attempts to highlight the
more
important and/or fun trainings offered in Buckeye District. The icons
link back to relevant material on the Council and District websites. In
some cases materials from a previous offering of a training are linked
because materials for the next offering have not yet been published.
The
links and dates will be kept as up to date as possible,
but it's always a good idea to click the links and check
the primary information from the official District website.
In particular, see the official training
schedule.
Link to Leader Faststart for Cub
and Boy Scout Leaders
Cubscout
Leader Training
Saturday April 24, 2010
District Roundtable
First Thursday of the month
March 13, 2010
March 20, 2010
Basic Adult Leader
Outdoor Orientation
Bear to Webelos to Scout
Transition
June 22, 2010
See handbook
for more information Note:
This is listed in the Sept.
09 training schedule, but is not in the District Calendar as
of Jan. 2010
Supplemental
training modules are designed to provide orientation
beyond the basic training offered in New Leader Essentials and
leader-specific training. Each module is a unit of training that can be
used as an outline for a group, for personal coaching, or for
self-study. Most of the outlines should require about an hour to
complete. Consider each unit of study to be an introduction to the
subject. Scouters are welcome to download subjects that are
of interest
for personal or unit use . . . .
. mmmmmm, chainsaws!
