May 2018 May 2018 5/5 District Committee Workshop Chair’s Minute your unit cannot camp on Friday night Commissioner Conference be sure to attend on Saturday for the As the new Chair of the Sammamish round robin troop competition followed 5/10 Roundtable 7 PM Cub Scouts, Scouts Trails District I feel both honored and by the awards ceremony. Merit Badge Counselor Training humbled in taking on this new role. Early Registration: $15 5/10 Commissioner Mtg. 7:30 PM There are a lot of changes on our After May 7: $20 5/10 Merit Badge Clinic (Kirkland) 7PM doorstep. Most notably having girls join our general scouting programs. This is Personal Management http://seattlebsa.doubleknot.com/event/ 5/10 OA Chapter Meeting 7 PM a big change but we will handle it, as 2018-sammamish-trails- 5/12 Merit Badge Clinic (Redmond)9am we have with all the changes we’ve camporee/2335645 Swimming implemented over the last 100 years, 5/12 PSE Merit Badge Day with a focus on what is best for the 2018 Cub Scout Day Camp 5/12 Bike Rodeo youth we serve. Please join me in re- North to Alaska 5/17 Eagle Banquet committing and re-energizing ourselves in putting forth the best youth program, Go North to Alaska with us. 5/18-20 Camporee Registration is open. 5/18-20 Wood Badge (Weekend 2 of 2) for both boys and girls, who are the June leaders of our future. Cost is $85 if registered by June 15 or increases to $110 on June 15. 6/1-2 BALOO (Burien) Bill Archer 6/7 District Meeting 7 PM District Chair Twilight Session 6/14 Roundtable 7 PM [email protected] Monday July 9-12 Cub Scouts, Scouts Daytime Session New Youth Protection Training May 10 Roundtable Tuesday July 10-13 July CUB SCOUT & SCOUT BREAKOUT: 7/9-12 Day Camp Twilight Session Commissioner Meeting 7/10-13 Day Camp Daytime Session Learn about the techniques and best May 10 @ 7:30 PM practices to help grow your Unit. Commissioner Meetings are held every nd Bike Rodeo 2 Thursday @ 7:30 PM at: May 12 Rose Hill LDS Chapel 7720 126th Ave NE Join us for our 2nd Annual Bike Rodeo. Grab your bikes and friends! This is a Kirkland, WA 98033 district wide recruitment event hosted Summer Camp! All Unit Commissioners and ADCs are by Pack 567. We will have stations- needed to attend to help all our units bike repair (repair your own bike, or have successful programs. take apart our bakes and learn how they work!), bike decorating, races (slowest, Dale Rae fastest, obstacle course, paper boy District Commissioner challenge, etc), helmet fitting, and [email protected] more! Bring your bike or scooter, water NEW YOUTH bottle, and a snack. Invite your friends. PROTECTION Let us know if you want flyers to hand TRAINING out. (BTW wheels are not required, we want everyone to come have fun!) This REQUIRED is NOT a drop off event. FOR RECHARTER! 10 am-12pm Overlake Christian Church Only the newest North Parking Lot version of Youth Protection Training can 9900 Willows Rd be used for recharter, so if you haven’t Pearls of Wisdom Redmond, WA 98054 taken it since February 1, plan on going online this summer, OR come to the --Baden-Powell District Camporee June Roundtable and take the new face “An invaluable step in character training is May 18-19 to face with Larry Conrad. to put responsibility on the individual.” The Chair’s Come join us for a great time at Minute Camporee. It will be a great event. If Order of the Arrow private pool at 21705 NE 70th St, Register at; Chapter Meeting May 10 Redmond, which is only a half mile - http://www.seattlebsa.org/aquila- (Talapus Tallicum Chapter) from the usual Saturday clinic venue. training/182-baloo Chapter Meeting Scouts must bring a towel, a blue card, The new syllabus for BALOO requires Brothers of the Order of the Arrow, and a completed copy of Parts A and B an overnighter and you must do some our April Talapus Tillicum Chapter of the consent and health form at on-line course work prior to attending. Meeting is this Thursday, May 10th, https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/he Please register soon as there is limited 2018. It will start at 7:00 pm at the althsafety/pdf/680-001_abc.pdf number of spaces in the training. th Rose Hill LDS Church (7720 126 Ave PSE Merit Badge Day Historical Ships & Scout NE, Kirkland) and last until 8:30. Join May 12 us for some pizza and fellowship and Groups find out about upcoming Order of the Puget Sound Energy is offering Have you ever sailed an 18th Century Arrow events! Electricity and Energy Merit Badges Tall Ship? Neither have I, but