November North Star Scout Skill Nights


The North Star District is offering Scout Skill Nights on the second Thursday of each month. Our first Scout Skill Night, in October, offered the Citizen- ship in the World merit badge (session 1) and the Citizen activity pin for Webelos. Our second Scout Skill night is planned for November 10th and will cover the Citizenship in the World (session 2) and the Fitness activity pin for Webelos. The November session will take place from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at Nativity School, 1900 Stanford Avenue, St. Paul. The Citizenship in the Community Merit badge will be offered in December (session 1) and January (session 2). The Webelos activity pin for December is Scientist and the January Webelos activity pin is Forester.


Fall Camporee The District’s Fall Camporee was done with Lake Minnetonka District and was held right in our back yard at Highland Park. This was the first time in years that St. Paul Parks and Recreation had approved camping in one of their parks. Over 300 scouts from both Districts attended and the Geology merit badge was done at Lilydale park where there actually are some great fossils to find in St. Paul. Please give Paul Kaardal a Thank You for putting this together.


Lion Cubs


North Star is having a great fall with Lion Cubs! The response from the youth has been unbelievable. Throughout the winter we will be offering District wide Grand Adventures for the new cubs and their adult partner to help ensure they have a fantastic first year of scouting here in St. Paul.


BB Gun Day BB Gun day for all Cub Scouts will be held on Saturday, November 5th from 9:00 a.m. until everyone is done shooting.


It will be held at St. Columba School, 1330 Blair Avenue, St. Paul. Please register in advance by e-mailing Paul Kaard at paulkaard@yahoo.com. The cost is $5.00 per scout, adults are free and you can pay at the door. The registration deadline is Thursday, November 3rd.


North Star District Website: www.northstar.nsbsa.org


Serving: Saint Paul; District Chair: Colleen Galloway, 651-788-7279 email: colleengalloway@usa.net; District Commissioner: Mike Fischer, 651-698-8632 email: fischermm@aol.com; District Executive: Mike Gabiou, 651-254-9126email:mgabiou@northernstarbsa.org; Key Volunteers: Advancement Chair: Don Marose,651-773-9943 email: DonMarose@aol.com; Eagle Board of Review Chair: Jerry Gagner, 651-644-1474 email: ggsanta@q.com; Training Chair: Rich Greiner, 651-353-9623 email: greinerrich@yahoo.com; Boy Scout Training: George Battis, 651-452-4724; Camping Chair: Pat Norris, 651-644-3402 email: patrick_norris@hotmail.com;Community Friends of Scouting Chair: Taking applications; Family Friends of Scouting: Debbie Lee, 651-649-0676 email: apl1881@ bitstream.net; Growth/Membership Chair Mike Smith, 651.644.5646 email: johnmichaelsmith@comcast.net; Roundtable Commissioner: Roy Nauertz, 651-488-0689 email: caroynauertz@q.com; Cub Scout Roundtable Commissioner: Taking applications; Volunteer Resources/Nominating Chair: Joe Jansen, 651-698-4187


2 - District Committee Meeting 3 - Roundtable/OA Chapter Mtg. 3 - Friends of Scouting Training 10 - Scout Skill Night 11-12 - OA Fall Fellowship December


1 - Roundtable/OA Chapter Mtg. 1 - District Committee Meeting 8 - Scout Skill Night January


4 - District Committee Meeting 5 - Roundtable/OA Chapter Mtg. 12 - Scout Skill Night


Cub Scout Archery Day Archery Day for all Cub Scouts, including Lions and Tigers, will take place on January 7th. Watch the North Star District website for additional details and bring your Cub Scouts to Archery Day!


Webelos Pin Day Webelos Pin Day was a huge success with over 120 Webelos completing lots of Pins. This event just keeps getting larger every year!


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Webelos Pin Day Activities: Engineering (above) and Naturalist (below).


November Northern Lights


The Five to One Rule We all have a memory of a time when we were criticized. Do you remember a time when you were praised? I bet the negative comments stick in your mind.


A blog post by Bob Sutton, a management professor at Stanford University, points out that negative interactions are far more powerful than positive ones. Careful academic studies show that there must be five positive interactions for each negative one or the relationship will fail. Five to one is a lot, and that is just to break even!


How often do we do this with our Scouts? Do we notice five well-tied knots for each mistake? Do the Patrol Leaders comment on well-washed dishes and not just the dirty ones?


How about the Scouts who leave the troop, have they been told how well they are doing? If it wasn’t five to one, it should not be a surprise that the relationship with the troop failed.


