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I see a Catholic youth (youth/family) program forming that does not involve a generic,outside youth program which may be doing less than hoped, from the Church viewpoint, to boost youth involvement in the Church. A hard fact, there are fewer Catholic children attending a Catholic school than there are Cub Scouts in the US. Our local elementary/secondary school closes this June. My younger son's weekend Confirmation classes resemble Scouting in terms of activities, service requirements, and time commitment (more reading/study). More and more time conflicts. Back in the day when more Catholics attended Catholic schools and Catechism classes, the Church taught religion and the troop taught scouting with the Scout Oath and Law as the bridge. http://www.ncea.org/NCEA/Proclaim/Catholic_School_Data/Catholic_School_Data.aspx My $0.01

Where is the Committee Chairman? Pack Treasurer? Where is the Charter Organization Representative? If none of those care, I doubt Council would. Start looking for another Pack for your son. My $0.02

The 106 year Hawaii Boy Scout tradition called Makahiki has been reinvented (by the Aloha Council) and is now named after one of Hawaii’s most famous Eagle Scouts, astronaut Ellison Onizuka. More than 7,300 people attended the Aloha Council’s Onizuka Day of Exploration at the Blaisdell that was sponsored by the Queen’s Health Systems. In addition to the traditional Makahiki events, it also had a host of STEM activities with booths and hands-on workshops focused on science, technology, engineering and math. http://khon2.com/2017/04/30/boy-scout-makahiki-tradition-reinvented-as-onizuka-day-of-exploration/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellison_Onizuka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-L

I googled Adult Pinewood Derby and had numerous finds. The event itself is usually official while some of the races may be less so. The World Famous Stumptown 40 - $30/car http://www.stumptown40.com/ Adult Pinewood Derby at Iowa Brewing Co in Cedar Rapids - $50 entry includes 2 free drinks http://storage.hawkeyebsa.org/event/docs/1664/2017_adult_pwd_fundraiser_rc1.pdf Woodcraft in Nashville is hosting an Adult Pinewood Derby on Fathers' Day which includes fathers vs sons races and a hardwood race. I wonder if entrants can cut and assemble car there? https://www.evensi.us/adult-pinewood-derby-woodcraft-of-nashville/208922638

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This circus was older than the BSA, but whenever we took Cubs on numerous "scout nights" we felt young again.

I was reviewing our Camp Leader Guide 2017 and there was a more detailed schedule of adult activities than I have seen in past summers. I thought from my experience of the number of adults off-site Monday morning 9-11 for work/customer calls, Tues afternoon gathering stuff for fellowship campfires, Wed morning golf, ... As for me, I usually wander around and take photos. Ice cream rum sounds good too.

Locally I have observed unit adults leave camp* to - play golf (very popular) - have an un-rushed, relaxed breakfast. - find better cellphone or laptop connectivity - Walmart safari - laundromat run - ice, watermelon, ice cream rum In recent years, judging by the sparse parking lot, this has become more prevalent. Signed out with sufficient adult coverage remaining at camp.

Our scouts prefer self-funding (from jobs not begonline.com) and is so noted in their workbooks.

Correction from Wiki The Chief Scout's Award is the highest award which can be achieved at the Scout level in Scouts Canada. It was inaugurated in 1973 by then Governor General of Canada Roland Michener. The award was created to provide recognition for Scouts when the Scout program was divided into the Scout and Venturer sections. The former Queen's/Kings's Scout award was renamed as the Queen's Venturer Award, and is the highest award that can be achieved in the Scouting youth program in Canada.

Update: April 29, 2017 Sydney takes scouting and the skills involved so seriously that she has sought membership in troops outside the U.S. She is a full, dues-paying member of a troop in Ontario, Canada — one of dozens of countries with co-ed scouting. In fact, Sydney recently earned the Chief Scout's Award, Canada's highest honor in scouting, and has the badge and a letter of congratulations from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to show for it. But she is determined to become an Eagle Scout as a full member of Troop 414, reaching the top achievement of an organization she has been part of nearly her entire life. http://www.npr.org/2017/04/29/526021195/meet-the-teenage-girl-who-wants-to-be-a-boy-scout

Scouter (survivalist) Terry Fossum and his novice teammate won the competition, beating the 9 other teams.

Spoiler Alert!!!! Next posts state competition results.

While hiking have you or your scouts been asked by other, non-scout hikers on the trail if you have a cellphone they could use?

Thanks for correction.

What of the scouts who do not have a tool that more and more scouts are bringing along? I have a dumb cellphone by choice - long battery life. I might be able to make a phone call with a smart phone if it had a dialtone and a rotary dial app.

And so, here we are.

I understand some cell phones are good fire starters.

I'm curious, how different are troop cellphone policies from the local school cellphone policies?

Hiram Little was born March 31, 1919, in Eatonton and spent his childhood in Atlanta. He attended the David T. Howard school in Old Fourth Ward, the African-American school famously attended by Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1930s. At Howard, Little was a charter member of Boy Scout Troop 94, the first troop in an African-American school in Atlanta. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces as part of the Tuskegee Aviation program in 1941, joining the 477th Bombardment Group in 1944. Though World War II ended before he could be deployed to combat, Little made a name for himself as part of the Freeman Field Mutiny (sometimes called Freeman Field Incident - RS). While his unit was stationed at Freeman Army Airfield near Seymour, Ind., members of Little's 477th Bombardment Group, black pilots, attempted to integrate an all-white officers club. When Little’s commander instructed the 477th to sign an order that they would cease all attempts to enter the club, 101 soldiers, including Little, refused. (The Freeman Field Incident - RS) Many were shipped out to other bases and 162 were arrested, some twice. They would not be vindicated until 1995, when the Air Force officially set aside a soldier's court-martialed conviction and removed letters of reprimand from the permanent files of 15 others. Later in life, Little would remain committed to Civil Rights and participated in voter registration drives in Alabama and Mississippi during the 1960s. Little was honorably discharged from the Army in 1945 and went on to graduate from Morehouse College and accept a job at the U.S. Postal Service. He later became one of Atlanta's first African-American supervisors and was a middle-level manager with the postal service until his retirement in 1978. But Little, who was described by those who knew him as an intelligent man always up for a challenge, wasn't slowing down. He received a certificate of carpentry from Atlanta Technical College in 2005 at the age of 86 and remained active in Boy Scouts and the Atlanta veterans community until his death (at age 98, this past Feb - RS) ... Mr. Little was honored with a Congressional Gold Medal in 2007, presented by President George W. Bush. Scout Salute and Farewell, http://www.news-daily.com/features/riverdale-honors-the-life-memory-of-tuskegee-airman-hiram-e/article_0448b853-604e-5417-a91a-dc1815ac8765.html http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/hiram-little-41 http://www.gpb.org/wwii/hiram-little https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Field_mutiny

IMO, not tangential rather the logical extension of what @@Eagledad said in #22, i.e., from the scouting experience to the scout's life.

My mistake, I only searched as far back as 2014 and could not find anything. It looks there is some archiving of 2013 and earlier.

#DitchTheNeckerchief

Update: 4/24/17: Mr. Hagerty received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Middle Tennessee Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is still awaiting Senate confirmation of his nomination of Ambassador to Japan. http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/2017/04/24/bill-hagerty-named-distinguished-eagle-scout-franklin-ceremony/100836538/

IMHO, I see diversity in the habitat as a reasonable interpretation of the "10 different ...animals". When scouts take Environmental Science and Nature merit badges this will be emphasized. If a scout found ten types of chickadees here in North America, well forget SC let's send him to Cornell.