Here is what helped make Dan Beard District an outstanding District in 2001:
Executive - We had 20 Scouters attend our January Annual Planning Retreat.
Commissioner's Area - 81 out of 83 units re-chartered on time. About 70% of our units were Quality Units. The Unit Commissioner staff increased by 6.
Membership - Last year we added 6 Venture units; we lost 2 Packs and 1 Troop. We have 87 units; 34 Packs, 35 Troops, 3 Varsity Teams and 15 Venture Crews. Our Spring and Fall Roundups signed up about 300 Cubs and Scouts. Our present membership is 1431 Cubs, 1104 Scouts and Varsity and 110 Crew members, for a total of 2645 in 87 units, versus 2482 in 84 units in September of 2001.
Camping - Our Spring Boy Scout Camporee was attended by 560 Scouts and 174 Scouters from 29 Troops. Our Spring Cub Family Campout had 919 Cubs and Scouters from 21 Packs participating. Our Cub Day Camp was again held for 2 weeks and had more than 200 Cubs and Webelos in attendance. We believe that at least 75% of our BS Troops attended one or more Summer Camps.
Training - Our District Cub trainers trained about 130 new Cub Scout leaders with about 110 from Dan Beard. Our District Scout trainers trained about 200 Scout leaders and almost half of them were from Dan Beard. We trained 45 leaders in Health & Safety and we did Fast Start Training for 33 Dan Bearders. Our training tape video libraries loaned out 10 tapes to units in 2002.
Advancement - About 1200 Cubs and 637 Boy Scouts had advancement this year. The District Eagle Board reviewed 85 Eagle Projects and approved 71 Boy Scouts for advancement to the Eagle Rank.
Finance - We exceeded our Friends of Scouting goal of $77,000 by $6,000. This amount was the largest amount ever raised in our district and the largest amount raised by any of the 11 districts in our council.
Popcorn Sale - 1479 Scouts from 49 units sold $367,793 worth of popcorn, about 24.9% of the total sold in the Occoneechee Council. We were the top selling District for the 15th time out of the 17 years of the popcorn sales.
Activities and Civic Service - More than 200 Scouters attended our 21st Annual Recognition Event where we recognized 4 Scouters with the District Award of Merit and 40 Scouters with the Distinguished Leadership Citation. 79 Scouting Religious Awards were recognized, along with the 65 Boy Scouts who had earned the Eagle Rank. One of our District Scouters received her Silver Beaver Award.
Our Scouting For Food Good Turn had 35 units involved and they collected more than 6 1/2 tons of food which was distributed to 9 local food distribution agencies. Our 2002 Annual Uniform Sale netted over $237 in profits.
Our 21st (and last) annual Mall Expo was held at Cary Towne Center with 3 Packs and 5 Troops putting on displays, with a total attendance of 100 Scouts and Scouters. The District Pinewood Derby had a total of 31 Packs entering 260 Tigers, Cubs and Webelos. 179 of them were in the actual races and 81 of them entered the Best Design and the Most Unique Design categories.
The annual Round Table Kick-off dinner had more than 100 Scouters in attendance.
103 Scouts and Scouters were inducted into the Order of the Arrow and 10 Ordeal members advanced to Brotherhood and 2 Brotherhood members were tapped out for the Vigil honor.
Our http://www.bsa.net/occo/danbeard website has had more than 4000 visitors since June of 2002 and our DanBeard e-mail list server has 189 subscribers.
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