Here is what helped make Dan Beard District a Quality District in 2002:
Executive - We had 16 Scouters attend our January Annual Planning Retreat.
Commissioner's Area - About 96% of our units re-chartered on time. 61 out of our 97 units were Quality Units. The Unit Commissioner staff increased by 5.
Membership - Last year we added 10 units (2 Packs, 1 Troop, 3 Teams & 4 Crews). We have 97 units; 36 Packs, 36 Troops, 6 Varsity Teams and 19 Venture Crews. Our Spring and Fall Roundups signed up about 600 Cubs and Scouts. October 2003 membership is 1739 Cubs, 1180 Scouts and Varsity and 142 Crew members, for a total of 3061 in 97 units, versus 2645 in 87 units in September of 2002.
Camping - Attendance at our Spring Boy Scout Camporee was 556 Scouts and 210 Scouters from 27 Troops and 2 Crews. Our Cub Family Campout had 700 Cubs and Scouters from 17 Packs participating. Our Cub Day Camp was again held for 2 weeks and had over 226 Cubs, Scouters and Boy Scouts in attendance. We think at least 80% of our BS Troops attended one or more Summer Camps.
Training - Our District Cub trainers trained about 250 new Cub Scout leaders with about 167 from Dan Beard. Our District Scout trainers trained about 200 Scout leaders and almost 100 of them were from Dan Beard. We trained about 30 leaders in Health & Safety and our training tape video libraries loaned out 4 tapes to units in 2003.
Advancement - About 1641 Cubs and 678 Boy Scouts had advancement this year. The District Eagle Board reviewed 75 Eagle Projects and approved 87 Boy Scouts for advancement to the Eagle Rank between November 2002 and October 2003.
Finance - We exceeded our Friends of Scouting goal of $84,000 by $36,000. This amount was again the largest amount ever raised in our district and the largest amount raised by any of the 11 districts in our council.
Popcorn Sale - 1627 Scouts from 48 units sold $425,068 worth of popcorn, about 25.5% of the $1,661,513 sold in the Occoneechee Council. We were the top selling District for the 16th time out of the 18 years of the popcorn sales.
Activities and Civic Service - More than 170 Scouters attended our 22nd Annual Recognition Event where we recognized 4 Scouters with the District Award of Merit and 42 Scouters with the Distinguished Leadership Citation. 54 Scouting Religious Awards were recognized, along with the 68 Boy Scouts who had earned the Eagle Rank, 4 Venture Silver Awards and 4 Venture Ranger Awards earned by Crew members. One of our District Scouters received his Silver Beaver Award.
Our Scouting For Food Good Turn had 130 Scouts from 12 units involved and they collected 5,805 pounds of food that was given to 4 local food distribution agencies. Our 2003 Annual Uniform Sale netted about $90 in profits.
Our District Pinewood Derby had a total of 26 Packs entering 234 Tigers, Cubs and Webelos. Of the 234 Cubs 159 of them actually raced and 75 of them entered the Best Design and the Most Unique Design categories.
The annual Round Table Kick-off dinner had more than 110 Scouters in attendance.
92 Scouts and Scouters were inducted into the Order of the Arrow.
Our http://danbeard.cary.nc.us Danbeard website has had more than 5200 visitors since October of 2002 and our DanBeard e-mail list server has 221 subscribers.
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