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		<title>&#8230;and on to 2012!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year at this time I ended a blog post with this: I wish each of you health and happiness for you and your families as we start off in 2011, and when we look back on it a year from now I hope we will all see it as time well spent. Time well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Better Pack Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised in the last post (long ago), I wanted to mention some of the things covered in the The Strictly for Cubmasters class during Week 7 at Philmont Training Center. I know it has been a while, but for some reason I never hit the &#8220;publish&#8221; button on this one. Hopefully there are some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Training Vacation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my Wood Badge ticket items is to attend a training course for Cubmasters that goes beyond what is covered in the Position-specific training. The second part of that ticket item is to bring back something I learned and implement it in my pack. It was part of the same quest that brought me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;and now we resume our regularly scheduled program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Independence Day I met up with a friend and Roundtable co-conspirator at the district&#8217;s recruiting booth. He reminded me that this blog is overdue for an update and I left him hanging with the end of the 100 Days of Scouting. So here you go Mike! To wrap up 100 days of scouting: Days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 72-79: Faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve mentioned that we started the God and Me program with the pastor of our church. During days 72-79 of the 100 Days of Scouting we had our 3rd and 4th meetings with the pastor. While the program is open to anyone, this go around we had two Cub Scouts in the class, both in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 69-71: Cub Scouts Outside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Campfires are always a great hit with Cub Scouts. What&#8217;s not to love? You combine the outdoors with singing songs, performing skits and being loud and having a good time. Also, don&#8217;t underestimate the power of the fire. It doesn&#8217;t take much to take a 7 year old back to his caveman roots. For April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 68: The Scout Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was the day of the Denver Area Council&#8217;s Scout Show. It was a lot of fun! For me it was a marathon scouting day from getting the booth supplies down to the show at 9 until packing up and taking it all home from 4:30-5. The show was at the National Western Stock Show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arlenward.com/wordpress/2011/05/04/day-68-the-scout-show</link>
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		<title>Days 63-67: Skits and Recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So after the second weekend of Wood Badge, I was in need of recovery. Time spent with the family, some time processing the experience, and a little bit more sleep. We spent a den meeting working on the skit the boys in my son&#8217;s Wolf den were going to perform at the next week&#8217;s pack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 49-62: Gilwell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thirteen days is a big spread to cover all at once, but the last two weeks has had one unifying theme: my Wood Badge course, W5-61-11-1. I have started, deleted, and re-started a blog post about my Wood Badge experience three times now. When asked about whether Wood Badge is worth the time and expense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arlenward.com/wordpress/2011/04/12/day-49-62-gilwell</link>
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		<title>Day 48: Wood Badge Day Three</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure how exhausted I&#8217;ll be tonight to fill you in on what happend during my first weekend at Wood Badge, so I&#8217;ve scheduled this as my 100 Days of Scouting update for today. I&#8217;m still at Wood Badge, making friends and learning things. But rest assured, I&#8217;ll be posting something soon. Or you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arlenward.com/wordpress/2011/03/27/day-48-wood-badge-day-three</link>
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