Cub Scout Family Pack Pilot Final Webinar

For the Cub Scout Packs who have signed up to participate in the Family Den Pilot Program, the 3^rd and Final orientation webinar will be held at 7pm Paris time zone on Thursday, August 25th. The half hour presentation will detail the program and help answer any questions you may have about implementation. The link to the Zoom webinar will be emailed out ahead of time to the Pack Key 3.

Does your pack want to join the pilot? Complete the required FAMILY DEN PILOT PROGRAM – PACK MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING and return it to John Erskine.

Best Practices for Linked Troops Seminar

The National Scouts BSA Program Committee is pleased to announce an interactive virtual seminar on "Best Practices for Linked Troops." This event will be held on September 17th at 9:00 AM CST via Zoom and is open to all Scoutmasters. We will be discussing the "why" for single-gendered Troops, rules for linked Troops, the variety of organizational structures permitted for linked Troops, common youth protection questions, and more!

This seminar will be recorded and available to all Scouts BSA volunteers. Sign up here.

Do you have...?

Do you have old patches, neckerchiefs, Scouting memorabilia or even non-Scouting items that would be great for our next on-line auction?

We are always looking for great items for our auctions. Proceeds from the auction help offset the total cost of Scouting in the Transatlantic Council.

If you have items to donate, contact Chris Wolfe chris.wolfe@scouting.org

How can I get that patch?

I loved all the patches on the uniform of our Den Chief, Arnie. I used to always ask him how to earn each of the colorful patches

"And how do you get the one which says "Recruiter", I asked. Arnie pointed to it and said "You can get this anytime you get a kid to join Scouts. They have their parents turn in an application and you get it awarded at a Pack meeting," he answered. "It means you're a Scout recruiter!"

It took me two months of pestering my best friend James Miller to join me as a member of Den 2. The Cubmaster gave the patch to James and said "you get to present this to Mike for getting you to join Cub Scouts." I was so proud of the emblem that I spent my second Cub Scout year getting everyone else in the Den -- including James -- to earn one of those patches too!!

You can earn one for getting another youth to join TAC Scouting. It is worn below the right pocket of your Cub Scout, Scouts BSA, Venturing, Sea Scout, or adult uniform. All you have to do is to get someone new to join your unit. Then your unit leader can arrange to award the patch to YOU!!

Then, like me, you can be proud to be known as a "Scout recruiter!"

-Mike Walton, TAC Executive Board Member

(Unit leaders can order this patch at councilstuff.com)