2023 District Award of Merit Recipients

 

At the annual Old Ephraim District recognition dinner held on March 3, 2023, Andy Hofmeister and Mike Dixon were presented the District Award of Merit for their outstanding service to youth.

Andy Hofmeister Committee Chair Troop 1

Andy is a proud adult leader of Utah's oldest scouting unit, Troop 1, here in Logan. Andy served as Troop 1 (boys) Assistant Scoutmaster from May 2019 to January 2020 and took over the Committee Chairman role in January 2020, where he continues to serve in that role today.

In August of 2022, Andy became the Committee Chairman of Troop 1 (girls), which was founded last year due to the growing need to serve our female scouters her in Cache Valley.

Andy took several adult and youth members of Troop 1 (boys) to Philmont in the summer of 2021 and thought it might be a good idea to backpack the Unitas during the summer of 2022 with Troop 1 (boys) (adults and scouts) ... and all had a very memorable experience!

Andy is certified n First Aid/AED and Wilderness First Aid, attended Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills in August 2022 and just recently received his Wood Badge beads at a beading ceremony on January 14th.

The Hofmeister family play an integral part in Troop 1 success with scouting with wife Stacie serving as a Committee member and Secretary of Troop 1(boys) as well as an Assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 1(girls). The Hofmeister's also have two proud scouts in Troop 1 (boys)!

Mike Dixon Scoutmaster Troop 123

Mike Dixon is the extraordinary Scoutmaster of Troop 123 sponsored by Lee's Marketplace. He applies his years of personal experience and extensive scout training every week. He takes the responsibility of running Troop 123 very seriously, making sure every youth and leader feels welcome and appreciated.

Mike likes to talk things through, resolve conflicts, discuss solutions and help everyone, both youth and adult. He is kind and patient with all. Along with that, he is excited about scouting, loves a good cheer and sings every scout song with zeal.

Mike is a professor at Utah State University in the Business Department. Besides Scouting, he is active in his community and supports the Green Canyon High School Marching Band. Mike and his family reside in Hyde Park.

Which Website Do I Want?

 

Have you ever wondered why your username and/or password does not work when you are trying to login into a scouting site? It may be because you did not know there are two different sites. Each of these sites help you access different information to help you in your scouting position. It’s like being a member of two different banks. Depending on what you need, you would go to that site for the right information.

The National Scout site is My.Scouting.org. This site lets you know what trainings you need for your position, what training need to be completed and also updates your personal Scouting profile. You need to set up a username and password to login to the account. This site also helps current District and Council positions in seeing who needs trainings and be a support to the adult scouters they serve.  

Scoutbook requires the same username and password as your My.Scouting.org. account. Scoutbook is your unit’s access to the advancements for all scouts in Pack or Troop and Crew. The Key Three in the scout unit have the rights to login to Scoutbook and can add three additional members of their unit to have access.  For example, the Den leader could be added to mark advancements or changes for their den members and the Advancement Chairman will also need access.  A scout parent is able to see their child’s advancement. 

Special note: Scoutbook has main scout positions that have the right to be able to have access for your unit. If a person cannot login it may be that National does not have them listed in a curtain scout position to gain that access. 

The next Roundtable April 5th will be a Council wide Roundtable! You will learn from Council experts all about Scoutbook!

The Crossroads of the West Council Scout site is www.utahscouts.org. This is the site you access in order to register for camps or council events like University of Scouting, Commissioner College, Merit Badge Pow-Wow’s, District Dinner’s etc. All of these use the Tentaroo program. You are to set up your own username and password to login for these items. It does not work with your National username and password unless you set it up to be the same.