--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: D2I00001 Date: 02/13/96 From: RICK MOOYMAN Time: 03:12pm \/To: NANCY KOPFHAMMER (Read 3 times) Subj: Pinewood Derby Hi Nancy. Did you get the info I sent to you 2 weeks ago about the KUB KAR races held with different events. Just courious, as I have not heard anything from you. Rick Mooyman Asst. Cub Leader of the 4th Winnipeg Cubs Winnipeg, Manitiba, CANADA --- Maximus/2 3.00 * Origin: The Clubhouse/T.O.T.T. BBS [OS/2] (1:348/601) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: D2J00000 Date: 02/13/96 From: STEVE GAZDA Time: 5:44 am \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: Knives If every one could have a knife when ever and where ever they wanted, what would kids do if they got into a fight at school? Not everyone is going to have a knife and if there is a fight, what if there is 2 kids and only one knive? The kid with the knive will most likely win... ...by death. /\_/\ \0 0/ \*/ ^ Gump --- DLG Pro v1.0/PDQMail v2.60 * Origin: LifeLine, tied to the Solid Rock (412)829-7955 (1:129/211) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: D2J00001 Date: 02/13/96 From: KEN PULFORD Time: 11:19pm \/To: MIKE ASSEF (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Rover Scouts Hi Mike: The Word: Moot comes from the old gaelic meaning meeting place. Yours in Rovering Ken ... ... I do whatever my Rice Crispies tell me to do. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The Inner Sanctum - 4 nodes 28.8 (905)732-9826 (1:247/500.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: D2K00000 Date: 02/13/96 From: PAUL YELK Time: 12:16am \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: AOL Scouting Online Vol 6 No 4 (Newslett00:16:1002/13/96 * Crossposted from: SCOUTER Here's the latest America Online newsletter: Subj: Scouting Online - v6,no4 Date: 96-01-29 00:42:51 EST From: Scout Ldr To friends and colleagues ... youth and leaders ... Scouts, Guides, ALL youth groups alike ... welcome to the AOL Scouting Online Forum. Our keywords are SCOUTS or SCOUTING; spread that news! Thinking Day Online '96! - Girl Scouts and Girl Guides * Thursday, February 22nd - 5 pm to 11 pm EASTERN Time - the "OMNI Commons" conference room. * SweetieSM, Scouting Online's youth host, and a team of Girl Scouts from around the country, will welcome you and share their enthusiasm. We ask all girls to join us, even if only for a few minutes. * This is the second year that OMNI Magazine Online has given us this conference room for the night. There is a new art download this year, so please check out keyword OMNI this week to be ready for the 22nd. * We are setting up a Thinking Day '96 folder on the GSUSA message board now - keep your eye on it for more news as we near the 22nd. (just between us ... GSUSA will be watching to see if this online stuff really fits in with their national programs ... so let's *really* show them!) Thinking Day is *your* World Class Event! Sunday Night Chats! We meet in "The ShadeTree" chat room, 9 to 10 p.m., Eastern Time, every Sunday evening. The ShadeTree is one level down on the Scouting Online menu: select Parenting Conference Rooms to find it. Here are the upcoming starter topics. * February 4th - GSUSA: Putting the Girl Back First in Scouting ... Do we spend too much time 'administering', not enough 'ministering'? * February 11th - 'Fast Start' for those of you new to this wild online world ... Learn some tricks of finding it faster, doing it easier from those who were online B.C. (Before Cyberspace) * February 18th - Scouting and Native American Cultures .. Where's the balance point between a quest for knowledge and understanding versus distressing those who hold tradition and community to be private? Please note: I see this as being deeper than BSA's Order of the Arrow ceremonies and lore. * February 25th - Access to 'Scouting' Graphic Images ... With current AOL software, we can all view BMP, GIF, JPEG, ART and PCX formats. What should be accepted for our library? What viewers and conversion software do you need? How many formats should be 'on file' for a single image? * March 3rd - GSUSA ... The topic will be chosen a week or two before the chats ... but there are always s'mores and sharing! Scouting Youth Online! Saturday afternoons are youth's time for their own chat and interests. Join us if you can, ask a friend so you can show off! * We have a special invitation on February 10th for Brownies! Moms, leaders, bring