3 Rivers District, Northern New Jersey Council: 2019

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Three Rivers Events During January 2020

Three Rivers Events During January 2020

Jan 2 - TRD District Committee
http://www.nnjbsa.org/registration/calendardetail.aspx?activitykey=2582048&orgkey=944
Jan 14 - TRD Roundtable
http://www.nnjbsa.org/registration/calendardetail.aspx?activitykey=2582031&orgkey=944
Jan 18 - TRD Tiger Tumble
http://www.nnjbsa.org/registration/calendardetail.aspx?activitykey=2598789&orgkey=944
Jan 25 - TRD Klondike Derby
http://www.nnjbsa.org/registration/calendardetail.aspx?activitykey=2598551&orgkey=944
Jan 28 - TRD Commissioners
http://www.nnjbsa.org/registration/calendardetail.aspx?activitykey=2419937&orgkey=944

Training Sessions During January 2020
[none posted]

Other Council-Approved Events in January 2020
Jan 5 - OA Lodge Annual Banquet
http://www.nnjbsa.org/registration/calendardetail.aspx?activitykey=2575654&orgkey=944
Jan 6 - OA Lodge Executive Committee Meeting
http://www.nnjbsa.org/registration/calendardetail.aspx?activitykey=2570057&orgkey=944
Jan 25 - Scout Night at Monster Jam
Contact Tyrone Manning, 201-677-1000 x34 or tmanning@bsamail.org

Sunday, December 22, 2019

District Bowl-a-Thon (Dec 30)

Harold F. Wrightington Classic

"One Great Event, Three Great Locations"
Monday December 30, 2019

Click here to register at any one of the three locations.

Montvale Lanes
14 W Grand Ave
Montvale, NJ 07645
9:00-11:00 AM

Parkway Lanes
200 US-46
Elmwood Park, NJ 07407
11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Bowl Rite Lanes
714 Summit Ave
Union City, NJ 07087
12:00-2:00 PM

Sunday, December 1, 2019

District Tiger Tumble (Jan 18)

Three Rivers District presents the 16th annual Tiger Tumble

Come join the Three Rivers District for a morning filled with lots of family fun and laughs.

• The Tiger Tumble is for Tiger Cub Scouts (1st Grade). Lions also welcome.
• The program is designed to give the Tigers and their adult partners a fun introduction to the Scouting program.
• Every Tiger Cub participating will receive a commemorative patch.
• Tiger Cubs must be accompanied by their adult partner to participate.
• Tigers should wear their Scout Uniform.
• Sneakers are required for everyone entering the gym.

WHERE: Palisades Park Jr.-Sr. High School
WHEN: Saturday, January 18, 2020
TIME: 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
FEE:
$5.00 per Tiger Cub (on or before Dec. 31st)
$10.00 (after December 31st)
$15.00 (at Door)
REGISTER: http://www.nnjbsa.org/registration/calendardetail.aspx?activitykey=2598789&orgkey=944

For additional information:
Mark Wrightington: 201-944-9191 MarksMadness331@aol.com
Jessica Fajardo: 201-677-1000 x37 Jessica.Farjardo@scouting.org

Three Rivers Events During December 2019

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

BSA National Has Lots of Resources

A recent posting in Scouting Magazine was a reminder that BSA National has lots of resources that Scout and Cub adult leaders can draw on. There's useful information both for new and for veteran leaders.

As an example, Scout and Cub rank requirements change, sometimes as tweaks, but sometimes as complete rewrites. Clearly, you have to stay abreast of such changes. The magazine article recommended two sites:

The first is the Program Resources page. Think of it as your quick-start guide to Scouts BSA. Here, you’ll find a collection of links for starting a Scouts BSA troop, helping Scouts earn merit badges, guiding youth leaders toward more effective troop meetings and more.

The second is the Program Updates page. This one’s for both newcomers and veterans, and it’s where the National Scouts BSA Committee posts the latest information on any changes to the program. If there’s a new program initiative, updated requirement or any change to Scouts BSA printed material, you’ll find it there first.

Sunday, November 10, 2019

A Kind of Welcome Wagon for New Cub Families

Taking a cue from how a family moving into a new neighborhood might be greeted with a "Welcome Wagon" basket of gifts, a Cub Pack in Michigan gifts each new Cub family a white paper sack with some useful outdoor stuff plus some trail mix.

The sack also contain some information for the parents, but just a bit. As described in a recent issue of Scouting Magazine (click here), "Few families have time to read a thick packet of information — at least not right after joining your pack. But they will appreciate information that’s succinct, timely and relevant."

The article was based on a tip to Scouting Magazine from Cub Pack 3685 in Farwell, Michigan.

Monday, November 4, 2019

Three Rivers Events During November 2019

Sunday, September 29, 2019

Three Rivers Events During October 2019

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

2019 Popcorn Sale Dates

2019 Popcorn Sale Dates

AUGUST
August 10	Show and Sell #1 Orders Due
August 22	Take Order Sale Begins
August 22-24	Show and Sell #1 Pickup
SEPTEMBER
September14	Show and Sell #2 Orders Due
September 26-28	Show and Sell #2 Pickup
NOVEMBER
November 2	Take-Order orders due
November 2	Show-n-Sell excess return
November 14-16	Take-Order Pick Up - ALL FINAL PAYMENTS DUE
DECEMBER
December 15	Party for $2,000 sellers at Urban Air Trampoline
December 22	Movie - "Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker" at Garden State AMC

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Three Rivers Events During September 2019

Friday, August 23, 2019

Camp Turrell Award for Nick Ligosh

The Friends of Camp Turrell recently awarded its Trip McMillan Staff Excellence Award to Nick Ligosh. Nick wore several hats at camp: Camp Commissioner, Dining Hall Steward, and Merit Badge Counselor for Public Speaking. He also conducted each Friday evening's "Scouts Own Service" at the camp's chapel followed by each Friday night's closing campfire at the Council Ring.

