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http://www.myfoxboston.com/news/father-killed-while-whitewater-rafting-with-sons-boy-scout-troop/287994490 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dad-chaperoning-boy-scout-trip-to-maine-dies-in-rafting-accident/ Michael Arena, 52, of Lexington, Massachusetts, was on a commercial rafting trip Saturday when he tumbled out as the raft traveled through rapids on the Dead River, said Cpl. John MacDonald of the Maine Warden Service. Arena was one of two chaperones overseeing a group of four scouts that included his son; also on the raft was a guide employed by North Country Rivers, MacDonald said. Arena and the other members of Troop 160 were on the Dead River Saturday during a scheduled release which raised the water in the river and upgraded the rapids to Level IV. The American Whitewater Association calls Class IV Rapids advanced saying "Risk of injury to swimmers is moderate to high, and water conditions may make self-rescue difficult." Peace

Agree. After the SM recommendation and all the rank BOR's, this is unnecessary. Back in the day, I believe only 3 recommendations (SM, teacher/coach, pastor) were asked. If the goal is to make the Eagle process similar to a job application, perhaps next added will be drug tests, fingerprinting, social media checks, and criminal background checks.

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Family first. With your husband and kid(s), plan your family summer (no-scouts) first - vacation, fishing, ball game, visit relatives, go to beach/lake, July 4th, amusement park,... How many Saturdays are left unfilled?

If there is no Do, there is no Do Your Best.

Can you go into your Chrome browser history and display webpages from the course in Firefox or IE? Grasping at straws, wish I could be more help to you. What a pain!

Can you display the certificate on your screen? If so, try using the Windows Snipping Tool to crop and cut it into a jpg or png file and go from there.

What challenges are there if you get awarded no matter what? Heh the waterfront was closed but not to worry you all pass swim test. How do you know what you best is if you have not tried or better, tried and failed and then re-tried and succeeded. That's Scouting!

It teaches boys and their parents that there are different rules and requirements for some people. That excuses can replace requirements so why bother doing the work, it is the adult's/teacher's/coach's fault. They bring this entitlement attitude to Boy Scouts. The adults should plan the outings, better the troop should be adult run! No scout should have to call a MBC, lets set up a merit badge university. Not enough campouts for camping and cooking requirements well that is the adults fault, sign it off. Heh I need an Eagle Advisor to do my project! Seen it, hate it.

Scouts is not like Little League where everyone gets a trophy. The boys understand this, the adults once did.

Guess where?

I would not wear bright yellow during warm weather as it would likely attract more insects to me. I often wear bright safety orange and safety blue in woods. LNT gets a little silly at times and when they do, I ignore them.

Is that a Rockwell illustration? FYI, leadership was NOT a requirement for Eagle until the 1958 changes. Advancement and Leadership were two separate tracks in Boy Scouts from 1910 to 1958. I think Rockwell felt that scout leadership was separate from rank. Here is Rockwell's 1959 Tomorrow's Leader. Note scout's rank is not shown, though the First Class rank is clearly in background. In Rockwell illustrations, a Boy Scout's rank is rarely shown but when it is, First Class is most common. Here is Rockwell's 1966 Growth of a Leader, note the Boy Scout has no rank badge. Rockwell's 1965 A Great Moment http://www.troop97.net/bsaeagle.htm http://www.scouters.us/artist.html http://www.bsamuseum.org/FineArt/Norman-Rockwell My $0.01 for rambling,

Suffolk,VA http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2016/05/03/boy-scout-builds-village/ "Two new longhouses — single-room, beehive-shaped structures covered with woven reed mats — and a wooden lean-to shelter are the latest additions to the Nansemond Indians’ property, near Lone Star Lakes in Chuckatuck. Hunter Ward, a member of Driver Boy Scout Troop 16, spearheaded construction as his Eagle service project. ... Under Ward’s direction and with guidance from the tribe, roughly 25 Scouts and leaders spent five weekends between October and March building the longhouses and lean-to. The group spent one day in an Ivor forest tract, cutting down and hauling 260 donated sweet gum saplings to the property. The boys debarked the trees and shaped the green trees into dome-shaped longhouses, using twine to lash the saplings together. They spent the final weekend covering the structures with sheets of woven reeds made in the Philippines..." more interesting detail in link above.

"Ask your SPL if his troop is prepared to go camping."

When all kids who want to be scouts are allowed to be scouts.

We don't see the harm either. More and more of our former scout activities are now "family" activities outside of scouting. Our break-away started with shooting sports and continues to spread to other activities.

It is better to recon and select your assistant(s) than allow fate to supply them to you.

Adults combine service stars for years served in Scouting. so I my theory is he was a Cub Scout leader for 3 years. And a horse who saved a boy who fell in a well! Lassie never did despite the comedian jokes "Woof, woof." "What Lassie? Timmy fell in the well?" Never happened.

Huh? I thought the previous year membership numbers were released in the Report to the Nation, two months before Annual Meeting. 2015: 1,261,340 boys ages 6 to 10 in Cub Scouts 840,654 boys ages 11 to 17 in Boy Scouts and Varsity Scouts 142,892 young men and women ages 14 to 20 in Venturing and Sea Scouts http://scoutingnewsroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2015-Report-to-the-Nation.pdf

Yes 1974, in Honolulu. Membership had significantly dropped that year to 5,803,885 from 6,405,225 the year before. http://www2.powercom.net/~stolerd/about/ahistory.html

Yes that was odd. It also appeared that his tenderfoot badge was also sewn on uniform! I imagine the studio borrow some uniforms and scouts from a local troop. Imagine requiring a scout to pay $0.10 a week for a used troop uniform? I can't recall, however we did buy our troop neckers.

Yes imagine that - fun, challenge, and adventure at a scout summer camp and maybe an incomplete merit badge or two. Back in the day , we had a Pirate's breakfast at camp. If I remember correctly, you had to row or canoe your patrol across the lake to a field kitchen. But the game was more involved like the cat, chicken, and feed rowboat problem. There were other patrol competitions during the camp week that were clever and fun. I did not complete merit badges at camp until I was a C.I.T.

The Boy Scout Story was Season 1 Episode 18, aired Feb 11, 1956 there had been The 4-H Story two months earlier. 1959 had a Girl Scout story. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0584395/?ref_=ttep_ep6 So my guess is the Scout Handbook in his friend's back pocket was 5th edition maybe 8th printing. http://www.troop97.net/bshb_ed5.htm I found the above information in my failed search for the Second Class 5 mile hike requirements of that time period. My old handbook (6th edition) states a hike with your patrol or a companion approved by your Scoutmaster. No adult needed or required back then. Odd the scout had no map with his compass.