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BALOO's BUGLE Volume 11, Number 12 July 2005 Cub Scout Roundtable August 2005 Cub Scout Theme CAMPFIRE TALES and TRADITIONS BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 11, Number 12 July 2005 Cub Scout Roundtable August 2005 Cub Scout Theme CAMPFIRE TALES AND TRADITIONS Tiger Cub Activities Webelos Naturalist & Forester David W. and John – for being great classmates and sharing FOCUS so many ideas. Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide This issue marks the end of the year. Next month will be Sing around the campfire as the summer season is on Volume 12, Number 1. This is the last theme in the 2004- the wane. Every den can get involved. Cub Scouts are 2005 CS Program helps and the 2004-2005 CS RT Planning assigned different parts of the pack’s campfire program. Guide. August 10 will be my first RT of the 2005-2006 Use the Campfire Program Planner from the Cub Scout Program Year. I purchased my new CS RT Planning Guide Leader Book to help. This is a great opportunity to recruit directly from a member of the National Committee while out new Cub Scouts!! taking “Strictly for Cubmasters” at the Philmont Training CORE VALUES Center. She said the books were rushed to Philmont for the course she was teaching and would be shipped out to Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide councils across the country very soon. They are later than Some of the purposes of Cub Scouting developed through usual because of changes to the RT format for 2005-2006. this month’s theme are: See section on CS Roundtables in next month’s Baloo. I Spiritual Growth, The awe and wonder reveal a have taken four Cub Scout courses at PTC and have had higher power. Allow quiet time for reflection and Diane’s teach three of them – one from Texas, one from spiritual growth. North Dakota and now one from Wisconsin. Friendly Service, Each Cub Scout should learn the Outdoor Code and do a friendly service project. During the week, my daughter was one of three Group Leave outdoor areas better than you found them so leaders for the 19 boys in the 11 year old Trailblazers family that others can enjoy them, too. group. Mr. Bean, Micah and Darby did a great job from what I heard from parents in my class and in the Dining Fun and Adventure, Outdoor camping is filled with Hall. I still say Philmont Training Center is the greatest fun! This is a time for outdoor games at the pack place for a family vacation where everyone has fun!! PTC level – get the whole family involved! Packs can has a new promo CD for 2006. Get a hold of it and check it sponsor nature walks or scavenger hunts. So much to out. Maybe have your RT Commissioner to show it at a RT do! for the Training Topic!! Call or write PTC if you can’t The core value highlighted this month is: locate one. Faith, The Great Outdoors is a great inspiration. A big HEAP HOW to Julie Byler of the San Gabriel Have a Scouts Own Service. Valley Council. A Scouter who attended the Super Hero Can you think of others??? Hint – look in your Cub Scout Pow Wow for San Gabriel Valley, Long Beach Area and Program Helps. It lists different ones!! All the items on Verdugo Hills Councils sent me one of their Pow Wow CDs. both lists are applicable!! You could probably list all twelve It has great material. A lot of it is very fresh (new). It turns if you thought about it!! out Julie was their Pow Wow Chair this year and insisted upon a lot of fresh (new) material. And being a good COMMISSIONER’S CORNER Scouter she led by example and prepared a lot of fresh (new) Well I am back from my annual Scouting fix – a trip to material herself. This month Julie and I swapped E-mails Philmont. This year I participated in “Strictly for and I was able to compliment her on her work. (One of the Cubmasters” at the Philmont Training Center. Steve from drawbacks to doing Baloo is you see a lot of stuff, and read South Carolina (who is an engineer at a nuclear power plant a lot of names but very seldom do you actually get to like me) and Diane from Wisconsin, were great course communicate with anyone about their work.) And she said I facilitators. Thank you. And thanks to everyone in the could post her name with the material. That it would make course – Bill A (Granddad who is Cubmaster for his her feel like a published author. I do like giving credit to Grandsons and had his 1951 uniform there for us all to see), Scouters who prepare the material I use but I never post a Dianne, Bob, Chip, Karyn, Mike, Pete, Tracy, Dave K, name with specific permission to do so. But, sorry to