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ATTENTION SCOUTMASTERS
Don't let the opportunity
for your troop to hold OA elections slip by. NOW is the time to request
the date of your choice. Our annual election process must be completed
before Camporee, so get those documents filled out and returned to the
OA Election Co-ordinator, so we can send a team your way.
If you've misplaced
your copy of the election procedures or have questions, please contact
electionsteam@achewonwoapalanne.cpds.org
See you around the
campfire,
Tony Turner
OA Chapter Advisor
Achewon Woapalanne
What:
Successful
completion of this Leave No Trace – Trainer Course will certify
adults and Scouts (14 and over) to instruct the LNT Awareness Award.
Scouts become eligible to hold the Troop LNT Guide position
When:
March
9 - 11; check-in begins at 6:00 PM. Course will complete by noon on
Sunday.
Where:
Woodruff
Scout Reservation
-Course Check-In is at the Nunn Training Center (just off the Main Parking
Lot)
-You will stay in the Summer Camp Staff campsite
Fee:
$35.00-
covers food and LNT Trainer notebooks
Payment will be made directly to the Instructors (cash or check)
Gear:
Bring
your personal camping gear, including your camp stove, tent, & cot
(if desired). You will cook one meal, and perform cleanup, at your campsite
using LNT guidelines. We’ll serve the rest of the meals. Teaching
and learning will occur throughout the day and into the night. Coffee/drinks
will be available throughout the course (hope yall like the coffee stout).
Bring note taking materials (pen/paper).
Registration/More
Info:
John
Ballard; phone: 770-704-0343; email: ballardjw@comcast.net
Class
size is limited to fifteen (15)
Scouts must be age 14 or older,
Adults are welcome
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Staff:
John
Ballard - LNT Master Educator
John Gollner - LNT Master Educator
Mike Lamanac - LNT Trainer
Grant Gollner - LNT Trainer
Order of the Arrow Unit Election Procedures
Scoutmasters,
Here
is the Order of the Arrow 2012
Elections Packet to be used in your Troop’s next Order of the
Arrow election. This packet includes the forms to be used along with some
simple examples. We ask that you print this entire packet and reproduce
the necessary forms in numbers required for your unit on election night.
It also
needs to be noted that if your unit has no eligible candidates, we need
to be notified in writing for this year’s elections report to the
lodge.
We appreciate
your cooperation in this election process. If you have any questions,
please contact the Chapters Elections Adviser, Bert Ogletree at either
(404) 630-3425 (cell) or teogletree@gmail.com.
Uniform
Stop
Buy - Sell - Trade
April Roundtable
Looking
to fill out the remainder of your uniform? Need a new pair of pants? Want
a second shirt? Then be sure not to miss UniformStop: Buy, Sell, Trade
which will be featured at April's Roundtable (April 5).
Here's
how this will work:
UniformStop
borrows the model of the popular retail brands GameStop and MovieStop
where consumers can buy, sell, or trade unwanted video games and movies.
Units or individuals (parents, Scouts, Scouters) bring unwanted or old
uniforms and uniform elements that they wish to buy, sell, or trade
to Roundtable. This includes not just pants and shirts, but other items
such as belts, socks, and even boots. The particulars of what and how
your unit or you are looking to acquire or get rid of would be up to
you (buy, sell, or trade). I foresee units and individuals swapping
uniform sizes because their boys are outgrowing things for instance.
Scouters from the Cub Scouting side will of course be invited to participate
in UniformStop.
Why
are we doing this?
Economic
times are tough, and even when they aren't––Boy Scout uniforms
are expensive. The reason however is deeper than that. Having a complete
field uniform should be the goal for every Scout and Scouter. For this
reason, a short talk will take place prior to the buy, sell, trade about
why the uniform is an essential element to Scouting. It is the embodiment
of the Scout Oath and Law, so what Scout/Scouter with Scout Spirit in
their heart wouldn't want to wear a complete uniform proudly? This is
particularly important for Scouters. If you think the uniform is just
for the boys, you'd be incorrect. Baden Powell once said, "Show
me a poorly uniformed Troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader."
Scouters and SPL's must be the example for others, wearing their uniform
completely and correctly.
