HAPPENINGS Merit Badge college Thank you Linda Jones for running another success- ful Merit Badge College! Roadrunner District Dinner The District Dinner is an annual event which this year is being held at St. Timothy Cumberland Presby- terian Church on April 10 th . If you have never been to a district dinner, you should treat yourself this year. It is an evening of great food and entertainment, door prizes, and adult leader recognition. The addi- tional details for the event are in- cluded on a separate page of this newsletter. As has become a tradition, the din- ner is being catered by Carrabba’s Italian Grill. Dinner is chicken marsala, penne pasta, their fabu- lous salad and bread. Dessert will also be served although it hasn’t been determined as to what. New this year is a dance troupe to enter- tain us. As for another tradition, there will be a slide show. To make that slide show, I need your Scout photos from the last year. Please bring your collection of photos, from troop, pack and crew meetings, campouts, special events, great Scout and leader shots on CD, DVD or flash drive to the March District Committee meeting, to Spring-O, or (last chance) to April Round Table. You can also catch me at Troop 254 meetings on Monday nights. If those opportunities don’t work, call me at 817 228 7307 to arrange a drop off. This year I am also looking for items for two things: door prizes and a silent auction. You can contact me by phone or by email at [email protected]. Your To-Do list is: 1. Submit photos, 2. Register and pay, 3. Come on April 10 th and enjoy an evening with great food, fantastic memories, leadership recognition, and maybe, an interesting door prize or silent auction find. I’ll see you there. Kate Watson District Activities Chair Training Scoutmaster/Assistant Scoutmaster Specifics and Introduction to Out- door Leader Skills and Outdoor We- belos Leader Skills is being planned for April 4-5 at Camp Burnett in Southlake. Jay Miller and Tim Em- ery are the Course Directors. Flyers are available at Roundtables and if you contact Jay ([email protected]), Tim (tim- [email protected]), or me ([email protected]). BALOO is also being planned for April 5 at Camp Burnett in South- lake. Monty Copeland is the course director. Flyers are available at Roundtables and from Jay or me. Don’t forget to promote Wood Badge in your units. The dates and application are on the council web site. Your units will benefit from your leaders being trained. You must be trained for your position to attend. If you wonder what those require- ments are ask me or go to the Na- tional Scouting web site and look up “What Makes a Trained Leader”. Also, for your Boy Scouts, you should be sending them to Twin Ar- rows (NYLT – National Youth Lead- er Training). Pre-Requisites are they attend a Troop Leader Training Roadrunner Reporter March 2014 Upcoming Events MARCH 2 District WEBELOS Bridging 6 Roundtable 6 Commissioners Mtg 9 Daylight Savings Begins 9-14 TA-191 10-14 SPRING BREAK 20 District Committee Mtg 22 Spring-O 27 Eagle Boards of Review 28-30 District Camporee In This Issue: Happenings 1 Units in the News 2-3 Eagles Nest 2 Order of the Arrow 3 RRADS 4 Calendar 6 Roundtable is held the FIRST Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM. Location: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 4401 NE Loop 820, North Richland Hills, TX 76180
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HAPPENINGS
Merit Badgecollege
Thank you LindaJones for runninganother success-ful Merit BadgeCollege!
RoadrunnerDistrict DinnerThe District Dinner is an annualevent which this year is being heldat St. Timothy Cumberland Presby-terian Church on April 10th. If youhave never been to a district dinner,you should treat yourself this year.It is an evening of great food andentertainment, door prizes, andadult leader recognition. The addi-tional details for the event are in-cluded on a separate page of thisnewsletter.As has become a tradition, the din-ner is being catered by Carrabba’sItalian Grill. Dinner is chickenmarsala, penne pasta, their fabu-lous salad and bread. Dessert willalso be served although it hasn’tbeen determined as to what. Newthis year is a dance troupe to enter-tain us.As for another tradition, there will bea slide show. To make that slideshow, I need your Scout photosfrom the last year. Please bringyour collection of photos, fromtroop, pack and crew meetings,campouts, special events, greatScout and leader shots on CD, DVDor flash drive to the March DistrictCommittee meeting, to Spring-O, or(last chance) to April Round Table.You can also catch me at Troop254 meetings on Monday nights. Ifthose opportunities don’t work, call
me at 817 228 7307 to arrange adrop off.This year I am also looking for itemsfor two things: door prizes and asilent auction. You can contact meby phone or by email [email protected] To-Do list is: 1. Submit photos,2. Register and pay, 3. Come onApril 10th and enjoy an evening withgreat food, fantastic memories,leadership recognition, and maybe,an interesting door prize or silentauction find.I’ll see you there.Kate WatsonDistrict Activities ChairTrainingScoutmaster/Assistant ScoutmasterSpecifics and Introduction to Out-door Leader Skills and Outdoor We-belos Leader Skills is being plannedfor April 4-5 at Camp Burnett inSouthlake. Jay Miller and Tim Em-ery are the Course Directors. Flyersare available at Roundtables and ifyou contact Jay([email protected]), Tim ([email protected]), or me([email protected]).
BALOO is also being planned forApril 5 at Camp Burnett in South-lake. Monty Copeland is the coursedirector. Flyers are available atRoundtables and from Jay or me.
Don’t forget to promote WoodBadge in your units. The dates andapplication are on the council website. Your units will benefit from yourleaders being trained. You must betrained for your position to attend. Ifyou wonder what those require-ments are ask me or go to the Na-tional Scouting web site and look up“What Makes a Trained Leader”.
