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Council
Auction March 19
The Council will hold its’ annual auction
again this year to generate revenue for
our ever-growing Scout program.
Wally Holman has agreed to chair the
event again and will be forming a committee
soon to begin work. If you would like
to serve on this committee, please contact
the service center to find out how.
The 2005 Auction will be held Saturday,
March 19th. The location will be determined
by February 1st.
Donations are now being accepted. You
can donate by calling the Scout Office at
325-655-7107 or 1-800-321-7107. Items that
did very well at last year’s auction were
vehicles, guns, sporting goods, electronics
and computers.
APPRECIATED PROPERTY GIFTS
“THESE
GIFTS ARE REALLY
APPRECIATED”
These days, there are lots of ways for
you to make gifts to the Concho Valley Council.
If you are like most people, however,
you think only of cash gifts in support
of Scouting. As valuable as cash gifts
are for the council, gifts of appreciated
property may be more beneficial for many
people to give than cash.
Do you have any stocks, bonds, land,
or other assets that may have appreciated
in value? If you sold one of these
items, you would probably owe capital gains
tax on the difference between the fair market
value and what you paid for the property.
This means less money for you to contribute,
reinvest, or spend.
By contributing the property directly
to Scouting, however, you may receive a
tax deduction for the fair market value
of the property you are contributing. Even
if the property has appreciated in value,
you won’t owe any capital gains tax on the
gift. If you use appreciated property
to create a charitable income trust, you
receive the same benefits.
Whether you have stock, land, artwork,
antiques, vintage cars, or other types of
appreciated property, contact us about the
advantages of making these gifts to your
local council. Your gifts will be
appreciated, in more ways than one!
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2005
MARKS 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF CUB SCOUTS
It’s time
to celebrate! In 2005 Cub Scouting marks
its 75th Anniversary.The official celebration
begins in September 2004 at the start of
the new program year and will continue through
December 2005. The 75th Anniversary
of Cub Scouting provides your pack an opportunity
beyond that of mere celebration. While this
is a time to reflect on our achievements
and our past, the event also provides an
opportunity to reach toward our future.
Here are
some things you may want to do in the next
16 months:
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Ensure
that all members of your pack,
including Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts,
Webelos Scouts, families, and
leaders, know about this event.
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Promote
the 75th Anniversary awards
by ensuring that all members
of your pack, including Tiger
Cubs, Cub Scouts, Webelos Scouts,
families, and leaders, have
copies of the requirements (available
in this packet and on the national
BSA Web site: www.scouting.org).
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Plan
a celebration commemorating
the 75th Anniversary of Cub
Scouting by making the anniversary
the theme for your blue and
gold banquet.
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Conduct
a service project for your chartered
organization or the community.
If possible, post a sign telling
the public about your project.
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Find
out about typical games of the
1930s and play one or more at
pack or den meetings during
the year.
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Have
your historian (appoint one
if you don’t have one) start
or update your den meetings
during the year.
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Look
for former leaders in your pack
and invite them to a special
event, possibly your blue and
gold banquet. You might
place notices in your chartered
organization’s newsletter, local
newspapers, and school newsletters
and with local radio and television
stations asking former leaders
to contact someone in your pack. (Be
sure to provide contact information—e-mail,
phone, or addresses.)
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Promote
the Cub Scout Outdoor Program
Award.
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Promote
day camp and resident camp attendance
by your pack and dens.
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Hold
a pack overnight campout. You
might play games or make a craft
from the 1930s as part of your
activities.
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Check
out Program Helps for other
ideas to celebrate this event.
Also watch your council
newsletter and/or your council
Web site for additional suggestions.
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Sending
Money Out of Town
(Note:
This is an excerpt from a Troop Committeeman’s
Letter)
“You have
asked me to put on paper what I said at
the meeting the other night when the old
question of sending money out of town came
up in connection with planning the Scout
drive.
What I tried
to point out was that all of us send money
out of town every day and bring money in.
In fact, the life and welfare of us
individually and as a community depends
upon this flow of commerce. Otherwise,
we are too small to survive without!
You will
remember I cited my own case as typical.
I can’t make the tractors, plows,
and implements I sell and service, so I
buy them from someone else who can make
them.. To do this, I have to send
money out of town. There are too few
tractor prospects in my town, so I peddle
them all over four counties. This
brings money into town.
In the above
exchange, many people benefit financially.
The manufacturer, his salesman who
rents a room at our hotel, the ten employees
I have who live in our town, plus all the
people they spend their money with, the
farmer and his family, etc. A little
rubs off of mine for which the butcher,
the baker, the doctor, the tax collector
and fifty other people, mostly local, are
grateful. Local trade is certainly
stimulated as each dollar makes its way
around. Everyone is benefited directly
or indirectly.
What is
true of me and my business is true of most
business and individuals in my town. Gone
is the day when the home was the workshop
and each family sufficient unto itself.
Having tried to establish this important
fact in the minds of the men at the meeting,
I tried to show them that what we were doing
in the Scout drive for the council in our
little town was to operate on that same
common business principle. In effect,
we were asking the people of our community
to buy at wholesale from the manufacturer
in the program of Scouting, so we in turn
can retail it to the consumer at home. From
that, plenty of benefits of character in
young people will rub off on all of us here.”
Reprinted
by permission of “The Ozarkian Scouter,”
Ozarks Council, Springfield, Mo.
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