The 54th Annual Scoutmasters Camporee will be held on
February 15-17, 2013.

Theme for 2013
Scouting Building the Future
Scout Basics to Robotics
Chief: Rick Putman

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Register for the 54th 2013 camporee; follow this link which goes to the Doubleknot registration page: smcc.us/register2013/

All campsite reservations for the 2013 Scoutmasters Camporee must be done online. Units will be charged a $20 unit fee and $20 per camper for on-time registration.

In order to hold your current spot(s) for next year, you must log in online and make a minimum $50 Deposit by March 31st. Units must pay the $20 unit fee and register at least 1 adult and 1 youth in order to reserve the campsite.

Requests for new sites may be submitted, but will be held until April 1, 2012 to allow the 2012 occupant a chance to reserve. After that date, other requests will be honored on a first come, first served basis.

• A $50 non-refundable Deposit is required to hold a site for 2013.
• The Contact Person on the registration will receive important information related to the upcoming Camporee, so please be sure that they are someone who plans to be with the unit next year.
• Reserving a campsite does not guarantee on-time registration rates for next year. You must update your registration before the on-time registration deadline (January 31, 2013) in order to avoid paying late fees.

A link to the campsite map is on the reserved sites page.

2012 Memorial Day Parade & Ceremony

Honor Our Veterans

The Town of Davie
&
The Scoutmasters Camporee Committee
South Florida Council, Boy Scouts of America
Cordially invite you to attend the 2011 Memorial Day Parade & Ceremony

The Town of Davie and the Scoutmasters Camporee Committee cordially invite you to attend the annual Memorial Day Parade & Ceremony to be held on Monday, May 28, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. The Parade will proceed down Davie Rd, beginning at SW 39th St and end at the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds (4271 Davie Road, Davie, FL, 33314). Please be sure to ONLY park in the school parking lot or park at the Rodeo Grounds and walk up to the school. Bring your family, friends and celebrate Memorial Day with the Boy Scouts.

Following the parade, a Memorial Service will take place at the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds. This is an excellent opportunity to show your support for our soldiers and recognize the sacrifice they have made and are making to ensure our freedom. The Service will last an hour and is guaranteed to make an impression on your entire family. Flags will be available prior to the service for $1.00. During the service, flags (purchased or you may bring your own) can be placed on veteran's grave markers.

If you need a parade application, have any questions, or need additional information, please feel free to contact Rick Putman, 2013 Scoutmasters Camporee Chief and 2012 Memorial Day Chairman by email at chief at smcc dot us, phone: 954-309-8569, or contact Matthew Mlodzinski, Special Projects Director at the Town of Davie at 954-797-1163. You can also register online free of charge at http://www.doubleknot.com/form/formjump.asp?bidx=0&surveyID=28418&OrgKey=1492

Memorial Day Schedule

Monday, May 28, 2012

9:00 A.M. Memorial Day Parade Assembly at Nova Eisenhower Elementary School (6501 SW 39th Street) parking lot just south of Nova/BCC. Scouting units and community organizations are encouraged to participate.

10:00 A.M. Memorial Day Parade Step-Off. Please be assembled and ready.

11:00 A.M. Memorial Day Service held in the Davie Bergeron Rodeo Arena (4271 Davie Road, Davie, FL, 33314).

FLAGS will be available prior to parade step-off and ceremony for $1.00 each. During the service, flags (purchased or brought) can be placed on veteran's graves markers. The Memorial Day Weekend activities are an official South Florida Council Scouting activity. The Town of Davie donates significant manpower and resources to assure a successful event. As a Scoutmaster and unit leader, you are encouraged to participate in this worthwhile event. This weekend is designed to give your units an opportunity to have fun and participate in the true meaning of this National Holiday. We will look forward to seeing all of you at this event. If you have any questions, need additional information, or want to sign up your unit, please contact Rick Putman, 2013 Scoutmasters Camporee Chief and 2012 Memorial Day Chairman at 954-309-8569 or email him.

Memorial Day flier & parade application     Register online     Parade Route

Parade Route

The order that created Memorial Day

HEADQUARTERS GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC

General Orders No.11, WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 1868

1. The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land. In this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.

   We are organized, comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose among other things, "of preserving and strengthening those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound together the soldiers, sailors, and marines who united to suppress the late rebellion." What can aid more to assure this result than cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead, who made their breasts a barricade between our country and its foes? Their soldier lives were the reveille of freedom to a race in chains, and their deaths the tattoo of rebellious tyranny in arms. We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.

   If other eyes grow dull, other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us.

   Let us, then, at the time appointed gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with the choicest flowers of spring-time; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved from hishonor; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon a nation's gratitude, the soldier's and sailor's widow and orphan.

2. It is the purpose of the Commander-in-Chief to inaugurate this observance with the hope that it will be kept up from year to year, while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades. He earnestly desires the public press to lend its friendly aid in bringing to the notice of comrades in all parts of the country in time for simultaneous compliance therewith.

3. Department commanders will use efforts to make this order effective.

   By order of

   JOHN A. LOGAN,
   Commander-in-Chief

   N.P. CHIPMAN,
   Adjutant General

   Official:
   WM. T. COLLINS, A.A.G.

Scoutmasters Camporee forms

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Roster of your participants - PDF 15 kb - form field enabled

Parking Permit - PDF 33kb

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