What
this is not:
1.
Am opportunity for people to complain about why we have a uniform.
2. A place to fight/argue. The Scout Oath and Law should dictate how
we treat one another in regards to buy, sell, trade. If someone won't
give you what you want how you want it––tough. Respect one
another.
How
can I prepare?
1.
Look in your Boy Scout Handbook and determine which elements of the
official uniform your boys or you are missing. Bring that list to April's
Roundtable and try to meet the needs.
2. Conduct a uniform inspection using an official BSA checklist in your
unit and make a list of deficiencies. Bring that list to April's Roundtable
and try to meet the needs.
3. If your Troop has a uniform recycling program or a store––take
inventory and determine what items you'd like to add. Make a list.
4. Asess at your Troop meetings if your unit has boys who need the next
size up pants/shirts etc. Make a list, the trade your'e looking for
just might be at April's Roundtable.
FLIER
Questions
should be directed to:
W. Stuart
Michelson
Cherokee/Pickens Roundtable Commissioner
cpdsroundtable@gmail.com
4045024168
Money
Saving Tip 
Looking
for ways to save money for your troop activities? Check out the Library
Loan Program for Georgia's State Parks, ParkPass and Historic Site
Pass.
If you
have a library card from a Georgia public library, you can check out a
ParkPass and Historic Site Pass, just like you would check out a book.
You'll enjoy free parking at Georgia's State Parks and free admission
to State Historic Sites. Just show your valid library card at Georgia's
public libraries and you can have free access to Georgia's State Parks
and State Historic Sites.
National
Outdoor Challenge Award
The National Outdoor Challenge is a unit award that recognizes troops/teams
that maintain or increase the amount of outdoor activity when compared
to the previous year and is represented by a streamer for the unit's flag.
The information and application is available here: www.scouting.org/scoutsource/boyscouts/adults/awards
and is due at the end of 2010. With the release of this award, the National
Camping Award has been discontinued; however, patches for camping nights
will be available until the inventory is depleted.
 National
Outdoor Achievement Award
The National Outdoor Achievement Award recognizes Boy Scouts/Varsity Scouts
that excel in outdoor participation. The award consists of five areas
of emphasis (camping, aquatics, hiking, riding and adventure) with rigorous
requirements to earn each segment. Scouts looking for an extra challenge
can earn the National Medal for Outdoor Achievement. This challenging
award requires earning at least three of the National Outdoor Achievement
segments, planning and leading a trek, earning Wilderness First Aid and
becoming a Leave No Trace Trainer as well as several other requirements.
The information and application is available at the following link: www.scouting.org/scoutsource/boyscouts/youth/awards
Scouting
Programs at the Funk Heritage Center
 The
Funk Heritage Center of Reinhardt College, Georgia’s Official
Frontier and Southeastern Indian Interpretive Center offers special Scout
programs designed for Scouts to earn an achievement, elective, or merit
badge. The programs are tailored to suit the needs of all levels of Scouting.
Activities are targeted for Cub Scouts, Webelos, and Boy Scouts. Scouts
attend with their Den or Troop and leaders are required to stay with their
Scouts.
The program
offerings include Horticulture and Gardening, Plant Science, Field Botany
(including tree ID), Soil and Water Conservation, and Georgia’s
Native People and Indian Lore.
Horticulture
and environmental education programs are presented in cooperation with
the Cherokee Master Gardeners.
Programs average 2 hours in length and can be scheduled for a Tuesday
or Thursday at 3:00 p.m., with an option to schedule on Saturdays at 10:00
a.m.
Reservations
must be made three weeks in advance.
The program fee is $5 per Scout with a $35 minimum
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To request
a program and make reservations, contact: Martha Hout 770-720-9222 or
Jayne Hunter 770-720-5969 or email heritagecenter@reinhardt.edu
 Wilderness
First Aid
American Red Cross Wilderness First Aid Basic:
Planning
a trip to the backcountry where a 911 call cannot get through, or where
rescue may be hours away? Going to Philmont, Northern Tier, or Sea Base?
Hiking the Appalachian Trail with your Troop or Crew? You might find yourself
in a situation requiring not only first aid, but also care until evacuation
or rescue. Take your standard first aid skills to a higher level. The
Atlanta Area Council Health & Safety Committee will sponsor several
American Red Cross Wilderness First Aid Basic (WFAB) courses.
