Mayflower Council is pleased to announce the addition of Davis Stockton to the Mayflower Council staff.
Davis will be serving as the Ranger for Camps Resolute and Nobscot.
Davis joins us from Twin Rivers Council in Albany, New York where he served as a Camp Ranger and most recently held staff positions with Westchester-Putnam Council in Hawthorne, New York
Davis will be a resident at Camp Resolute starting in mid-May.
Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Davis.
The New England Scout Shop in Southborough (Route 9) is now looking to interview and hire a new Part-time Sales Associate.
The opportunities are “Seasonal” with the possibility of becoming a permanent position. Work shifts we would need to fill are one to two days a week and include weekdays and Saturdays.
Previous sales/customer service experience is a plus.
The skill set enabling you to sew using a sewing machine would be outstanding and make the possibility of even more hours/shifts being available to you.
If you are interested, please stop by the Scout Shop for an application and to schedule an interview.
New England Scout Shop
23 Turnpike Road (Route 9)
Southborough, MA 01772
Open weekdays 9:30 AM – 6 PM
Saturdays 10 AM until 2 PM
CLOSED Sundays
New registration applications no longer have duplicate copies included. This was a conscious decision based on a units’ access to member information through BSA’s online systems. Units have access to both youth and adult leader information through both my.Scouting and Scoutbook, which is now free for every unit.
Both of these systems update overnight after the registration is posted by the council through ScoutNET, or immediately after an online application is approved by the unit. Additionally, privacy of personal information is a constant growing concern today and removing these additional copies helps to keep individuals personal information from being non-securely passed around or disposed of by volunteers.
If your Unit was not able to attend our April 4th Roundtable, not to worry. We are making all the event flyers, training newsletters and other information available!
Click here for PDF of all April Roundtable Handouts
Our April Roundtable featured:
Metacomet District Executive, Nick Keyes, lead a discussion about recruitment tactics for your Units. We brainstormed about methods that other Troops and Packs have used to recruit, having an online presence for your Unit, updating your BeAScout Pin through my.scouting, and much more. Here is a link to the long list of ideas that we all contributed to.
Brainstormed Recruitment Ideas from Headwaters District April Roundtable
What can your Unit do to recruit?
Questions, comments, or ideas for the District’s leadership?
Send an Email to: Headwaters@mayflowerbsa.org
Our next District Roundtable will be:
May 2nd at 7:00 pm
Milford High School Cafeteria
31 West Fountain Street
Milford, MA 01757
Make sure to send a representative so that your Unit is kept informed and in the loop. Come talk with your District leadership, commissioners, committee teams and other Leaders!
See you there!
Congratulations to our Awesome Pinewood Racers!
On Saturday April 6th, Headwaters District had their annual District Pinewood Derby Race!
119 cars came and raced against each other to find our top 3 fastest cars for EACH RANK of our Headwaters Cub Scouts! Parents, friends, Scouts, and guests voted on the COOLEST looking cars from each rank as well.
We hope that everyone enjoyed their time at the Solomon Pond Mall!
Here are our winners!
Lions
Coolest Car: Liam M. – Pack 97 Hopkinton
Tigers
Coolest Car: Sebastian C. – Pack 3001 Ashland
Wolves
Coolest Car: Henry O. – Pack 3001 Ashland
Bears
Coolest Car: Justin F. – Pack 3204 Milford
Webelos
Coolest Car: Will J. – Pack 3033 Westborough
Arrow of Light
Coolest Car: Skylar M. – Pack 42 Marlborough
We also had a Siblings Race and we were thrilled to have three awesome racers join us! Congrats to our siblings that raced: Stella, Isabelle, and Graham!
Finally, a HUGE thank you to our AMAZING volunteers that helped make this year’s Pinewood possible:
Eric Martin, Mark Derderian, Damien Knox, Stephen Reade, Tom Hirsh, Andy Lindeman, Steve Silverstein, Eric Hobin and Mathew Dyer.
As well as our awesome Scout helpers: Eli, Shelby, Joseph, Leo and Ian!
