Were right in there with you. Good Post! On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:05:43 CDT "Merlin ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello All, > > Just thought I'd throw my two cents in on a few of the week's > comments. > A Pinewood Derby uphill race? Sounds cool! We try to come up > with a new > twist each year to keep things interesting at the race. One thing we > have > also considered is a kind of free-for-all division where the > traditional > specs for building the car are eliminated or modified. This would > probably > be open to the older boys & leaders only. Which leads me to... > Outposts organize & run events in lots of different ways. We > choose to > make Pinewood Derby an event open to everyone. It is a fun night of > racing & > fellowship that is the only RR event that many people in the church > will > ever attend. This is certainly far from a "hinderance to the health > & > welfare of our outpost" as another Rangernetter stated. It just > happens to > work for us. > Something was also said about non-camping age boys in Rangers. > Is there > such a thing? Granted, the B/SA boys only go on a couple campouts > each year > w/us, but they are definitely of camping age. We do add special > conditions > on their attending an overnighter, however. (Must be accompenied by > a dad, > grandpa, or other adult figure, etc.) OK guys, I know this will open > a whole > new onslaught of issues for some of you, but it works for us. Please > also > note that there are plenty of other activities that are restricted > to > certain age groups. No, Challengers are not invited to the B/SA > Field Day, > etc. > Crowded calendars sometimes call for compromises. I work about > 60 hrs. > a week on 2nd shift, so off-time is very limited for me. So we try > to > balance our activities by having both inclusive and exclusive > events. I > realize that some types of activities should only be open to certain > age > groups. > Oops! looks like ya got a bit more than the two cents worth! Oh > well, > reply w/my change. OK? > > Gary Haas, Whiteheart, FCF '92, OP86 Danville,IL > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at > http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > _______ > To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or visit http://rangernet.org/subscribe.htm and fill out the form. > "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks! - A#1's mule" RTKB&G4JC! > http://rangernet.org Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Jones, Ozark MO, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Download a Free Royal Ranger Database visit my website at: http://home1.gte.net/mjones02/index.html ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagh. _______ To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://rangernet.org/subscribe.htm and fill out the form. "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks! - A#1's mule" RTKB&G4JC! http://rangernet.org Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
