Key Details from the Calendar Entry for this event: 

• Location: JW Smith Reservoir, 143 North Bridge Rd. Hampton, GA 30215, ccwa.us/fishing-information
• Fee: $15.00 per Cub Scout
• Fishing Derby patch is included
• Awards for Biggest Fish, Smallest Fish, Most Fish, And Most Different Species awarded
• Times on June 21:
• Registration 8:00 AM-8:45 AM
• Fishing Adventures 9:00 AM–10:00 AM
• Fishing Derby 10:00 AM-12:00 Noon
• Lunch Break 12:00 Noon – 12:45 PM
• Awards 12:45 PM-1:00PM
• Fishing Derby Format will be stations to meet belt loop and pin requirements followed by the derby itself.  Click to jump to Adventure Resources in the calendar entry.

More information is in the Calendar Entry. Email webmaster@southfultonscouting.com if you need a reminder about the login to access the Calendar Entry for this event.

If you're no longer involved or interested in Scouting and you want to "opt out" of these messages, email the Webmaster and we'll drop you from the list.  But If you want to be "all in" on Scouting, see our Leader Training page (good resources for parents too through the National On Line Training site at ScoutingU with the same login as at My.Scouting.Org), and if you want the login codes, just email the Webmaster ... 

Highlights of the most recent District News were these (click links for information):  Scouter Gone Home: Marvin G. Webb ... Now is a Good Time to Turn Parents into Helpers and Leaders - June 7 Training ... Steps to Successful Scout Recruiting ... The Great Big List of Places to Go and Things to Do Around Atlanta ... and from the week before: Recruiting Step Three: Recruiting Adult Leaders ... Recruiting Step Four: School and Community Presence and Profile ... A Message From Isaiah Campbell / Change In The District Executive Role ... "Safeguarding Youth" Training -- Replaces "Youth Protection Training" ... Email webmaster@southfultonscouting.com if you need a reminder about the login.

From Kashna Fletcher of Troop 54 and Pack 3310:  "It is with a heavy heart and deep sorrow that I share the news of the passing of our beloved friend and brother in Scouting, Marvin G. Webb. He has transitioned from this life after bravely fighting the good fight.

Over the past two months, his health declined significantly, and he faced it all with quiet strength and courage.

At this time, we ask that you allow his family the space and time they need to grieve and process this profound loss. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers during this incredibly difficult time."

A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, June 7, Noon, at FBC Hapeville, 612 College Street, Hapeville, GA 30354. 

Marvin was a tireless and enthusiastic leader of Pack 3310 for years.  He will be missed!

Ask yourself:

• Do you have Parents in your Pack who joined with their child last year, didn't "know Cub Scouting", and so didn't become a leader?
• Did they and their Scout like doing Cub Scouts over the school year?
• Do they "know enough" now to step up and become an Assistant Den Leader or Den Co-Leader or Committee Member?  

Yes, they know enough to lead and succeed.  Now is a great time to recruit parents to "step up".

Want more?  Build your Teams!  Take a carload of parents to the Volunteer Service Center on June 7, 10:00 am, for Cub Leader Training led by this District's Cub Leader Trainer.  Free. Register here.  (Email webmaster@southfultonscouting.com if you need a reminder about the login.)  The collaboration you do in the Training will make it worth the drive to the Scout Shop.

The Guide to Cub Scout Family Recruiting found in the downloads of the Atlanta Area Council Recruiting Resources main page describes steps for successful recruiting -- spoiler alert: Successful and Sustainable Recruiting Does Not Begin and End at School Sign Up Night!  If families are fired up at a Sign Up Night but have no Pack to join and no leaders to deliver a program, where are the new youth going to do Cub Scouting?  And do Packs with a handful of Leaders have the capacity to lead 50, 60, 80 or more?  No. 

To be successful, the best practice is to lay down the foundation with these Six Steps for Successful and Sustainable Recruiting and described in our Pack Run Recruiting Best Practices video, starting with:

(1) Make a Calendar of Fun Activities that families like -- activities they want to do -- if you plan those activities, you will be the Pack they want to join (you want families who want to "do" activities, not just "drop off" kids for you to mind). It's not too late! 

(2) Let People Know – Promote Your Fun Events! -- there are many ways, like Flyers (both Council Flyers and Do It Yourself Flyers), and you can make a "Pack Packet" Flyer (with your events, your pictures, and a QR code to have families contact you) --  share with your families (in hand, by email, text, social media), and encourage them to share with their friends (by hand, by email, text, social media) -- and use BeAScout and Online Registration, they can sign up right now,  You Can Do This Now!

(3) Recruit More Leaders and Helpers -- yes, you need to do this throughout your recruiting process.  We do "get it": recruiting is hard.  But that page has many ideas about ways to approach leader recruiting so that your Pack can become an "Every Parent Helps" Pack,  "Every Parent Helps" Should Be Your Message!

(4) Grow your School and Community Presence so that you're known beyond current Pack families and have strong school relations -- be sure to get in for Open House/Meet and Greet/Meet the Teacher events -- plus build positive Community and Church profile,

all of that leads to (5) Sign-Up Events: not just the "School Sign-Up Night" scheduled in tandem by your Pack Leaders and our District Executive (Isaiah Campbell) and run by both the District Professional and Pack Leaders, but also Fun Joining Events that you create for your own Pack and Dens!  Any Fun Den or Pack Activity can be a Welcoming Joining Event for New Families -- let them "test drive" Cub Scouting!  

(6)  Then ... the last step is more program that's fun for kids and families.  Sure, Cub Scout Adventures for Rank and all, but also just Fun, Simple, Easy Activities that you do just because you want fun, many of which you'll find on this Great Big List of Things to Do and Places to Go Around Atlanta.