Lone Star District
Circle Ten Council
District Eagle Award and Recognition Dinner, January 25, 2025
Please save the date for the 2025 Lone Star District Eagle Award and District Recognition Dinner. Come help us celebrate another great year of Scouting in the Lone Star District!
Who: All Lone Star District Leaders and the Class of 2024 Eagles (2024 Eagles are free)
What: Join us for dinner as we give thanks to everyone that made the 2024 Scouting year count!
When: January 25, 2025 at 5:00 pm
Where: Stonebridge United Methodist Church, 1800 S Stonebridge Dr, McKinney, TX 75072
Cost: $10 with a pasta with sauce Italian themed
Please sign up for a pasta and sauce dish here: signupgenius link
We look forward to celebrating with you! https://scoutingevent.com/571-2025LSDinner
Lone Star District Award Nominations
We need your help. We need to know who it is that makes your unit and our district SPECIAL! It is time to nominate the Scouters in the packs, troops, crews and posts of our district that do such a great job providing a quality program for the youth in our area. Nobody knows who does a better job than you. Please take a moment to nominate them. The awards will be presented at the District Eagle Recognition and Award Dinner on Saturday, January 25th. The awards are:
The Unit Spark Plug Award (Every unit should submit one of these.)
The Outstanding Organization Award
The Unit or District Scouting Family Award
The Unit or District Rising Star Award
The District Silver Star Award
We would also love to be able to collect and present some Adult Leader Knots at the January dinner and encourage their submission throughout the year. Their requirements and applications are linked.
Awards you can work towards and fill out an application for yourself or others:
Scouter's Training Award for Den Leader, Cubmaster, Scoutmaster, Venturing Advisor, or District Committee
Scouter's Key Award for Cubmaster, Scoutmaster, Venturing Advisor, District Committee, Commissioner
Commissioner Arrowhead Honor, Award of Excellence in Unit Service
Awards where a leader is nominated by others:
Unit Leader Award of Merit
Commissioner Certificate of Commendation, Distinguished Commissioner Service Award
Get award details and nominate them here: Award Link
Let them know how much you really do care! The sparkplug nomination deadline will be Friday, January 17th. Please get them in quickly.
Order of the Arrow Unit Elections - December 1st through March 31st
Has your unit scheduled an OA election with the Order of the Arrow yet? We hope to be done by March 1st. However, we can still have them before March 31st. Have your OA Representative or Senior Patrol Leader sign up here.
Day of Service, Feb 1, 2025
Join us in a day of service for Lone Star District. We'll do our typical Scouting For Food drive. But we are going to do even more. Here is the list:
Scouting For Food drive
blood drive
Pick up trash
organ donor cards
cards for valentines day for senior citizen centers
How will you and your unit help?
Need grocery bags to collect food with?
All of the units of Circle Ten Council are doing service on either Feb 1st or Feb 8th and would like to track what each unit is planning to do:
https://247scouting.com/forms/571-2025DayofService
and to collect photos from everyone as well:
https://c10bsa.org/experience-scouting/day-of-service/share-your-photos/
See all of Council's Day of Service Information at:
https://c10bsa.org/experience-scouting/day-of-service/
Wood Badge 145, Feb 7, 2025
Have you done Wood Badge Training yet? Why not.
Check out Wood Badge 145 coming in February.
Order of the Arrow Ordeal, Feb 28 - March 2
Have you been elected to the OA and haven't attended Ordeal yet? We have a solution for you. Attend Ordeal in February when it is nice and cool. You have 18 months from your callout, but don’t waste this opportunity.
https://scoutingevent.com/571-2025OAOrdealMarch
District Crossover, March 2nd, at 4 pm
Join the district and all of the Arrow of Lights cross over into Troops. The Order of the Arrow is hosting a crossover ceremony at Meyers Park in McKinney on Sunday, March 2nd at 4 pm. The cost is $5 per Scout. Each Scout will receiver a totem. (Notice the time is 1 hour later than last year.)
Register here and see who is going where on the left.
District News and Successes!
Lone Star District wants to share your successes and what is going on with you all with the rest of the district. If you have any news, photos or events to share, please let us know. We would love to share it through the newsletter, Facebook page and website.
District Calendar - 2024-2025
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL - things to know
PLEASE, understand that we are all working through this new renewal process and learning together. If you receive an email telling you to renew, and you already did...you can simply reply and let us know. There appears to be some lag in the reporting. We just want to make sure everyone gets re-registered.
WHAT WE DID LEARN is that the Unit Key 3 have to approved re-registrations, so if you are one of the Key 3, make sure you are checking your dashboard!
Continue to make sure that you have updated your my.scouting.org account with a good email address and a cell phone number. These are the primary ways that National and Circle Ten Council will be communicating with you regarding your membership renewal. Notices will start coming out soon for those who joined in August 2023, and the cycle will continue each month.
Circle Ten Council is committed to helping NEW families join Scouting that need financial assistance. Once a family joins Scouting, it is our hope, that through various fundraising options and opportunities for Scouts to “earn their own way”, that families will be able to off-set the costs associated with participating in Scouting, including registration renewal fees. So, as we move forward to the new monthly membership renewal process, Circle Ten Council’s financial assistance budget and resources will primarily be directed to new member acquisition – not membership renewal.
Make sure you are sharing this information with others in your unit. Looking for more information regarding renewals? Please review our Circle Ten RECHARTER AND RENEWAL ONLINE
Friends of Scouting Donation Link
Did you miss your unit's Friends of Scouting presentation? It is not too late to donate anyway. Fill out the card they sent you and send it back. Or fill this one, link, out and turn it in at Roundtable or at the Fairview Scout Office.
Or you can do it online! https://donations.scouting.org/#/national
Help us update your Unit Pin Information
Packs, Troops, and Crews help us make sure people can find you on BeAScout.org
See our Council Lone Star District Webpage.
Check out what is happening here. https://circleten.org/posts/41017/lone-star-district