Sunday, January 8, is our kick-off/organizational meeting for the EMR/LG Class of 2012. We are scheduled to meet at 2:00 PM at The American Red Cross office in The Woodlands. This will be a year of firsts.... This will be the first time we have offered the new American Red Cross Emergency Medical Response class and will likely be the first class offered to teenagers in the country. Also, we will be the first to offer the 2012 revised version of the Lifeguarding class. The final cost for this… Continue

Congratulations!  Rachel Miller, Dennis Williams, Garth Heitshusen and Peter Sellier all were honored with the Distinguished Commissioner Award at the just completed College of Commissioner Science.

John Childs was on staff.  Paul Cowan and Nancy Salinas were in attendance as well as:

Jib Ahmad, Henry Bunting, Marv Kiel, Bill Wescott, Pat Whitnel and Russell Williams.

Their commitment to training brings great rewards to the scouting program in Mustang…

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Awards and Knots

The national council’s awards committee recently conducted a review of the hundreds of awards presented to Scouts and adults in the BSA. Many recommendations were made to simplify and update procedures, and the awards themselves.

Among the recommendations was the update of some awards and/or the knots that represent them on the uniform. These include the training awards and the Cub Scouting awards.

For example, to give the award the same recognition as…

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There are only two Troops camping at Camp Brosig the weekend of Dec. 9-11.  Let Tami Kinn know you would like to camp there.  Tami.Kinn@shac.org

It's a great camp with city water and flush toilets.

Don’t text and drive — you’ll save a life, get a patch

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Congratulations to Nancy Salinas. We will miss her, but she has a new position leading the Soaring Eagle District as District Executive.  Best wishes in her path to "leading scouts to lifelong skills".

Vincent Manning is moving from Soaring Eagle to replace Sydney Castillo as Cub Program Director.

Sydney Castillo is heading up Special Needs. 

Donnell Cooper is changing from Big Cypress to W.L. Davis district. (Our new West Field Director, Clarence Nicholas came from…

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