them online, even if only for 15 minutes. Let them say 'Hi' to girls around the country! We meet every Saturday afternoon, 3 to 5 p.m., Eastern Time, in "The ShadeTree". Our Honor Roll! * Robby Archer, Troop 374, San Angelo TX, has recieved his Eagle Award. He is online as RArcher908 * Jim Boogertman, Troop 209, Medford NY, has received his Eagle Award. He is online as MVA EMT. * Matt Pens, Troop 9, Clinton NY, has received his Eagle Award. He is online as Tarkin15. * Adam Moore, Troop 75, Port Arthur TX, has received his Eagle Award. He is online as Adam77642. And, as always, Administrivia! * Look up at that chat schedule again - we're taking February 11th and 25th to talk about helping you to use your Scouting Online Forum and AOL more effectively. * Consider signing your messages with at least first name, rank or position, and state. That makes it easier for us to see you as more than just a screen name. * We're almost finished rebuilding our two online libraries: Text and Programs, Images and Sound. Take a look at what's there! * Please take a 'hardcopy' of this to Roundtable or Service Unit. Thanks! Keep the Scouting Spirit alive, and thank you for joining and sharing with us! Pat Skelly, "Scout Ldr", Cape Cod MA Gen Kazdin, "ScouterGen", Cape Cod MA ... To make a boy trustworthy you must first trust him. --- Blue Wave/386 v2.20 [NR] * Origin: The Perfect Blend *Courier DS V.FC 33600* <334-244-0254> 1:375/33) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: D2K00001 Date: 02/10/96 From: DAVID HICKS Time: 08:52pm \/To: DONALD BOWLING (Read 3 times) Subj: Hello On 04 Feb 96, Donald Bowling wrote to All about Hello... Hello Donald, DB> Hi, my name is Donald Bowling I am a Eagle Scout in troop 303 DB> on the eastrean shore of virginia. I am currently 16 years old. My name is David Hicks, I'm a Venture Scout from Suffolk, England. I'm 18 years old. DB> I enjoy hunting, stamp collecting and gold prospecting. Cricky... Hunting and /gold prospecting/??? The only thing I've ever found in the woods 'round here are rabbits and chicken wire... What sort of things do you hunt? Have you ever actually found any gold? DB> I enjoy all sciences especialy microbiology. Never heard of it :-) I'm doing Maths, Physics and Chemistry myself. What sort of things do you do in your scout troop? It sounds like you live in a fairly rural area, do you do a lot of outside sort of stuff? David Hicks, Fidonet: 2:257/125, BBSNet & UFONet: 405:100/41 Internet: david.hicks@bytesize.nemesis.co.uk ... "Lookout for the bus!" "What bus?" SPLAT --- RA 2.02+ FE 1.45+ FD 2.02 * Origin: ByteSize BBS (1200 To V34) - 0178 747 6487 - Essex UK - 2:257/125) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: D2K00002 Date: 02/10/96 From: DAVID HICKS Time: 09:05pm \/To: JONATHAN GALLANT (Read 3 times) Subj: Knives On 02 Feb 96, Jonathan Gallant wrote to David Hicks about Knives... Hello Jonathan, JG> Still I don't think your government will pass that law because there ave JG> been incidents probably world-wide where a knife can save someone's JG> life. The thing is, there have been several incedents over here recently where people have been killed by knives. The most notorious of these was a headmaster stabbed to death outside his school when he went to help one of his pupils. The main problem seems to be that just anyone can wander into a shop and buy any knife they want, no matter what their age. For instance, one of our couts came to camp once with a "commando dagger" - a 20cm-long piece of very sharp steel made with the express intention of killing people. I think what we need is some sort of "standardized" knife that you could buy through scouts and be properly trained to use safely. JG> For example, there was a man working in the woods here in New JG> Brunswick and a tree that he had cut rolled onto his leg, rendering JG> him helpless. He was bleeding badly and would have died soon if he JG> didn't do something. He was forced to cut his own leg off with his JG> pocket knife. Ouch. JG> I don't think that it would have looked very good on our government if they JG> had outlawed knives. There is growing "public outrage" (ie the papers say there is) over here t the moment about the sale of knives. Most of it is fair enough - it's a bit daft a 15-year-old being able to buy a huge great dagger. There seems to be a growing danger however that all knives will be banned, no matter what you use them for. David Hicks, Fidonet: 2:257/125, BBSNet & UFONet: 405:100/41 