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FEBRUARY 2013 South Mountain District Newsletter

SOUTH MOUNTAIN DISTRICTMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL, BSA

Greetings!

Packs, Troops, and Crews—submit articles of your activities or events for the District

newsletter to Bernie Suess ([email protected]). Please submit your

information by the 22nd of each month.

NEWSLETTER... NEWS!!

The South Mountain District is a geographical area located in Lehigh and Northampton counties which serves the school districts of Bethlehem Area, Saucon Valley, and Southern Lehigh. Municipalities within the South Mountain District include Bethlehem, Bethlehem Township, Center Valley, Coopersburg, Fountain Hill, Freemansburg, Hanover Township, Hellertown, Lower Milford, Lower Saucon, Steel City, and Upper Saucon.

2013 DATESRoundtable / OA Chapter 7:30pm 1st Wednesday [2]District Committee 2nd Tuesday [1]Eagle Board & Project Review 2nd Thursday [1]District Commissioners 7:00pm 3rd Wednesday [3]District Recharter Day January 5 [97]OA Family Banquet January 5 [96]Wood Badge Dinner January 6 [8]Council Recognition Dinner January 25 [8]Cub Scout Readyman Meet February 9 [97]Trainer’s EDGE February 9 [1]Klondike Derby February 16University of Scouting March 9 [9]Pinewood Derby March 16Cubs/Boy Scout Compass/Orienteering event April 13National Youth Leadership Training April 19 to 21 & 26 to 28 [7]District Recognition Dinner April 27 [1]Camp Trexler Beaver Weekend May 3 to 4 (tent.) [5]Camp Minsi Beaver Weekend May 10 to 11 (tent.) [4]Spring OA Weekend May 31 to June 2 [5]OA Family Picnic July 13 [TBA]Fall OA Weekend September 6 to 8 [4]Fall Hike-o-ree/Camporee September 21Cub Fall Event October 19Scouting for Food November 2 and 9 (tent.)

NOTICE: If you have a question regarding any date or activity, please contact the respective Chair listed on the District Committee Page.

MEETING LOCATION KEY[1] East Hills Moravian Church 1830 Butztown Rd, Bethlehem[2] St. Luke’s Hospital and Health Network 800-801 Ostrum Street Bethlehem, PA 18018[3] Minsi Trails Council Office[4] Camp Minsi[5] Trexler Scout Reservation[6] Akelaland[7] Settler’s Camp[8] Jordan Lutheran Church[9] Lehigh Carbon Community College[10] Moerkirk Em. Med. Inst., 2166 S. 12th St., Allentown[90] Iron Pigs Stadium[91] NE Pa Goose Pond[92] Sportsmen’s Club, Hellertown[93] Wesley United Methodist Church[94] Allentown Rose Garden[95] Jacobsburg State Park[96] Dryland UCC, Nazareth[97] First Baptist Church, Bethlehem

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SOUTH MOUNTAIN DISTRICT LINKS

South Mountain District Home Page:http://www.minsi-southmountain.com/

South Mountain District Fliers and Brochures Page:http://www.minsi-southmountain.com/fliers.htm

South Mountain District Award Forms:http://www.minsi-southmountain.com/documents/Form-DistrictAwardofMerit.pdf http://www.minsi-southmountain.com/documents/Form-Fellowship.pdfhttp://www.minsi-southmountain.com/documents/Unit_Scouter_Award_Nomination-2013.pdf

These forms are used for Scouter recognition.http://www.minsi-southmountain.com/documents/District_Bio_Form.pdf

Scouter Bio Form. Fill in and email to Linda Small at [email protected]

SMD Announcementshttp://www.minsi-southmountain.com/announce.htm

Advancement and Recognition Guidehttp://www.minsi-southmountain.com/documents/Guide-Advancement.pdf

FORUM Newsletter http://www.minsi-southmountain.com/newsletters/current_forum.phpFORUM Attachments http://www.minsi-southmountain.com/newsletters/~forum_attach.php

GO BIG! GET WILD! 2013 NATIONAL SCOUT JAMBOREE!Learn about the 2013 National Scout Jamboree at The Summit Bechtel Reserve (SBR)!https://summit.scouting.org/en/Jamboree2013/Pages/default.aspx

IMPORTANT DATES COMING UP: 2013 SOUTH MOUNTAIN DISTRICT ACTIVITIES

FEBRUARY 9 - Cub Scout Readyman MeetFEBRUARY 9 - Trainer’s EDGEFEBRUARY 16 - Klondike DerbyMARCH 9 - University of ScoutingMARCH 16 - Pinewood DerbyAPRIL 13 - Cubs/Boy Scout Compass/Orienteering eventAPRIL 19 to 21 & 26 to 28 - National Youth Leadership TrainingAPRIL 27 - District Recognition Dinner

