Casco Bay District Newsletter - December 19, 2016
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If anyone needs to contact Casco Bay DE, Athena Mann, please send a message to athen...@scouting.org, or call 207-797-5252 x. 34 weekdays, or cell 207-737-4641.
Please let us know...Please see the collection of attached files for supplemental details and information!
*Editor’s note: This is the bi-monthly Casco Bay District Newsletter.
Each month we will be sending out newsletters on or about the 1st and 15th of the month via this email list. All other communications will come from the Casco Bay group on Facebook. Please “like” the Casco Bay District group on Facebook to receive those other updates – and ask that the parents of your units do the same! On it we share other news, recognition, cool scouting news stories, and reminders on training and other events. For those Scouters who choose not to use Facebook we have a special email list to make sure you get the information posted to Facebook. To be included in that list, please email Athen...@scouting.org and include “Not on Facebook” in the subject line.
Roundtable News – Christmas Edition II!
December Roundtable was a blast with some really fun videos on running boy scout units in the Patrol Method. Youth protection training was also available! Please note that Youth Protection Training will continue to be available for any parent or Scouter who would like to become youth protection trained in person. As a reminder, the training is ALSO available online at my.scouting, and if you take the training through the website, print the certificate and provide it to the person organizing your unit’s recharter. This training is required for rechartering, so PLEASE get your adults YPT trained! We also had Michelle at Roundtable to work with any units that needed support or questions answered on the rechartering process online. Thanks to the OA, who kindly came in to roundtable and helped us dispose of our Christmas snacks! In January the Scouting Roundtable will include Merit Badge Counselor training. February will include a Summer Camp Extravaganza! New programs at Hinds and Bomazeen will be highlighted, and there'll be food! A don't miss event!
Recognition!
District Award of Merit - It is award and recognition season! At the district level, we are soliciting nominees for the District Award of Merit! If you know of a scouter who has provided exemplary service to the greater scouting community in 2016, we would love to hear of your recommendations! Please contact us with your ideas on WHO is the best of the best in District, so we can recognize them at the March District Awards and Recognition Banquet! See the attached nomination form.
Silver Beaver – is there someone you know of who has provided a lifetime of service and support to the greater Council in scouting? The Silver beaver Award is the highest Council-level recognition for service, and it was amazing to see last year’s award winners! Who do you think deserves this high honor? Send us your ideas! See the attached nomination form.
Unit Scouter of the Year Award – As in past years, we ask that each Unit Leader and Unit Committee Chair nominate to us their best adult volunteer from 2016 for special recognition! As you reflect on your units performance in 2016, please send us the name (and reasons) for this person to be recognized as the one who supported your unit the MOST! Nominations are accepted as emails.
UNIT EXCELLENCE AWARDS! It is time now for unit leaders and unit committees to reflect on your unit’s performance over the past year, and then self-score and certify those results on the Journey to Excellence (JTE) form (attached). Does your unit measure up to the GOLD level? Please complete the forms and mail or scan/email them in to us for recognition! What better way to celebrate your well-run unit than to conduct the evaluation? Unit ribbons for JTE participants at the GOLD level will be presented at the District banquet! We think the JTE form is a critical and important tool for unit committees to review and use to measure how you are doing!
Annual Rechartering
Recharter quick tips:
1. Make sure your unit has assigned someone to do the rechartering!
2. You must log into the system as a new user even though you did the recharter last year.
3. All adults must have a current youth protection certificate.
4. Review recharter report. This report will advise you if there is any paperwork that will need to be turned in with the recharter.
5. If you have not received your worksheet with your access code on it, please contact your unit commissioner or email Michelle at ittake...@gmail.com
6. Once the report has printed, please make sure it is signed and turned into Pine Tree Council.
7. Registration Fees will be $25 per person on the recharter. (Boys' Life is $12.)
8. NOTE – Adults not directly affiliated with a unit but participating at the District or Council level were mailed notices to pay up their 2017 memberships in November! Please get those in ASAP so the District and Council rechartering paperwork can also be completed this month!
