Crosswinds District

Occoneechee Council #421 BSA

Our district is located in Wake County, N.C., basically West of US Highway 1.
We have about 50 Scouting units in our district.

NEWS FROM THE CROSSWINDS DISTRICT

WEB SITE UPDATES INFORMATION

01/19/12 - Add January District Committee meeting minutes.
01/17/12 - Add January Eagles and 2012 Camporee registration info.
12/29/11 - Add Pope Scholarship information
12/02/11 - Add Recognition Event pictures and information.
11/27/11 - Add November Committee minutes, remove out of date info.
11/16/11 - Updated link to Guide to Advancement, removed Checklist
11/10/11 - Update Eagle list.
10/18/11 - Update link to new 2011 Eagle Project Workbook.
10/13/11 - Update Eagle list and 2010-2011 Scouting For Food.
10/11/11 - Update link to new 2011 Guide to Advancement.
10/06/11 - Add unsubscribe info on server info & on index page.
10/04/11 - Add September Committee meeting minutes.
09/19/11 - Add info on Races and Dinner and new Eagles.
08/21/11 - Add info on Dorcas and LDS MB classes.
08/11/11 - Update Roundtable meeting location and new Eagles.
12/30/07 - Move web site data to new web host site at RTPnet.org.
12/22/03 - Moved web site to URL http://crosswinds.cary.nc.us
02/08/00 - Bill handed over web site control to Roger Lear.
06/07/98 - Bill Slocumb started Dan Beard web site at www.bsa.net.

2012 Crosswinds District Boy Scout Camporee - April 13-15, 2012

The theme for the Camporee is Scouting Olympics. Activities will be unit planned and run events of their choice.
Your unit MUST provide an event in order for your unit to attend the camporee.
Small units may join forces to produce an event. Large units may provide multiple events.

Units who want to attend the Camporee must provide, as soon as possible, the identification of an adult(s) who will be the adult focal point for the their unit.

Ed Walsh will act as the Camporee Chief and he will be assisted by Gantt Edmiston, Matt Breneman and Robin Biegert.
They always welcome additional volunteers, so contact Ed Walsh if you wish to assist in any way.
The Camporee web site has more information and is ready for on-line registrations at:
2012 District Camporee Registration

2011 John W. Pope Family Eagle Scout Scholarship

All Eagle Scouts, who are high school seniors, have the opportunity to apply for this $20,000 college scholarship. Deadline for application is February 13 2012. Application and all qualifying information can be found here:
John William Pope Eagle Scholarship Application

2011 District Recognition Event Awards

The District recognized this year's 93 Religious Award recepients, our new 80 Eagles since November 2010, 2 Scouting Spirit awards, 63 DLC awards and 3 DAOM awards. More than 200 Scouts and Scouters were in attendance at the 2011 Recognition Event held on December 1, 2011 at Cary Church of Latter Day Saints.
Thanks to all the Committee Members and Scouters who helped us make the evening a great success. Our thanks specifically to Keith Biegert, the District Awards Committee Chairman, Gary Thorn, Jerry Jester, Bob Gamble, Roger Lear, Ed Walsh and Robbie Spivey for pulling it all together.
Gary Thorn and Roger Lear did a lot of the paperwork and getting the program together. Keith did an outstanding job of overseeing the logistics and lining up the people to present the program. THANK YOU Awards Committee!
The adult recognitions are listed in the
Crosswinds District Scouter Awards

2011 Distinguished Leader Citation Recipients - 32 out of 63 attended
2011 Scouting Spirit Award Recipients Sam Sipes and Lu Little

2011 DAOM Recipients Bob Rolleri, Chris Meyer and Matt Breneman

Scouting For Food Information for all Scouters

Chris and Kristin Meyer, our Scouting For Food Co-Chairpersons, have published a document outlining the procedures for the units participating in our Scouting for Food program and challanging all of our units for the remaining part of 2011 and next year 2012. The document may be read by looking under the Site Map heading of District Scouting For Food, Scouting for Food Challange 2011-2012 or click on the following link:
Scouting For Food Challange 2011-2012

ALL UNITS SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN SCOUTING FOR FOOD.
To see if any units have signed up for a month and to see how much food has been collected, you may look under the Site Map heading of District Scouting For Food and see the results for this year's food drives or click on the following link:
2011-2012 Scouting For Food Sign-Ups

CROSSWINDS DISTRICT NESA GROUP

If you are an Eagle Scout and you are interested in being part of our Crosswinds District NESA group, please send an e-mail to the Crosswinds District NESA Chairman Todd Ellis.

ATTENTION ALL CROSSWINDS DISTRICT UNITS:

The district would like to list the links to all of our Unit's web pages on our site map under LINKS to OUR UNITS.
If you have a web page we would like for you to exchange links with us.
Keep in mind that the first page users see for your unit web site should show your sponsor, your meeting place and your meeting time. Just send an e-mail to the Crosswinds District and we will add your unit web site link.

CROSSWINDS DISTRICT E-MAIL LIST SERVER INFORMATION

Want to find out more about our District E-mail List Server? E-mail List Server Information

Want to SUBSCRIBE TO our District E-mail List Server?
Click on the following address and send an e-mail with your NAME, your UNIT, your SCOUTING POSITION and your ZIP CODE to: CrosswindsDistrict-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
OR, if you have a YAHOO USERID, you can SUBSCRIBE directly at the Yahoo Groups internet site by linking to: CrosswindsDistrict Group.
OR enter your e-mail address in the yellow block below and press enter:

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You are already a subscriber and want to POST A MESSAGE to our District E-mail List Server?
Click on the following address to send an e-mail to all subscribers at CrosswindsDistrict: CrosswindsDistrict@yahoogroups.com
To un-subscribe (leave) the Crosswinds e-mail list server click on the this link to send an e-mail message to our unsubscribe address. If you don't mind, please also include the reason you want to unsubscribe (especially if you're not satisfied with our list server).
You MUST reply to the e-mail yahoogroups will send to you afterwards to verify your un-subscribe request.

ROUNDTABLE & COMMITTEE MEETING INFORMATION
District Committee Meetings:
Crosswinds District Committee Meetings are held on the 1st Thursday of each month, with the exception of July and December. Meetings start at 7:00 pm and normally end by 8:30 pm. The meetings are currently held at the First Baptist Church of Cary at 218 South Academy Street in downtown Cary in the first floor meeting room (to the left after going in the white wooden entrance doors on the North side of the church) or room A301 on the third floor if the first floor meeting room is being used.

District Roundtable Meetings:
Crosswinds District Roundtable meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of each month, with the exception of July. We gather at 6:30 pm for one-half hour of visiting. We start the actual Roundtable program at 7:00 pm and normally end at around 8:30 pm. The meetings are currently held at the LDS Church (Cary Ward), at 1811 Seabrook Ave., Cary, NC 27511, just off the SE Cary Parkway.

If you would like more information on these meetings, who normally attends them and directions on how to get to the meeting sites, click here: Meeting Information

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