The Silver Comet District Spring Camporee will be held Friday, April 24th, through Sunday, April 26th, 2020 at Wildlife Action Inc., on Lake Allatoona, 2075 Kellogg Creek Rd, Acworth, GA 30102.

The theme for the camporee is Scouting Around the World. Troops are encouraged to choose a country to represent, run a game from that country, and participate in the Around the World dutch-oven cook-off. Adults who volunteer to staff games or provide other camporee assistance will be the cook off judges.

Registration will open in January. Watch the camporee event page for updates: https://www.silvercometdistrictbsa.org/node/1858.

Silver Comet District is excited to announce the 2020 dates for Cub Scout Day Camp and Cub Scout Twilight Camp:

Day Camp will be held June 1st-5th, 2020 at Kennesaw United Methodist Church. Twilight Camp will be held July 13th-17th, 2020, at Bethany United Methodist Church. Additional information for both camps, which will be dinosaur themed, will be available on the district website early in the new year!

At the Silver Comet District Annual Business Meeting held on November 7th, 2019, the eligible voters present elected the following slate of District Officers for 2020:

District Chair: Cathie McCabe
District Vice Chairs: John Keiler, Clint Pope, Alan Stensland

The Nominating Committee's recommendation for District Commissioner, to be appointed by Atlanta Area Council: Hank Blake

The elected 2020 District Members at Large are posted here on the District Committee web page.

Thank You to the 2019 Nominating Committee for their dedication to providing Silver Comet with a great leadership team for the coming year, and thank you to all of the elected Officers, Members at Large, and our District Commissioner for accepting the call to serve our Silver Comet Scouts and their Units.

22 Packs brought over 400 Cub Scouts and their families to Jim Miller Park for the annual Turkey Shoot. Everyone enjoyed the climbing wall, crafts, field games, and shooting sports, especially the lucky Scouts who won a turkey for their family!

The District Committee would like to express our thanks to Steve Helbling, RJ Kolencik, and Jeff Starnes for organizing this fantastic event. Thanks also to BSA Troops 2096 and 520, both of County Line United Methodist Church, for donating their time as cooks, game support, range assistants, event setup, and event take-down. Thank you to Anthony Gaito for being the Turkey Shoot Health & Safety Officer and special thanks to Brian, Doug, John and Tim for setting up the field.

This event would not be possible without the dedicated volunteers who served as Rangemasters: Clint Hauser, Brian Huang, Zach Hulet, Mike Kozar, Ed Mahan, Douglas Sanders, Adam Stensland, Sharla and Chuck Stewart, and Tim Szepkowski. Thank you Rangemasters!

Thank You All for making the Turkey Shoot a safe, fun, and memorable day for our Silver Comet Cubs and their Families.

If your unit has collected packaged stuffing to donate to the Center for Family Resources for their Thanks-4-Giving Campaign, please bring them to either the Silver Comet Annual Business Meeting on Thursday, November 7th, 7pm, at the First Church of the Nazarene, 4341 Dallas Highway SW, Marietta, GA 30064 or to District Roundtable on Thursday, November 14th, 7pm, at the LDS Chapel, 2595 New Macland Road, Powder Springs, GA 30127.

Thanks for helping our district support the Center for Family Resources and local Cobb County families in need. More information about our 2019 Scouting for Food initiative is available at https://www.silvercometdistrictbsa.org/node/1843.

Thanks to our dedicated Membership Committee, the District's Webelos and Arrow of Light Scouts were treated to not one but two district events in October!

First, they participated in a fun, camporee-style weekend at Woodruff Scout Reservation at Webelos Woods. 130 Webelos and AOL Scouts played patrol and camp-wide games, practiced orienteering and cooking, and took part in a campfire and Scouts' Own service. The District would like to thank Leah Briick and Chris Voigt for organizing and running the event, Audrey Taylor, Nancy Domoracki, and Katie Robinson for running the Health Lodge, RJ Kolencik and Shannon Fishback for cooking for the staff, and the Scouts and Scouters of Troop 675 (boys and girls), Troop 2096, and Crew 2500 for staffing the games.

On October 22nd, we held our most successful Webelos Open House ever! 66 Arrow of Light and Webelos Scouts attended the event and had the opportunity to visit with 23 different Scouts BSA units! If you missed this event or if you missed picking up a troop information packet, a pdf copy is now available here: https://www.silvercometdistrictbsa.org/system/files/WebelosOpenHouse2019.pdf. Thanks again to Leah Briick and Chris Voigt for organizing this event that facilitates the Webelos to Scout transition. Thank you also to Due West United Methodist Church for hosting the event for our district.