Scouting for Food 2016
Thank you to the many units who have helped others in need this holiday season with their Scouting for Food efforts. The following is a report of units who have shared their totals. We’d love to hear from the rest of Casco Bay, anytime throughout the year that you Scout for Food! Pack & Troop 45 - 57,700 lbs. and $200.00+ donations, Pack 70 – 100 lbs./month, Pack & Troop 648 – 1,200 lbs., Pack 874, Troop 23 & Troop 875 – 1,003 lbs. + $167.00 donations, Pack & Troop 30 – (38 banana crates) equivalent 760 lbs. + $108.00 donations, Troop 39 – 1,100 snack packs, Troop 86 – Adopted a family for Thanksgiving, Troop 633 – 118 lbs. + $35.00 donations. Pack 47- collects food year round at their meetings. Pack 22, Troop 23 & Troop 37 have plans to complete a food drive in the Spring.
We are still waiting for donation reports from some units, of the pounds of food they collected or donations received. Please be sure to send your report to DE Athena Mann so we can have an updated total for the next newsletter!
Your unit can still participate as we go through the year – we know some units do this in the Spring, when food pantry stocks are at their lowest. We will keep our “kit” to help you hold these drives at:
pinetreebsa.org/documents/2016/10/scouting-for-food-2016.pdf
Please share your Spring totals with us!
Popcorn Fundraising for Units
Casco Bay had 32 units who participated in the sale. Thank you for supporting our council programs as well as raising money to go on adventures with your Scouts! This sale is a great way for Scouts to earn their way to camp, Jamboree, or a Night at the Museum of Science – Boston, etc. Money is due to council for any units who participated in the sale. Many units still have a balance due. Please reach out to your popcorn Kernels and send payment to Pine Tree council. Thank you!
Top Selling Units - Will be announced! For all youth who are eligible for scholarship funds, please send their order forms into council, attention Ken Sparta.
Cub Scouts New
BALOO Training (Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation) – Thank you to all unit leaders who attended the BALOO training on December 3! If you are a new Den Leader – please see our District and Council Calendars for when the next training for cub scout leaders will occur and PLEASE make plans to attend! “Every Scout deserves a trained leader.”
Revised Cub Scout Advancement Requirements - BSA has released modifications to the Cub Scout Adventures Program. The purpose is to increase Advancement and allow for more flexibility at the Den level. Previously, adventures took up to three weeks to complete, with the new modifications, they should take no more than two. These modifications should be implemented immediately as Dens begin new adventures, not to disrupt their current programming. See:
http://usscouts.org/advance/cubscout/intro.asp
http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2016/11/30/cub-scout-modifications/
Boy Scout News
National Jamboree – There's still space for more Scouts to join the Pine Tree Council 2017 National Jamboree Contingent. This year we will be sending two troops and a crew. Our preference is to fill all slots with Pine Tree Council youth before we open these slots up to youth in other councils who have expressed an interest. You can reserve a youth spot with a deposit of $100. Please encourage a Scout Today! To reserve a spot and for more information, https://scoutingevent.com/218-9631
Winter Camp – February 19 to 24. Winter Camp is a weeklong provisional resident camp program for Scouts 13 years and older and at least First Class Rank. Provisional means you sign-up as an individual Scout. Cost is $330.00 per person (early bird is $300 if paid in full by January 15.) A $50.00 deposit holds your space.
Klondike 2017 - We hope to have detailed information on Klondike in the next newsletter!
Scout-O-Rama – We hope to start providing detailed information soon!
Boy Scout Advancement - All Boy Scouts should be transitioned to the 2016 requirements, regardless of rank by January 1, 2017. See:
http://www.scouting.org/filestore/program_update/pdf/Transitioning_New_Requirements_2016.pdf
Merit Badge College – see the attached flyer and calendar listing below!
Venturing News - Jody Hart, jody...@ptcbsa.org
phone: (207) 608-1894
Order of the Arrow News
Casco Bay Chapter will meet on January 4th, at the Windham LDS Church at 7PM (the usual date and time). This meeting is open to all youth and adult members of the Order who are current dues paying members.
Council News
Management Team Seminar - 8:00 am-12:00 pm, LDS Chapel, 545 Maple Hill Rd., Auburn
This is a meeting open to all scouters but is focused on the functions and goals for the District Committees. We invite anyone interested in working with the District Committee to please join us. Districts will focus on planning and preparing to reach GOLD Journey To Excellence for 2017! More information about, FOS, Marketing,Technology, Cub, Boy Scout and Venturing Camping opportunities, Training, Advancement, Shooting Sports, and Order of the Arrow will be available for the coming year.
