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Cross-Program Activities | Cub
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Activities
Our Website Has Moved
If you're reading this
notice, you have an out-of-date bookmark.
While we have had the TompkinsCortlandScouts.org domain name for many
years, we never really had a place to put the website. The domain was
actually just an alias for some other website. So, every time you
accessed TompkinsCortlandScouts.org, some other address appeared in your
browser's address bar - mostly, home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/,
which is the space my cable company gave me, but sometimes www.bpmlegal.com,
my office website - and if you bookmarked the site, you wound up
bookmarking the actual address, not TompkinsCortlandScouts.org. Worse,
htva.net only gave me 20MB of storage space, total, so we were very
limited in how much we could post on that site.
Thanks to Mark Travis of Pack 197 and Good News Computing, the
Taughannock District Website now has a real home, and oodles of space to
live in (one "oodle" = several gigabytes). And, thanks to a
suggestion from Oliver Habich of Troop 4, we also have a shorter,
easier-to-type domain - TCScouts.org
- two names, the same website.
What this means to you is:
- Old Bookmarks won't be right:
If you have any bookmarks in your browser for any of the pages in
the Taughannock District Website, they probably point to the actual
site of the old page, not the new site. So, you'll need to...
- Change your Bookmarks: At least in Firefox or IE, that means
right-clicking on the bookmark, click on "Properties" and
change the part of the address which says "home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/"
or "www.bpmlegal.com"
to --www.TCScouts.org-- or --www.TompkinsCortlandScouts.org--
(either will work, if you're lazy like me, use the shorter one). The
rest of the address remains the same.
So, "http://home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/announce.htm"
becomes --http://www.TCScouts.org/announce.htm --
- Or, save new bookmarks:
If you don't want to edit your old bookmark, you can always follow
one of these links http://www.TompkinsCortlandScouts.org
or http://www.TCScouts.org
, find the page you want, and save a new bookmark.
- The old website will be taken down
after January 1st, and all of the pages will be set to redirect to
the new server. So if you don't update your bookmarks now, now you
can always follow the forwarding link and save a new bookmark later
on.
Click
Here to Access the New Web Site
Yrs.
in Scouting,
Mike Brown
District Commissioner
District Activity Chair:
Cub Scout Activities: Angela Schmidt
Boy Scout Activities: Mike Brown (temporary)
All publicity for Taughannock District
activities should include a “rating label” indicating for which
program(s) the activity is age-appropriate. For more information, and
downloadable graphics for use in publicity, see our Scout
Activity Ratings page.
Cross-Program Activities
Cub Scout
Activities
Cub Scout Bowling
January 14, 2012 - 1:00-3:00 pm
Helen Newman Bowling Center, Cradit Farm Rd., Ithaca
What: Three hours of bowling with a printed Bowling Belt
Loop Certificate that says that you earned the belt loop.
Cost: $10.00 per bowler. Shoes are included in the cost.
Download a Flyer and Registration form
(PDF)
Pinewood Derby Rules
The Taughannock District has established the following
rules for District-level Pinewood Derbies. Packs should consider
adopting the same rules, so that Cubs can be confident that their cars
will be able to compete equally at the Pack and District levels.
Watch for the District Pinewood
Derby and Webelos Crossover!
February 18th at Stafford's Chevrolet in Dryden
Note: for information on Cub Day Camps, Cub
Resident Camp and Cub Adventure Weekends - see the Camping
page
Boy Scout
Activities
Winter Camporee
January 21st-22nd - Camp Barton
Robotics - Electricity - Engineering
Watch this space for more details!
First Aid / Emergency
Preparedness Rally
February 18th, Dryden Fire Department
Watch this space for more details!
Fly-o-Ree!
May 19th-20th
Ithaca/Tompkins Regional Airport
Make sure that the District Fly-o-Ree is on your
troop’s calendar!
Download a
Teaser Flyer for your troop's bulletin board to start getting your
Scouts fired up (PDF)
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Earn Aviation Merit Badge
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Free airplane flights with the Experimental Aircraft
Association’s “Young Eagles” program
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Try the flight simulator at East Hill Flying Club
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Lots of displays and interesting aircraft to look at
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More information will be available as the date
approaches.
Questions? Contact Mike Brown
DC@TompkinsCortlandScouts.org
This should prove to be a great activity for your
troop’s Boy Scouts. Make sure your troop is there!
Venturing / Exploring Activities
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