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Battlefield District Information
Wendy Starke, is our District Commissioner and oversees Unit Services. Wendy's responsibilities include the recruiting and training of Unit Commissioners whose role is critical to the District providing information and leadership resources to the various units within the District. Wendy also oversees Unit Re-Chartering and Unit Inventory reporting. Both the District's Boy Scout Roundtables and Cub Scout Roundtables also come under Wendy's responsibility as District Commissioner. Roundtables are held monthly on the first Wednesday of each month at Fairfield Presbyterian Church located on Cold Harbor Road in Mechanicsville.
Tom McKittick, as the District's Finance Chair, has the primary responsibility of overseeing the District's Friends of Scouting Campaign. In each of the past four years, the Battlefield District has been the first District of the Heart of Virginia Council to reach it Friends of Scouting Fund Raising Goal. This achievement is in no small measure due to the generosity of the families which make up our District as well as the efforts put in by those individuals who give of their time on behalf of the District and the many scouting units comprising the District.
Mark Lloyd, as Program Chair for the District, has many key persons working with him in organizing District Camp-O-Rees, Community Activities and Services, Pinewood Derbies, District Summer Day Camps, Advancements and Leadership Training. By the close of the 2009 calendar year the District anticipates that up to 50 of the District’s Boy Scouts will have obtained the Eagle Scout Rank, which will mark the most in any one year of the history of the District. For each Eagle Scout one can point to an Eagle Project which has benefited our community. These Eagle Projects when coupled with our Annual Scouting For Food Campaign for the Central Virginia Food Bank and the various other community service projects carried out by the our District scouts account for thousand of hours worth of volunteer service and tens of thousands of dollars in added value to our communities on an annual basis.
Don Ward serves as our District Membership Chair. Membership is the life blood of any membership based organization and Scouting is no different. It is said that 90% of all Boy Scouts were Cub Scouts. This past year's recruitment efforts netted a growth in the number of Cub Scouts in the District over last year. Transition of our Webelos from the Cub Scout Program to the Boy Scout Program is consequently a major component of the continued growth of the District's Boy Scout membership and one that the District plays an important role in fostering.
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