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5/20 - Come play Poker and raise money for the Scouts!
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3/25 - Device Donation Day!
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Spring Camporee - Registration Link & Information
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Spring Camporee is Almost Here!
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Looking forward to an awesome weekend of friendly competition and scouting spirit at our first Spring Camporee since 2019. Reminder that registration closes March 6, you can sign up here at https://scoutingevent.com/023-67108-167899
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Attention Webelos and Parents!
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You are invited for a day of Camporee Fun on Saturday, March 18 at beautiful Rancho Los Mochos
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Webelos are asked to arrive at 9:00 a.m. From 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Webelos will be guided through the camporee by a youth staff member, with adult supervision. Webelos will be able to participate in appropriate activities during that time
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Webelos coming up for the day should bring a lunch, preferably in a day pack with the 10 essentials.
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Parents and guardians of attending Webelos are invited to attend a "Webelo to Scout transition" training in Teel Lodge, beginning at 10:00 AM
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Webelos and accompanying parents and guardians will depart from Rancho Los Mochos at approximately 3:30 PM
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The cost is $5 per attending Webelo. All attending Webelos will receive a camporee patch. Accompanying adults are free.
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If you have questions or need more information, please contact Lee Amon 510-468-2868 LeeAmon@pacbell.net
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Registration is officially open for the Cub Scout Day Camp!
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MISSION PEAK CUB SCOUT DAY CAMP
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June 12-16, 2023 - M-TH from 9am - 3:30pm and F from 9am - 1pm
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Ardenwood Farm, Fremont, California
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We are very excited to, once again, be offering the Mission Peak Cub Scout Day Camp! We fixin to have a 'rootin, tootin' good time out on the good ole Ardenwood Farm. We will have tons of fun activities planned for that week including:
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- Meeting the Furry Farm Animals
- Learning about how things happened in the Frontier Days
- Work on Scout projects
- Spend some time on Arts and Crafts
- Learn some great new cheers and skits
- And so much more!
To sign up for this great adventure, click on Golden Gate Area Council - Mission Peak Cub Scout Day Camp 2023 (scoutingevent.com) . Be aware that there are only a limited number of spots available so sign up as soon as possible. Also, we are going to be offering large discounts (up to $150 dollars) for those who sign up to volunteer this week. If you have any questions, reach out to me at EvelynMarieLittle@gmail.com .
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Looking forward to seeing ya'll later,
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Eve Marie Little Anu Zindal
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Camp Director Program Director
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Tickets still remain for Mission Peak Scout Hockey Night with the San Jose Sharks!
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Our Mission Peak District has received a special invitation to come out to see an official NHL hockey game all together in the same section! Come out in your finest Class A uniform and come cheer on the Sharks as they go against the New York Islanders on the ice. Normally around $60 dollars, these special discounted tickets are available now for purchase and has the option to include a Scout Night patch.
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On top of all this fun, a percentage of the sales goes to our Mission Peak District and if we have over 100 MP scouts come out for the night, we have been invited to go out on the ice at the end of the game for a large aerial picture of our scouts! Everyone and anyone are welcome to join us so make sure to invite your family and friends to this great adventure on the ice!
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If you have any questions about this event, reach out to Eve Marie Little @ evelynmarielittle@gmail.com
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Cub Scout Yo-Yo Day was a huge success!
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MISSION PEAK DISTRICT CUB SCOUT YO-YO DAY
Over 80 young Cub Scouts and around 10 yo-yo performers gathered together at the Lake Elizabeth Park for one reason: Enjoying the art of yo-yoing!
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Thanks to the San Francisco Spindox Yo-Yo club and Duncan Yo-Yos, the Mission Peak District was able to put together this amazing event for all scouts of all ages to come out and have a great time with this nostalgic game. Thanks to them, great yo-yo starter kits were also available for interested scouts that were equipped with official Duncan yo-yos and trick book so that the scouts could have everything they needed to be able to work on their Yo-Yo elective.
