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Dan Patch
District
June 2010
District Executive’s
Corner
The beginning of summer is
always a very exciting time, there’s all kinds
of activities and fun to look forward to, swim
lessons, summer camps, family vacations, summer
holidays, weddings, graduations, and much more.
Inevitably, though, we will
all get to August 1st and realize
that the end of the summer is nearer than the
beginning and that we are running out of things
to do, or specifically, running out of things
for our children to do that doesn’t involve them
roaming freely around your house with matches
and sharp, pointy sticks.
The good news is that you
can still sign up to send them to spend a few
days at any of our camps, and let them run
around with other the other Scouts who have
found themselves a couple of weekends shy of a
full summer.
Already went to camp in
June? No problem! Just pick a different camp
and you’ll get a completely different program.
Didn’t sign up in December? No sweat! We
always have plenty of space at the end of the
summer, often you can find space a week or two
ahead of time.
So, enjoy your summer and
all the great things you have planned, but
remember camp when you run out of things to do
and your children are starting to look like the
young men from Lord of the Flies or worse, game
testers for Sony!
Day Camp 2010
Once again, the Dan Patch
district will be offering a GREAT Day Camp
experience for all interested Cub Scouts in the
district during the summer of 2010. This year
is going to be a new format in response to a lot
of comments and suggestions that we have
received over the past couple of years, and we
hope that this will work better for everyone’s
schedule.
This year’s Day Camp is
going to be on July 19th at Cleary
Lake park in Prior Lake. This is the only camp
being offered by Dan Patch this year, and space
will be limited so early registration will be
encouraged. Forms and information have been
sent to your unit leaders and to the Dan Patch
website.
As always, we are in need
of leaders and Boy Scouts who are willing to
help staff this event, so if you are interested,
please contact Julie Meyers at
rnjulie@mchsi.com
See you at Day Camp!
Adult Leader Training
As we have discussed at roundtables this
year, please make sure that you are sending your
leaders to training over the summer and
throughout the fall for the positions that they
have just taken on. Many Cub Scouts leaders
will be in need of leader specific training for
their new and upcoming leadership role, and many
new parents will be stepping up to take on new
jobs with Troops and Crews. Be sure to check
out http://training.nsbsa.org/ for all of the
training available here in Dan Patch, as well as
in other districts around the council, and all
of the available online training.
Every Scout deserves a
trained leader, and every leader deserves the
help and support that training gives you as you
take on this important role in your Pack, Troop,
or Crew!
Friends of Scouting
The Dan Patch Friends of
Scouting campaign is drawing to an end and we
need everyone’s help to get this job done. We
are currently $17,000 short of our Family
Campaign goal and $17,000 short of our Community
Campaign goal, which means that we have a bit of
work ahead of us if we are going to finish this
campaign before June 30th!
Please make sure that you
have made a donation through your unit, and that
your unit has already met or exceeded their
goal. If this is already done or in progress,
please check to see if your company will match
your gift or the time you spend volunteering
with a grant to the Boy Scouts. This is FREE
MONEY that your company gives to community
organizations!
Friends of Scouting ensures
that our Camps are supported, that our boys
received the best program possible, and that
FEES stay as low as possible. Not making our
Friends of Scouting goal puts all of these at
risk.
For more information, or to
find out how you can help, call or email your
friendly neighborhood District Executive, Aaron
Nicklay at 763-231-7225 or anicklay@nsbsa.org.
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