If your Unit was not able to attend our March 7th Roundtable, do not worry. We are making all the event flyers, training newsletters and other information available!
Click here for PDF of all March Roundtable Handouts
Our March Roundtable featured:
Questions, comments, or ideas for the District’s leadership?
Send an Email to: Headwaters@mayflowerbsa.org
Our next District Roundtable will be:
March 7th at 7:00 pm
at Milford High School Cafeteria
31 W Fountain St
Milford, MA 01757
The topic in April will be: Spring Recruitment of Scouts! Tips, Skills, Ideas, and resources that are available to your Unit through your town and through your Council! We will have some resources available to you at Roundtable!
Make sure to send a representative so that your Unit is kept informed and in the loop. Come talk with your District leadership, commissioners, committee teams and other Leaders!
See you there!
Please join the Headwaters District advancement team in congratulating the following Scouts on their achievement of the rank of Eagle Scout with the completion of their Boards of Review on March 7th and March 20th, 2019.
Altogether, these Scouts and their volunteers provided over 637 hours of service to their project beneficiaries!
It is an honor and privilege to congratulate these exceptional Scouts and for their achievement. As less than 5% of Scouts become Eagles, these are truly the best of the best, the most dedicated, and the most determined to succeed!
GO SCOUTS!!
The Boy Scouts of America is committed to basic operations by putting tools in the hands of volunteers. For several years now, individuals and unit key 3 have had access to print membership cards through my.scouting. In addition, functionality will be added to my.scouting by January 1, 2019, to enable members of the unit key 3 to print their unit Charter Certificate.
This “self-service” functionality allows volunteers to print membership cards and the unit charter certificate in a timely manner and enhances the on-boarding experience for new youth and adults.
Units will need to print their membership cards and charter certificate, instructions for doing so are below.
How to print a membership card for an individual
How to print membership cards for a unit
FAQs and How To’s for charter certificate printing
Hello Headwaters District:
Our Investment in Character annual fundraising Campaign is underway and going well. On January 7th, Headwaters District kicked off our efforts to raise $25,000 by May 31st. We have been reaching out to Pack and Troop Key 3 members to ask if our team can talk to your Unit about helping reach our goal. Several Units have been generous enough to sponsor a Scout for one year of the Scouting program with the gift of $311.65!
We want to keep everyone updated about our status along our campaign. At the end of February we tallied up a total of $6,329.00, just about 25% of our goal!
Those who generously donate to our Investment in Character campaign with a gift of $311.65 (cost of delivering the Scouting program to 1 youth for an entire year) will receive a special edition “2019 Investment in Character” Council Shoulder Patch. In addition to one of these Council Shoulder Patches, donors who make a gift of $1,000.00 or more will also receive a Mayflower Council 20 ounce Yeti Tumbler.
If you are interested in learning more about our campaign please visit our webpage: Campaigns and Gifts
If you are interested in getting involved with our IICC team, contact us at headwaters@mayflowerbsa.org
Support us as we invest in the future!
Hello Headwaters Packs:
Join the Headwaters District’s fastest Pinewood Racers on April 6th!
The first Saturday in April will be the showdown match for all of our fastest Pinewood Derby Cars from 25 Cub Scout Packs from 12 towns in Mayflower Council. The top three racers from each rank of Cub Scouts will compete against each other to determine who is the fastest as well as who has created the most outstanding car! Come by and watch the races, cheer on your favorites, and see what Scouting is all about at our District Pinewood Derby from 8 am – 4 pm in front of the JC Penny!
Event Registration is Open: Register Your Racers Here!
Packs can register the top 3 racers from each Rank, Lions through Arrow of Light Scouts, and siblings if they would like to join us for our Sibling’s Race. That is: you can register up to the top 3 Lion racers, top 3 Tiger racers, etc. for a maximum of 18 Cub Scout racers, and any siblings of these racers or winners of Pack Sibling races.
A Schedule of races is also seen at the link above.
We are also hosting a Car Registration and Pit Crew Day at the Marlborough Council Service Center on April 5th from Noon to 5:30 pm. You can skip the line the day of the race by registering your car a day early! See you then!