"The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This time of year is packed with family, faith, hopes for the future, and charity to all. Service projects are a wonderful way to help those in need in our neighborhoods and in our schools. Share family, cultural or historic traditions with your den, pack, or troop. Celebrate the holiday season with foods and crafts that are appropriate to the various faiths and cultures. Build a giving tree during a pack or troop meeting or organize a food collection where everyone brings something to share with the needy. Service projects can take a number of different forms. You can help an elderly person decorate their home, go visit a long term care facility and sing carols or help serve the holiday meal or work with the local county departments to adopt a family for the holidays to name a few. As we embrace the scouting spirit and practice random acts of kindness, please remember to record the time spent working on them and report them on the Good Turn for America website.
WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR ROUNDTABLE TOPICS!
If there is a subject that you would like to have covered at roundtable that we have not done yet, please contact myself or Amanda to get the ball rolling. Nothing is out of the question.
I still need your help!
The Wisconsin River District needs your Help in identifying great individuals who could serve as a unit commissioner.
All units need a Unit Commissioner. A good unit commissioner has a love for Scouting and desire to help Packs and Troops work better together is all that is needed to be a UC. I also encourage you to contact me directly if you are interested. Group UC meetings are one half hour, once a month prior to Roundtable. It really is not a lot of time for those already involved with the units - just come early to Roundtable.
I challenge all Cub Scout Packs/Boy Scout Troops to forward me one name of a person that fits the bill for being a unit commissioner.
Packs, Troops, and Crews, If you have not received a visit from a commissioner or do not know who your commissioner is, please give me a call, I will either get your assigned commish in touch with you or will schedule a time that I can come up and visit.
Other Notes:
- Five Star University is January 12th, 2013. Visit the following Link for more information...It is great opportunity to get additional training as a commissioner!
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- Unit Commissioners meet at 6:30 before each round table St John's Lutheran Church, 100 Oak Street, in Prairie Du Sac.
- Commissioners, Please continue to log your unit visits and get them to me. I do have an Excel form that you can fill out and send to me for each visit. Just send me an email (dawg@bugnet.net) and I will get it to you.
