BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 14, Number 11 "Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized." D. Burnham June 2008 Cub Scout Roundtable July 2008 Cub Scout Theme H2Ohhh! Tiger Cub Activities Webelos Aquanaut & Geologist Cub Scout Extravaganza & FOCUS Program Enrichment Conference Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide @ Philmont Training Center Dive right in as Cub Scouts spend a month enjoying water activities and learning about water creatures and water I have been invited to the First Ever Program Enrichment conservation. It is a perfect time to learn about safety rules Conference and my wife, Donna, to the Cub Scout in and around water. This month's pack activity might be a Extravaganza - August 10 - 16, 2008 at Philmont!!! Our safety carnival, an outdoor raingutter regatta, or a pack money is in and we will be there! My daughter (Four beach party. This is an ideal opportunity for the boys to summer Phil staffer is trying to see if she can arrange to be work on the Swimming or Fishing belt loops and pins. there, too!!). Hope to see many of you there, too!!! Months with similar themes to CORE VALUES H2Ohhhh! Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide Dave D. in Illinois Some of the purposes of Cub Scouting developed through Month Name Year Theme this month’s theme are: Personal Achievement, Cub Scouts will gain self- January 1951 Rivers confidence and self-esteem as they develop their July 1967 Cub Scout Water Fun swimming skills and water safety knowledge. March 1968 Rivers of the World Character Development, Cub Scouts will learn the July 1970 Old Swimming Hole importance of water conservation.. August 1971 Cub Scout Water Fun Preparation for Boy Scouts, By learning swimming July 1974 Water Fun safety Cub Scouts will be ready for bigger adventures in Boy Scouts. August 1977 Water Fun The core value highlighted this month is: March 1984 Wheels, Wings & Rudders Responsibility, Cub Scouts will gain a sense of March 1994 Wheels, Wings & Rudders responsibility through the Buddy System and other August 1994 Water Fun safety rules in and around water. July 1995 Water Carnival Can you think of others??? Hint – look in your Cub Scout July 1996 Water Fun Program Helps. It lists different ones!! All the items on August 1999 Splish, Splash both lists are applicable!! You could probably list all twelve June 2001 Wet & Wild if you thought about it!! July 2004 Fin Fun COMMISSIONER’S CORNER April 2005 Waterways of the USA I am back at home and at work. All seems to be going well and in four months a blood test will verify that all our prayers have been answered and I have been cured. It seems appropriate that I go for the blood test on my birthday!!! It is summer and I need to be National makes a patch for every Cub Scout Monthly theme. This is the one for this theme. Check them out at www.scoutstuff.org go to patches and look for 2006 Cub Scout Monthly Theme Emblems. Page 2 BALOO'S BUGLE to get the government to drain Lake Powell on the Utah- THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR Arizona Border to expose Glen Canyon. A group known as Utah Rivers Council is pushing to protect many rivers of SCOUTERS Utah from dams and development. In one of America’s Thanks to Scouter Jim from Bountiful, Utah, who prepares driest states, these are fighting words and arousing concerns this section of Baloo for us each month. You can reach on both sides. But rather than fighting over water, it would him at [email protected] or through the link to write be better to give something back. Baloo on www.usscouts.org. CD July would be a great month to take our Scouts outside and Roundtable Prayer do a water conservation project. Clean up a river bank, or a CS Roundtable Planning Guide lake front, and enjoy a cookout next to the water, and maybe Thank you for the rocks, the wind, the water, and the woods. even wet a hook. There are many activities we can do with Help us as we learn to take better care of your gifts. AMEN water, but why not give a little back in the process. The Water and Scouting times we gave back as youths are some of the times we Scouter Jim, Bountiful UT remember most in our lives. Not only does it help someone Most of the Scout Camps I attended as a youth, were else, it makes us all feel better about ourselves and the involved in someway with water, great or small, lakes, contributions we are making to our world. rivers, or streams, we spent part of our time near of on the The Bear Lake Monster water. The story was written in 1868 by Joseph C. Rich and was My first camp, as a new Scout, was a winter camp; on a sent to the Deseret News Newspaper. It goes as follow: small stream know as Mill Creek in Mueller Park Canyon, "The Indians have a tradition concerning a strange, serpent- north of Salt Lake City, Utah. From this small stream, I like creature inhabiting the waters of Bear Lake, which they filled my canteen for drinking water and took the water I say carried off some of their braves many moons ago. Since used to cook the first meals I had ever cooked over a then, they will not sleep close to the lake. Neither will they campfire. swim in it, nor let their squaws and papooses bathe in it. My first weeklong summer camp was at the Great Salt Lake Now, it seems this water devil, as the Indians called it, has Council’s Bear Lake Aquatics camp near the Utah-Idaho again made an appearance. A number of our white settlers border. We spent a week, swimming, boating, and playing declare they have seen it with their own eyes. This Bear in the crystal blue waters of the Bear Lake, and looking for Lake Monster, they now call it, is causing a great deal of the Bear Lake Monster. (See story to follow.) excitement up here. S. M. Johnson at South Eden was riding West of the town where I was raised is the Great Salt Lake. along near the Lake the other day when he saw something a In 1971, the Great Salt Lake Council held a Conservation number of yards out in the lake which he thought was the Camporee on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. body of a man. He waited for the waves to wash it in, but to Antelope Island is now a state park with its own herd of his surprise, found the water washed over it without causing Buffalo. We spent the weekend hauling rocks, boy to boy, it to move. Then he saw it had a head and neck like some in a bucket brigade all the way up the mountain to the top of strange animal. On each side of the head were ears, or Buffalo Point, building a trail that is still in use today. bunches the size of a pint cup. He concluded the body must Farmington Bay Bird Refuge is a freshwater bay on the be touching the bottom of the lake. By this time, however, southeast side of the Great Salt Lake. It is home to millions Johnson seems to have been leaving the place so rapidly he of migrating shorebirds and waterfowl, and in the winter, failed to observe other details. nesting grounds for migrating Bald Eagles. In 1970, the The next day three women and a man saw a monstrous father of one of the scouts in my local troop worked for Utah animal in the lake near the same place, but this time it was Fish and Game, now Utah Wildlife Resources, in waterfowl swimming at an incredible speed. According to their management. He recruited our large troop of Scouts to do a statement, it was moving faster than a horse could run. Saturday cleanup of the Farmington Bay Bird Refuge. We On Sunday last, N. C. Davis and Allen Davis of St. Charles; worked hard all day long filling a full sized dump truck with Thomas Sleight and James Collings of Paris, with six the trash that had floated, blown, or been carried into the women were returning from Fish Haven when about midway bird refuge. As a reward for our hard work, the next winter, from the latter place to St. Charles, their attention was we were able to camp in one of the State owned cabins used suddenly attracted to a peculiar motion of waves on the by the rangers at Flaming Gorge Reservoir on the Utah- water about three miles distant. The lake was not rough, only Wyoming border and learn to ice fish. We exchanged a day a little disturbed by the wind. Mr. Sleight ways he distinctly of hard work cleaning up a bird refuse, for a fun day of saw the sides of a very large animal that he would suppose fishing on hard water. Not a bad trade. to be not less than 90 feet in length. Mr. Davis doesn't think Growing up in the second driest state in the nation, I am very he was any part of the body, but is positive it must not have aware of water and the issues related to it. In the west, been less than forty feet in length, judging by the waves it battles have been raged over water for as long as anyone can rolled up on both sides of it as it swam, and the wave it left remember and they rage on now.