Internet: david.hicks@bytesize.nemesis.co.uk ... Those who live by the sword get shot by those that don't. --- RA 2.02+ FE 1.45+ FD 2.02 * Origin: ByteSize BBS (1200 To V34) - 0178 747 6487 - Essex UK - 2:257/125) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: D2K00003 Date: 02/10/96 From: DAVID HICKS Time: 09:05pm \/To: PETER MIKLACIC (Read 3 times) Subj: Knives On 03 Feb 96, Peter Miklacic wrote to David Hicks about Knives... Hello Peter, PM> David, I think it is an awful idea if they try to keep scouts from PM> carrying knives. I don't know what I would do without mine. I carry PM> all the time and even use it around the house. I have a sheath knife, so I generally just take it away on camps and ikes, it's a bit obvious to carry around all the time. I don't trust penknives - closing them always seems rather dangerous to me. PM> What is scouting like over there? I would be interested in knowing how PM> much different it is for us. Hmm. I can't really say how much different it is over hear - because I don't know what it's like over there! What sort of things do you do? We go camping/hiking a few times a year (mostly during the school holidays and the summer, although my sister (who is also a Venture) has gone off on a Winter Walking Weekend in Yorkshire. Last weather forcast for the region: avalanches and floods :-) ). The rest of the time we meet up every Friday night to do various things. One weekend we stripped-down and re-painted the group canoo trailer, the other week we went bowling, a bit before that we went to a night hike/party organised by another Venture unit. What sort of things do you do? David Hicks, Fidonet: 2:257/125, BBSNet & UFONet: 405:100/41 Internet: david.hicks@bytesize.nemesis.co.uk ... He who laughs last is armed. --- RA 2.02+ FE 1.45+ FD 2.02 * Origin: ByteSize BBS (1200 To V34) - 0178 747 6487 - Essex UK - 2:257/125) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: D2K00004 Date: 02/10/96 From: DAVID HICKS Time: 09:06pm \/To: DON BACH (Read 3 times) Subj: Knives On 02 Feb 96, Don Bach wrote to David Hicks about Knives... Hello Don, DB> I wasn't aware of the British proposal. We are guaranteed the right DB> to bear arms here in the U.S., but that right is being slowly eaten DB> away by bans on certain weapons and licensing procedures. The point of carrying knives as scouts is not that we carry them as eapons but as usefull tools. I doubt it would be a good idea to let the general public wander around armed to the teeth with whatever they liked. DB> Wouldn't needing a knife to use in scouting count as a good reason? That's what I'm trying to find out. Does anyone know where I can get hold of the Government proposal on knife bans? David Hicks, Fidonet: 2:257/125, BBSNet & UFONet: 405:100/41 Internet: david.hicks@bytesize.nemesis.co.uk ... My other tagline is a Porsch! --- RA 2.02+ FE 1.45+ FD 2.02 * Origin: ByteSize BBS (1200 To V34) - 0178 747 6487 - Essex UK - 2:257/125) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: D2K00005 Date: 02/14/96 From: GRAHAM RUSS Time: 05:30pm \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: penpals for any one who would like a penpal in the uk ... send your name .age scout group .scouters address for first letter to be sent to ..list of likes /dislikes .etc i can not garrntee i reply but i will pass on all infomation on to my scout/cubs if you would like a penpal in japan try this one japaness junior student age teens address is mio tsuchiya,3-46-10 , sakuradaiusi ku-shi,ibaraki-ken 300-12,japan or in the ukraine try this one boy 13ys intrests ,music ,computers,football ,postcards can write in english address arterm zaitsey.ul ,revhtzkogo 29, kv 189, kiev, 253068 ,ukraine in scouting g. russ c.s.l --- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v1.2c * Origin: Fidonet Amigabee +44 181 695 5328 (2:254/215) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: D2K00006 Date: 02/16/96 From: NANCY KOPFHAMMER Time: 09:18am \/To: RICK MOOYMAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Pinewood Derby Hi Rick! Yes, I did....thank you....I'm so very sorry for not replying to you. When I received the info, I was without a computer!!! Then, it just slipped my ind. It all looked very interesting and I gave it to my husband who is going to pass it on to the Cub Scout leader. Thank you very much and I'm sorry I didn't post you about it sooner!!! ~~nancy~~ --- * Origin: *YOPS ]I[* 3.1 GIG * RA/FD/FE RADist * Milwaukee, WI (1:154/750)