Children's Day participation

"Celebrating 100 Years" at Children's Day, November 21, 2009 - Our chance for visibility, community support, new membership - Last year 50,000 visitors, this year maybe more!!

To all in our council and districts:

I am pleased to report tentative approval of the following components of Western Los Angeles County Council's presence/participation at Children's Day in Woodley Park in Van Nuys, CA, on November 21, 2009.

• Flyer
  

Four Information Booths as follows:

1. Cub Scouting
2. Boy Scouting
3. Venturing
4. Exploring
   

Three Activity Areas

• Pinewood Derby Display
• OA Indian Village
• Pioneering Display - Monkey Bridge
  

Now it is time to figure out who can help.

Here are some ideas:

For the Information Booths:

• maybe individual units or families can volunteer for booth duty in the information booths, for all or part of the day
• maybe district or council membership committee people can do booth duty in some of the booths as well
• We will need booth chairpeople for each one to organize, manage, and oversee preparation and participation
  

For the Activity Areas

• One or more Cub Packs or Districts could handle the Pinewood Derby
• Malibu Lodge or all or some of its Chapters can handle the OA Indian Village
• Pioneering/monkey bridge would be a good project maybe for our camping and outdoor promotions professionals/staff/volunteers, Wood Badgers, HAT, Jamboree troops, anyone!
  

Please start the discussion so that you can get back to me with your unit's, district's, or individual offers to help.

I look forward to hearing from you with your specifics as to what you can do, and when, and for how long.

David I. Karp
Relationships Chair
Western Los Angeles County Council BSA