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Welcome to the
North Star Web Page
Webmaster:
Chris Rawlings
Advisor: Mark Wilbur
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Web Page Disclaimer:
The purpose of this webpage is not to compete with the www.stlbsa.org page!
This is intended to merely be a 'supplement' that is more accessible for our
volunteers to post information. Our web page and the STLBSA web page are maintained
by different groups with different levels of response time; so, we encourage you to check BOTH web pages!
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OA Information
Ceremonial Teams will be meeting again starting January 5 2009.
The meetings start at 7:00pm at Parker Road Babtist Church.
Click here for a map
If you are interested in becoming a member of Ceremonial Teams just stop by to sign up.
The Ceremonial Team lockin will be held on January 30 and Februray 1. More information to come later.
NOTE: The Lockin will be held on Friday January the 30 even though that night is also the District Dinner.
The February Banquet will ba taking place on February 22 2009 and it will be held at St. Sabina Catholic Church
Click here for a map.
More Information is in the OA News Page.
The Ceremonial Team Seminar will be held on March 7th and will begin at 8:00AM.
More information to come later.
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New District Director
Northstar would like to wish Sherry Beck best wishes as she departs from her position of Disrtict Director.
Sherry has entered into retirement and her position will be temporarily taken over by Gene Butler until a permanent replacement is found.
If you need to contact Gene Bulter his information is on the right under the District Contacts.
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Congratulations Jack O'Neill
North Star would like to congratulate Jack O'Neill, an Eagle Scout from our Council, on being elected as the National Cheif of the Order of the Arrow.
Jack was elected on December 27 2008, and is the first person from Shawnee Lodge to ever hold this Office.
He is a Vigil Honor Member and served on the Council's summer camp staffs.
He will be in the National Council's contingent that will present the BSA's annual report to Congress and the President of the United States in 2009.
He previously served as Section Vice Chief and was elected twice as Section Chief of Section C-5C.
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Pinewood Derby Expo
The Pinewood Derby Expo will be held at the St. Louis Mills Mall in Hazelwood.
The date is February 21 and it starts at 9:00AM.
Click here for a map to the Mills.
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2009 Outstanding Arrowmen
At the 2009 OA February banquet, we will be recognizing the Outstanding Arrowmen.
If you have any people that you believe that deserve the Outstanding Arrowmen award please email Tyler at tylrob921@stltroop921.org
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New OA Vigil Members
North Star had Five (5) OA members recieve their nomination for the Vigil Honor at the Winter Fellowship Banquet.
Andrew J. Yarbrough,
Christopher L. Webb,
James J. May,
Tyler S. Robinson, and
Michael J. Yarbrough.
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Weblos Winter Round-Up 2009
More information in the Cub Scout News Page.
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District Award of Merit
The Newest Polaris Award Recipients will be announced and congradulated at the District Dinner.
Here are last year's Recipients
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Pictured above (from left to right): Larry Kremer, Dave Kedge, Jim Schneider and Nanette Edwards!
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Roundtable Location
The Next Roundtable meeting will be held on January,8 2009.
Northstar Roundtable are the first Thursday of the month August throught June.
The meetings start at 7:00PM and they are located at:
Florissant Presbyterian Church
660 Charbonier Rd.
Florissant, MO 63031
Click here for a map
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Mike Rowe(Ditry Jobs) and Eagle Scouts
Kelby,
Your Dad asked me to drop you a line and say something inspirational that might persuade you to dig down deep and find the determination to make the rank of Eagle Scout. It is a reasonable request, from a father who obviously wants to see his son succeed. But here is the thing - The Eagle Award is not really meant for people who need to be dragged across the finish line. It is meant for a select few, and I have no idea if you have the guts to see it through.
Statistically, I suspect you do not. Only one out of a hundred Scouts make Eagle, so if you fail, there will be lots of other people with whom you can share excuses. Quitting now might disappoint your Dad, but I doubt that he or anyone else will be overly surprised. Anytime 99 out of 100 people do the same thing, it is not exactly a shock.
I am not trying to be cute with a bunch of reverse psychology. When I was 15, there was nothing that anyone could have said to me that would have inspired me to do something I did not want to do, especially a stranger with a TV show. So I am not going to assume you are any different, or pretend that I have some influence or insight that you have not already heard from a dozen other people who actually know and care about you. I will just tell you straight up, that doing something extraordinary can be very lonely, and most people simply are not cut out for it. Being an Eagle Scout requires you to be different than most everyone around you, and being different is really, really hard. That is why the award is called an accomplishment.
Personally, and for whatever it is worth, the best decisions I have made in my own life, are those decisions that put me on the outside of being cool. Singing in the Opera, working in home shopping, staring in the school play when the entire football team laughed at me, and especially earning my Eagle, were all choices that required sacrifice, hard work, and delayed gratification. I have no idea if you possess those qualities, or even envy them. But I can tell you for certain, that NOT getting your Eagle, will be one of the easiest things you have ever done.
Anyway, I have no idea if you would prefer an easy life of predictability and mediocrity, or if have the passion to follow the road less traveled. Only you get to decide that.
Good Luck,
Mike
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North Star now has a discussion forum!
Yes, we have finally gotten a discussion forum online! This forum can be used
to discuss topics like:
Cub Scouts
Boy Scouts
Venture Scouts
Order of the Arrow
Hiking and Camping locations
Uniform and gear swap
Are Troop Meetings Boring?
and almost any Scouting related topic you wish!
Unfortunately hack-ers have been a problem for some other Scouting units and Districts.
To improve our chances of better youth protection, the URL is NOT going to be published.
To gain access the URL has been mentioned at Roundtables, other meetings, word of mouth
or it can be e-mailed to you.
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This page last updated on: 1/5/2009
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Cub Scout
Roundtable Notes
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
Past Roundtable Notes
Boy Scout
Roundtable Notes
Comming Soon
Past Roundtable Notes
Four Winds
Ceremony Request
Any soon to be Eagle Scout wishing to have North Star perform a Four Winds ceremony at his Court
Of Honor needs to print/fill out a request form. To view that form please
Click Here
Or fill out this online form by
Clicking Here
District/Website Contacts
Gene A. Butler
Temp. District Director
Phone: 314.256.3078
gbutler[at]stlbsa.org
Vacant
Senior District Executive
Phone: Not Available
Not available
Chris Rawlings
Webmaster
Phone: 314.869.2438
nswebmaster[at]rocketmail.com
Mark Wilbur
Website Advisor
Home Office: 314.869.3399
scoutmaster[at]troop374.org
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(If you do not already have one, you will need to create a Yahoo ID to join.)
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