BALOO's BUGLE Volume 16, Number 12 "Make No Small Plans
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BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 16, Number 12 "Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized." D. Burnham July 2010 Cub Scout Roundtable August 2010 Cub Scout Theme WAVES OF FUN Tiger Cub Activities Webelos Forester & Naturalist FOCUS YOUTH PROTECTION Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide Jump in and make a big splash with fun activities that UPDATE explore water and waves. Cub Scouts can board an imaginary submarine and explore the depths of the ocean. Youth safety is the No. 1 concern of the BSA. They can make their own boats and race them at the pack's To increase awareness of this societal problem and raingutter regatta. A den or pack may take a trip to the beach or a swimming pool. And all these adventures are much to create even greater barriers to abuse than more fun with friends. Teach the boys water safety and already exist today in Scouting, the Boy Scouts of practice the buddy system. This is an ideal month to work on America is implementing several important the Swimming belt loop and pin. changes to further enhance its Youth Protection Cub Scout Program Helps policies: Jump in and make a big splash exploring water and waves. Adventure awaits in one of Earth’s final frontiers, the depths Effective June 1, 2010: of the ocean. Creatures never imagined can be found there. Youth Protection Training is required for all What does the ocean floor look like? The den could discover registered volunteers. what makes a boat float, learn about different sea vessels, New leaders are required to take Youth even make their own boats. The pack can celebrate with a beach party (no beach required) and family picnic. Top it off Protection Training before they submit their with a raingutter regatta. Earn the National Summertime application for registration. The certificate of Pack Award. This is a fun month to bring a friend! Teach completion for this training must be submitted water safety and practice the buddy system while having fun at the time application is made and before and earning the Swimming belt loop and pin. volunteer service with youth begins. CORE VALUES Youth Protection Training must be taken every Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide two years. If a volunteer's Youth Protection Some of the purposes of Cub Scouting developed through Training record is not current at the time of this month’s theme are: recharter, the volunteer will not be Fun and Adventure. Cub Scouts love water and reregistered. being outdoors. Having fun activities to do in the water will be a hit with the boys Please CLICK HERE for steps to ensure these Sportsmanship and Fitness. Cub Scouts will policies are fully implemented. practice the swimming skills and use good sportsmanship when playing fun games in the water. To visit the BSA ON-LINE TRAINING CENTER Personal Achievement. Boys will gain confidence in click the underlined words themselves as they improve their swimming skills. To find out more about the Youth Protection The core value highlighted this month is: Perseverance, Boys will discover that they must policies of the Boy Scouts of America and how to continue to work hard in order to improve their help Scouting keep your family safe, see the swimming strokes or regatta boat designs. information available in any of the Cub Scouting Can you think of others??? Hint – look in your Cub Scout or Boy Scouting handbooks, or go to Program Helps. It lists different ones!! All the items on http://www.scouting.org/Training/YouthProtection both lists are applicable!! You could probably list all twelve if you thought about it!! .aspx. BALOO'S BUGLE Page 2 COMMISSIONER’S CORNER THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR While prepping this issue, I thought of the old chant, "The King is Dead. Long Live the King." Yes, one way of SCOUTERS delivering the program is gone but a new one is here. We Thanks to Scouter Jim from Bountiful, Utah, who prepares should not bemoan the past but step boldly forward using the this section of Baloo for us each month. You can reach new delivery method. Just as our forbearers did when a new him at [email protected] or through the link to write King was crowned. Baloo on www.usscouts.org. CD I am a Lutheran, a denomination not known for change. Roundtable Prayer There is the old joke, "How many Lutherans does it take to CS Roundtable Planning Guide change a light bulb?? Answer - "Change!!! Change!!! You “We are grateful, dear God, for your gifts of the sun and the want us to change!!!" That is not the proper response. sand and the sea. We pause to give thanks as we run and Remember, jet planes have no rear view mirrors (Thank you play enjoying in awe your beauty.” Bob Scott) and let's Zoom off into the future with our Cubs! He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. And speaking of CS 2010 Changes - George Herbert Obviously Baloo will change a little. And I will need some help. With the monthly emphasis on a Core value, I will The sea hath no king but God alone. new material that supports that Core Value. A frequent Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship contributor, Wendy, has sent me some cooperative games for September. Maybe YOU have some ideas that support Waves of Fun Scouter Jim, Bountiful UT various Core Values. Send them on out to me - As I write this I am sitting in the second driest state in the [email protected]. And thank you Wendy for United States. And yet, I also live in a valley of one of the giving me this idea. world's great inland seas, The Great Salt Lake. As a boy, we We plan to highlight meetings 1 & 2 for each of the 5 ranks would travel to the Great Salt Lake and learned that its salt and the September Pack Meeting in the August issue. Then content was 33% as we bob like corks in the waves. The salt 3 & 4 and the October Pack Meeting in September's issue, has been mined from it and is now down to only about 16%. then 5 & 6 ... Well you get the picture. The only life the lake supports are brine shrimp, which as a Yes, by next month, we will all be doing the exact same young Cub Scout, I could order as “Sea Monkeys” for ads in things! Not all doing it the same week but all doing it the the Boy’s Life magazine. The water from the lake is placed same. in great evaporation ponds and the minerals extracted. Months with similar themes to There is a small amount of gold extracted from the briny Waves of Fun waters. The mountains are filled with trace amounts of gold Dave D. in Illinois that are carried down into the water from the stream, rivers Month and lakes that feed the Great Salt Lake, known as the Great Year Theme Name Basin. January 1951 Rivers I have collected patches though out my many years in Scouting. One of the oldest is from 1971, nearly forty years July 1967 Cub Scout Water Fun ago. It was a Conservation Camporee on the Antelope March 1968 Rivers of the World Island in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. We camped on July 1970 Old Swimming Hole the beach and built our fires with sage brush and buffalo August 1971 Cub Scout Water Fun chips. The conservation part was this group of many hundred boys and leaders built a trail that is still in use July 1974 Water Fun today. We lined it with rocks, handing them up the steep August 1977 Water Fun incline from boy to boy. I have been able to take my family March 1984 Wheels, Wings & Rudders to the state park that now comprises the whole island and look with pride at what was accomplished by a bunch of March 1994 Wheels, Wings & Rudders twelve and thirteen-year-old boys and their dedicated August 1994 Water Fun leaders. July 1995 Water Carnival August will find me in one of the mountain canyons above July 1996 Water Fun the Salt Lake valley, while the Webelos age boys of my pack August 1999 Splish, Splash swim and earn their Aquanaut pin and canoe on the small June 2001 Wet & Wild lake in the camp. This is beautiful tree lined canyon that is July 2004 Fin Fun full of fun and adventure. But with all there is to do, BB guns, archery, hikes, nature, we go there to swim. April 2005 Waterways of the USA As a father, one of the great privileges of my life is that I July 2008 H2 OHhhhhh! was able to be my youngest son’s Cubmaster. One year August 2010 Waves of Fun after he graduated to the New Scout Patrol in Boy Scouts, BALOO'S BUGLE Page 3 he was at the same camp the same time I was with my Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No Webelos. I was able to see him on the lake in the canoe, as I matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. lead my group of boys around the camp. He has grown and H.M. Tomlinson is now the Den Chief for the Webelos, and will go back to The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an camp again with me.