Nick's unique voice was familiar to every camper, since they heard him frequently at meals, directing food service and wait duty. Soon campers took to cheering Nick at every opportunity, and many tried to mimic his call for "Waiters!" Click below If you would like to try your own hand at mimicry.

In the photo are Kaleb Alekel, Geoff Garlick, Nick, and Camp Director Troy Knudsen.

Cake Frosting and Trademarks

Some bakeries will balk at frosting a cake with an image containing a trademarked logo. Not just Scouting, but also major league baseball teams, Marvel characters, Coca-Cola, etc.

BSA National is willing to provide your bakery with a pre-printed release form. There's no charge, but be sure to get it done in advance -- plan on a few days turnaround.

You'll find details in an article published last May in Scouting Magazine. Click here for the online version.

Dutch Scouts Dropped into the Middle of the Woods

"Getting 'dropped' in the forest is a beloved scouting tradition," wrote Ellen Barry in an article for the NY Times. She tagged along with three Dutch Scouts who were "dropped" into the middle of the woods at 10:00 PM a long way from their summer camp and challenged to find their way back. They were given a "primitive GPS" device but little else.

Barry wrote, "This is the Dutch scouting tradition known as a 'dropping,' in which groups of children, generally pre-teenagers, are deposited in a forest and expected to find their way back to base. It is meant to be challenging, and they often stagger in at 2 or 3 in the morning."

Addressing her readers, Barry said, "If this sounds a little crazy to you, it is because you are not Dutch." She might have also predicted this reaction from American Scout leaders, "What a cool idea! But getting approval to doing it here? Fuhgeddaboudit!"

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Three Rivers Events During June 2019

Thursday, May 23, 2019

An overview of the Boy Scout and Girl Scout organizations, past and present.

"Boy Scouts Are Just Scouts Now, and That's Making Girl Scouts Mad" is the title of an article that appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek on April 17, 2019 by Claire Suddath. Click here.

This is a terrific article! It's an overview of the Scouting program that includes some of the 100+ year-old history, a look at controversies, and a look at ongoing problems and proposed solutions. There's some Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) history too, along with a "compare and contrast." Because the article appeared in Businessweek, there's also discussion about how Scouting BSA and how GSUSA finance themselves and about current Scouting BSA financial worries.

In spite of the article's title about how dropping "Boy" from "Boy Scouts" is "... Making Girl Scouts Mad," that is mostly downplayed. In fact Suddath dismisses that particular controversy with, "Two of America's most benign charitable organizations fighting over the right to call young girls “scouts” feels a bit like the Humane Society and ASPCA arguing about who can best care for kittens." Instead, Suddath says that the real concern "is a much more fundamental argument about the best way to advance women's equality." GSUSA says that this is what girls need and that GSUSA knows how to do it best.

Most disheartening for both organizations is a chart showing membership climbing steadily through 1973, and then declining quickly to less than half.

Included in Suddath's article is her interview with Chief Scout Exec Michael Surbaugh in order to get his take on declining membership and other problems. Suddath also tells how she interviewed Scoutmasters, parents, and youth, and said, "I realized: The only people upset by BSA's new policy seemed to be adults. I talked to dozens of kids for this article, and every one of them said they liked the idea of girls in Scouts."

Saturday, May 4, 2019

Three Rivers Events During May 2019

Thursday, April 25, 2019

Buying Scout Awards in NYC

It may be more convenient than Oakland

Consider going to New York City to buy Boy Scout and Cub Scout awards. The Greater New York Councils opened a small "Award Center" at its new office on 475 Riverside Drive and stocked it with lots of belt loops and pins for Cubs, and rank patches and merit badges for Scouts. https://www.bsa-gnyc.org/servicecenter

The Award Center is not an actual "Scout Shop," which means that it has just a smattering of other stuff, such as uniforms and neckerchiefs and accessories. But, if you know what you're after, you can phone a week ahead, and they'll transfer items from their actual Scout Shop at Alpine Scout Camp or Camp Pouch.

The GNYC Service Center and its Award Center is located on the 6th floor of the Interchurch Center building, uptown near Columbia University. Enter either from 475 Riverside Drive or, better, from 61 Claremont Avenue. Show your ID, get an entrance pass, and find the elevator. The building is between 119th and 120 Streets. It's a short walk from the 116 Street subway station 1 train line. There's street parking and also a garage on 120th Street off Riverside.

Contact: David Robbins, Director of GNYC Scout Shops

212-651-2466

David.Robbins@scouting.org

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Three Rivers Events During April 2019

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Scout Weekends at the Liberty Science Center

Our special weekend workshops provide in-depth science exploration for Scouts, helping them earn badges and Nova Awards through a focused learning experience based on relevant themes.

Each Scout Weekend experience contains a series of hands-on activities that go toward fulfilling Scouts' badge requirements, plus access to general admission exhibitions, and a souvenir fun patch.

For more information or to reserve a program for your group, call 201-253-1310 or email sales@lsc.org.

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