Also, for your Boy Scouts, youshould be sending them to Twin Ar-rows (NYLT – National Youth Lead-er Training). Pre-Requisites arethey attend a Troop Leader Training
RoadrunnerReporterMarch 2014
Upcoming Events
MARCH
2 District WEBELOS Bridging6 Roundtable6 Commissioners Mtg9 Daylight Savings Begins9-14 TA-19110-14 SPRING BREAK20 District Committee Mtg22 Spring-O27 Eagle Boards of Review28-30 District Camporee
In This Issue:Happenings 1Units in the News 2-3Eagles Nest 2Order of the Arrow 3RRADS 4Calendar 6
Roundtable is held theFIRST Thursday of each month
at 7:30 PM.
Location: The Church of JesusChrist of Latter Day Saints
4401 NE Loop 820,North Richland Hills, TX
76180
Roadrunner Reporteror Introduction to Leader-ship Skills for Troops orCrews (ILST or ILSC),have earned First Class,be a registered member ofthe troop for 6 months pri-or to the start of thecourse, have the Scout-master andParent/Guardian approval,and a current medicalform parts A and B (regis-tration form has all thisin-formation and more).
We have 5 courses in2014. The Spring Breakcourse is full with a waitinglist. In July there will be 3courses, TA-192, 193, and194. In December therewill be a course betweenChristmas and NewYears. Make sure yourboys get all the trainingthey need to have a suc-cessful Troop or Crew.Also, if you have youththat have attended TwinArrows they are eligible toapply to staff one of thecourses. The July coursesare staffed, but applica-tions are being acceptedfor future courses. Adults,you are needed too, tomentor youth on the TwinArrow courses. You willlearn a great deal aboutthe intended running of aunit and see how theyouth can succeed andgrow through the process.Participant and Staff(Youth and Adult) applica-tions are available on thecouncil website under“Programs and Events”. Ialso carry a few with me.The September2014 Pow-derhorn is in the planningstages. This course fillsquickly. More informationcan be found through“Program an Events” onthe Longhorn Council web
site. Youth ProtectionTraining for membershipcan be done online. Wewill be offering the “Live”YPT courses again duringRoundtables through June2014 to meet the require-ments for camps in Texas.
Here is the link for newinformation on the Mem-bership Standards.http://www.scouting.org/Training/Membership_Standards.aspx
Don’t forget to turn in yourTraining Award applica-tions for knots to me.
Yours in Scouting,Jamie McCallumDistrict Training ChairCongrats:Congratulations to MrsPing Mayo, Mr DavidHammond and Mr DavidBall (Lakeview District)who were awarded thehonor of the United Meth-
odist Scouting "Flame andCross" award.The three were honoredduring the church serviceon Scout Sunday at FirstUnited MethodistChurch of Hurst. Congrat-ulations on this high dis-tinction for their volunteerwork in thechurch community as ascout leader.Submitted by Denice Tay-lor
Units inthe newsTROOP 757Hello fellow scouts, We had a fun weekendat the Klondike Derby.There were lots of activi-ties, especially the big
race. There were a total of12 activities. Some of thefun activities were hangingbear bags,winter firstaid, rescu-ing a Scoutfrom a fro-zen "lake",building ashelterwhere allScouts hadto be inside.We alsohad to carry
our Klondike sled and allits gear down a ravine, upthe other side and back. We had to set up an axeyard and how to use ahatchet, how to set up aflag pole with three 10'long poles, use a map andcompass. We had to lashtogether a "travois" andcarry a scout around thepool house. We learned
BoY SCOUTADVANCEMENTPlease congratulate thefollowing Scouts on pass-ing his Eagle Board ofReview:FebIsaiah Robersonfrom Troop 220Project description:Disability AwarenessFair, No. Richland Hills.Tucker Eckelsfrom Troop 253Project description:Deck Restoration atUnited MemorialChristian Church, Euless.
Eagle Board of Reviewand Project CertificationMeeting Schedule for2014:
Mar. 27th Apr. 24thMay 22nd June 26thI would like to thank thismonth’s Eagle Boardmembers: Rick Strong,Toni Tharp, and Pat Pool.
We now have 39 trainedEagle Coaches in theDistrict.
Tim RogersDistrictAdvancement Chairman
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about fire safety and hadto build a fire with flint andsteel. Once the fire wasbig enough, we had to boilwater over it and cook aspaghetti noodle and thentie that in a square knot.And last but not least, thebig race. During the big race, noone got seriously injured.Each team had ropes forpulling and steering. It wasa struggle. The hardestpart was turning the cor-ners. Some of the cartsalmost tipped over. Oneboy even got run over byhis cart as they couldn'tstop fast enough! After all the events wereover, some troops left, butmost stayed. Later in theevening we had a campfireprogram. During thatawards were given to win-ning patrols and we hadsome jokes and skits per-formed. They also an-nounced the winner of thecooking contest, which ourtroop won with a deli- cious dutch oven piz-za.We had lots of funand laughs and Ican't wait until nextyear!Brier Miller, Troop757 Historian
Pack 907Held the Annual Blue andGold Banquet
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Order of the ArrowWoapalanne Chapter ceremony team did a Arrow ofLight and Bridging ceremony at Pack 434 of Trailblaz-er District B&G banquet on February 15th. They had13 webelos 2 scouts bridging to 4 different troops. Ourtroop 254 received 3 new scouts into their troop. Con-gratulations to all.