SOUTH MOUNTAIN DISTRICT ROUNDTABLE AGENDAS

DATE CUB SCOUTS BOY SCOUTSFebruary 6, 2013 Troop/Den Budgets (Michelle Morrow) [combined]March 6, 2013 Gifted Youth (Susan Grazio) - [combined] tentative


The district membership committee will be contacting all pack unit leadership beginning in February about a new initiative for 2013 and beyond. We will be asking each unit in our district to recruit and assign an adult volunteer to serve on the pack committee as the designated Membership Chairperson. This individual would ideally have or create contacts in local schools and would be willing to work with the school district to schedule and hold recruitment events (school sign-up nights), community recruit-ment drives, and plan other events to build community awareness of our scouting program. Similar to the familiar popcorn kernel in focus, this new parent volunteer position would be responsible for set-ting unit recruitment goals, setting plans in place to meet those goals and keeping the unit committee involved in unit growth and scout retention throughout the year.

We are looking forward to working with this chairperson in the coming year and see this person as an extension of our district membership committee. We will periodically be sending information out to them about training events, district recruitment events, and other items of interest.

Thank you in advance for your assistance with this project and we look forward to speaking with you and answering any questions you may have. Our district executive Tyler Yankey has offered to come to an upcoming unit committee meeting if desired to help answer questions or help recruit a volunteer. Have a great year.

Mark Firth, District Membership Committee

The BSA has a year round growth plan which is designed to facilitate Scout recruitment and pack-troop relations. The South Mountain District Membership Committee supports the individual units as they implement their yearly growth plan and will offer monthly advice to units in this column to give your unit leaders some ideas and suggestions.

FEBRUARY:


National Youth Leadership TrainingApril 19-21 and April 26-28, 2013

The next step in Leadership Training!

An integral part of BSA’s Youth Leadership Training Continuum, National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) is the next step after Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops/Crews (ILST/C). The Minsi Trails Council will be sponsoring a two Troop course in 2013 to provide additional opportunities for the Scout-masters and Crew Advisors to train your youth leaders. The NYLT course supports Scoutmasters and Crew Advisors in their primary responsibility of training youth leaders. The Minsi Trails Council will offer the two weekend course in April 2013.

Read more about NYLT in Minsi Trails Council at http://www.minsi-nylt.com and download the flyer at http://www.minsi-nylt.com/2013-NYLT_Flyer.pdf

SAVE THE DATE for your special evening! All Eagle Scouts from the class of 2012 will be

honored at a special dinner on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 6:00 p.m. at the

Holiday Inn Conference Center, Fogelsville, PA. Watch your mail for more details, but

mark your calendars now! You won’t want to miss this great event

honoring the 2012 Class of Eagle Scouts. All Eagle Scouts, parents, family, Scout leaders

and friends are invited!

EAGLE SCOUT RECOGNITION DINNER

SAVE THE DATE MAY 22, 2013

Phone: (610) 264-8551 www.minsitrails.com

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Minsi Trails Council

991 Postal Rd. Allentown, PA 18109

Today's Eagle Scouts … Tomorrow's Leaders

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http://www.minsi-southmountain.com/documents/2013_SMD_Klondike_Derby-Instructions_Guide.pdf

http://www.minsi-southmountain.com/documents/Klondike_Derby_2013.pdf


District activities

Rechartering Day, January 5th First Baptist Church, Bethlehem

Trail to Eagle Presentation by District Advancement CommitteeJanuary 2nd, St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem

Silver Beaver recipients for South Mountain at Council Recognition dinnerJanuary 25th, Jordan Lutheran Church, Orefield

(District Chair, Michael E. Faccinetto and District Commissioner, Dr. Michael Dolan)


South Mountain District 2013 Pinewood Derby

March 16th, 2013 Registration: 8:00-9:00am Race begins at 9:30am East Hills Moravian Church 1830 Butztown Rd, Bethlehem Cost $8 per racer Each Pack may send 5 racers Registration Forms due to Council by March 8th, 2013 No Walk-ins

Any questions please contact: Chris Smith [email protected] 484-553-7962

Breakfast and lunch foods will be available for purchase

2013 South Mountain District Pinewood Derby Please return this form to: Minsi Trails Council, PO Box 20624, Lehigh Valley, PA 18002-0624 by March 8, 2013

Pack:_______ Pack’s Pinewood Derby Contact Name:_____________________________________ Contact’s email address:_______________________ Contact’s Phone Number:_________________

Racer’s Name Racer’s Rank Car name Cost ($8) 1:

2: 3: 4: 5:

Please make Checks Payable to: Minsi Trails Council Total Cost:


A SCOUT IS LOYAL“Loyalty is also a scout virtue. A scout ought to be loyal to all to whom he has obligations. He ought to stand up coura-geously for the truth, for his parents and friends.”BOY SCOUTS HANDBOOK the First Edition, 1911, page 10.

