Posted on July 12th, 2010 by MichaelVernon
Unit’s,
Don’t forget about the Trainer’s Development Conference being held this Saturday, July 17th, from 8:30-4:30 at Mt. Vernon! The conference is only $10 and includes all your material and lunch. The location is at Lighthouse Assembly of God behind Jean’s Restaurant in Mt. Vernon.
The success of your pack or troop will primarily depend on the quality of the trained leadership you have at the helm. The best way for you to have trained leadership is to have a pack or troop trainer that can train all your incoming leadership on a schedule that fits your unit! Please consider sending someone from your unit to this training!
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Posted on June 14th, 2010 by MichaelVernon
Be sure to attend our district’s next big event- “Scout Night” at Jenny Wiley Theatre. Showing will be “Jack and the Beanstalk” with show time at 8:15 on Sunday evening, July 25th. Ticket prices are $12 per adult, and $9 per Scout/sibling. This includes your ticket price and the patch for the event. Pre-registration is open on www.bgbsa.org under the Lonesome Pine district link. Pre-registration is required by July 11th! If you show up at the door without pre-registration the ticket prices jump to $14 per adult, and $11 per Scout/sibling!
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Posted on June 14th, 2010 by MichaelVernon
For the units that have signed up to sell popcorn- popcorn kernel training is set for Thursday, August 12th at 6:00 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Prestonsburg (where we have roundtable). Please make plans for as many leaders as possible from your unit to attend! It’s worth an additional 2% in commission for your unit! If you have any questions please get in touch with me at 606-821-8121 or Michael.Vernon@scouting.org!
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Posted on June 14th, 2010 by MichaelVernon
The Lonesome Pine District is back functioning with commissioner service! This will do nothing but improve the quality of our district and your units! We’re very excited about this development and for what it’s going to bring!
A commissioner is a volunteer who is a teacher, coach, mentor, and friend to 3 units throughout our district. The commissioner helps with issues the unit may be having (kids quitting program, not enough adult help, not enough funds in account, etc.) and helps each unit improve (trains more leaders, ensures each unit recharters on time, etc). Your commissioner will be able to respond to your unit more quickly than your district executive will be able to and can help provide that one on one coaching you may desire.
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Posted on June 14th, 2010 by MichaelVernon
I’d like to welcome Mountain Community Fellowship and pack 833 to the Lonesome Pine District! The church and it’s leadership is adopting Pack 833 that was meeting at Central Elementary. Adding several boys and leaders to an already great program is nothing but a win for Paintsville and the BSA! A big thanks to Pastor and charter representative Jason Hutchinson, new Cubmaster Lora Beth Bangham, and committee member Nate Hager for already going through Cub Scout leader specific training!
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Posted on May 18th, 2010 by MichaelVernon
It’s time to gear up for popcorn sales again! I realize that the sale won’t start until the fall but now is the time to begin to get things and people in place.
Step #1: Recruit your popcorn kernel! This is vital to your success! Find someone who will be the unit’s cheerleader and will be the contact person for popcorn for the unit.
Step #2: Fill our your “popcorn unit commitment form.” This form is just saying that your unit will commit to sell popcorn this fall. If you fill it out and send it back in by June 30th, you will receive an additional 1% commission for your local unit. That form can be found under the “popcorn” section of www.bgbsa.org. Please don’t let this date sneak up on you!
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Posted on May 18th, 2010 by MichaelVernon
While Scouting is tied closely with the school year, we certainly encourage each and every one of our packs to participate in Scouting throughout the summer. Vacations and baseball sometimes make that difficult, but Scouts will always find a way to be there if there’s something fun in store!
Even if you can’t meet each week, think about having a picnic or day at the park one weekend. Maybe visit a local museum or get together for a big parent vs. kid’s game of kickball. Kids are in Scouts for the outdoors and the summer is the perfect time for it!
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Posted on May 17th, 2010 by MichaelVernon
This past weekend the Lonesome Pine District held it’s annual Spring Camporee at Elkhorn City. Sandwiched between the thunderstorms on Friday and Saturday night, everyone had a wonderful time on Saturday during the day.
Our Boy Scouts had the wonderful opportunity to learn about tracking, fire accelerants, fishing, and do some whitewater rafting! A big thanks to Steve and the crew from the whitewater rafting outfitters coming down to have some fun with the boys.
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Posted on May 11th, 2010 by MichaelVernon
District Spring Campout information:
Location: On the riverbank at Elkhorn City. If you come downtown it’s across the street from the bank; behind Bob’s Sport’s Shop. It’s also right by the train museum. You can park up by the museum or in the bank parking lot. You’ll see tents set up. There will be no parking on the beach!
*Alternate location if it rains too much is at the fishpond’s at Elkhorn, going towards Ashcamp. Signs will be posted on the riverbank if this happens.*
Time: Registration is from 5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. on Friday or at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday. There will be no activities on Friday night or Sunday morning, but we certainly encourage you to come and camp the whole weekend!
Activities: For the Cub Scouts we have planned a fishing derby, archery, bb guns, volleyball, a raingutter regatta, parachute man drop, and crafts. For the Boy Scouts we’re looking at a fishing derby and the chance to work on some of the 2010 exclusive Merit Badges such as Tracking and Signaling. Also we’re really looking forward to the Saturday night campfire show of a Civil War reenactment.
Cost: $10 per Scout, $5 per adult or sibling. Raingutter regatta boats will be on sale for $4. T-Shirts will also be on sale at Bob’s Sports Shop for $8. The city’s Apple Blossom festival will also be going on across the street so you may want to bring extra money for that.
Please Bring with you: Your camping gear, food for your unit, and fishing gear. These things will not be provided!
If you have any questions please contact Doug Ramey at 606-754-9126 or myself!
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Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by MichaelVernon
We will be having roundtable this Thursday, May 6th at 7:00 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Prestonsburg. All district volunteers/parents are invited and encouraged to attend! We will be talking about the upcoming district spring campout and much more! Please don’t miss this opportunity to network with other district volunteers and learn about the opportunities available in Scouting!
We will also be having our district committee meeting 1 hour before roundtable at 6:00 p.m. Anyone interested in serving on a district level should make plans to attend.
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