For the
most up-to-date Wilderness First Aid information CLICK
HERE
Basic Wilderness First Aid - SOLO Course:
Are you
going to be part of a high adventure Philmont, Northern Tier or Sea Base
crew? Are you a weekend hiker on the Appalachian Trail or in the Cohutta
Wilderness? Are you ever out of cell phone range and unable to "Call
911" when you are with your troop or crew? If so, you need to know
more than what is  taught
in standard first aid classes designed for places where "Call 911"
brings emergency assistance. How good are your first aid skills? Come
to the Camp
Allatoona Aquatics Base in Woodstock for Basic Wilderness First Aid
Training. A well trained Scout, Venturer or Scouter with the first aid
skills taught at this course will be an asset to any high adventure trek,
venture crew or troop. The course is open to scouts and venturers 14 or
older, male and female, and to adult scouters.
For the
most up-to-date Wilderness First Aid information CLICK
HERE
C.O.P.E.
Project
C.O.P.E. is a national program of the Boy Scouts of America. The program
is composed of group initiative games, trust events, low course events,
and high course events. Some activities involve a group challenge, while
others develop individual skills and agility. Participants climb, swing,
balance, jump, rappel, and devise solutions to a variety of problems.
Most participants achieve much more than they imagined they could.
The Atlanta
Area Council invites your Troop to come experience a challenging fun filled
weekend at its C.O.P.E. Courses at Woodruff
Scout Reservation and Bert
Adams Scout Reservation
Questions?
Visit the C.O.P.E.
website or call the Program Center at 770-989-8820
 Orienteering
Course At Camp Allatoona Aquatics Base
Thanks
to Troop 465 for reestablishing
an orienteering course at Camp Allatoona Aquatics Base. Below you'll find
everything you need to use the course plus some teaching information.
Not been to Camp Allatoona Aquatics
Base in a while? Why not? Camp Allatoona Aquatics Base is a great
camp and is right in our backyard. Submit your Camping
Request Form today and go enjoy this orienteering course.
 KNOT
MASTER
We have
all experienced the age old problem where we teach our boys knots but
teaching and retention is a hit or miss in many cases. This program that
is outlined is a great idea for how to help overcome this challenge and
strongly reinforces the scout motto: "Be Prepared."
Credit
for this idea comes from Glenn Beaupre
, Health and Safety Officer, and an adult Eagle Scout himself from Troop
994 in Woodstock Georgia. They have had this program implemented for almost
1 year now and the results have been amazing. The boys not only have learned
the knots they advance there skill by learning more advanced knots and
because the system is designed in a rank manner they retain the knowledge
because they teach younger scouts. The boys have also learned teamwork
by combining sections of rope at events where a section of longer rope
helped them to accomplish a task.
Key points
to the success of the program has been:
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Boys
look at the system as being similar to martial arts. They all want
to obtain the coveted black rope and be declared a "Knot Master".
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Because
the ropes are now carried by the boys as part of their uniforms. Idle
time you see them taking the rope sections and practicing and teaching.
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The
system of teaching is designed to help retain previously learned knots
and to use a little peer pressure and competition to make them want
to advance in rank.
Materials
Needed.
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Inexpensive
D-Ring Carbine - Avg. cost $0.50 - $0.99
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Inexpensive
colored rope in 5 foot sections - White, Green, Red, Blue, Black -
Special Red White and Blue only for Eagle Scouts. avg .cost varies
but price is relatively low. White rope can be bought at any hardware
store and is very inexpensive. The colored rope can be purchased from
army navy stores and is a bit more expensive but not crippling in
cost. Each rank advancement the scout turns his rope in for a new
color so you can recycle the ropes.
Knot
Master Program Guide
Knot
Master Progress Card
Please
take a look at the information and please contact the District Commissioner
Shawn Kwak to let him know
how this program goes if you choose to use it in your unit. Additional
comments or questions are also welcome and can be directed to Glenn who
is willing to demonstrate the program at a future "round table".
This program can also be used for cub scouts as well with a little adjustment.
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