This year is the 150th anniversary of the Civil War so I find it fitting to use that period in our country’s rich history to inspire our Scouts and ourselves. Joshua Chamberlain was the commander of the 20th Maine Regiment during the Battle of Gettysburg. His decisive leadership and courage in battle on July 3, 1863 stopped a Confederate advance and saved the Union army. Before the Civil War, he was not a soldier but a college professor who had volunteered to serve. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions and achieved the rank of general. He later served as the Governor of Maine.

Before the battle of Gettysburg, Colonel Chamberlain is given the responsibility of guarding one hundred and twenty mutineers and deserters from the 2nd Maine Regiment. The men from the 2nd Maine are hungry and tired. Col. Chamberlain can’t spare his men to guard them. So to gain their loyalty and respect, he feeds them, listens to their grievances and talks to them. This is what he said, as dramatized in the movie Gettysburg:

“This regiment was formed last summer in Maine. There were a thousand of us then. There are less than three hundred of us now. All of us volunteered to fight for the union, just as you did. Some came mainly because we were bored at home—thought this looked like it might be fun. Some came because we were ashamed not to. Many of us came because it was the right thing to do. And all of us have seen men die.

“This is a different kind of army. If you look back through history, you will see men fighting for pay, for women, for some other kind of loot. They fight for land, power, because a king leads them or—or just because they like killing. But we are here for something new. This has not happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free.

“America should be free ground —all of it. Not divided by a line between slave state and free—all the way, from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here, we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here, you can be something. Here, is the place to build a home.

“But it’s not the land. There’s always more land.

“It’s the idea that we all have value —you and me.

“What we’re fighting for, in the end, we’re fighting for each other.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to preach. You, you go ahead. You talk for awhile. If you—If you choose to join us, you want your muskets back, you can have ‘em. Nothing more will be said by anybody anywhere. If you choose not to join us, well you can come along under guard, and when this is all over I will do what I can to see you get a fair treatment. But for now, we’re moving out.

“Gentlemen, I think if we lose this fight, we lose the war. So if you choose to join us, I’ll be personally very grateful.”

photo Mathew Brady [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Part of a series of short articles on the Scout Law by John C. Wallace, Eagle Scout, Assistant Scoutmaster, Troop 362 and Unit Commissioner for South Mountain District.


SOUTH MOUNTAIN DISTRICT COMMITTEEDISTRICT KEY 3District Chair Michael E. Faccinetto 610-554-9151 [email protected] Commissioner Dr. Michael Dolan 610-866-3492 [email protected] District Executive Tyler Yankey 610-465-8558 [email protected]

DISTRICT CHAIRSActivities Chair Don Miles 610-730-2514 [email protected] Activities-Cub Scout Event Coordinator Marci Weaver 610-282-0921 [email protected] Activities-Boy Scout Event Coordinator Mike Mayrosh 610-866-4968 [email protected] Activities Committee member Chris Smith 610-809-1630 [email protected] Activities Committee member Lisa Myung 610-282-5504 [email protected] Advancement Chair Drew Draper 610-866-7875 [email protected] Advancement Cub OPENAdvancement Eagle Roxanne Mayrosh 610-866-4968 [email protected] Merit Badge Marci Weaver 610-282-0921 [email protected] Advancement Eagle Board Ellsworth Machin III 610-746-1886 [email protected] Camp Promotions Chair Bill Tattersall -- --Cub Camp Promotions /

Day Camp Director Wendy OlshefskiCamp Promotions-Boy Scouts OPEN FOS Family Campaign Dave Hay 610-861-4494 [email protected] Sandi Dale 610-282-1686 [email protected] Member-at-Large Rod Long 610-838-6768 [email protected] Membership Chair Mark Firth 610-866-2660 [email protected] Membership Resource Team Members Bernie Suess [email protected]

Julie Pineiro [email protected] Webelos to Scout TransitionMembership School NightNew Unit Chair OPENNominating Chair Rich Santee 610-691-7000 [email protected] Chapter Advisor Dave Hay 610-861-4494 [email protected] Kernel Lucretia Ellis 610-360-0599 [email protected] Dinner Chair Linda Small 610-865-6069 [email protected] for Food Chair Rev. Dale Miller 610-216-6111 [email protected]

Scoutreach Liaison OPEN Training Chair Tom Stalsitz 610-967-6508 [email protected] Training Chair-Cubs Tara Smith 484-866-6112 [email protected] Chair-Boy Scouts Jim Swain -- -- Training Chair-Venturing John Arno 610-866-1810 [email protected] Webmaster Bernie Suess 484-330-6915 [email protected] SMD Website [email protected]

http://www.minsi-southmountain.comNewsletter Editor Bernie Suess 484-330-6915 [email protected]

COMMISSIONERSADC-Scouts Sally Haggerty 610-866-4566 [email protected] Scout Roundtable Bryan Ritter [email protected] Scout Roundtable Rick Gardner [email protected]

Any Scouter interested in serving on the District Committee, contact Rich Santee or if interested in serving as a Commissioner, contact Mike Dolan.

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