in May 12 from 8am-5:30pm. It will be at If you plan on going to any events, September you and I will go on a 3- the PSE Building in Bellevue. hour cruise on Lake Washington in one make sure your dues are current at th https://is.gd/vuquli. For more information contact: of two 18 Century Historical, Tall, James Banks Sailing Ships, Lady Washington or Kyle Sullivan [email protected] Hawaiian Chieftain. Chapter Chief ([email protected]) African Bike Drive Grays Harbor Historical Seaport will have each of their ships at Carillion (www.signupgenius.com) Merit Badge Clinics Point and has offered the Sammamish May 19 Trails District the special opportunity to General Instructions for Clinics "Bike Drive For Africa” service project sail with them. This is an educational, Open to ALL Scouts of any troop. coming up Saturday May 19th - great hands-on, actual sailing experience Bring Scoutmaster signed blue cards for scouts - for more information and where the crew (that would be you) and wear uniforms. sign up please go to: sails the ship, experience life on board a Kirkland " http://www.signupgenius.com/go/904 ship in the 18th Century, and learn from 2nd Thursday* of each month 7-8:30 0a49a4a87-african the crew about the ship. PM The job: The bike preparation involves The District has a limited number of Rose Hill LDS Building lowering the handlebars and seats, spaces available and invites you, your (Roundtable location) turning the handlebars and attaching the pack, troop, or crew to come aboard. 7720 126th Ave NE pedals to the frame. The bikes must be The cost is $35.00 per adult or youth Kirkland, WA 98033 streamlined as much as possible so we participant and must be paid when you Lorin Thompson can get more in the cargo container. No make the reservation. Age appropriate [email protected] bike repair experience is necessary. If adult supervision required. This can be 425-882-4769 you have your own tools we would an individual or group activity. May 10: Personal Management appreciate you bringing them to the June-August: No Clinic The sailings are 9:00 AM on Saturday, event. Please make sure you have your Redmond September 8th or 9:00 AM on Sunday, name marked on them for easy 2nd Saturday* of each month 9-11 AM September 9th both are leaving from identification. Union Hill LDS Building 1200 Carillion Point, Kirkland, WA. 7115 224th Ave NE Click to register: Redmond, WA 98052 Foyer Phone: 425-868-2956 Last BALOO Training Link for the 8th - Enter North door at end of building. Before Summer June 1-2 http://seattlebsa.doubleknot.com/event/ Dave Thaler historical-sailing-ship-9818/2348105 Did you know that in order for your [email protected] pack or den to go on an overnighter you th 425-869-3814 Link for the 9 - must have someone on the outing May 12: Swimming (see article below) http://seattlebsa.doubleknot.com/event/ trained in BALOO? The Cubmaster, historic-sailing-ship-9918/2348143 June-August: No Clinic Den Leader, Committee Member or even a parent going on the outing could *Check District Calendar for be trained. WHAT IS RARER monthly exceptions or new THAN EAGLE? information. The new BALOO syllabus is out and it has combined the Webelos and Cubs Do you have Scouts that Redmond Merit outdoor training into one training. The are interested in the Badge Clinic last training before summer is offered: environment and love a May 12 challenge? The Hornaday June 1 (6pm) thru June 2 (5pm) Awards, BSA’s “Olympic The Swimming merit Camp Schoenwald, Medal bestowed by the badge clinic will be held 16030 Sylvester Rd. SW, Seattle Earth.” Check it out. 9am-11am Saturday May 12 at a $20 (this includes all meals) Employees of Boeing & Microsoft The time you spent this past summer at Cub Day Camp, hiking trails, herding Scouts to the dining hall, and singing campfire songs helped build your Scouts’ sense of adventure, teamwork, and ability to overcome challenges. WEATHER SMART TRAINING Chances are you helped those Scouts Be prepared to go out camping with your NO GLAMPING ALLOWED — create a handful of memories they will youth this summer. learn about the HERE’S WHAT DOES AND DOESN’T keep for the rest of their lives. That potential weather hazards you could same volunteer time, which has already COUNT encounter and how to deal with them had a profound effect on the youth safely. You can find this online at In Scouting’s early years, camping was around you, could have a huge impact my.Scouting under Program Safety. pretty simple. You slept under the stars.