April Form - Dutch Oven!

Reminder that April's Forum is this Thursday, April 6th. It's our Dutch Oven contest, with two 12" Cabela's dutch ovens as prizes to the best entree and best dessert dishes.

If you'd like to bring a dish - please do. I'll have the coals ready to cook out behind the church building in the North parking lot at 6pm. We need to be ready for forum to start at 7pm.

Any questions? Please email me.

Welcome to Forum for 2017

Tonight we will have our first forum for 2017.

We'll have a presentation on hiking Brown's Peak (Four Peaks), along with a presentation on how we can excel as new (or old) Venturing leaders.

Hope to see you there!

Venturing Forum - November 2016

Thanks to those that presented tonight.

We had an excellent presentation by Rod Standage about how to train youth to be leaders, and how to be the best leaders we can be.

You can find his presentation HERE and HERE

HERE is the link to the youth training files

Click HERE for a link to his roundtable website for more explanation.

Further thanks to Mike Smith for sharing information about Soap Creek Canyon as a hike.

You can find more information about that HERE

Reminder that next month is the District Awards Ceremony, located at 777 E Elliot Road in Gilbert, the LDS Stake Center on the corner of Lindsay and Elliot.

Our next forum will be January 5th.

If you have suggestions/request for topics for forums for 2017, please email them to me. Remember you can find my email address on the newsletters.

Thanks, have a great holiday season and we'll see you at forum in 2017.

Ten Commandments Hike

Forum Summary for April 2016

We had a great forum tonight - thanks to all that participated.

Brad Miner shared the high adventure spotlight: his crew's trip to Durango, hiking the 14K peaks and white water rafting. You can get his handout here and watch the video here.

Adam Kunz, from Camelback District, is on the Council's Shooting Sports Committee (or something like that.) He gave a great presentation on shooting sports. You can find the summary of his talk here.

Reminder about training this Saturday, for those that need it (see the previous blog post for the link.)

There's also an Israeli Scout Caravan on Saturday, June 11th at 6pm - at the LDS Stake Center on the SE Corner of Elliot and Lindsay (777 E Elliot Rd in Gilbert.)

Thanks, and we'll see you in May - the last forum before our summer break.

APRIL LEADER-SPECIFIC TRAINING

To all the leaders that need to attend the newest Leader-specific Training for Venturing - we're having the semi-annual training on Saturday, April 9th from 7:30 am to about 11 am.

To sign up, here's the link: http://www.grandcanyonbsa.org/event/1888029


It's at the LDS Church building at 1155 E Ray Rd, Gilbert AZ  85296.
(This is Ray just East of Lindsay in Chandler.)

We will have breakfast snacks, learn how to be good Venturing leaders and have a generally most excellent time.

Questions? Contact Justin Cook or Steve Mousser.

Forum Summary for March 2016

Thanks to all that participated in the Great Dutch Oven Cook Off at forum. Special thanks to Sean Terry from Highland East stake for planning and arranging the night.

We had excellent attendance, and even more excellent desserts. As I gather the recipes, I will post them here.

Winners of the prizes were:
1st: Keith Nelson - Monkey Bread
2nd tie: Bryan Robinson - 7 Layer Brownie, and Steve Mousser - PWT Peach Cobbler

Next month we'll learn about Shooting Activities from the Highland West Stake.

We will also have Venturing Leader-specific Training on Saturday April 9th - for those that haven't officially been fully trained in the new VLST training. It lasts from 7:30 to about 11 am.
Click on the link here for more info and to sign up: http://www.grandcanyonbsa.org/event/1888029

See you in April!