So make this your Good Turn for a few days, five to one, with every one you meet, and no fake compliments. Look for true good things in every person.


District Awards


Do you have an outstanding leader? Someone who is critical for your pack, troop, team, or crew? Someone that does great things but doesn’t get great credit for their good deeds? Nominate unit leaders for District Awards of Merit or other district leader Awards!


They will be recognized at our Annual District Dinner. For more information contact Andrea at apengra@nsbsa.org


Membership Inventories At this time please email a copy of your current roster to apengra@nsbsa.org so that your records can be verified before entering Rechartering. Thank you for helping us to help you!


December roundtable Due to the holiday display at the LDS church in Brooklyn Park on our sched- uled roundtable night, we will be mov- ing the event to a new venue. Watch for details as to new location.


NorthernLights.NSBSA.org


Serving: Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Champlin, Crystal, Dayton, Golden Valley, Maple Grove, New Hope, Osseo, Robbinsdale, and Rogers. District Chairman: Ken Rasmussen 763-559-6540; District Commissioner: Chris Sandberg, cksandberg.scouting@comcast.net, 763-417-0887; District Director: Andrea Pengra, 763-231-7226, apengra@northernstarbsa.org; Key Volunteers: Boy Scout Roundtable: Jared Parviz and Jim Hoebman; Cub Scout Roundtable Com- misioner: Karene Heupel, kheupel@hotmail.com, 763-424-9733; Development: Chip Chapin, 612-827-5294, chipchapin@aol.com; Membership: Leigh McDowell Leigh.McDowell@comcast.net 763-424-3297; Boy Scout Membership: Jon Bovitz; Boy Scout Recruitment: Frank Noonan, 763-561-3831, fenoonan@msn.com Venturing: Roger Hagerman, 763-535-5752, rhagerman@anchorblock.com Webelos Transition: Sean Masterman, Steve Anderson, Doreen Gef- fre; Training: Leif Klang, 612-749-2043, lklang@comcast.net; Cub Scout Training: Brian Jones, bnlent02@comcast.net; Boy Scout Training: Joel Ostgaard, 763-533-0595, lakelandtv@sihope.com Activities: Vidal Guzman vguzman@pri.org 612-522-4998; Advancement: Debi Heyn debiheyn@aol.com 763-420-3010; Camping Chair: Jeff Johnson jscout582@aol.com; Order of the Arrow: Doug Farmer, 763-424-6424, farmer.doug@comcast.net; Scouting for Food: Bill Carlyon, 763-424-3185, bcarlyon@comcast.net and Ed Schlegal, 763-494-4499, ejkas@msn.com; Webmaster: Doug Farmer, 763-424-6424, NorthernLightsBSA@comcast.net


1 - District Committee Meeting 3 - Roundtable-Friendstorming 3 - Commissioners meeting 3 - OA Chapter Meeting 29 - District Committee Meeting December 1 - Roundtable 1 - Commissioners meeting 1 - OA Chapter Meeting


16- District Award of Merit and Unit District Awards Nominations Due


January


3 - District Committee Meeting 5 - Roundtable 5 - Commissioners meeting 5 - OA Chapter Meeting 31 - District Committee Meeting


2012 Klondike Derby


Get ready as Scoutmaster Jed Dotterer and Troop 582 take us all on a journey through Alaska travelling throughout the towns to experience a winter adventure. Experience some of old Alaska with log sawing events, panning for gold and of course the Klondike sled race. This years Klondike will be held at Prairie Park in Ostego. This will be one the do not miss Events of 2012 for more information or to learn how you can help contact Jed Dotterer at j2bsa@yahoo.com


JTE 2011 Remember to look at your JTE 2011 requirements! Pirates of Rum River Several ships of pirates overtook Rum River Scout Camp on September 23-25th.


Patrols built their own ships to travel around camp and participated in activities such as knot tying with their pirate hooks on, shooting the cannons, and of course a hunt for the lost treasure of Rum River. At the end Troop 610 used their pirate skills to find the key to open the treasure at the closing campfire.


Special thanks to Don Peterson, Steve Anderson, Rosalinda Sitler, Dan McDowell, Chip Caldwell, Craig Lewis, Leif Klang and Michelle Pritchard. Also a special thanks to all the patrols and troops and volunteers that helped make this event possible. Arghh!


How is


your unit doing so far? Is your unit Bronze, Silver or Gold!? For questions contact your unit commissioner or Andrea.


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