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Wasatch PeakDistrict 18 Newsletter – May 2008
Calendar Items
5/16-17 – Spring Camporee
(Combined with Eagle Ridge)
5/16-17 – Leave No Trace Trainer Course
6/12 - Roundtable
6/19-21 – Varsity Big Event
6/28 – District Cub Day Hike
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Thanks for your help with
Scouting for Food.
It was a success.
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Boy Scout Corner
Don’t forget to attend the Spring Camporee
on the weekend of May 16-17th
at Cherry Campground up
Hobble Creek Canyon by Springville.
If you have questions, please contact
Boyd Welton at weltons2@msn.com.
This is another reminder about
Jamboral 2008
September 12 – 13, 2008
Equestrian Center in South Jordan
Registration is $20/per person before July 15th. Each person will receive a 3" "100 Years of Service to the World" pocket patch, embroidered ball cap, and 12 collectors patch pins to be traded with other scouts.
Our goal is to assist the Great Salt Lake Council in its efforts to participate in the national "Scouts Serve" initiative and to collect a total of one million hours of service by the council before September 2008.
If you haven’t started your service hours, get started today. You can get more information on the council website.
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Is your committee at Roundtable?
Invite a fellow scouter to join us.
We need all of you!
The Boy Scouts of the Great Salt Lake Council Join the Effort to Reduce the Threat of West Nile Virus with the Boy Scout West Nile Virus Service Project. If you want your Scouts (ages 11-14) to participate in this service project, please go to the council website or contact Boyd Wenerstrom at boydwenerstrom@yahoo.com for more information.
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Cub Corner
The Cub Scouts have planned some fun district activities for this summer. The first one will be on June 28th. It will be a Day Hike. Please meet at the Playground area on the northeast side of the river bottoms at 12300 South at 8:00am. There will be awards given out.
The other two events will be on July 26th at the Draper Amphitheater at 7:00pm and a Fishing Derby on August 16th at the Riverton Fishing pond. There will be a $2.00 charge for this event. More information will follow as we get closer to these dates. Please put them on your calendar and plan on attending. Please contact Brian Young at 254-4493 or brianyoungscouting@hotmail.com
Order of the Arrow
Attention!
Boy Scout, Varsity and Venturing Leaders.
If you want to hold elections in your troop for Order of the Arrow, please contact Randy Potts at 446-8044.
We are actively promoting this organization in our district. It is a great program for those scouts who want to do more with scouting.
Scouter’s Minute
“Good leaders are like baseball umpires; they go practically unnoticed when doing their jobs right.”
Bryd Baggert
“Create the Teaching Moment”