From Nominating Committee Chair Phillip Jackson (who is Chair of the Nominating Committee, Members are Tony Toole, Bernard Bagley and Alyson Benton): "I am writing this letter to solicit nominations for the District Committee of the Southern Crescent District of the Atlanta Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America.  If you would like to nominate someone or yourself for the position of District Chairperson, District Vice-Chairman or Member at Large on the district committee, or to be recommended to the Council as District Commissioner, please let me know by contacting me through the information listed below.  Please feel free to review the different positions on the district committee on the district website under Roster of District and Unit Adults.   The link for the website is www.southfultonscouting.com.  Nominations must be submitted to the nominating committee or myself by Thursday, October 22, 2020, which his two (2) weeks before the election at the annual meeting on November 5, 2020.  The annual meeting will be held virtually.

As per the by-laws of the Atlanta Area Council:

1. Nominations are not allowed from the floor during the annual meeting.
2. The position of District Commissioner is appointed by the Atlanta Area Council
3. The Southern Crescent District Committee will elect the specific positions on the committee from the members at large

All Chartered Organization Representatives of Units in the Southern Crescent District, all members of the Southern Crescent District Committee, and all members of the Atlanta Area Council Board who live within the District are eligible to vote.

If you have any questions or need additional information please let me know. " 

From a District Trainer:  Nominations are for voting by eligible voters for certain positions at the District Level -- for more on this, scroll below.  Information about possible functional ways that District Committee Members and Commissioners may engage to help other units is found at our "Ways to Volunteer In the District to Help Units" page.  The link to attend the District Annual Business Meeting on November 3 is found here. 

With the completion of “Family Led Plans” for every Cub Scout Adventure plus Bobcat – yes, 97(!) in all – here is an update about the Adventure by Adventure resources here in the Atlanta Area Council.

https://www.southfultonscouting.com/node/3163 is a page that has Cub Scout Adventure resources for all Adventures – Rank by Rank pages, plus Adventure by Adventure pages.  The Rank and Adventure pages are also reachable through the AAC Cub Scout Advancement page at https://www.atlantabsa.org/CubScoutAdvance, and the Scouting on Demand page at https://www.atlantabsa.org/ScoutingOnDemand.  

Each of those Adventure pages has the following: 

1)      Family-Led Plans for every Adventure -- plans that streamline and simplify doing each Adventure for parents, either from home or in a den group setting.

2)      Videos and other resources to help both leaders and parents see how to do the Adventure have the knowledge needed.  This includes the recent Tips and Tricks videos (English and Spanish) and much more.

3)      The full multi-meeting den meeting plans from the applicable BSA Den Leader Guide.

The idea behind these Adventure by Adventure resource pages is to provide Adventure resources in a format easily shareable with parents.  The hope is that these resources will bring parents closer to the program as leaders of their Scouts, whether they are meeting as a den group or doing “Scouting on Demand” from home on their own schedule.  We hope that this will be helpful to families and leaders. 

Also from Scouting on Demand, Hiketober!  See https://www.atlantabsa.org/AmazingActivities and get out for a hike or two or twelve – and get a patch!  13 trails are linked there, and you know more, so … Hike On!

Check out this Cub Scout Adventures by Topic page -- this lists rows of "topics" or "content" found in Adventures, and notes in each column whether an -- and usually "in which" -- Adventure has that content.  This can be useful if you have a mixed den or want a common "let's do hiking" or "let's do games" program theme for a month.  The Adventure references then link you to our Adventure resource pages. 

If you're no longer involved or interested in Scouting and you want to "opt out" of these messages, email the Webmaster and we'll drop you from the list.  But If you want to be "all in" on Scouting, see our Leader Training page (good resources for parents too ... now with online Scoutmaster training through the National On Line Training site at ScoutingU with the same login as at My.Scouting.Org), and if you want the login codes, just email the Webmaster ... 

Highlights of the most recent District News were these (click links for information): Solicitation for Nominations for Positions on the Southern Crescent District Committee ... For Troops and Crews: Duty to God event Now November 7 at Allatoona Aquatics Base ... Missed a Membership Webinar? Watch ‘Em All! And More …and from the prior week:  Go Packs Go! Pinewood Derby Car Prize Contest and Facebook Funding. ... Congratulations to Alyson Benton and Zena Gray-Adeyemi -- Whitney M. Young Jr. Award Honorees! ... 

Rescheduled to November 7.  See this page to sign up for a Troop and Crew (that is, not Cub Scouts) Duty to God event now on November 7 at Allatoona Aquatics Base.  Flyer attached.