Venturing Awareness Day

May 19th

Attention all Youth 14 - 20
Non-Scouts, Scouts, Boys and Girls

BSA Venturing Awareness Day is May 19, 2007. Discover Scuba, check into Climbing and Rappelling. Come see what the Venturing Program is all about and have some fun.

Presented by Old Pueblo District, Venture Crew 211, Post 777, The Dive Shop, Catalina Climbing Committee.

Location:
Double V Scout Ranch
3801 S. Kinney Rd
1/4 mile North of Ajo Way

Early Registration $5.00. After May 5 - $10.00. (Make checks payable to BSA). Check in starts @ 8AM. Program will run from 9am – 4pm. Lunch included.

Sidewinders' 'Catch a Scout' Day

Friday, April 13th

ALL currently registered Scouts and their families will receive free admission to the opening day game and fireworks night for the Triple A World Champions Tucson Sidewinders at TEP!

All NEW boys that join Cub Scouts in the Spring of 2007 (Feb.-April) will be eligible to attend the opening night game as well. They will also receive a voucher for a family four pack for another Sidewinders home game and a free baseball card set! To redeem this voucher, their Cub Leaders will need to turn in their registration forms to the Council Service Center by April 11.

To download the flyer, click here.

Spring Camporee Reminder

April 13th and 14th (April 15th Optional)

Double VV Scout Ranch
“Scout ranch Round Up”

This Camp O Ree is for Boy Scout Troops and Varsity Teams only.
Come and enjoy the Friendship, Fun and Excitement of Scouting,!!!!!!
Any questions concerning the Camp O Ree can be addressed to James Nelson 245-6552 at E-mail address: troop248tucson@msn.com, or Jim Nelson 742-5089 at E-mail address: jnelson5572@msn.com.

To download the Administration flyer, click here.
To download the Events flyer, click here.

Scouting the World

Cub Scout Day Camp

To download the flyer, click here.
To download the Unit Assignment Worksheet, click here.

2007 Friends of Scouting
Pack & Troop Recognition Program

Let's all be a "Friend of Scouting"

The 2007 Friends of Scouting Campaign is just beginning. Congratulations to our Silver level Troops; Troop 211 and Troop 299. Our Gold Achievers; Pack 209, Troop 214 and Troop 241 and our Platinum friends; Troop 297, Troop 339 and Troop 380. If your Pack, Troop or Crew has not scheduled your Friends of Scouting presentation, please give Frank Youdelman a call at 742-7625 or email him at youdel@aol.com to schedule. We would like to thank the following facilitators for helping out this year: Frank Youdelman, Doug Rivard, Gene Welch, William Mills, Debbie Rendon, Jaime Rendon, Gabe Rendon, Helen Sonenberg, Debbie Dunlop, Chuck Moyer, Tonya Moyle, Greg Johnson, Bob Reeves, Nathan Moyer and Blake Kelly. Please see the attached forms to see what your Pack, Troop, and Crew can earn by collecting enough Friends of Scouting donations to earn Silver, Gold or Platinum!

To download the Pack flyer, click here.
To download the Troop flyer, click here.

April Is Youth Protection Month

April 12th Special In Person Training

Your Help is needed!! Help Us GET 80% of Direct Contact Leaders in OP Trained in Youth Protection

Special In Person Training At 6:00p.m., Christ The King April 12th or, always, on-line at www.catalinacouncil.org.

Talk to Everyone you can think of in Old Pueblo about having every adult Youth Protection trained!!! (If you have units that want special in person Youth Protection Training, contact Mae Smith 850-7137.)

Baloo Training

April 21st

Planning on doing family camping with Cubs? This is the training for you!!!

Saturday April 21, 2007
Begins 8:00 a.m.
Christ the King Episcopal Church
2800 West Ina Road, Tucson
Register at Catalina Council Service Center
750-0385
Coordinator: Chris Fonvergne
Fee $15.00 (includes lunch)

Super Saturday Training

April 28th

When:
-- April 28, 2007 begins at 8:00 a.m.
Where:
-- Tucson North Stake, Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, 939 West Chapala Drive

What:
-- Tiger Den Leader (8-11 a.m.)
-- Wolf-Bear Den Leader (8-11 a.m.)
-- Webelos Leader (8-11 a.m.)
-- Pack Committee (8-11 a.m.)
-- Cubmaster Specific (8-11 a.m.)
-- Troop Committee (8-11 a.m.)
-- Scoutmaster/ASM Specific (8-11 a.m.)
-- Varsity Leader (8-11 a.m.)
-- Venturing Crew Advisor (8-11 a.m.) New Leader Essentials (11:30 a.m.-1:00)
-- Youth Protection (1:15-2:15p.m.)Fee: $12.00 (includes lunch)

BONUS: Anyone becoming a trained leader through this training by taking IN THE ONE DAY all leader specific training for present position, New Leader Essentials and Youth Protection receives a FREE TRAINED PATCH.

REGISTERED at Catalina Council Service Center 750-0385. Coordinator: Mae Smith

Climbing and Rappelling
Instructor Training

Friday, April 13th

Registration will be on a first come first serve basis and we
can only guarantee spots for the first 20 respondents.

Session1: April 13th, 14th, and April 21st 2007
Session 2: May 11th , 12th, May 26th 2007

To download the flyer, click here.

Northern Tier Openings

BSA National High Adventure Base

Troop 211 has three treks going to Northern Tier BSA National High Adventure Base (www.ntier.org) this summer. We have three currently unfilled slots. Rather than letting them go unused, we are offering them to qualified, compatible Scouts from Old Peublo District or Catalina Council.
Our treks will traverse Quetico Provincial Park and the Boundry Waters Canoe Area beginning at 2:00pm on Sunday July 1 at the Atikokan Base in Ontario Canada and ending at 8:00am July 11 at the Ely base in Ely Minnesota.

To learn more, click here.

World Scouting with JOTI

World Scout Jamboree on the Internet

What is JOTI? Well, the acronym stands for Jamboree On The Internet. Is it new? No – this was the tenth year that it was held. Now to answer the question of what exactly is JOTI...

From the JOTI web page (www.joti.org)

The World Scout Jamboree On The Internet (JOTI) is an international Scout Meeting on the Internet which takes places every year on the third weekend of October. This is an official event of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. During that weekend, thousands of Scouts from all over the world meet and communicate with each other over the Internet, using any technologies locally available, from web browsers to e-mail, chat programs, microphones, scanners and digital cameras.

To learn more, click here.

OP District Advancement Committee

Important Update

Eagle Projects WILL NOT be accepted without SIGNIFICANT LEADERSHIP DEMONSTRATED. Collections include, but aren't limited to: food, book, shoe/clothing, and blood drives. In rare cases scouts ARE able to satisfy the eagle board that they have demonstrated adequate leadership by collecting items or blood drives. A good example of a blood drive: 1) scout plans and organizes and leads a group volunteers (other scouts, friends, workers on the project) and lures hundreds of blood donors to get their blood drawn by several nurses/doctors (phelbotomists) that were recruited by the eagle scout candidate's PERSONAL effort to do this drive and then the scout organizes the drop off/donation of the blood to a hospital or blood bank during and/or after the collection. A bad example (what happens in 99% of the blood drive requests): 1) scout hangs up a couple of flyers announcing a blood drive then and calls the Red Cross, which plans, organizes and DOES the scout's eagle project for him and does not allow for sufficient leadership.

Your Outgoing Advancement Chairman,
James L. Nelson II
Feb. 7, 2007

Welcome: George Carroll
Old Pueblo District Advancement Chairman beginning February 9, 2007