Visit 247Scouting (aka Black Pug) to register for training, scout experiences and camp opportunities.
https://scoutingevent.com/?OrgKey=BSA218
From CB's DE
A Big Thank You to everyone that has welcomed me to the Casco Bay Family! I look forward to visiting each unit and getting to know everyone. Please send me an invite. It has been nice to talk with many of you by phone, however meeting and seeing all of your faces would be wonderful! Best wishes to you all this holiday season. Thanks to everyone who has reached out to help in many different ways. For those who don't know me yet, I am a mother of two Boy Scouts. I started as a volunteer ten years ago as a Tiger Den Leader, and am still currently volunteering a bit in my home town units, in Bowdoinham. I have worked with 6 different DE's during that time, so I have a lot of different experience to draw from. I live by the Cub Scout motto, so I will always work to do my best. Please gently remind me if I'm slipping :) I love Scouting! Cheerful Scouting...Pass it on!
Did you know?
STEM Scouts is making waves in the STEM education community (science, technology, engineering, and math), and according to a recent article in Fast Company magazine, the BSA pilot program is making a big difference in the lives of students, parents, and educators alike. See a more detailed story at:
http://scoutingnewsroom.org/blog/fast-company-features-bsas-approach-stem-learning/
Commissioners Corner
District Commissioner’s Roster – Who is your Unit Commissioner?
Meetings of the District
Roundtable – 7:00 PM on the 1st Wednesday of the month at the Windham LDS Church, 755 River Rd, Windham, Maine 04062
District Commissioner’s Meeting – 6:00 PM on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at CPort Credit Union, 285 Forest Ave, Portland, Me 04101
District Committee Meeting - 7:00 PM on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at CPort Credit Union, 285 Forest Ave, Portland, Me 04101
CALENDAR –
2016
DECEMBER
All Month: Take Order Popcorn Money Due **Still receiving payments.
15: Popcorn Prize Orders have arrived. *If council ordered prizes for your unit, they are at council.*
2017
January–March: Family Friends of Scouting Season
JANUARY
1: All Boy Scouts must be transitioned to the 2016 requirements regardless of rank
1: Silver Beaver nomination period opens
2: Registration opens for the Youth Recognition Banquet (YRB)
2: Registration opens for the Council Annual Recognition Banquet (CARB)
7: Council, Management Team Seminar- 8:00 am-12:00 pm, LDS Chapel, 545 Maple Hill Rd., Auburn
7, 14, 21, 28: Merit Badge College, LLBean (Saturdays)
FEBRUARY
4: Klondike Derby (Order of the Arrow) (Sat)
19-24: Winter Camp (Sun-Fri), Camp Hinds, Raymond
MARCH
1: Silver Beaver Nomination period closes
11: University of Scouting – Advancement Training – Freeport High School
15: Veterans Awards (30 + years) forms must be received if they are to be awarded at the CARB
25: Casco Bay District Recognition Dinner, Windham Veteran’s Center, 6 PM.
31: Registration closes for the Pine Tree Council Youth Recognition Banquet
APRIL
1: Pine Tree Council Training Conference (Sat) - Gray/New Gloucester High School
8: District Pinewood Derby - Pack 45, Freeport (Sat)
8: Pine Tree Council Youth Recognition Banquet - (Eagle, Quartermaster, Venturing Dinner) (Sat), Elks Club, 1945 Congress St, Portland
21: Registration closes for the Council Adult Recognition Dinner
29: Council Adult Recognition Dinner (Sat)
MAY
11, 18, 25: (Thursdays)- Training - SM/ASM/Troop Committee, St. Charles Borromeo Parish Hall, McKeen St., Brunswick
13: Scout-O-Rama (Saturday)- LL Bean, Discovery Park - Freeport
12-14: Scout-O-Rama Camping - Recompence Shore Campground, Freeport
JUNE
25–30: National Youth Leadership Training (Sun–Fri)
JULY
19–28: National Scout Jamboree - The Summit, New River Gorge, West Virginia
SEPTEMBER
15–17: Wood Badge Weekend 1, Camp Hinds
OCTOBER
6–8: Wood Badge Weekend 2, Camp Hinds
13–15: Fall Camporee
14: Den Chief Training at the Camporee
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