Have you told your Leaders how much you like them and appreciate them?  Consider these options:

• Nominations are open for District Level Awards for Leaders and Units as listed in the District Banquet Page.  Click that link to see the awards available and how to nominate a deserving volunteer.
• The next District Recognition Banquet is scheduled for February 7, 2026.
• Award Deadline will be ... announced.  Probably sometime in January, 2026.
• For Unit Level Recognition, see this Awards Page: Parents, there may be an award there your Scoutmaster or Cubmaster has earned, you just need to award them!
• That Awards Page has lots of Youth Awards too.
• The Silver Beaver Award is "The highest award that a local council can give to a volunteer Scout Leader for service to youth".  See this page for how to nominate someone.  Submit no later than December 21, 2025.
• The Whitney M. Young Jr. Service Award is to recognize outstanding services by an adult individual or an organization for demonstrated involvement in the development and implementation of Scouting opportunities for youth from rural or low-income urban backgrounds.  Dormant right now, but in a few months, see this page for how to nominate someone.  Deadline likely in first half of the year. 

Thank your leaders today and every day!

If you're no longer 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 through the National On Line Training site at ScoutingU with the same login as at My.Scouting.Org), and if you want the login code, just email the Webmaster ... If you want to add parents or leaders to the distribution list who are not in your unit's roster here, just email the Webmaster. 

Highlights of the most recent District News were these (click links for information): Service Ideas: Service Projects and Simple Ways to Help ... Help for Den Leaders -- "Assembled" Den Meeting Plans ... Scouts BSA Troop Program Ideas ... and from the week before: The Great Big List of Places to Go and Things to Do Around Atlanta ... Report from Annual Business Meeting ... Email webmaster@southfultonscouting.com if you need a reminder about the login.

A Scout is Helpful. The fuller explanation of this point of the Scout Law is: "Volunteer to help others without expecting a reward".  To help Packs, Dens, Troops, Crews, Scouts and their families, we can share ideas about ways to help.  Our service project page is a compendium of ideas about what Scouts can do, from large "service projects" that can be organized by Scouts and/or Units, to existing service opportunities that you can join in, as well as small ways that a Scout can help others (for younger Scouts, with help from the family).  More here. 

Do you like the new and simpler requirements for each Cub Scout Adventure?

• Where you don't have to pick and choose which requirements to do?
• Cool!  Simple.  Easy.  Do all of 1 through 6.  No need to choose!

But what about the new National Resources for each Cub Scout Adventure?  Are they Simple and Easy?

• Where you must pick and choose which which activities to do!  So ... for each Requirement, you have to sort through 2 or 3 activity options.  
• You have to go somewhere else to find out how to do a Den Meeting!
• You have to assemble the activities you pick into the other parts of a Den Meeting!
• Is that Simple??  Is that Easy??  No.  We can do better.

But wait!  They have "Den Meeting Card Decks" Now!!  Just hand someone a card, and they will know what to do!

• Except the cards basically just share a QR Code.  It's not like you can look at the card and it will tell you "how to do an activity" like pulling a 3x5 index card with the full recipe for Garlic Chicken.
• We bought a Deck ($19.99 each -- get all six for $119.94!), and here's a review.
• We can do better.

To help den leaders and parents, we've assembled 126 Cub Scout Adventures into a Den Meeting Plan format with added videos and tips to make leading Cub Scouts easier.  Really.  Click here for more, or keep reading below.  Email webmaster@southfultonscouting.com if you need a reminder about the login.

Want more Fun in your Troop program?  To keep current Scouts and attract new Scouts?  See this page with links to dozens of Troop Program Resources.