What's Coming Up in Scouting!

Check out th elist below or get a complete paper calendar at Roundtable. 

Please note that many of the program links go to website pages with 2009/2010 information. The main focus of this preview calendar is to give you dates to plug in as you do your own unit planning. Volunteers leading these events are still in the planning phase months out from their activity dates. When they do complete these plans, the link pages will be reflect the newest information. 

Rotary Club of North Austin -
Flag Placement Service Fund Raiser

This patriotic fundraiser has been developed and successfully used by several Rotary Clubs, generally in cooperation with a local Boy Scout Troops. The Rotary Club of North Austin would purchase the US Flags, staffs and mounting hardware, provide storage space, and check out the flags for placement to the Scouts the evening before appropriate US holidays (Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Spetember 11 and Veterans Day, for example) and collect the flags for safe storage at the end of each of those days.

The troops sell the flag placement service to the neighborhoods. The sales activity is an opportunity to raise awareness of the worthy programs of the Scouts and Rotary. The benefit to the neighborhoods is the appearance of the flags in the morning and their removal at the end of the day. Receipts from sales are split 50-50 between the Boy Scout Troops and the Rotary. The responsibility of the participating Scout Troop would be the sale of the program to neighbors, placement of the flags on designated days and the return of the flags in good conditon at the end of the day.

For more details download this pdf: Rotary_Club_Flag_Placement

If interested, please contact:
Gary Bond, Rotary Club of North Austin, 512-656-5657

Have you ever looked for new ideas for the Pack or Troop program? Had a question about your role, or some facet of Scouting? There are lots of online resources that offer advice from fellow Scouters and you can find some of the best right here on the Armadillo website in the LINKS section.

How about Council news? Check out the Capitol Area Council website for lots of great information and to register for their monthly newsletter http://www.bsacac.org/

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You'll find these LINKS and more in the "OTHER" category on the Armadillo website. Check it out!

 

Growing Up Right, Growing Up Strong...Parents, Kids, and Scouting

A Free E-Book for Scout Parents

Special thanks to David Harakal and Mike McMinn for bringing this excellent resource to our attention.

http://www.scoutparents.org/ParentingBook.aspx  

This book was written in dedication to Gerald Lawhorn for his vision to support parents in their efforts to raise their children the best way possible. You will find chapters filled with stories of how families support the efforts in involving their children in the community. It’s for parents, mentors, and families, as well. It’s all about diverse people finding common ground in shared values, interests, and challenges. It’s people coming together to help raise each other’s kids. It’s people united by a vital purpose: to create a caring, nurturing, loving environment where their kids can flourish. And whether those kids are blood relatives or not matters little.