Cubscout Changes Blog
I have followed this blog for a while. Both on the Website, Facebook and Google+. With the huge change in the Cubscout program in June 2015, this post really has a lot great information. If you’re...
View ArticleI chose to Look the Other Way
I saw this the other day while on site at a customer’s site. I was not busy since due to an upgrade I was performing on equipment. As I read this, it hit me that yes, people are needed to … Continue...
View Article2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 19,000...
View ArticleBest Two Hours
Our Council has a singular program for Training the Board Chairs for Eagle Scout Boards of Review and Sea Scouts Quartermaster Boards of Review. I do not believe that other Councils have this type of...
View ArticleInto the Wild
The other day on my Facebook status I posted this: ” Elliot and three other Scouts are headed up to Mazama Lodge this weekend for an overnight and hike. Cooking on the Trail and building igloos and...
View ArticleCAMPING 2015 Cubscout Style
I have finally reviewed a lot of the requirements that are coming into effect June 1st 2015. Our Council held a 4 hour class on the changes. Two Commissioners went to the Philmont Training Center...
View Article80 Hours of Scouting
The Troop that Elliot is in has a regular trip to Southern California for 80 hours to Disneyland, Magic Mountain and Knotts Berry Farm over Presidents Day weekend. This year was the year for it. The...
View ArticleThe Journey
The adventure was just more than 80 hours with the Scouts. This was a journey with the Scouts learning about themselves, the Adults learning about how the Program works and about to work with each...
View ArticleThe Magical Moments
There are moments within any event, outing or setting that can and do happen. You are not always ready for them, but they appear and leave a lasting impression upon you. There were many of these...
View ArticleCalled out
Within the Scouting movment, we take a lot of training. Some very boring and some very inspiring. There are the mandated ones and ones we take for fun. Some we will never really ever use and some we...
View ArticleAsk the Scouts
Do you ever ask your Scouts, specifically the PLC how’s it going? Do you ever get out of where the Troop meets and call a get together? Well, our Scoutmaster did that this past week. It is...
View ArticleCommissioner College 2015
Over the weekend of March 14th, the 2015 Cascade Pacific Council held it’s annual Commissioners College. I believe that I have been to Commissioners College now four times. I have now gotten my...
View ArticleScouting time
The past two weekend were good weekends for the Troop and Scouts. The first was our Pre-Camporee outing. It was my second time with the Troop and it was good. We were back at Camp Lewis which our...
View ArticleIt’s been awhile…..
Hey, you are still here reading this blog? I have been away due to work and SUMMER. I wanted to catch-up with a few items related to Scouting. District: Our two District’s merged on July 1st. We...
View ArticleQUINTESSENCE
As defined by Dictionary.com: the most perfect embodiment of something. There a moments that you realize that you now get what is being explained to you, or what is happening around you. Some may...
View ArticleTelling Cascade Pacific Council’s Scouting Story
What do you really know about Cascade Pacific Council? Ok, outside of the annual Friends of Scouting presentation……. Did you know that in 1994 two Councils merged into Cascade Pacific? Can you name...
View ArticleOA Troop Rep & Advisor #DareToDo
I am Troop 150’s Order of the Arrow’s Adviser. I was just elected by the Troop this Spring and my Ordeal was the June 5th weekend at Camp Cooper. Two other Scouts were elected by their fellow Scouts...
View ArticlePOPCORN
It is that time within most every Council starts to sell Popcorn. Cascade Pacific Council is no different. This was Elliot when he was a Wolf in Pack 221. There are many ways to sell Popcorn, and...
View ArticleAsk the Scouts
Do you ever ask your Scouts, specifically the PLC how’s it going? Do you ever get out of where the Troop meets and call a get together? Well, our Scoutmaster did that this past week. It is...
View ArticleCommissioner College 2015
Over the weekend of March 14th, the 2015 Cascade Pacific Council held it’s annual Commissioners College. I believe that I have been to Commissioners College now four times. I have now gotten my...
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