If you missed out on taking Wood Badge last fall and really want to take the training, there's another opportunity coming soon. The Great Lakes Council (Detroit area) has openings in its Wood Badge course coming up in May and June. 

If the $235 cost is a problem, don't worry.  I have it on good authority that they may still be able to help you with that.  Just contact the Course Director and see what they can do.

See attached registration form for details.

Reminder about important new information from the Camp Leader's Handbook...

"Camp" also includes Cub Scout Day Camp.

New and Important Information

Here are a few items that leaders and participants should be aware of. Please plan for these changes!

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From http://blog.ScoutingMagazine.org...

 

UPDATE (3:15 p.m. Jan. 13): Bill Evans, Youth Development team leader with the BSA, tells Cracker Barrel that these merit badges will count as electives for rank advancement. As if you needed another reason to get your guys to earn these.

A merit badge called Computers would sound just a crazy to a 1910 Boy Scout as a merit badge called Tracking sounds to Scouts today. That’s because the BSA’s list of available merit badges has evolved through the years as the interests of boys have changed.

In honor of the BSA’s 100th Anniversary, though, today’s generation of Scouts will get the unique opportunity to experience some of the activities their predecessors enjoyed. That’s possible thanks to the BSA’s new Historical Merit Badge Program, a set of four discontinued merit badges that today’s Scouts can earn.

Boys can earn any or all of these merit badges:

Signaling

• First offered in 1910 and discontinued in 1992.
• Sample requirements: build a simple buzzer or blinker capable of sending Morse code messages, and send a message of at least 35 words; send and receive messages using semaphore flags at a rate of at least 30 letters per minute.

Tracking

The following Board Resolution was passed during the recent National Executive Board and Committee Meetings in Washington DC:

WHEREAS, the current age and grade eligibility requirements for participation in the Venturing program is 14 years of age and completion of the eighth grade, and
 
WHEREAS, the Program Content Committee has recommended that, effective May 1, 2010, the age requirement be changed to 13 years of age and completion of the eighth grade;
 
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Article VII, Section 2, Clause 2 (a) of the BSA Rules and Regulations be, and hereby is, amended to read as follows:
  Venturer- Be 13 years of age and have completed the eighth grade, or be 14 years of age or older, and not yet 21 years of age.

Recently spotted on Craig's List...

32 Ft Pinewood Derby Track - $750 (Wyoming, MI)

32 Foot Wood Track, 4 Lanes, Switch Gate, Fast Track Timer, Digital with all K3 options, with plastic wall, that unscrew if you do not want to use them. We have 3 other tracks, and we do not use this one anymore.

Wayland Boy Scout Troop 97 and the Wayland United Methodist Church will celebrate 50 years of charter together on Saturday, March 21 from 3pm
until 6pm at the church.

There will be a ceremony followed by open
fellowship.

We would like to invite all of our Scouting neighbors to
join us and ask, if possible, that you please RSVP the amount expected
to attend to either:

Michelle Amante at 269-792-2659 or Amante0827 [at] yahoo [dot] com (Amante0827 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

or

Carol Low at 269-792-2959 or CLLOW100 [at] yahoo [dot] com (CLLOW100 [at] yahoo [dot] com)