Leaders:

We want to remind everyone that Lone Star district will not be having any meetings in July.

Have a great July 4^th and your time off this month!

We will see you on Thursday, August 6 for Program Preview at the McKinney LDS Church at 2801 Eldorado in McKinney.

Have a great month!

On Saturday July 25, 2009 the City of McKinney Storm Water Management is sponsoring the First Annual Storm Water Inlet Marking (SWIM) event. The SWIM Event is an environmental public education program with the goal to raise awareness of storm water issues and encourage residents to protect water resources. Every storm water inlet in McKinney must be marked to deter residents from dumping trash and chemicals into the waterways. Volunteers will be responsible for installing aluminum storm makers at previously designated storm inlets and deliver door hangers with information about the inlet marking and steps to keep inlets clean.

We are looking for passionate volunteers who are interested in helping us keep our waterways healthy and clean. All volunteers must be 10 years of age to participate in the marking project. Adequate supervision of one or more adults 21 years of age or older per 3 children for groups that have participants 10-17 years of age is required. All volunteers will be required to submit liability waivers and photo releases.

Thank you for your time and please contact me for additional information.

Thanks,
Annita McCormick, MPH, RS
Storm Water Specialist
City of McKinney
972-547-7579
amccormi@mckinneytexas.org

The centennial edition of the Boy Scout Handbook will soon be available, and with the new handbook come several rank requirement changes that will be in effect as of January 1, 2010.

Tenderfoot

• A Scout must teach another person how to tie a square knot using the EDGE model (explain, demonstrate, guide, and enable). He must also be able to discuss four specific examples of how he lived the points of the Scout Law in his daily life.

Second Class

• A Scout must discuss the principles of Leave No Trace and explain the factors to consider when choosing a patrol site and where to pitch a tent.
• He must explain what respect is due the flag of the United States.
• He must again discuss four examples of how he lived four different points of the Scout Law in his daily life.
• He must earn an amount of money agreed upon by the Scout and his parents and save at least 50 percent of it.

First Class

• An additional requirement to the 10 separate troop/patrol activities states he must demonstrate the principles of Leave No Trace on these outings.
• He must discuss four more examples of how he lived the remaining four points of the Scout Law in his daily life.

Life

• A Scout must use the EDGE model to teach a younger Scout a specified skill.

Star, Life, and Eagle

• Troop Webmaster and Leave No Trace trainer are two new leadership positions.

Troop Leaders,
Chestnut Square in McKinney is holding the annual “Killis Melton Ice Cream Crank Off” this July 4th. Your help is needed!

We need:

• Adults and Boy Scouts
• Ice Cream Makers (prizes will be given in the following categories: vanilla, chocolate, gourmet, nut, fruit, and “you made what?”,(even sugar free). Ice cream makers should bring enough to make two gallons. No raw eggs, please.
• Judges’ assistants (delivering samples from many crankers to judges for judging)
• Tasting assistants (helping to scoop out samples for tasting stations as needed).
• Crankers (manual labor needed to turn the crank the ice cream freezer!)
• and many other tasks.

We meet:
I’ll be there at 8:30 am cranking freezers of ice cream. Tasting starts at 12:00 p.m. and runs until 3:00 p.m.
We need: YOU!

For more information contact:
James West
214-675-1559
tao75070@airmail.net

www.chestnutsquare.org

We’re going to try and freeze at least 100 gallons for this Community Wide event!!!
Those who want to begin early, freeze ice cream at home and bring it to the event. Gallon containers have been left on the front porch at the Dulaney House (big yellow house) at Chestnut Square. See you there!

Hello Lone Star District Scouters-

I want to thank everyone that have given to the Circle 10 Council Friends of Scouting Campaign this year!

I wanted to give you an update on the status of Lone Star District’s goal. Lone Star District has a 2009 Friends of Scouting goal of $52,500 to support Circle 10 Council. We are less than $1,000 away from reaching our goal by June 25!

You can make a pledge that you can be billed and pay over the rest of the 2009 year. If you have not pledged this year then please contact me and I can fill out a pledge card for you and submit it to Circle 10 Council. If you want to increase your pledge for just this year so we can reach our goal then contact me, also.

Are you interested what the funds from Friends of Scouting pledges support? Friends of Scouting support all the Circle 10 camps (Camp James Ray, Camp Constantin and Clements Scout Ranch-Camp Cherokee) so they can be maintained and stay open year round, supports “Join Scouting Night” so we can recruit over 300 NEW boys into Scouting in Lone Star district, camperships so all boys can participate in a camping experience and registration assistance so no boy is turned down to be in Scouting.

Contact me with any questions?
Thanks for supporting Scouting!

Jim Sullivan
District Executive
Lone Star District
Email: jsulliva@bsamail.org
Office: 972-396-6444

We enjoyed having you all this week!

Here is the Twilight Camp achievement list:  achievements.

06/02/09 - 9:45PM.

We have updated the Lone Star District website. (4 months old and getting a facelift!)

This allows website admin to have better control over information, event postings and image uploads. A few more changes are yet to be made but for the most part the update is complete.

R