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  1. A Hundred Years From Now.

    By SSScout,
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  2. The Man in the Glass

    By le Voyageur,
    • 2 replies
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  3. Share your favorite Scouting success stories or victories here

    By Sentinel947,
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    • 5.8k views

  4. Ozymandias

    By le Voyageur,
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    • 1.7k views

  5. Power of a smile

    By MattR,
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  6. Fear....

    By le Voyageur,
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  7. "If you want to build ship....

    By le Voyageur,
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  8. Your Duck is Dead....

    By le Voyageur,
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  9. The Wolf you Feed

    By le Voyageur,
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  10. A Cub Scout is Reverent

    By RememberSchiff,
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  11. Gratitude

    By mrkstvns,   
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  12. Perseverence

    By mrkstvns,
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  13. Why do patrols eat together?

    By mrkstvns,
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  14. Practice makes "be prepared"

    By mrkstvns,
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  15. The importance of wanting and doing...

    By mrkstvns,
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    • HashTagScouts
      Scout dies in boating accident, Lake Manning, Camp Bell (Gilmanton, NH)

      By HashTagScouts · Posted

      Yes, I would agree that only having half your staff as lifeguard cert is a concern. In the specifics of this tragic event, under the BSA aquatics policy, having the aquatics director as the sole individual over the age of 21 then would place them as the "supervisor". But if that individual isn't in actual position as to truly observe the operations and movement of that motorboat, is it really actually supervision? Knowing Hidden Valley, the swimming and canoe/kayak/rowboat area is on one side of the lake and the motorboat launch is on the opposite side (that is at one of the lakes, they also have a waterfront on a different lake that was mainly for small boat sailing). Then there is Camp Bell (both together, Hidden Valley and Camp Bell make up Griswold SR), where the main waterfront is a good distance to the opposite end of the lake. ultimate question is how many staff 21+ do they have at each of the waterfronts? I'm sure that is the angle this attorney is going to use in arguments, if that aquatics director age 21+ was on the other side of the lake when this occurred, then to the family the camp is negligent that it would be unreasonable to assume they could observe and react to what is happening several hundred feet away.
    • PACAN
      End of 2024 membership numbers

      By PACAN · Posted

      I asked my friend about other numbers.    Also mentioned how badly the recharter process has been. Jan 2024   893117  (down 100K from the end of 2023)  April 2024  813497
    • RememberSchiff
      Scout dies in boating accident, Lake Manning, Camp Bell (Gilmanton, NH)

      By RememberSchiff · Posted

      I would assume that all camp aquatic staff had current lifeguard certification*, but then when one assumes... I found this curious document BSA Aquatics Staff Guide , Revised 3/15/2022, 148 pages. https://www.scouting.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AQUATICS-STAFF-GUIDE-10072020.pdf page 17 Staff Training, Pre-Camp Training Only 50% of the aquatics staff must be BSA LifeGuard certification? IMHO, seemingly a half-way measure. Meanwhile NPR picked up the story https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-02-04/parents-allege-boy-scouts-failed-to-prevent-sons-2023-death-at-gilmanton-camp   *Note BSA Lifeguard certification ended Dec, 2024. Seek training through Y, Red Cross,...
    • SSScout
      Another lost camp

      By SSScout · Posted

      Repeat after me:...  Jamboree at the Summit... 
    • yknot
      End of 2024 membership numbers

      By yknot · Posted

      That's why the March/April figures have always been more accurate. There's a certain percentage of baked in bloat year to year. This year is going to be a little harder to figure out because I think with the change to rolling self renewals vs. prorated renewals, they will continue to remain on the books for, depending on what you've read and where, anywhere from 60 to 180 days. I'm thinking March/April, though, will be a truer picture. 
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