Date Day Scouts Varsity / Venture Duty to God
Deacon Teacher Priest

8/16

WED

Service Project

Language/Culture

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ED11 ED8

8/19

SAT

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Stake Youth Dance (Corvallis/Darby Host)

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8/23

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Merit Badge

Career Visits

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ED4 ED3

8/30

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County Fair - No Scouts

Language/Culture - ED11 ED8

9/6

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Archery or Sport Activity

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9/10

SUN

Stake Youth Fireside

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9/13

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9/20

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9/27

WED

Stake Family Week - NO MUTUAL

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10/4

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10/11

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10/18

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10/25

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10/28

SAT

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Bi-Stake Youth Dance

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11/1

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11/8

WED

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11/11

SAT

Stake Youth Service Project

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11/15

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Combined Ward Joint Activity (Hamilton YM Plan)

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11/19

SUN

Stake General Priesthood Meeting

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11/22

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11/29

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12/6

WED

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12/13

WED

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12/20

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12/27

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Other Unscheduled Activities
Nursing Home Visit - - -
Career Visits (Rocky Mountain Lab? Dentist? Ravalli Republic? Others?) - - -

Hiawatha Trail Bike Ride

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Bannack Ghost Town Overnighter

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Blodgett Canyon Day Hike

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WILD. SURVIVAL

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PH10

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VOC. TEST

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ED5,6

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CAREER NIGHT

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ED9

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MEDIA RATING NIGHT

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CS9

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CLEAN / REPAIR PUBLIC PARK

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CS12

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Attend the dress rehearsals of your local ballet, opera, or theater. Many times tickets are extremely low priced, or even free. Call to find out.

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Have ethnic cooking classes. Get someone who’s a native of another country or a returned missionary to come and show you how to whip up fabulous foreign meals.

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Attend a city council meeting to see how the local government works.

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Have career exploration nights. Arrange to visit a business that stays open in the evenings (like a newspaper, television or radio station, supermarket, etc.), and find out what it’s like to work there.

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ake a tour of your local library—find out how you can get the most out of it. Did you know most libraries let you check out CDs and videos?

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Find out what your local shelters need and make items for them—things like hygiene kits, toys, and quilts.

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Have a Mormonad brainstorming contest and make Mormonad posters. Send us your best—we need them! (And we’ll pay you for them.)

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Let the Laurels and priests do a “senior year” workshop for the younger youth in your program.

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Have a creative pizza party. Roll out biscuit dough for crusts, and see who can come up with the most unusual or attractive toppings.

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Visit your local television station and watch them do a news broadcast. (You’ll have to arrange in advance for this one.)

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Sponsor a baby-sitting clinic and make baby-sitting kits.

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Have a letter-writing night when everyone pens a few encouraging words to the missionaries and military service people from your ward.

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Have a letter-writing night when everyone writes something positive to a Congressman, mayor, bishop, or parent.

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CPR Clinic

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Host a missionary activity when everyone teams up with either a stake or full-time missionary.

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Put on a special, missionary-oriented activity to which missionaries can bring their investigators.

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Offer to tend for the sisters with children who want to attend Relief Society homemaking night, and plan some kind of fun, group activity for the children.

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Have a kite-flying fest.

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Invite someone who knows sign language for the deaf to come teach you a few things about it.

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Plan a fireside for the rest of the ward or stake about an important topic like ecology, scripture study, etc.

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Invade the bishop’s house and do all sorts of wonderful things for him like cooking, cleaning, yard work, and anything else you can think of. Don’t forget to let his wife know you’re coming.

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Have everyone bring their favorite recipes and make a Mutual cookbook.

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Have a New Era Bowl.

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Ask someone to teach you to can or bottle fruits and vegetables.

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Go caroling to people who need a little holiday cheer. And don’t wait for Christmas. You can carol on Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and other times.

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Offer to redo, clean up, and fix the dolls and toys from your local thrift shop.

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Have a manicure workshop one week; then go to a retirement home the next week and offer your newfound skills to the residents.

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Make a beautiful quilt and donate it to a charity to be sold at auction.

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Have a competition between the Young Men and Young Women—each class makes a quilt; then you vote on the most creative or beautiful, and donate them to charity.

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Go to a hospital and read stories to the elderly or to children.

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Throw a finger painting party.

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Volunteer to help clean pens and walk the pets at the local animal shelter.

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Make a video of a Book of Mormon story to show to the Primary kids.

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Ask an aerobics instructor to come and conduct a session.

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Stuff envelopes for a charity organization or a nonprofit group.

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Self-defense seminar.

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Have a bowling night, but make sure everyone brings a younger sibling or ward member.

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Volunteer to prepare and serve dinner at the local homeless shelter.

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Ask foreign exchange students in your school to come talk about their countries.

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Get involved in your local Adopt-a-Highway program.

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Talk to city authorities to have them help you set up a time when you can paint over the graffiti in your area.

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Get an inexpensive copy of the Book of Mormon, and give everyone ten or so pages to read. That way, together you can read the entire Book of Mormon in one night. Discuss what you read.

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Learn how to dip chocolates.

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Form a dating panel. Have girls tell boys what they like, what bothers them, etc., and have boys do the same thing.

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Do a family home evening clinic where everyone shares one of their favorite activities or lessons and everyone gets ideas and instructions for things that could work in their own families.

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Invite someone to speak on how to look for and get a job.

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Play “Scriptionary,” which is like “Pictionary,” but you draw something to represent a scripture rather than a word.

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Have a journal-writing workshop. Let everyone share what works for them; then challenge each other to write faithfully for the next couple of weeks. It could be a Young Men versus Young Women competition.-

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Golf

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Visit Bonner Sawmill

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Visit Teller Wildlife Refuge

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Tammy Campbell (Yarn Center) willing to donate scrap yarn for project(s)?

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Tennis Lessons by Bob and Jason? - - -

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