BEACON 11-15-2009
1. SCOUTING FOR FOOD. Update.
Scouting For Food
The Scouting for Food Pickup date is advertised as November 21st. It's not too late to hand out door hangers and bags beforehand.
Need is greater than ever this year, and several organizations would close down without Scouting For Food. If you had any doubts about whether or not to participate, the answer should be yes! Even handing out just a few door hangers in town in replace of a pack, den, or troop meeting can have a big impact for the organizations in your area.
Our door hangers are not dated. If your unit can not hand out before the 21st and cannot collect on the 21st, please consider organizing a date and time that works for your unit and still participating in Scouting for Food.
Contact Devon Hubner <devon.hubner@
2. BOOTHBAY HARBOR GINGERBREAD SPECTACULAR.
Information about the Boothbay Harbor Gingerbread Spectacular as a promotional event for Boothbay Region units:
Does your unit live in the Boothbay Harbor region? A great opportunity for advertising and promoting your Scouting unit exists at the Boothbay Harbor Opera House in December. Organize a gingerbread house making event with your Pack, Troop, Crew, or Sea Scout ship, then display those gingerbread houses at the Gingerbread Spectacular. Remember that during the holidays people travel to other towns to participate in their holiday events. Units in Bath, Woolwich, Wiscasset, Damariscotta, Edgecomb, Boothbay Harbor, and Southport should all be participating in this opportunity! Not From Boothbay Harbor? Find similar events in your own towns!
Devo (Devon P. Hubner)
Assistant District Commissioner
Downeast District
devon.hubner@downeastdistrict.
3. SAVE THIS DATE. March 27, 2010. Pine Tree Council’s University of Scouting. See you there. What a great opportunity to add to the basic training you have already received. Network. Meet other Scouters. Have FUN in Scouting!!!!! J
4. ROUNDTABLE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2009 (UNDERGROUND SCOUTING?) Have you heard about monthly supper clubs? An ‘old’ event which has been revived recently. It’s a way for chefs who are out of work due to the closing of restaurants due to the economy. Supper club participants have to know the chef or know someone who has attended to be invited or somehow crack a code to learn who and where; then, very shortly before the evening begins they are given a pass code and location for the dinner. The fee is a ‘donation’ to the chef for the ingredients and time spent preparing the meal. Diners meet new people and experience new recipes. The chef has an income for the evening and potential devoted customers when a job is landed.
Well, Guess What? Our roundtables aren’t an underground Scouting Event. You don’t need to wait until the last minute to get a pass code, location, and suggested donation amount.
Why? Because Downeast District’s Roundtable is held monthly at the Wiscasset Middle School on Route 218, .4 mile out of downtown Wiscasset. It is a free event and you don’t have to spend a lot of time searching the internet for pass codes, locations, or hoops to jump through.
We would like to see you at Roundtable in FULL UNIFORM and all we ask is that you bring enthusiasm for Scouting AND a willingness to learn more about the Scouting movement which we do ask you bring back and share with fellow Scouters, parents, grandparents, etc. to bring a better program to the youth in your community. (How’s that for a run on thought?!)