say, Jennifer (my Den Leader for the week!), Pat, Bill O,. Steve, Julie’s name is not in this issue. She didn’t have material in the August Chapter but I am sure you will be seeing her Page 2 BALOO'S BUGLE name again in an upcoming month. Thank you Julie and brothers. Let us be gentle to our earth mother and take care your Pow Wow Staff for a great job!! Please tell me when of our world. Amen. your next Pow Wow is so I’ll know when I can get a new To Teach and Touch CD!! Bobwhite Jonz Are you ready for your Pack’s Annual Program Planning Years ago I attended a week-long Boy Scout Leader training Conference?? Do you have your Cub Scout Program Helps at Snow Canyon State Park in the southwestern corner of book? Has your district run its Program Launch (or Utah. One evening at the conclusion of a rousing campfire whatever you call it) for 2005-2006? This is an important program the training staff carried a large Park Service event and should not be missed!!! American flag out of the darkness. The flag was carried into USSSP Moves to New Host the campfire circle and held high above the fire. After a flag Thanks to the folks at http://www.data393.com for retirement ceremony was read, the flag was slowly lowered providing hosting for all of the U.S. Scouting Service Project until the cloth began to steam from the heat. At the instant websites. After a month long period of being offline with a that the center of the large flag burst into flames, the staff failed server, we were able to resume operations only to find folded it in on itself and it was immediately consumed that our hosting arrangement was about to expire. Thanks to without seeming to ever fall to the ground. Data393, we now have a home. After the ceremony the staff disappeared again into the darkness of the night. Those of us who had experienced this Months with similar themes to ceremony sat in stunned silence for forty-five minutes until Campfire Tales and Traditions we came to the realization that the ceremony was over. Voyageur Area Council Campfires are a time to teach and touch. Don’t miss the August 1984 Campfire Yarns opportunity to do both. August 1993 Campfire Yarns NATURE October 2003 Once Upon A Time… E. B. Browning. August 2001 Summer Songfest The little cares that fretted me, February 2002 Our Native Peoples I lost them yesterday May 2002 Critters, Cubs & Campfires Among the fields above the sea, Among the minds at play; THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR Among the lowing of the herds, The rustling of the trees, SCOUTERS Among the singing of the birds, Thanks to Scouter Jim from Bountiful, Utah, who prepares The humming or the bees, this section of Baloo for us each month. You can reach The foolish fears of what may happen, him at [email protected] or through the link to write I cast them all way, Baloo on www.usscouts.org. CD Among the clover-scented grass, Among the new mown hay. August Theme Prayer Among the husking of he corn Spirit of the Campfire Where drowsy poppies nod, Cub Scout Roundtable Planning Guide Where ill thoughts die and good are born Kneel always when you light a fire, Out in the field with God. Kneel reverently and thankful be, For unfailing good and charity. THE CAMPFIRE Tall trees that reach the sky, R. L. Stevenson. Mountains and lakes nearby; Did you ever watch the campfire Draw near my friends, When the moon had fallen low, Come sing, my friends, our campfire time is nigh. And the ashes start to whiten The fire is lit, come lift your voice; Round the embers’ crimson glow, Let song and skit beguile the hours; When the night sounds all around you The fire is lit, so let’s rejoice, Making silence doubly sweet, Our hearts are full, the night is ours. AMEN That the spell may be complete? One note on the prayers from the CS RT Planning Guide. Tell me, were you ever nearer They are usually adult oriented prayers. They are intended To the land of heart’s desire, for the RT audience. The prayer in the CS Program Helps With your face turned toward the fire? is intended for your Pack Meeting. But if you like one of SEEING THE GOOD IN THINGS these, don’t hesitate to modify it so it works for the youth A Japanese fable tells of an ancient prophet who every and adults at your pack meeting. CD morning left his village and went into the mountains where he would study nature and God and learn of the laws, and Opening Prayer each evening he would come home and teach his fellow Oh Great Spirit, under whose sky we meet, let us remember villagers the things he had learned that day.
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