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The Palms Pavilion was set-up into little requirement stations where the cub scouts would walk to and focus on achieving that task before heading to the next one. Several dozens of pins and beltloops were passed out to the scouts that finished their requirements and turned them into the registration booth.
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The icing on the cake was the performance that the yo-yo club put together for the scouts. All of the little kids sat down on the grass and the professionals performed amazing tricks and stunts, so amazing that you could have heard a pin drop.
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We are hoping to be able to put something like this together again for the next year. For any additional questions, feel free to reach out to the organizer at EvelynMarieLittle@gmail.com
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Housekeeping after your Recharter Posts
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Annual Actions Suggested for Unit Key3
- Check your roster to be sure it reflects all the members you think it should; i.e. did anyone get dropped at recharter time that you did not want to be dropped?
- Check your Be-A-Scout pin for accuracy so prospective new members can find you when they search for scouting near them. With the changes in adult leaders during recharter, and meeting locations, it probably needs updating.
- Reassign any functional roles you want. Each year the assignments get flushed on 12/31. These functional roles are things like Key3 Delegate, COR Delegate, Training Chair, and YPT Champion. Generous use of functional roles can help offload the work from the Committee Chair, COR, & Unit Leader.
Your online roster can be found by:
- Logging into my.scouting.org,
- Select Menu,
- Select the folder for your unit
- Select Roster
You can check your be-a-scout pin by:
- First checking what a prospective member sees at: Fund Scouting Near You
- To make changes to your pin, log into my.scouting.org,
- Select Menu,
- Select the folder for your unit
- Select Roster
- Select Unit Pin
Functional Roles can be assigned by:
- Logging into my.scouting.org,
- Select Menu,
- Select the folder for your unit
- Select Roster
- Select Position Manager
- Select the Functional Roles tab at the top of the page
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Schedule your Order of Arrow Election
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The Order of the Arrow is Scouting’s National Honor Society. It recognizes those who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law in their daily lives and, through that recognition, cause others to conduct themselves in a way that warrants similar recognition, to promote camping, to develop leaders, and to crystallize the Scout habit of helpfulness into a life purpose of leadership in cheerful service to others.
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Each Scouts BSA troop, Venturing crew and Sea Scout ship with qualified Scouts is urged to hold an election not later than December 16, 2023. The date and place of the election are selected by you, as unit leader.
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Youth Membership Qualifications
1. Be a registered member of the Boy Scouts of America.
2. At the time of their election, youth must be under the age of 21, hold the Scouts BSA First Class rank, the Venturing Discovery Award, or the Sea Scout Ordinary rank or higher, and following approval by the scoutmaster, crew advisor or Sea Scout skipper, be elected by the youth members of their unit.
3. The youth must have experienced 15 nights of camping while registered with a troop, crew or ship within the two years immediately prior to the election. The 15 nights must include one, but no more than one, long-term camp consisting of at least five consecutive nights of overnight camping, approved and under the auspices and standards of the Boy Scouts of America. Only five nights of the long-term camp may be credited toward the 15-night camping requirement; the balance of the camping (10 nights) must be overnight, weekend, or other short-term camps of, at most, three nights each. Ship nights may be counted as camping for Sea Scouts.
4. Assistant scoutmasters who are 18, 19 or 20 years old are also considered to be youth members for the purpose of OA elections. All requirements shown above must be met for a young assistant scoutmaster to be eligible for election.
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Prior to your unit’s election, the unit leader must certify the nominee’s Scout spirit and youth membership qualifications. Voting for youth candidates will be based on their spirit of brotherhood, cheerfulness (no matter how tiresome their duties), and a willingness to give unselfish and wholehearted service to others at all times.
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To schedule an Order of the Arrow election for your unit, please click here:
Schedule Election
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Your election should be held at a regularly scheduled unit meeting or camping experience. Every effort should be made to have 100 percent attendance of both youth and adults at this meeting. An election team from the Order of the Arrow will be on hand to conduct the election.
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Please observe youth protection guidelines when emailing any youth.
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If you have any questions, please contact our election coordinators listed below.
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